A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post. These adorable photographs of two playful bear cubs and their watchful mum were captured by American nature photographer D. Robert Franz, 56, on a visit to Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. 'What we see in these photographs is the interaction between the mother brown bear and her two cubs,' says D. Robert, of Cody, Wyoming.
WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .