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.
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .