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.
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
Hot on the heels of a little rabbit, this cheetah is on a mission to catch his prey .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
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 .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .