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.
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .