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.
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
