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.
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
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