BEAR CUBS AND DOTING MUM

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.

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BABY WHALE AND MOTHER LAP UP TOURIST ATTENTION

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GOING IN FOR THE GILL

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CHERNOBYL - 28 YEARS ON

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AMAZINGLY DETAILED PENCIL SCULPTURES

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BATTY ABOUT BATMAN - MAN SPENDS £65K ON COLLECTION

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MAKING A SPLASH - GORILLA GOES APE IN WATER

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PORTRAITS IN PAKISTAN

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SNEAKY OTTER

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .

THE EVOLUTION OF GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL

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ADORABLE SQUIRREL TRIES HER HAND AT PHOTOGRAPHY

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DINNER TIME

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BRAZEN COPS PARK IN RESTRICTED BAY

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