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.
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .