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.
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .