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.
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
Enjoying life’s little pleasures is something that many struggle to do .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .