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.
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
An adorable black bear cub struggles to find the perfect spot for an afternoon nap as he wriggles around on the branch of a maple tree .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .