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.
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
WITHOUT a care in the world, this little chimpanzee shows off her gymnastic skills as she swings around her enclosure .
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Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
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With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
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A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .