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.
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From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
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A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
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Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .
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An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .