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 hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - LETHAL BIRTHMARK NEARLY SUFFOCATES GIRL: Zoe Mitchell when she was two-weeks-old .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - BEAUTY QUEEN ACID SCARE: Miss England finalist, Karla Fitzpatrick, 19, at the Miss England contest .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .
football club has scored an own goal after it had to embarrassingly rename its stadium in honour of the DEVIL .
A woman left disfigured and traumatised by an addiction to lip filler injections has issued a warning to others searching for the perfect pout after the plastic chemicals nearly killed her .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
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WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .