From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
A young female bear plays with a barrel in the South Kamchatka Sanctuary, Russia. The sanctuary occupies 225,000 hectares of land and is listed as a Unesco world heritage site. More than 1,000 brown bears live there. Photograph: Igor Shpilenok/Barcroft Media
Sure, it looks cute now, but one day we’ll look back and think of this pic as the first hint of things to come in the Planet of the Apes-style bear-centric world in which we’ve come to know.