Gone fishing! Mummy bear teaches her three very cute cubs how to find food

This series of stunning photographs shows a brown mother bear and her three cubs out on a family fishing trip.

The four creatures were spotted on a rickety wooden bridge at the Kurile Lake in Kamchatka, Russia, by wildlife photographer Mike Korostelev.

Mr Korostelev captured the amazing pictures, which show the mother - named Pushkin after Alexander Pushkin because of her lush hair and sideburns - belly-flopping off the side of the bridge, into the water to catch fish.

The three tiny cubs shiver and cry on the bridge until she returns - even though she's never more than 10 metres away from them. She then climbs back onto the bridge and shakes herself off - drenching her babies in the process.

Mr Korostelev said: 'While the mother went into the water to catch fish, her small cubs shivered and hung on the edge of the fence on the bridge. At first they would shout, afraid to be alone.

'The little ones would have to find something to do while waiting. After fishing she would climb back through the fence and shake off the water on the bridge.'

The bridge is near the fence of KamchatNIRO, the research institute of fishery.

Mr Korostelev said: 'A few days later, the Pushkin children almost settled on the bridge, but because it is private property employees of the research institute had to move them on.

'The first time we saw the cubs, they only drank their mother's milk. But they then began to include fish in their diet.'