While tigers are known for their patience, this young mother has demonstrated her possible endurance after enduring persistent provocations from her newborn cub.

The energetic Bengal tiger cub was seen running amok while scratching and jumping on his mother, as she tried to rest in the sun.

Surprising lessons from photographs, revealing that a tiger’s maternal instincts are not so different from ours, were recently captured at a zoo in Russia.

To his mother’s obvious annoyance, the newborn cub practices jumping on her head in Russia.

Other images showed the mischievous pup stopping his play, as he continued to climb onto his mother’s face and snuggle against her.

The cub takes a swipe at his mother’s face as he steps over her, seeming to mock her with her antics.

Motherly Love: The young mother wraps her paw around her cub after she is exhausted from a big hug.

The lively cub climbed up to challenge the crows who had descended on Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia to catch a glimpse of the rare wild animals, one of two newborns.

The lively cub climbed up to challenge the crows who had descended on Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia to catch a glimpse of the rare wild animals.

Russian photographer Alexander Lukin, 31, captured the hilarious sequence during one of the puppy’s rare appearances with his mother.

He said: ‘Tigers don’t have much chance of surviving in the wild.

‘In the photos we can only see one puppy, but there were two puppies. It was almost the puppy’s first appearance with his mother Zaya, who had just started taking him out.

‘This child is very playful and curious.’

The cub, still untamed, jumps on its mother’s back as she becomes increasingly exasperated.

After several minutes of continued agitation, the mother finally lost her temper and let out a determined growl (right).