A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
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A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
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SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .
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If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .