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...
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
A WIMBLEDON-mad couple will be creating a racket this summer - after installing a TENNIS COURT in their living room .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .