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...
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
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The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
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A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
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Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .