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...
Clinging on to their furry backs, mischievous monkeys appeared to enjoy the free transport as they rode around on a perturbed Capybara .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
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 .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .