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 mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
