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 fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
