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...
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .