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...
RESTING his weary head on his flipper, this little seal pup takes a much needed nap after an afternoon of strenuous yoga .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
SPLASHING in the water and fighting in-between rocks, these energetic tigers enjoy their fun-filled morning .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
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AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .