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...
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WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
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A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
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