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...
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .