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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An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
An adorable black bear cub struggles to find the perfect spot for an afternoon nap as he wriggles around on the branch of a maple tree .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
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FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .