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 .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .