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...
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
GLIDING through the water, these delightful frogs show off their vibrant colours as they practice their FROG crawl .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
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Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
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