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...
Commuters were put in a HOLE lot of trouble after trains were cancelled by a hole created by BADGERS .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
A retired foster carer has spent a whopping £48k on her brood of lifelike dolls .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
INTIMATELY showcasing personal artefacts from a family's life, this abandoned bungalow has been left to rot for almost a decade .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .