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...
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
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A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
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These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
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A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .
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Amanda Bohm, 22, and her mum, Janet, 58, were the best of friends .