Cute seal pup plays with drone

Adorable footage has emerged from New Zealand of a seal pup playing with a drone flying above it.

The awesome video, filmed in Cape Palliser on Tuesday, shows the cute baby seal showing off energetically in front of the camera.

The filmer later wrote online: "While flying my drone around the largest seal colony in the North Island of New Zealand at a beautiful spot called Cape Palliser, I came across a special cute baby seal.

"When I first flew over the seals they all scattered like most footage online of interaction with drones."

"But this amazing cute special baby seal sees a friend out of the drone offering to play with it and seems to get excited when the drone gets closer," he continued.

"I think I was just lucky and came across one special little seal.

"Rare footage of a wild animal interacting with a robot."