A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food. The tiny chicks, thought to be just a few weeks old, fearlessly approached the metre-long python in a garden in the city of Blitar in East Java, Indonesia. The chicks cosied up to the python and remarkably emerged unscathed when the snake, presumably confused by the encounter, slithered away. The unusual scene was captured by 43-year-old photographer Monica Anantyowati, when she happened to spot the snake outside of a friend's window.
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
COULD this be the most distastrous wedding cake fail EVER? Most brides opt for a traditional tiered white wedding cake decorated with delicate pink roses and lace for their big day .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .