AN UNEMPLOYED factory worker has proved his immunity to snake venom by letting a deadly mamba bite his bare arm. Through a process of building up his immunity to poison by injecting diluted venom 45-year-old Tim Friede is able to not only survive a snake bite from a black mamba, which normally kills anyone bitten within just 20 minutes, but instead appears totally unaffected. This indifference by Tim is despite the bloody wound to his arm the lethal creature caused when Tim placed the mamba's jaws around his arm and the snake took a bite which injected poison into his arm. Tim hopes that by building up human immunity to snake poison he can contribute to the development of a new anti-venom, more efficient and affordable than the type produced from horses that is currently available. Where no anti-venom is available to people bitten by a black mamba the death rate is usually 100-percent..
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
A woman has been left unable to smile after undergoing emergency surgery to remove infected lip fillers .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for this greedy camel he can't get enough of his morning feed, as he gate crashes his owner's mealtime .
Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .
An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
SKIPPING on the spot, an adorable little owl embraces the 'running man' challenge .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .
A couple from Bristol have told that they are often mistaken for father and daughter because of their huge 36 year age gap .