The 12-year-old whose best friend is a two-ton battering Rhino

With one stamp of its feet, this two-ton wild rhino could crush a human with ease.

But oblivious Elizaveta Tishchenko, 12, has become best friends with the beast and loves nothing more than to cuddle his leathery skin.

The pair have struck up an extraordinary relationship since orphaned white rhino Max was found wandering through the Laikipia District of Kenya as a youngster.

After being taken into the centre of rehabilitation at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya around three years ago, Max took a shine to the young girl while she was visiting the country.

Despite being renowned for their aggressive nature, five-year-old Max likes Elizaveta to stroke his back gently as he tucks into some grass.

And he even rolls around in the grass on his back so she can pet his stomach like a dog.

Her father Alexey, 40, said: 'We were told by guards in the area a new rhinoceros had been abandoned and taken in by the centre to look after him.

'After driving for about 20 minutes through the bush we noticed a white rhino jogging towards us.

'That wasn't too unusual as they aren't afraid of jeeps - but it stayed with us for a long time.

'We realised it was the young rhino workers were talking about so asked our guides to let us out of the jeeps and they did.

'Max paid no attention to the rest of us - he was too busy with eating grass while my daughter started to pat him like a puppy.

'He even let her pull his tail and didn't react to it in the slightest. He was completely comfortable with her and it just went on from there.

'Elizaveta couldn't have been happier. She loved it and loved her new friend. She doesn't stop talking about Max.'

Stunning pictures of island where penguins have created the world's largest crèche

These stunning aerial images of a King Penguin colony in South Georgia show just how extraordinary penguin parenting really is.

In what looks to be the world's largest creche, thousands of King Penguins instinctively herd their recently born young into giant huddles to stop them freezing to death.

 Parental instinct takes over in the inhospitable climate of the South Atlantic and the chicks with their long, brown, downy coats are made to crowd together to retain their body warmth in the equivalent of bird creches - visible as brown swathes on our photo.

Meanwhile their extraordinary parents waddle down to the shore to bring back dinner for their offspring.

The chicks, which take between 10 to 13 months to raise - cannot regulate their body temperature and the parents care for them round the clock for the first three weeks.

They then put the chicks in one of the creches, returning every two or three days with food. The picture was taken at the shoreline of South Georgia, a British territory close to the Falklands.

It is one of the main breeding colonies for the birds. A full penguin breeding cycle lasts more than a year and pairs generally breed twice every three years.

The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin, weighing up to 35lbs. The Emperor penguins are the largest. They eat small fish - mainly lanternfish, and squid and repeatedly dive to more than 100 metres to find lunch.

There are an estimated 2.23million pairs of King Penguins with numbers increasing.

Meet the bird that just loves to pose for the camera

It can be one of the hardest subjects to capture on film.

As any photographer will tell you, taking pictures of wild animals in their natural habitat requires patience, dedication and the ability to stay hidden for hours until that vital split-second moment when your subject eventually steps into the frame.

Or at least that's normally the case. But for amateur snapper Nicky Hepburn, photographing one particular animal involves nothing more than making sure her camera is primed and ready.

For the 34-year-old has struck up a remarkable relationship with a robin that loves to pose for her.

Whenever Nicky steps out into her garden, the confident bird arrives right on cue and appears more than willing to model for the camera.

'I first noticed him when I was gardening hopping around my feet while I was digging and soon he seemed to be around all the time,' Nicky, from Havant, Hants. said.

'I thought I might be able to take some pictures of him but couldn't believe it when he started jumping up and down in front of the camera. Now he is so tame he even sits on my lens and wherever I set the camera up he just seems to pose for the pictures.

'I am a keen photographer but never thought I would be able to capture such magnificent pictures. They are easily the best I have ever taken.'

Although regarded as a winter bird, native robins are visible across the UK throughout the year. They are also fiercely territorial and regard suburban gardens as prime real estate.

They can be extremely tame and have been known to nest in cars, kettles and coat pockets.

Women flees home after finding unwanted visitor in her guest bedroom

House guests are always a bit of a pain, especially if  they are uninvited - and even more so if there's not a lot you can do to convince them to leave.

So spare a thought for Alexis Dunbar, who returned to her Palmetto home in Manatee County, Florida, to find a prehistoric killer making himself comfortable in her guest bedroom.

The uninvited guest was a six-foot alligator, and - despite his smile in the photos - he wasn't in the best of moods.

Miss Dunbar recalled the hair-raising incident, which began after she returned home on Saturday.

She told Bay News 9's Robert Hahn:  'I look to the right and there's an alligator in my guest bedroom.'

Miss Dunbar was not going to hang around, so immediately left the house. But she suddenly remembered her beloved pet cats.

She said: 'My cats are like my daughters. So I thought my cat was eaten. There was blood everywhere.'

It turns out that the blood came from the gator itself, having either been injured outside or as he tried to squeeze himself through the cat flap of Miss Dunbar's door.

Both of her cats later emerged from their hiding places, shaken but not eaten.

Experts who came to catch the unwanted intruder believe the alligator crawled up the bank of the pond behind the house, under a chain-link fence, across the yard, through a screen on the porch, and then through the cat flap.

Despite the gater being lassoed and removed from the house, Miss Dunbar said she was still a little shy when it came to moving about the house.

She said: 'Alligators get into pools or something, but never in a house. I'm going to be scared to sleep here tonight. I'm definitely going to go look under my bed again before I go back inside.'