“Standing proud and grappling like Hulk Hogan this one legged wrestler is celebrating a season of winning. Champion, Anthony Robles from Arizona, has not only defeated his rivals in the ring but overcame a mysterious condition that left him born without a right leg. With a special technique of wrestling from the floor the 125lbs wrestler is able to use his body to such effect that some of his opponents even claim that having only one leg has given him an advantage in the ring… Despite his disability Mr Robles became interested in basketball, baseball, American football and soccer as a child and then switched to wrestling at the age of 14. Now he is U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association champion after an undefeated season in 2011.” w/ photos + video

As winter approaches, this chipmunk is getting ready for it’s long winter break by stuffing its face with as many treats as possible. By the looks of things, Mr Chipmunk is going to have a belly — and cheek — full of nuts that will last for a verrrrrry long time. Don’t worry, he’ll burn all those calories by spring time. w/ photos

“Standing almost 6ft-tall, 8ft-long and weighing an astonishing 1,820 pounds, Bailey Jr is possibly the world’s largest pet. The Plains Bison buffalo may be huge, but like most three-and-a-half-year-olds all he wants to do is play. When he isn’t lying on the floor inside watching television, Bailey Jr is busy being chased around by his owner Jim Sautner on a quad bike at their property in Spruce Grove in Alberta, Canada. For a treat, Bailey Jr is sometimes even driven round in Mr Saunton’s specially converted 1987 Pontiac Bonneville. The reinforced car is not only able to hold his enormous weight, but it also has a bucket of oats for Bailey to chow down on.” w/ photos

“Putting his lips up to the glass this little boy got more than he bargained for when a huge orangutan tried to give him a kiss. The photograph captures an incredible moment where the massive mammal mimicked the child’s pose at Moscow Zoo. The youngster seems completely at ease when faced with the animal despite them being so close with nothing but a pane of glass between them. Russian photographer Olga Dmitrieva who was on hand to capture the scene which left crowds stunned said: ‘It was an amazing thing to witness.” w/ photo

“The 38-year-old businessman who runs a homeopathic medicine business in Lucknow, India says there’s nothing he wouldn’t do to make Shah Rukh Kahn happy. So far he’s covered every surface in his house and even his car with photos of the Bollywood icon, changed his name to Vishahrukh Khan, and even spent his honeymoon in front of the actor’s mansion in Mumbai, hoping to catch a glimpse of his idol. Although he says no one cam be like Shah Rukh, he wanted to bear his name and even gave his children names related to the Indian actor. His son is named like Kahn’s child, Aryan, and his daughter Simran, is named after one of the female leads in one of the actor’s biggest movies, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.” w/ photos

“She’s the same age as the Queen, but might be just a little bit stronger after hauling in a marlin weighing more than one third of a ton. Great grandmother Connie Laurie, 85, has been fishing for most of her life but she’s never caught anything as big as the marlin she hooked from a boat off the north Queensland coast. Experienced fishermen have been astonished at the elderly woman’s ability to play the fish on her line and expertly haul it in to the boat, off Cooktown. ‘I got lifted out of my seat twice as I was pulling it in, but I was able to get it right up to the back of the boat before we released it back into the sea,’ Mrs Laurie said of her short but thrilling battle.” w/ photos

“A Russian artist has produced a series of amazing portraits of his military heroes using Molotov cocktails. Radya Timofey and his high-octane team team the 23-year-old produces stunning images of fighters from World War II by setting fire to his canvas. The 23-year-old uses a putty of homemade napalm and oil-based substances to sketch the outlines and then hurls a bottle of explosive liquid to spark a massive fireball. The art hanging on the wall then blazes until the charred outline of the figure beneath is revealed. Radya’s work – dubbed Eternal Fire – is a celebration of Russia’s struggle against Germany as well as comment on the wars blighting the world today. After being set on fire the finished portraits are then exhibited on a the walls of the wartime hospital in Yekaterinburg, Russia.” w/ photos

“A photographer got a surprise when he spotted these newborn pine martens peeking out of a woodpecker’s nest. The cute creatures and their family had set up home in the tree trunk after finding it empty. And they appeared to enjoy the view from their lofty nest – occasionally popping their heads out to take a look at the big wide world. The adorable sight was photographed in Drents Friese Wold nature reserve in the Netherlands. Photographer Hillebrand Breuker said it was the first time he caught the rarely seen young pine martens on camera. The 43-year-old, from Friesland, in the Netherlands, said: ‘Pine martens are very shy animals. In the past they were chased by hunters quite a lot. ‘Nowadays there are about 500 of then left in the Netherlands. They are an endangered animal.” w/ photos

“Sometimes, couples need help getting pregnant. In Seattle, that help may arrive by bicycle. To be more specific, a bicycle with a giant sperm cell replica on it. “It’s a delivery bike, purpose-built delivery bike, and inside the front of the sperm we can store one of our cryogenic shipping containers,” says Alan Dowden, lab scientist and occasional courier. Dowden works at the Seattle Sperm Bank. The front of the bike is the bulbous head of a sperm, about the size of very large beach ball, with a long tail stretching behind. It’s framed in electric blue. “You can’t help but feel a little self-conscious when you get all the looks,” he says. “But it’s mostly smiles, so it feels good, to be honest. It feels good.” The bike makes local deliveries, although the sperm bank ships as far as Australia. Manager Gary Olsem says the idea for the bike came from the sperm bank’s parent company in Denmark, where the owner is a cycling enthusiast. ‘He was looking for a way to deliver the samples in a more earth-friendly way, that also could be used as a marketing tool to bring more attention to sperm banking in general,’ he says.” w/ photo

“Here’s a guy with a nose for a long career in show business. But there’s one drawback – he has to deal with a lot of slippery characters. Chinese entertainer Liu Fei, from Jiangxi province, amazingly enjoys putting 3ft long cauliflower snakes up his nose and letting them out of his mouth. It’s a party trick that is not a good idea if a you have got a cold, but 52-year-old Fei finds it sneezy to do. None the snakes will bite him because they are not venomous so there is no chance of them being a pain in the asp.” w/ photos