Snakebite: The six-month-old girl chews the python’s tail while playing near her home
Her family cannot afford to buy her toys – so this this six-month-old plays with snakes instead. Sidhi Siddharth Sinune crawls behind the python and shrieks in delight as it weaves through her tiny legs. While her parents are away working in the fields in a rural Indian village in Maharashtra, the baby girl pats the reptile and even playfully bites its tail…..More pictures when you continue:

New best friend: Sidhi shrieks with delight as a giant python weaves through her tiny legs
The non-venomous snake could easily squeeze Sidhi to death or swallow her whole. But her father, Siddharth Sinune, said he cannot afford to buy her toys – instead bringing home his prey from his job as a snake catcher. Before putting them back in the forests, he keeps them at home for his only daughter’s amusement. Siddharth said: ‘Sidhi has an unusual bonding with the snakes and surprisingly they too like to play with her. ‘Being a poor farmer, I can’t buy her costly toys but I can get her snakes to play with.