Pictured: The moment a giant Burmese python slithers up a weatherman's trousers live on TV

This is the moment a python slithers inside a weatherman's shorts on American television.

Meteorologist Kurtis Gertz looked terrified as the several-feet long snake made its way up his leg during a live broadcast at the Iowa State Fair last week.

The KCCI-TV presenter first appeared with the creature around his shoulders.
But the female snake, called Dawn, had other ideas.

First of all the snake's head inched towards Gertz's face and made to kiss him.

'Hey, that was a hot, wet kiss,' Gertz said. 'I got a hunch this is going to make [video sharing website] YouTube.'

As he continued to hold the giant Burmese python, people in the crowd started gasping and pointing as the snake's tail crawled up Gertz shorts and down the other leg.
'This is Dawn and she might have a crush on you,' said Nick, the snake's trainer.

'This is how it all comes to an end Steve, this is how it all comes to an end,' Gertz said. 'It's been a great 20 years in television, God bless.'

Then in a bid to get the editors to cut to another segment, the panicked Gertz said: 'OK, let's go to stupid human tricks. Let's see you top this one.'

The snake's trainer and co-anchor Steve Karlin helped unwind the snake and get the weatherman free.

The universality of a mother's grief: Gorilla cradles her dying baby

Hers is the inconsolable grief of all mothers who lose a child.Anyone who doubts the bond between the great apes and humans has only to look at these moving photos to see the emotions of love and loss that bind us together.Gorilla Gana, 11, was left shattered in her compound at the zoo in Muenster in northern Germany at the weekend when her three-month-old baby Claudio suddenly died.

Visitors wept as Gana held her lifeless child up in the air, vainly seeking to restore movement to his lolling head, his limp arms.She put the baby on her back and walked around, stopping to look at him after a few paces to see if he had recovered.
“Claudio died in his mother’s arms, with think from some heart defect,” said zoo director Joerg Adler.“On Wednesday he gave the impression to keepers that he wasn’t feeling too well. On Friday he wasn’t eating or drinking properly and seemed to be growing weaker. We were keeping a close eye on him but suddenly, on Saturday morning, he died.”The death of Claudio is a double tragedy for Gana; for reasons known only to the animal kingdom, she rejected her six week old daughter Mary Zwo last year. She was moved to a zoo in Stuttgart where she is healthy and one of the star attractions.By Monday morning the zoo keepers were still unable to get to the body of Claudio, so fiercely is Gana guarding him.“In the wild a gorilla mother can keep hold of a dead baby for weeks,” added Herr Adler. “We will carry out an autopsy on the body when we can.“Gana doesn’t know it, but the whole of Germany is mourning with her. She is so sad right now.”