Knock, knock!

We have all received unexpected guests but not the kind that a family in Thailand did — an enormous monitor lizard!

Attanai Thaiyuanwong posted a video on Facebook, showing the human child-sized monitor lizard with its belly pressed against the front door as if it intended to knock.

A man toward the end of the video attempts to catch the lizard using a rope with a loop at the end, but it’s unclear if he was successful or not.

Thaiyuanwong said the lizard has made repeated visits to his family’s home.

“It [the lizard] is here all the time. There are even bigger ones!” Attanai told.

Now you really can walk on water!

Artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff’s latest work in northern Italy has given the chance to people to experience ‘walk on water’. The project, titled ‘The Floating Piers’, cost 15 million euros ($16.7million) to create and is made up of 200,000 floating cubes covered in orange fabric.

It is currently floating atop Lake Iseo, connecting the village of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on the lake.

The number of visitors reached a peak after the launch of the art project with a long queue snaking toward the project’s entrance.

Several people queuing were taken ill as they waited under a baking sun. More than 55,000 visitors attempted to cross the walkways, forcing organisers, who had anticipated just 40,000, to ask that they return another day.

The walkways can only hold 11,000 people at any one time — and only if weather conditions allow.

Baby squirrel makes friends with the man who saved him

Squirrels are scared of humans, but the two can sometimes become friends. A little squirrel fell from a four-storey building in Denmark and cut his chest on the way down. The squirrel was abandoned by his mother, who left him for dead.

Fortunately, the little squirrel fell in the garden of Decan Andersen, who after realising the baby squirrel had been rejected by its family, picked him up and took him indoors, where he called the vet.

He put the squirrel, now named TinTin, next to his cat, Coco, who he says ‘immediately understood the situation’ and started to wash, clean and cuddle TinTin to warm him up.

After TinTin had spent too much time with humans he became a permanent fixture in Decan and Coco’s life, by becoming the best of friends and going everywhere with them.

The squirrel has also become something of an internet celebrity already, even receiving gifts from his ever-growing legion of fans.

Published in Dawn, Young World, July 16th, 2016