A snake put a mesmerising display rolling over and showing off its brightly-coloured scales.
The Laotian wolf snake was spotted coiled outside a Buddhist temple after a religious ceremony was held in Nakhon Phanom province, Thailand, on June 10.
But instead of slithering away from a temple-goer who saw it, the yellow and black-banded serpent did a bizarre dance.
Footage shows the creature flashing its white belly and rolling over to alternately expose its vibrant scales in an astonishing play of colours on the dirt ground.
Temple-goer Uraiwan Arjsattoo said: That day, we did a ceremony to offer food and flowers to the king of snakes Nagas. Then out of nowhere, there was a snake in the area we used for worshipping.'
The creature continued with its flashing of colours for about a minute before leaving the compound and the confused woman behind.
Superstitious Uraiwan added: The snake visited us because of the ceremony. It gave us a thank you dance because it was happy with our offerings.'
The creature was believed to have been playing dead as a defence strategy from feeling threatened by the temple visitors. Most snakes do this as predators prefer live prey.
A Laotian wolf snake is a nonvenomous snake endemic to Asia with a white belly and dark and yellow dorsal crossbands.
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