By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Published: 14:49 BST, 11 April 2019 | Updated: 18:26 BST, 11 April 2019
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Incredible images shows the unique relationship between an enormous tarantula and a frog who live side-by-side in the Amazonian rainforest.
The 8-inch wide arachnid was photographed below the Andes mountains in Peru and show the frog protecting the spider's eggs.
A series of images taken by wandering Italian naturalist Emanuele Biggi also include shots of the mammoth spider eating a cockroach, towering over its amphibian partner in crime and even hundreds of hatched young feasting on a tree-frog.
But far from being a friendship - the unlikely pair enjoy a 'commensal' relationship - where both halves of the arrangement benefit.
The tarantula acts a bodyguard for its slimy 'pet' and the frog eats any ants threatening the arachnid's eggs.
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The 8-inch wide arachnid was photographed below the Andes mountains in Peru and show the frog being used to protect the spider's eggs
