Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi rides a wave with his alpaca Pisco at San Bartolo beach in Lima March 16, 2010. Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

Canadian singer Avril Lavigne leaves little to the imagination wearing a see-through top as she and boyfriend Mod Sun arrive at a friend's house in Calabasas, CA. with Avril's dog on July 14, 2021. (Photo by Backgrid USA)

A 15-year-old girl denied a horse from her parents has turned to a cow to fulfil her riding dreams. Teenager Regina Mayer, from southern Germany, is able to ride her cow, Luna. She has even trained her bovine pet to soar over a beer-crate hurdle like a regular show jumper. Why, you may well ask, when most cow-owners are surely content to let the creatures chew and lactate and sit down to indicate the imminent arrival of rain? Well, Regina's parents wouldn't let her have a horse.

Dancers perform the traditional Kuda Lumping in Bogor, Indonesia early November 2022. They are said to enter a trance-like state as they perform, and often claim not to remember the dance once they awaken. (Photo by Sita Gramich/Solent News)

Keen diver Yusuke Fukami fulfilled a personal dream by snapping a cartoon-like Costasiella sea slug while in Bali in the last decade of December 2024. (Photo by Yusuke Fukami/South West News Service)

A person dressed like a zombie walks during the 2015 Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, California July 9, 2015. The pop-culture held at the San Diego Convention Center event runs July 9-12. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

Women dressed like manga characters attend the 16th edition of the Japan Expo exhibition, in Villepinte, north of Paris, Thursday, July 2, 2015. (Photo by Thibault Camus/AP Photo)

A boy dressed like Hindu Lord Krishna waits to attend celebrations on the eve of Janmashtami at a school in Mumbai, India, Friday, September 4, 2015. The day marks the birth of Krishna. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)