A professional wildlife photographer has captured on camera the remarkable moment a brave horse frolicked with a pack of wild wolves.

The scene was filmed in the Abruzzo region of central Italy on February 4.

In the clip, the horse wanders nonchalantly among six of the predators and then even rolls in the snow as the wolves watch on.

"I have never seen something like this in my life," the filmer Fabrizio Giammatteo comments in Italian in the video.

"We've just witnessed something that never really happens!" he adds.

Wolves have been known to attack and kill horses, so this behaviour is very unusual.

We had actively searching for wolves in that area for a few hours, when we noticed a pack of six wolves resting on the ground and getting some sun. A few meters away a big horse, that I afterwards named Orazio, was eating some grass. It was quite far to get good pictures so I switched my camera to video, and just a few seconds after Orazio decided to put on quite a show. He boldly went to the wolves and told them a thing or two, they may be predators, but that is his land and he knows his horse rights ;-)