Terrible Beauty (23 photos)

As they say, beauty - terrible force.
There is in the nature of animals with inexplicable power of attraction and the magical beauty mixed with a truly terrible force.
We offer you a selection of (according to the "News in Pictures") animals, one form of which is able to instill in us the fear and awe.

Gharial just eaten fish in a zoological park in Gauhati, India. Gharial, also known as the Indian crocodile, was on the verge of extinction in the 1970s, but the government program through which hundreds of animals were released into the wild, has helped to increase their numbers. (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)





2. The chimpanzee screams in a cage at the zoo Dakar. The complex, which opened in 1935 in Hann Forest, not up to international standards. Currently in development is a program for the development of the zoo worth about $ 4 million. (SEYLLOU / AFP / Getty Images)



3. bats clinging to a rock near Wat Khao Kong to the west of Bangkok in September. Pets bring the temple monthly income of $ 4,800 thanks to 7 tons of manure and tourists visiting the cave with bats. (Sukree Sukplang / Reuters)



4. The shark swims in the aquarium "Turkazoo" in Istanbul on 21 October. (MUSTAFA OZER / AFP / Getty Images)



5. Golden Araneus spider sits on his cobweb in the pavilion for the spiders in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. (Robert Spellman / Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County)



6. Tamara Lioness growls at visitors, protecting her cubs in an enclosure at the zoo in Jordan. (Ali Jarekji / Reuters)



7. African ostrich plays with a hose for watering lawns at the zoo in Al Areen Sakhire, Bahrain. (Hasan Jamali / Associated Press)



8. The caretaker of the zoo in Sydney, John Mostyn allowed python wrap itself around him. Recently, the zoo held a study to determine which animal visitors find most frightening - snakes or spiders. (Rob Griffith / Associated Press)



9. Crocodile waiting for feeding in the middle of La Boca in reserve in Cuba. (Desmond Boylan / Reuters)



10. Falcon at the celebration of the city of Tbilisi. (David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters)



11. The spider hanging on its web in Richmond Park in West London in September. Due to favorable conditions in the last year and a moderate summer of this year in the UK in the autumn of this year, there were a lot of spiders and other insects. (Toby Melville / Reuters)



12. Two hippopotamus play in Dusit Zoo in Bangkok. (Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press)



13. The three-Asiatic lion Ruby tries to get a pumpkin that had fallen into the pond in his enclosure at London Zoo. (Sang Tan / Associated Press)



14. Saharan Agrionemys rest in the glass enclosure. Customs officials Charles de Gaulle Airport found these lizards on the plane flew from Niger September 10th. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI / AFP / Getty Images)



15. Cow tongue stuck in the barn in Hergoldinge, near Munich. (Michael Dalder / Reuters)



16. The cub Tasmanian devil bared his jaws while eating in a zoo in Sydney. Tasmanian devil - fierce marsupial about the size of a fox - is on the verge of extinction because of the infectious cancer muzzle. (Mark Baker / Associated Press)



17. Cream Persian cat Joey at the "Introduction to the rocks" on October 17 in New York, where he presented about 200 breeds of dogs and cats. (Natalie Behring / Reuters)



18. The white-tailed eagle fighting in the air exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor near the village Babchin October 24. (Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters)



19. Force piranha bite can be seen on the sheet. This piranha caught a local resident in the delta of the Orinoco River in the state of Delta Amacuro, Venezuela, in August. (Jorge Silva / Associated Press)



20. Great White Shark bites the bait during the tourist tour on October 19 in Gansbaai, South Africa. Bait (usually the head of tuna) is attached to the buoy and thrown into the water in front of the cage with divers. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)



21. Mandrill named Ushindi showing teeth, leaning against the glass of its enclosure at the zoo in Boston Franklin. (Mary Schwalm / Associated Press / File)



22. The 7-year-old Royal Bengal tigress Ananya reacts to the camera in the aviary in Kamla Nehru Zoological Gardens in Ahmedabad. India's attempts to fight against poaching their precious Tigers fail despite the millions of dollars in sponsorship, a new program to protect and experiments with the transport of animals. (SAM PANTHAKY / AFP / Getty Images)



23. The 8-year-old male sea lion Kanji "smiling" (sea lions love to smile and do it often) on the show at a water park in Kamogawa, Japan. (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)



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