Amateur spider keeper Yegor Konkin, 23, displays a venomous Phormictopus antillensis spider on his face at his parents’ apartment in Russia.
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A woodpecker sits on a tree at Mayong forests east of Gauhati, India.
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Willie the polar bear swims underwater in his pool at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro.
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A young deer and a large cat touch noses in a French village near Jodhpur, India.
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Baby elephant Nayan, 2, is cooled off with water by keepers at Chester Zoo in England.
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Three cheetah cubs collide while wrestling in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Ndutu Plains, Tanzania.
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A Siberian tiger hides from the sun at the Beijing Zoo in China.
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A crow enjoys a ride on the back of a rhinoceros in National Zoological Park in New Delhi, India.
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A Serpent eagle takes flight in the search for prey in the Mayong Reserve forest in the out skirts of Guwahati city, India.
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A panda sleeps in the Olympic Games Panda Bear enclosure at the Beijing Zoo in China.
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Ocelot offspring Diego, right, lies next to his mother, Sara, at a zoo in Berlin, Germany.
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A female Indian one horned rhino (left) fights with a male rhino who has come close to her with intentions of mating in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon district of Assam, northeast India.
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A ridgeback plays with a terrier on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa. Autumn in the cape peninsula provides mild weather enjoyed on the beach by dogs and humans alike.
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A snail is pictured on the red carpet during the 65th Cannes film festival in Cannes.
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Rio’s zoo vet Alex Spadetti plays with Lequinho, a two-month-old green monkey, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lequinho, whose mother died upon giving birth, is being taken care of by a team of veterinarians and biologists.
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A stork collecting material for its nest flies over a field near Biebesheim, western Germany.
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Red knots rest at Slaughter Beach in Delaware during their annual migration.
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A dhole plays with its newborn pup at Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, Minn.
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An approximately 2-year-old female cougar runs away from a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife trap after being released northeast of Arlington. The cougar was trapped Tuesday when it was spotted too close to an area populated by humans.
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A heron attacks a gosling in the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in London, England.
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Vishal (left) and Rahul feed pigeons at a feeding park in the Mumbai suburbs.
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A rescued black bear carries a watermelon at The Wild Animal Sanctuary on the prairie near Keenesburg, Colorado. The 720-acre sanctuary is a refuge for large carnivores such as tigers, bears and lions that have been seized from illegal or abusive cases around the world.
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A brown argus butterfly is on desiplay at the Butterfly Conservation. Global warming is helping the once-rare small British butterfly, according to a study in the journal Science.
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A red panda sleeps in the panda bear enclosure at the Beijing Zoo. The zoo grounds were originally a Ming Dynasty imperial palace and finally opened to the public in 1908.
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A yet to be named colt, the first white Standardbred born in North America in 14 years, gallops at Fair Winds Farm in Cream Ridge, NJ.
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