When I was a kid, my family took me to a zoo that apparently featured a pretty hungry tiger. The reason why I say this is that as soon as my little legs stumbled a bit, I'm told that this tiger suddenly became very interested in me.
Since I'm now able to write this, it's clear that it wasn't able to eat me. But that encounter does a lot to illustrate the difference in curiosity between seeing an animal at the zoo and actually trying to climb into its enclosure.
While it's possible to find pretty much anything fascinating to a healthy degree, it's also true that not all of what appeals to us is entirely safe. And as we go through the photos we'll be discussing today, we'll see plenty of opportunities to remember what should be admired from afar.