Meet the world’s animals.

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• Reindeer Rangifer tarandus

  

  A reindeer is a deer in which both sexes grow antlers. The Eurasian subspecies lives in cold regions with snow cover.

• Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis

  A dark green wader whose plumage can shimmer emerald and bronze in good light. It occurs in lowlands from Central America to northern and eastern South America.

• European Pond Terrapin Emys orbicularis

  A study in eastern Poland found ampicillin resistance among Aeromonas isolates from turtles and water.

• Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus

  A small bird with a blue crown and yellow underside, found from woodland to parks and gardens.

• Eastern Sucker-footed Bat Myzopoda aurita

  The eastern sucker-footed bat lives in eastern Madagascar and clings to leaves using suction-like pads on its wrists and ankles.

• Elfin Myzomela Myzomela adolphinae

  A tiny honeyeater of New Guinea's mid-montane forest canopy and village edges. Males show red on the head and rump against a dark back and wings; females have red only at the chin.

• Lowland tapir Tapirus terrestris

  The lowland tapir lives in South American forests and wetlands, preferring sites near water where it swims well.

• Mangrove Smooth-scaled Gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris

  A gecko found on Hainan Island in China.

• Greater bilby Macrotis lagotis

  A nocturnal forager of dry country with long ears and a pointed snout.

• Osprey Pandion haliaetus

  A fish-catching raptor with a white head crossed by a dark eye stripe. On Hachijojima it is seen near the coast in winter.

• Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma

  This oropendola ranges through lowlands from Mexico into Central America. Males are about 50 cm and females about 37.5 cm; birds breed in colonies that suspend long, pouch-like nests from branches.

• Carolina Anole Anolis carolinensis

  Males of this lizard can extend skin under the throat.

• Asian elephant Elephas maximus

  An Asian elephant lives in South and Southeast Asia. It uses its trunk to grasp food and pour water into its mouth.

• Thick-tailed Three-toed Jerboa Stylodipus telum

  This jerboa occurs in a broken belt of dry country from the lower Dnieper to Lake Zaysan.

• Australian Logrunner Orthonyx temminckii

  Adult Australian Logrunners differ in throat color by sex. On the floor of moist eastern Australian forests, they use their stiff tails for support while scratching through leaf litter for food.

• Eurasian wren Troglodytes troglodytes

  A tiny brown bird with a loud, extended song. In Japan it breeds in habitats such as woodland beside mountain streams.

• Common Kingsnake Lampropeltis getula

  This snake sometimes moves around alligator nests.

• Mindanao Flying Squirrel Petinomys mindanensis

  This flying squirrel occurs in the southern Philippines. It is nocturnal and moves among trees in wet tropical and subtropical forests.

• Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena

  A small porpoise of cool Northern Hemisphere waters. It uses bays and estuaries and mainly eats schooling fish.

• Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii

  A large loon with a black head, white back spots, and a pale yellow bill in breeding plumage. In Alaska it uses northern and western lakes in summer and nearshore waters in winter.

• Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

  This lizard sometimes moves and basks around alligator nests.

• Common Swift Apus apus

  A summer visitor to the UK, the Common Swift spends almost all its life on the wing, catching small insects and spiders in the air.

• Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus

  An egg-laying mammal that forages in Australian rivers.

• Rosy Thrush-Tanager Rhodinocichla rosea

  The Rosy Thrush-Tanager is a forest bird whose males have dark grey upperparts and rosy underparts. Female colors and facial markings vary among subspecies and regions.