Meet the world’s animals.

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• Snowy Sheathbill Chionis albus

  

  A Signy Island study from April 1961 to April 1962 described adults as white with pink skin below the eye. There, the birds fed on shore algae and limpets and also foraged near penguin colonies.

• Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops megalophylla

  

  The ghost-faced bat ranges from the southern United States through Central America to northern South America. It roosts in caves by day and emerges in the evening to hunt large moths and insects.

• North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis

  

  A stocky black whale without a dorsal fin, found mainly in North Atlantic coastal waters.

• Black-capped Donacobius Donacobius atricapilla

  

  This waterside bird has a black head and back and a long tail with white tips. A Peru-focused species account describes pairs and family groups defending territories along lowland Amazon lakes and rivers.

• Short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

  

  A spiny egg-laying mammal found in many Australian habitats.

• Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus

  

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

• Red-ruffed Fruitcrow Pyroderus scutatus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peruvian account describes it moving alone in the canopy.

• Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus

  The southern brown bandicoot is a ground-dwelling marsupial. This entry follows the source’s account of the eastern subspecies.

• Himalayan red panda Ailurus fulgens

  An animal of Himalayan forests that feeds mainly on bamboo leaves. It has a reddish-brown back and a long, ringed tail.

• American Barn Owl Tyto furcata

  The American Barn Owl occurs across the Americas. It flies over open ground at night, searching for small mammals.

• Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus

  An egg-laying mammal that forages in Australian rivers.

• Common Crane Grus grus

  A large crane that breeds from Europe across northern Asia and winters in southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and other regions.

• Papuan Sittella Daphoenositta papuensis

  The Papuan Sittella occurs on New Guinea, where species accounts record it in forest and semi-open habitats. It feeds on invertebrates.

• African forest elephant Loxodonta cyclotis

  The African forest elephant lives in dense tropical forests of western and central Africa.

• Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus

  A semiaquatic rodent that lives in wetlands and along waterways in North America.

• Toucan Barbet Semnornis ramphastinus

  The Toucan Barbet is stout and medium-sized. Males have a glossy black nuchal tuft that females lack. It occurs in the mountains of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador and mainly eats fruit. At the study site, territorial groups bred in tree cavities.

• Himalayan Musk Deer Moschus leucogaster

  The Himalayan musk deer has no antlers; both males and females have elongated upper canines.

• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

  Ruddy Turnstones flip stones and seaweed along shorelines to find insects and small crustaceans underneath.

• Greater rhea Rhea americana

  A flightless South American bird with a long neck, long legs and gray-brown feathers.

• Spectacled African Dormouse Graphiurus (Graphiurus) ocularis

  The spectacled African dormouse has a bushy tail and a striking black-and-white face mask. It lives among rocky areas in southwestern South Africa and uses crevices for shelter.

• Brown rat Rattus norvegicus

  A rat widely found around human settlements, using sewers, warehouses, fields and other places with water and food.

• Spotted Buttonquail Turnix ocellatus

  It has been recorded in Philippine grasslands, scrub, ravine edges, bamboo-forest edges, and gardens. It is secretive and stays under ground cover.

• Masai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi

  The Masai giraffe occurs in Kenya, Tanzania and part of Zambia.

• Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

  A pigeon-sized hawk with a conspicuous pale eyebrow marking.