Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian teal Anas crecca

  

  A small duck seen on Japanese waters in winter. Breeding males have a chestnut head with a dark green band around the eye.

• Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus

  Breeding males show a black face and chestnut nape. In winter, the birds may gather in flocks in North American fields.

• Bridled House Gecko Hemidactylus frenatus

  A gecko found on Mo’orea.

• Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus

  A rare seal found in the Mediterranean and along northwest Africa; it feeds on fish, octopus and other prey.

• Mediterranean horseshoe bat Rhinolophus euryale

  A bat of wooded foothills and mountains. It emerges at twilight to hunt moths and other insects.

• Greater rhea Rhea americana

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

• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula

  A small crow with a pale grey nape and light eyes, seen year-round around towns and farmland in the UK.

• North American Racer Coluber constrictor

  This snake sometimes basks or shelters around alligator nests.

• Sugar glider Petaurus breviceps

  A marsupial that glides between trees in eastern Australian forests.

• African buffalo Syncerus caffer

  A large wild bovine of sub-Saharan Africa, usually found near water. Body size, coat color, and horn shape vary among its subspecies.

• White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus

  The White-headed Mousebird lives in dry scrub and thornbush.

• Greensnake Opheodrys aestivus

  This snake sometimes moves around alligator nests.

• Short-eared owl Asio flammeus

  An owl with yellow eyes and mottled brown plumage, seen hunting over grasslands and wetlands in Britain.

• Sunda Colugo Galeopterus variegatus

  A mammal of Southeast Asian forests that glides between trees using skin stretched between its limbs.

• Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus

  The Greater Racket-tailed Drongo has glossy black plumage, a backward-curving crest and long ornamental tail wires. It is a resident of forests and wooded areas in Singapore.

• Nine-banded Armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus

  An armadillo active around dusk and at night that searches leaf litter for insects. It also occurs in parts of the United States east and north of Texas.

• Franciscana Pontoporia blainvillei

  This small dolphin lives along the southwestern Atlantic coast from southeastern Brazil through Uruguay to Argentina. It uses shallow, turbid coastal water and estuaries, feeding on small fish, squid, and crustaceans.

• Limpkin Aramus guarauna

  A wetland bird with long legs and a curved bill. It searches freshwater marshes for aquatic snails and ranges from southern North America into South America.

• Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

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

• Little Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus australis

  The little long-fingered bat is small and has seasonal variation in coat color. It hunts insects at night and roosts in groups in caves and other sheltered places.

• Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani

  It lives in East African savannas and dry forests and eats both plant matter and small invertebrates.

• Gray whale Eschrichtius robustus

  A mottled gray whale of the North Pacific, with a low hump in place of a dorsal fin.

• Brush Rabbit Sylvilagus bachmani

  The brush rabbit is a small rabbit of brushy places in California. It has brown fur, short ears and a small tail.

• Rufous-throated Hill Partridge Arborophila rufogularis

  This partridge is marked by its red throat and eye-ring and lives in evergreen forests from the Himalayas to Indochina.