Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus

  

  A deer found across much of North America. Its coat is reddish brown in summer and grayish brown in winter.

• Kolar Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros hypophyllus

  

  The Kolar Leaf-nosed Bat is known from southern India. It has broad ears and small supplementary noseleaf structures, and a cave in dry scrubland is its only reported roost.

• Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria

  

  The Wallcreeper walks over rock faces to search crevices for insects. It lives in mountains during breeding and moves to lower areas in winter.

• Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula

  

  A thrush commonly seen in British gardens and parks. It searches ground litter for worms, insects and fruit.

• Bumblebee Bat Craseonycteris thonglongyai

  

  Kitti’s hog-nosed bat is a tiny bat about the size of a large bumblebee. It roosts in limestone caves and flies out around dusk to catch insects.

• Golden-fronted Leafbird Chloropsis aurifrons

  

  The Golden-fronted Leafbird lives in forests and wooded areas of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, moving through foliage in the canopy.

• West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus

  A large aquatic mammal that eats plants, with a rounded body and broad tail.

• Gould's Wattled Bat Chalinolobus gouldii

  Gould's wattled bat has brown fur on the rear and underside, with darker fur on its head and shoulders. In southern Australia, it hibernates through winter.

• American Avocet Recurvirostra americana

  The American Avocet has long legs and a slender, upturned bill that it sweeps through shallow water for food.

• Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus

  Often hidden high in trees, this bird has an adult male with a bright yellow body and black wings.

• Siau Island Tarsier Tarsius tumpara

  The Siau Island tarsier is a nocturnal primate from Siau Island, Indonesia. Its facial markings and a tuft at the end of its tail are described in the species account.

• Olive-headed Weaver Ploceus olivaceiceps

  The Olive-headed Weaver lives in montane miombo woodland in southern Tanzania and nearby regions. Males have a bright yellow crown and rusty breast.

• 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.

• 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.

• Taiwan Cupwing Pnoepyga formosana

  The Taiwan Cupwing is endemic to Taiwan's mountain forests. It keeps to dense understory near the ground, is usually solitary, and makes only short flights.

• Common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos

  A migratory bird breeding in scrubby woodland. Birds breeding in Britain spend winter in West Africa.

• Eastern Bettong Bettongia gaimardi

  The eastern bettong is a small Tasmanian marsupial that carries nesting material with its long tail. It leaves its grass nest at night to forage on fungi, seeds and other foods.

• Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris

  This wetland bird has long toes that let it walk on floating vegetation. Its native range is split among separate areas of Africa.

• Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus

  A pig of savannas and open woodlands, the common warthog feeds on grasses and roots. Its range records include several subspecies.

• Geoffroy's Cat Leopardus geoffroyi

  A cat of southern South America, living in grassland, scrub, wetlands and woodland.

• Yellowhead Mohoua ochrocephala

  A small songbird endemic to New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands that now remains mainly in beech forest.

• Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago

  The Common Snipe has a long, straight bill and mottled brown plumage. In the United Kingdom it is most numerous in northern uplands, and birds from northern Europe also arrive in winter.

• Crowned Sifaka Propithecus coronatus

  A lemur of western Madagascar that moves through trees and feeds on leaves and fruit.

• Schlegel's Asity Philepitta schlegeli

  Schlegel’s Asity is a forest bird restricted to northwestern and western Madagascar. It eats more fruit in the rainy season and also takes nectar and insects toward the end of the dry season.