Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pygmy Sperm Whale Kogia breviceps

  

  A small toothed whale of temperate and tropical seas worldwide, with a darker back and paler underside.

• Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella ochotensis

  Cornell eBird currently uses Helopsaltes ochotensis for Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler. Locustella ochotensis, used in the pool and the BirdForum account, is an earlier genus combination.

• Greater Mouse-deer Tragulus napu

  A small forest-dwelling animal with slender legs and reddish-brown fur, it is active at night and feeds on fallen fruit and young leaves.

• 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.

• 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.

• Malabar Spiny Dormouse Platacanthomys lasiurus

  Its back has broad, flat, stiff spines mixed through the fur, and the tail is brush-tipped. It climbs in forests of southern India and is thought to be mainly active at night.

• Siberian Flying Squirrel Pteromys volans

  A small squirrel of southern and central Finland that glides between trees on a membrane joining its front and hind legs.

• Grey-necked Picathartes Picathartes oreas

  Its blue forehead, red nape, and grey neck stand out. It occurs in separated patches of forest in Central Africa.

• Black Duiker Cephalophus niger

  This small antelope is recorded from the Upper Guinea forest zone east to the Lower Niger area of western Nigeria. It has a dark body and legs, a grayish head and neck, and a reddish-brown crown tuft.

• Redpoll Acanthis flammea

  A small finch with a red forehead patch and white wingbars; its appearance varies across the forms included in the current species.

• Bearded Reedling Panurus biarmicus

  A long-tailed brown bird of reedbeds. Males have a black facial marking that looks like a moustache.

• Ebony Glider Petaurus gracilis

  The mahogany glider is a marsupial that glides through woodlands in northern Queensland. Its buff-to-apricot belly and dark stripe from the head toward the rump are distinctive.

• Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus

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

• Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus

  The Red-billed Starling is identified by its red bill. Males have a white head and grey body, while females are mainly brown; large flocks form in winter.

• Red Viscacha Rat Tympanoctomys barrerae

  The red viscacha rat burrows in dune belts around saline lakes and feeds on salt-tolerant plants. It has a yellow-brown back, white underside, and long, bicolored tail.

• Eurasian oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

  A stocky black-and-white shorebird with an orange-red bill.

• American Barn Owl Tyto furcata

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

• Rice's whale Balaenoptera ricei

  Rice's whale is a baleen whale that lives year-round in the Gulf of America. It is dark gray above and pale below; it is thought to dive deep by day to feed on fish.

• Chital Axis axis

  A deer often seen on the Indian peninsula, with white spots that remain all year.

• Isabella Oriole Oriolus isabellae

  The Isabela Oriole is an oriole recorded on Luzon in the Philippines.

• Pygmy hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis

  The pygmy hippopotamus is a small forest hippo from West Africa that usually lives alone.

• Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops

  A bird with a raised crest, an orange-beige body, and bold black-and-white wings.

• Rufous Bristlebird Dasyornis broadbenti

  This ground-dwelling bird has a rufous head and a pale, scalloped breast. It occurs in coastal scrub and heath from South Australia to Victoria.

• Wolffsohn's Mountain Viscacha Lagidium wolffsohni

  Wolffsohn's mountain viscacha lives among rocky slopes in southwestern Argentina. It shelters in crevices and feeds on plants during the day.