Meet the world’s animals.

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• Walrus Odobenus rosmarus

  

  A northern marine mammal recognized by long tusks and sturdy whiskers around its muzzle.

• Black Berrypecker Melanocharis nigra

  The Black Berrypecker lives in forests on New Guinea. Adult males are glossy blue-black, while females are olive-colored. It eats small berries as well as insects and spiders.

• Unstriped ground squirrel Xerus (Xerus) rutilus

  A ground-dwelling squirrel without stripes, it lives in dry grasslands and scrub in East Africa. It forages by day and uses burrows for shelter.

• Barn swallow Hirundo rustica

  A bird with a long, deeply forked tail that catches insects in flight. It nests under building eaves and bridges as well as in other sheltered places.

• Puerto Rican Spindalis Spindalis portoricensis

  Endemic to Puerto Rico, this bird occurs from lowlands to higher elevations. It is found in forests and plantations and may visit gardens where fruit grows.

• Mexican Funnel-eared Bat Natalus mexicanus

  This small bat ranges from northern Mexico to Panama. It mainly inhabits tropical deciduous and semideciduous forests, roosts in caves, and eats insects.

• Black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis

  A black rhinoceros grasps vegetation with a narrow, pointed upper lip. Its upper lip is narrower than a white rhino’s.

• Tuamotu Sandpiper Prosobonia parvirostris

  A small sandpiper endemic to the Tuamotu Archipelago. It searches for food among coastal coral rubble, sand, and vegetation.

• Selayar Tarsier Tarsius tarsier

  The Selayar tarsier is marked by a black spot over the nose and a short, sparse tail tuft. It is active at night and lives in trees on Selayar Island.

• Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus

  A plover with a long crest and glossy green plumage. It breeds in lowland Britain and is also widespread in lowlands and coastal wetlands in winter.

• Velvet Asity Philepitta castanea

  The Velvet Asity lives in Madagascar's forests, and breeding males look very different from females. Males raise the structures above their eyes during courtship.

• Southern Pudu Pudu puda

  A small deer of the temperate rainforests of Argentina and Chile. It makes trails through the undergrowth to feeding and resting places.

• Gray whale Eschrichtius robustus

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

• Kakapo Strigops habroptila

  The kākāpō is a large, nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. It cannot fly and has moss-green plumage mottled with yellow and black. It now occurs only on forested islands, where the population is intensively managed to protect it from introduced predators.

• Spectacled Porpoise Phocoena dioptrica

  The spectacled porpoise is found in cold seas of the Southern Hemisphere and is known for the dark rings around its eyes.

• 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.

• Citrine Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa helianthea

  This small flycatcher is active by day; adults have olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts and rump.

• Cowan's Shrew Tenrec Microgale cowani

  Cowan's shrew tenrec is a small tenrec from the humid forests of eastern Madagascar. It searches among leaf litter and fallen wood for small prey.

• White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris

  This dolphin lives in the cold North Atlantic and has a short, thick beak with white lips.

• Green-tailed Warbler Microligea palustris

  The Green-tailed Warbler is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It has a gray head and body, olive-green back and wings, and mainly eats insects.

• Southern Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus

  The southern tree hyrax is a tree-dwelling mammal with soft grey-brown fur, found in forests across eastern and southern Africa.

• 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.

• Velvet-fronted Nuthatch Sitta frontalis

  The Velvet-fronted Nuthatch moves along trunks and branches in Asian forests.

• 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.