Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos

  

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

• 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.

• Short-legged Ground Roller Brachypteracias leptosomus

  

  The Short-legged Ground Roller lives in Madagascar's humid forests. By day, it searches for invertebrates on the leaf-littered forest floor.

• Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx

  

  A wild cat of Europe and Asia, with black ear tufts and a prominent ruff around its cheeks.

• Ethiopian wolf Canis simensis

  

  A wolf found only in Ethiopia's highlands, with a bright reddish coat and long legs.

• Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus

  

  The Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry country. It eats seeds and flies daily to water, where large flocks gather; males and females differ in plumage.

• 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.

• Amboro Silky Anteater Cyclopes catellus

  This anteater has yellow-brown fur with more yellowish legs and tail. It is solitary and active in trees at night, and has been observed feeding in vine tangles. Confirmed records are limited to central Bolivia.

• Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster

  A survey of reserves in the Republic of the Congo recorded the species frequently in wooded grassland, especially at Idzoua Inkou. Males and females differ in upperpart color.

• Mountain zebra Equus zebra

  Hartmann's mountain zebras are adapted to dry, rocky country.

• Mzab Gundi Massoutiera mzabi

  This stocky rodent has dense fur and uses rocky crevices in the central Sahara.

• Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum

  The Vulturine Guineafowl is a large bird of eastern Africa's dry grasslands and scrub. It walks on the ground in groups and is striking for its blue head and long black plumes.

• Great tit Parus major

  A small bird with green and yellow body plumage and a glossy black head. In Britain it is familiar in gardens as well as woodland.

• Eastern red panda Ailurus styani

  The Eastern red panda occurs in southwestern China and northern Myanmar. Compared with the Himalayan red panda, its face is redder and its tail rings are more distinct.

• Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni

  The male has blue-gray upperparts. It nests in small colonies on its breeding grounds, and some travel to South Africa outside the breeding period.

• Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melas

  A small whale with long flippers, found in temperate and colder seas.

• 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.

• Marquesan Ground Dove Pampusana rubescens

  The Marquesan Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon with a gray head and breast and a reddish-purple back. It turns through leaf litter as it searches for seeds and ants.

• Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

  Whimbrels in northern Australia are migratory waders that probe mudflats with their long bills.

• Guanaco Lama guanicoe

  A wild camelid of open habitats across western and southern South America, from dry grasslands to cold southern regions.

• Crested Becard Pachyramphus validus

  Adult males have dark crowns and upperparts, while females are cinnamon-colored with gray crowns. In southern Peru's inter-Andean valleys, the account describes subspecies audax as a rare resident.

• European bison Bos bonasus

  The European bison is a large cattle relative living in wooded regions of central and eastern Europe.

• Hoffmann's two-toed sloth Choloepus hoffmanni

  A sloth with a flat face and small nose; its small ears are hidden in long fur. It spends most of its life in trees and eats leaves and fruit.

• Blue-cheeked Flowerpecker Dicaeum maugei

  The Blue-cheeked Flowerpecker is a tiny, short-tailed bird found in forests and plantations.