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.

• Western Tarsier Cephalopachus bancanus

  

  The western tarsier is a small primate that spends the night in trees. It has large eyes and leaps between branches to catch insects and other small animals.

• Asian Fairy-bluebird Irena puella

  

  The Asian fairy-bluebird is a blue-and-black bird seen alone or in pairs in the tree canopy and middle storey.

• Gray Partridge Perdix perdix

  

  A ground-dwelling bird native to Eurasia. Family groups walk through fields and grasslands, picking seeds from the ground. North American populations were introduced from Europe.

• Gray-legged Night Monkey Aotus griseimembra

  

  This nocturnal monkey has large eyes and gray-brown fur. In the wild it lives in rainforest from northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela and eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis

  

  The Aplomado Falcon lives in open country from Mexico through South America. It has a long tail and sometimes hunts with another falcon.

• Honey badger Mellivora capensis

  A robust mustelid found in parts of Africa and Asia.

• Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kempii

  Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kempii is a gerbil recorded in West Africa. Its back is pale brown darkened by black hairs, and its underside is white. A 2026 survey in southeastern Sierra Leone recorded it in a plantation, a forest reserve, and grassland.

• Javan Pied Myna Gracupica jalla

  The Javan Pied Myna is a starling native to Java. It is considered extinct in the wild, but reintroduced birds have been observed at a protected site in East Java; a 2024 survey recorded 32 there.

• Hooded Crow Corvus cornix

  A crow with a gray body and black head, wings, and tail. It eats carrion and may gather with others at feeding sites.

• Black Agouti Dasyprocta fuliginosa

  The black agouti is a slim rodent whose back fur ranges from orange to almost black. It is mainly active by day, feeding on fruit and plants in forests, brush, and places near water.

• Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis

  The Yellow-green Vireo normally breeds in Mexico and Central America and winters in lowland tropical forest in South America. Nesting in Texas is rare, and a few fall records on the California coast are thought to be birds that went the wrong way.

• Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus

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

• Monito del Monte Dromiciops gliroides

  This small marsupial has dark markings around its eyes. Its confirmed range reaches the Rio Figueroa valley in southern Chile, with Nothofagus trees and Chusquea bamboo forming continuous forest along the southern range extension.

• Undulated Antpitta Grallaria squamigera

  The Undulated Antpitta lives in humid Andean forest and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos

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

• Greater Cane Rat Thryonomys swinderianus

  The greater cane rat is a stocky African rodent with a rounded nose and short ears. It lives near marshes and riverbanks, feeding mainly on grasses and cane.

• Green-eared Barbet Psilopogon faiostrictus

  The Green-eared Barbet has green upperparts and paler underparts. In the source's male description, brown streaks mark the crown and nape, with green ear coverts. Its main food is fruit.

• Polar bear Ursus maritimus

  A bear that hunts on Arctic sea ice. It feeds mainly on seals and moves between ice and land.

• Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou mexicanus

  This porcupine ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to western Panama. Long quills hide beneath coarse black hairs, and its long tail can grip branches.

• Slate-throated Gnatcatcher Polioptila schistaceigula

  This small bird occurs in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. Males and females have different white markings around the eyes, and the species lives in moist lowland forest.

• Common Pochard Aythya ferina

  The breeding male is a diving duck with a striking reddish-brown head.

• Onager Equus hemionus

  An Asiatic wild ass. The appearance and behavior here describe the Persian onager subspecies in Iran.

• Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus

  The Senegal Parrot lives along savanna edges in western and central Africa. Its gray head and green and yellow body colors stand out.