Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian elk Alces alces

  

  A Eurasian elk is a deer with long legs and a large muzzle. It uses forests and waterside habitats in places such as northern Europe.

• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus

  An egg-laying mammal that forages in Australian rivers.

• European Bee-eater Merops apiaster

  A colorful bird with a chestnut head, yellow throat, and blue-green belly. It catches insects in flight.

• Solitary Tinamou Tinamus solitarius

  It walks quietly on the ground in the Atlantic Forest, with gray-brown barring and a pale stripe on the side of the neck. It is secretive, so its whistled song can help reveal its presence.

• Grant's Golden Mole Eremitalpa granti

  This small golden mole has no visible tail, and its eyes are covered by skin. It moves through dunes and searches for food at night.

• Domestic horse Equus caballus

  A domestic horse with long legs and a mane. Size and build vary among breeds developed by people.

• Benguela Long-billed Lark Certhilauda benguelensis

  This lark inhabits dry, stony grassland from Angola to northwestern Namibia. It searches the ground for small invertebrates and seeds.

• Honey Possum Tarsipes rostratus

  The honey possum is a small marsupial that feeds only on nectar and pollen from native flowers. Its long tongue gathers pollen from inside flowers.

• Garganey Spatula querquedula

  A small duck whose male has a broad white stripe above the eye. It feeds at the water's surface and breeds in small numbers in the UK.

• Sarus Crane Antigone antigone

  Adults are large cranes with grey bodies and wings and red heads and necks. They are usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

  Pronghorns live in the grasslands and dry country of western North America.

• Cuvier's Beaked Whale Ziphius cavirostris

  A whale found in many of the world’s oceans that searches for prey in deep water.

• North Island Saddleback Philesturnus rufusater

  The North Island Saddleback is glossy black with a chestnut saddle and rump, a pale line at the saddle’s front, and red wattles at the bill base. It feeds on insects, fruit, and nectar in New Zealand forests.

• Greater bilby Macrotis lagotis

  A nocturnal forager of dry country with long ears and a pointed snout.

• Little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis

  A small waterbird of lakes, ponds and slow rivers. It dives for fish and other prey and raises young on nests that appear to float.

• Hodgson's Treecreeper Certhia hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Treecreeper is a small bird of mountain regions from Pakistan east to China. It has a brown back and pale underside, and searches tree bark for insects and spiders.

• Naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber

  The naked mole-rat lives in underground tunnels in dry parts of eastern Africa.

• European hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus

  An animal of European grasslands, hedgerows and gardens. Spines cover its back, and it curls into a ball when threatened.

• Scripps's Murrelet Synthliboramphus scrippsi

  This small seabird breeds on islands off California and Mexico. Outside the breeding period it stays at sea, diving for small fish and crustaceans.

• Malayan porcupine Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura

  The Malayan porcupine is a nocturnal rodent with long spines on its back. It occurs in forests of mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra and Borneo.

• Common Buzzard Buteo buteo

  In the UK, Common Buzzards circle on broad wings and search woods and open countryside for small prey.

• Rosy Thrush-Tanager Rhodinocichla rosea

  The Rosy Thrush-Tanager is a forest bird whose males have dark grey upperparts and rosy underparts. Female colors and facial markings vary among subspecies and regions.

• Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus

  The southern brown bandicoot is a ground-dwelling marsupial. This entry follows the source’s account of the eastern subspecies.