Meet the world’s animals.

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• Greater one-horned rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis

  

  The greater one-horned rhinoceros lives along rivers in northern India and southern Nepal.

• White-winged Warbler Xenoligea montana

  A grey head, olive upperparts, white underparts, and white wing feathers are distinctive. It feeds on seeds and insects in the mountain forests of Hispaniola.

• Red-bellied Tamarin Tamarinus labiatus

  This tamarin has white moustache-like facial hairs and a rusty-red chest and belly. It is active by day in the middle canopy of Amazonian forests in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.

• Black kite Milvus migrans

  A familiar raptor in Japan, with long wings and a long tail that has a shallow notch at its tip.

• Martinique Thrasher Ramphocinclus brachyurus

  In the population studied on Martinique's Caravelle Peninsula, the brown back and sides contrast with a white breast. Researchers also recorded foraging among fallen leaves.

• Southern African hedgehog Atelerix frontalis

  The southern African hedgehog has a white band across its forehead and a range of separated populations in southern Africa.

• Dromedary camel Camelus dromedarius

  A dromedary is a one-humped domestic camel. People have long kept it for transport in dry regions of North Africa and the Middle East.

• Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria

  The Wallcreeper walks over rock faces to search crevices for insects. It lives in mountains during breeding and moves to lower areas in winter.

• Bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus

  A wild pig that forages in groups in forests and wetlands of eastern and southern Africa.

• Wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo

  A large bird native to North America. Wild males have dark iridescent plumage; females are smaller and duller.

• Carmelite Sunbird Chalcomitra fuliginosa

  A sunbird of West African coastal woodland, gardens and cultivated areas. It feeds on nectar and other foods; one field account describes the male crown as gray-buff.

• Lesser Bulldog Bat Noctilio (Dirias) albiventris

  A bat of waterside habitats. Males tend to be bright red and females dull brown, and it searches for insects near the water's surface at night.

• Brown rat Rattus norvegicus

  A rat widely found around human settlements, using sewers, warehouses, fields and other places with water and food.

• Loria's Satinbird Cnemophilus loriae

  Loria's Satinbird lives in the canopy of montane forest. Males are black while females are olive-toned, and a male's far-carrying whistle can be heard from a perch.

• Lord Derby's Anomalure Anomalurus derbianus

  This squirrel-shaped rodent glides from tree to tree. It is active around dusk and at night in forests of western and central Africa.

• Common kestrel Falco tinnunculus

  A pointed-winged falcon with a long tail, well known for hovering. In Britain it uses grassland, farmland and open spaces in towns.

• Arctic Loon Gavia arctica

  A waterbird that breeds on large lakes in northern Europe and Asia. Its breeding plumage is boldly patterned, and outside the breeding season it also uses sheltered coastal waters.

• Vaquita Phocoena sinus

  The vaquita is a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Its rounded head and dark eye and lip patches help identify it.

• Brown bear Ursus arctos

  A bear of forests, mountains and other habitats in Eurasia and North America. It eats plants and animals, changing its diet with the seasons.

• Cabanis's Ground Sparrow Melozone cabanisi

  Cabanis's Ground-Sparrow is endemic to Costa Rica, from the Central Valley east toward Turrialba. Adults have black-and-white facial markings and a large black chest patch; juveniles are browner and more faintly marked. It uses thickets, young secondary growth, fragmented groves, and coffee plots.

• Banded linsang Prionodon linsang

  A slender animal with dark bands, found in Southeast Asian forests. It uses both trees and the ground and hunts alone.

• 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.

• Greater Green Leafbird Chloropsis sonnerati

  The male is green, with a black throat patch and blue moustachial stripe that can blend into the leaves. In the canopy it eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Patagonian mara Dolichotis patagonum

  A long-eared, long-legged rodent of Argentina’s open country.