Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Buzzard Buteo buteo

  

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

• Palmchat Dulus dominicus

  

  The Palmchat is a Caribbean island bird with a plain brown back and heavily streaked underparts. It also has a red iris and a strong, slightly decurved bill.

• Blanford's Jerboa Jaculus blanfordi

  

  Cream-colored fur above, a white underside and a black-and-white tail tuft distinguish this jerboa. It forages at night and excavates burrows in sandy ground across arid parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• Domestic sheep Ovis aries

  

  A domestic sheep spread around the world by people. It tends to move together with other sheep.

• Spotted Elachura Elachura formosa

  

  The Spotted Elachura is a brown bird marked with white spots. It searches for insects near the ground in damp forest, from eastern Nepal and northeastern India to southern China.

• Linné’s two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus

  

  A sloth that hangs from high branches in tropical forests, feeding and resting in the trees.

• Eurasian wigeon Mareca penelope

  A short-billed duck that feeds on plants both in water and on land. Breeding males have a chestnut head and pale forehead.

• Blue Korhaan Eupodotis caerulescens

  This bustard lives mainly in South Africa. The male stands out with a blue-grey neck and underparts and a black-and-white face.

• Chinese Pygmy Dormouse Typhlomys cinereus

  The Chinese Pygmy Dormouse is a small rodent recorded in the mountains of southeastern China. It has small eyes and a tuft at the end of its tail, and uses ultrasonic calls to move in darkness.

• Gray seal Halichoerus grypus

  A seal of North Atlantic coasts, with a long, prominent nose especially noticeable in adult males.

• Chiming Wedgebill Psophodes occidentalis

  The Chiming Wedgebill inhabits arid Australia. It uses mulga woodland and low shrubland in Shark Bay, picking insects from the ground and small trees.

• Western long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bruijni

  The western long-beaked echidna is an egg-laying mammal with a long, downward-curving snout. It occurs on New Guinea.

• Common Quail Coturnix coturnix

  A small pheasant-family bird that visits Britain's lowlands in summer, where open grassland and farmland occur. It is secretive and may be noticed by its call.

• Swallow-tailed Nightjar Uropsalis segmentata

  The Swallow-tailed Nightjar occurs in the Andes. Males have long outer tail feathers, and the species uses forest edges and rocky walls.

• Angolan Giant Mole-rat Fukomys mechowi

  Mechow's mole-rat is an African rodent that excavates underground tunnels. Family groups are known to cooperate in daily life.

• North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis

  A stocky black whale without a dorsal fin, found mainly in North Atlantic coastal waters.

• Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla

  The Pygmy Cupwing is a small bird with a very short tail and scaled-looking brown plumage. It forages in dense understory and near the forest floor.

• Ferreira’s Spiny Tree-rat Mesomys hispidus

  This arboreal rodent has stiff spines on its back and a long tail ending in a tuft. It is reported throughout the Amazon Basin and was commonly captured in mature forest in a Peruvian study.

• Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata

  A large wader with long legs and a down-curved bill that uses coastal wetlands and grasslands at different times of year.

• Toucan Barbet Semnornis ramphastinus

  The Toucan Barbet is stout and medium-sized. Males have a glossy black nuchal tuft that females lack. It occurs in the mountains of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador and mainly eats fruit. At the study site, territorial groups bred in tree cavities.

• Desert Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys deserti

  The desert kangaroo rat digs burrows among the dunes of arid southwestern North America and is mainly active at night.

• Eastern gray squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) carolinensis

  A tree squirrel native to eastern North America. Gray coats are typical, though dark individuals also occur.

• Temminck's Babbler Pellorneum pyrrogenys

  Temminck’s Babbler is a plain rufous-brown bird that stays low on the forest floor. It searches leaf litter for insects and other small invertebrates and has a loud, far-carrying song.

• Giant Otter Shrew Potamogale velox

  The giant otter shrew is a semi-aquatic mammal of central African rivers and swamps. It swims by moving its laterally flattened tail and forages near water from dusk into the night.