Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cape Hare Lepus capensis

  

  The Arabian hare is recorded around AlUla in north-western Saudi Arabia. In this region, its grayish coat and black ear tips are noted.

• Scaly Ground Roller Geobiastes squamiger

  The Scaly Ground Roller is a terrestrial bird of Madagascar’s moist lowland forests.

• Western Hoolock Gibbon Hoolock hoolock

  A gibbon of forests in northeastern India and nearby areas; males and females have different coat colors.

• Sand Martin Riparia riparia

  A small martin with a grey-brown back, pale underside, and dark chest band. In Britain it arrives from Africa in spring to breed, digging nest burrows in sandy banks near water.

• Moluccan Scrubfowl Eulipoa wallacei

  The Moluccan Scrubfowl lives in forests of the Moluccan Islands. It gathers at communal nesting grounds at night and buries its eggs in sand or other loose ground.

• Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus

  A small marsupial with large eyes, long whiskers, and a grasping tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and pollen and nests in tree hollows and other sheltered places.

• Ringed seal Pusa hispida

  A small seal of the seasonally ice-covered seas around the Arctic. It keeps breathing holes open in the ice.

• Yellow-faced Honeyeater Caligavis chrysops

  It is widespread in eastern Australian forest and woodland. It probes flowers for nectar and searches leaves and branches for insects.

• Grevy’s zebra Equus grevyi

  A Grevy’s zebra has large ears and a long, narrow head. It lives in dry parts of Ethiopia and northern Kenya.

• Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

  A pigeon-sized hawk with a conspicuous pale eyebrow marking.

• Foothill Schiffornis Schiffornis aenea

  The Foothill Schiffornis is recorded in montane forest in northeastern Peru along the Andean foothills. Its regional account describes a narrow core area and notes more recent records farther south in Amazonas.

• Bearded Pig Sus barbatus

  A wild pig with bristles around the mouth and chin. Group movement varies with forest continuity.

• Eurasian beaver Castor fiber

  A large rodent that swims in rivers and lakes and feeds on waterside plants.

• Philippine Frogmouth Batrachostomus septimus

  The Philippine Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird found only in the Philippine archipelago. It catches large insects and lives in forests and at forest edges.

• Beecroft's Anomalure Anomalurus beecrofti

  Beecroft's anomalure moves between trees on a gliding membrane that extends between its limbs and tail. It rests in leafy nests by day and is active around dusk and at night.

• Common Pochard Aythya ferina

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

• Streaked shearwater Calonectris leucomelas

  A seabird that flies low over the water and visits Japanese islands to breed.

• Green Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops archeri

  The green ringtail possum has a lime-green-looking coat and a thick tail. It lives in trees in northeastern Queensland and mainly eats leaves.

• Common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata

  A whale with a pointed head and a curved dorsal fin set well back on its body.

• Bolivian Blackbird Oreopsar bolivianus

  This blackbird lives in dry scrub and open river-edge woodland in Bolivia's central Andes. Flocks forage on the ground and in fields, eating grains and fruit.

• Mountain Pocket Gopher Thomomys monticola

  A high-elevation rodent of California's Sierra Nevada. It occurs in meadows and open conifer forest, feeding on roots underground and herbaceous plants above ground.

• 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.

• Canary White-eye Zosterops luteus

  This white-eye occurs along northern Australia's coast, chiefly in mangroves. Breeding records from the Darwin region suggest year-round breeding, with many nests in the upper part of short mangroves.

• Caucasian Birch Mouse Sicista caucasica

  The Caucasian birch mouse is a small rodent recorded in grasslands of the western Great Caucasus. Its back lacks a dark stripe, and field records include places with tall, dense vegetation.