Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Raven Corvus corax

  

  A large black raven that lives widely across the Northern Hemisphere.

• Southern giraffe Giraffa giraffa

  

  The southern giraffe occurs in southern Africa and includes the Angolan and South African subspecies.

• Lesser Melampitta Melampitta lugubris

  

  The Lesser Melampitta lives in New Guinea's montane forests. This account separates an early description of an adult male from one survey record in eastern Papua New Guinea.

• Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris

  

  A bushy-tailed squirrel of forests in Europe and northern Asia.

• Antarctic Minke Whale Balaenoptera bonaerensis

  

  The Antarctic minke whale is a baleen whale with a circumpolar Southern Hemisphere range. It feeds in Antarctic waters in summer and is described as moving north to warmer waters in winter.

• Philippine Megapode Megapodius cumingii

  

  This megapode has brown-to-grey plumage and bare red facial skin. In Borneo it searches on the ground and buries eggs in a mound of plant material, where heat from decomposition incubates them.

• Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago

  The Common Snipe has a long, straight bill and mottled brown plumage. In the United Kingdom it is most numerous in northern uplands, and birds from northern Europe also arrive in winter.

• Northern Tamandua Tamandua mexicana

  The northern tamandua ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to northern Peru west of the Andes. It is partly arboreal and feeds mainly on ants and termites.

• Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno

  The Resplendent Quetzal lives in moist montane forest from southern Mexico to Panama. Males have iridescent green plumage, a red belly, and long tail plumes, and often eat fruits from the laurel family.

• Northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus

  A whale of the deep North Atlantic, recognized by its rounded forehead and projecting, bottle-shaped beak.

• Maghrebian Bent-wing Bat Miniopterus maghrebensis

  The back is chestnut to dark grayish brown, and the underside is pale brown. The species account lists Mediterranean scrub, dry forest, and other habitats. The 2019 HMW account confirms Morocco and Tunisia in its range; Algeria is only a possible occurrence.

• Great Skua Stercorarius skua

  The Great Skua is a stout, dark seabird with white flashes on its wings. It sometimes steals food from other birds.

• Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula

  A diving duck distinguished by a tuft at the back of its head and yellow eyes.

• Shark Bay Bandicoot Perameles bougainville

  The Shark Bay bandicoot is a small marsupial native to islands off Western Australia. It makes a nest beneath shrubs for daytime shelter.

• Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi

  The Subdesert Mesite is restricted to the dry spiny forests of southwestern Madagascar. It walks on the ground by day and searches beneath leaf litter for food.

• White rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum

  A white rhinoceros grazes with a broad mouth. Despite its name, its skin is gray.

• Gursky's Spectral Tarsier Tarsius spectrumgurskyae

  This small nocturnal primate occurs on the northern peninsula of Sulawesi. It has a long black tail pencil and lives in forests, mangroves, and forest gardens. It is active at night and feeds on live prey, mainly insects.

• Yellow-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus flaviventer

  The male has a bright yellow breast and a broad, flattened bill. The species searches for insects in forest foliage.

• Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

  A familiar finch in Britain and Ireland. It searches the ground for seeds and insects, and shows white on its wings in flight.

• Visayan Warty Pig Sus cebifrons

  It has mane-like hair that can fall across the face. The range entry is limited to the living population on Negros and Panay.

• Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen

  The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black-and-white bird found across Australia. Its back pattern varies by sex and region.

• American beaver Castor canadensis

  An animal of North American rivers and lakes. It builds dams and lodges from branches and mud, changing its waterside habitat.

• North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena japonica

  The North Pacific right whale is a baleen whale of the North Pacific, with most contemporary sightings in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.

• Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla

  The Short-toed Treecreeper is a small bird of mature European woodlands. It searches bark crevices for tiny invertebrates with its curved bill.