Meet the world’s animals.
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- Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melas
Photo: Barney Moss · CC BY 2.0 A small whale with long flippers, found in temperate and colder seas.
- Magellanic Oystercatcher Haematopus leucopodus
The Magellanic Oystercatcher is a large wader found mainly along the coasts of southern South America. During the breeding season it also moves inland to wet grasslands.
- Lowland paca Cuniculus paca
A spotted forest rodent that feeds on fallen fruit.
- Wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo
A large bird native to North America. Wild males have dark iridescent plumage; females are smaller and duller.
- Nazca Booby Sula granti
The Nazca Booby is an eastern Pacific seabird with a white body and black tail. It plunges into the sea to catch fish.
- Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes tricinctus
This armadillo has a rounded shell and can curl into a ball by fitting its head and tail shields together when threatened.
- Brown rat Rattus norvegicus
A rat widely found around human settlements, using sewers, warehouses, fields and other places with water and food.
- Black-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus nigripectus
The Black-breasted Boatbill is a small bird of New Guinea's mountains. It is active by day along forest edges and within forest, and is about 13–15 cm long.
- American Pika Ochotona (Pika) princeps
The American pika is a small mammal of the mountains of western North America. It does not hibernate and gathers plants for winter food.
- Common Raven Corvus corax
A large black raven that lives widely across the Northern Hemisphere.
- Kagu Rhynochetos jubatus
The flightless Kagu lives in the humid forests of New Caledonia's Grande Terre. During the day it searches leaf litter and soil for small live prey.
- Dassie Rat Petromus typicus
The dassie rat is a rodent that shelters among rock crevices. It has long whiskers and a yellowish nose, and comes out in the morning and late afternoon to seek flowers, seeds, and fruit.
- Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae
A whale with long pectoral fins and distinctive markings on the underside of its tail.
- Fairy Martin Petrochelidon ariel
This swallow occurs across Australia, often in open country near water. It catches insects in flight and breeds in colonies of bottle-shaped mud nests.
- Sunda Colugo Galeopterus variegatus
A mammal of Southeast Asian forests that glides between trees using skin stretched between its limbs.
- Golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos
A large eagle that soars on broad wings. In Britain it occurs in places such as the Scottish Highlands and islands.
- Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis
The Eastern Nicator lives in lowland forest and woodland from eastern to southern Africa. The tip of its upper bill is hooked, and it builds a low nest in a branch.
- East African Spring Hare Pedetes surdaster
The East African springhare's fur fluoresces orange to red under ultraviolet light. The examined specimens included animals from Kenya and Tanzania, but the ecological role of the glow remains unknown.
- Least Weasel Mustela nivalis
The least weasel is a small, slender mustelid with a short tail. The Missouri account describes it as probably present in the state’s northern counties.
- Noisy Scrubbird Atrichornis clamosus
The Noisy Scrub-bird has short wings and strong legs and moves along the ground and through low shrubs. It occurs on the mainland of southwestern Western Australia.
- Red slender loris Loris tardigradus
The red slender loris is a small primate endemic to Sri Lanka. A 2017 study places the species across the island's wet zone and montane areas.
- Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
A rounded bird with soft, whistle-like calls.
- Fiji Woodswallow Artamus mentalis
The Fiji Woodswallow lives on islands in Fiji. An older paper recorded it as the subspecies A. leucorhynchus mentalis and described aerial insect hunting and cooperative care of young.
- Silky Sifaka Propithecus candidus
A sifaka known for its long, silky white fur. It moves among trees by day in mountain forest in northeastern Madagascar.
