Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola

  

  A wader with mottled plumage that blends into woodland and feeds in nearby fields at night.

• Long-tailed chinchilla Chinchilla lanigera

  A chinchilla of dry rocky habitats in Chile, with dense soft fur and large ears. Rock crevices provide shelter.

• Sharpbill Oxyruncus cristatus

  A sharpbill of mid-elevation rainforest. Males have a bright vermilion crest, sing high in the canopy, and feed on fruit and animal prey.

• Narwhal Monodon monoceros

  A whale without a dorsal fin that lives in Arctic seas. Males commonly develop a long tusk from a tooth.

• Eastern red panda Ailurus styani

  The Eastern red panda occurs in southwestern China and northern Myanmar. Compared with the Himalayan red panda, its face is redder and its tail rings are more distinct.

• 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.

• Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

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

• Pallas's cat Otocolobus manul

  A Central Asian cat with long, dense fur. Its rounded head and low-set ears give the face a flattened appearance.

• Broad-billed Warbler Tickellia hodgsoni

  This small warbler occurs from the Himalayas to Indochina, using damp montane forest and bamboo undergrowth to find insects.

• Wild boar Sus scrofa

  A robust wild pig native to Europe and Asia. It uses habitats with water and dense vegetation for cover.

• 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.

• Mountain Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles albertisi

  The Mountain Owlet-nightjar lives in New Guinea's mountain forests and is active at night. It has rufous and brown plumage forms and roosts in hollows by day.

• Wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo

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

• Brown Hyena Parahyaena brunnea

  A hyena of southern Africa's dry regions that is mostly active at night.

• Drakensberg Rockjumper Chaetops aurantius

  It lives in rocky mountain grassland and searches the ground for insects and other small invertebrates. The male has bold facial and chest markings.

• Fallow deer Dama dama

  The fallow deer is recognized by the male’s broad, palmate antlers. Coat forms include spotted, white and dark individuals.

• Mearns's Squirrel Tamiasciurus mearnsi

  This squirrel is restricted to the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, Mexico. It lives in high-elevation conifer forest and uses tree hollows for nests.

• Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus

  This large cuckoo occurs from East Asia into Southeast Asia. The sexes have different plumage; it eats fruit and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Common Raven Corvus corax

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

• Chilean Red Bat Lasiurus varius

  The Chilean Red Bat occurs in Argentina and Chile and is solitary. Its long, narrow wings support fast flight, but make it less maneuverable along forest edges and in clearings.

• Grey Crested Tit Lophophanes dichrous

  This mountain tit has a gray crest and back and a white half-collar. Throat and underpart colors vary among regional forms.

• Greater one-horned rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis

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

• Lowland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes semispinosus

  The lowland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with striking yellow-and-black quills and stripes. It lives in eastern Madagascar’s lowland rainforests.

• 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.