Meet the world’s animals.

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• Short-tailed Cane Mouse Zygodontomys brevicauda

  

  The short-tailed cane mouse lives in grass and waterside cover and is active on the ground at night.

• Mound-building Mouse Mus (Mus) spicilegus

  

  The mound-building mouse is a brown wild mouse that resembles the house mouse. In autumn, young mice build mounds of soil and vegetation and spend winter underground.

• Caracal Caracal caracal

  

  A cat of Africa and parts of Asia, recognized by its reddish-brown to brown coat and long black ear tufts.

• Balkan Long-eared Bat Plecotus kolombatovici

  

  The Balkan long-eared bat has fur on its face and chin. It lives in rocky areas along the Mediterranean and catches moths while flying through confined spaces.

• Common Slender Mongoose Galerella sanguinea

  

  This slender mongoose occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa and has been recorded from semidesert to woodland at elevations of 0–2,700 m.

• Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus

  

  A dolphin of warm and temperate seas worldwide that feeds mainly on squid.

• 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.

• Narrow-toed feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus

  A tiny gliding marsupial with a feather-like tail.

• Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis

  A wild North American sheep with particularly large horns in males.

• Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus

  A North American fox that can climb trees.

• Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou vestitus

  A small porcupine recorded in Colombia's Eastern Cordillera. Observations describe it using its tail for support while moving.

• African wolf Canis lupaster

  Animals recorded in Senegal had a sturdy build and broad head. Across its range, the African wolf occupies North Africa, the Sahel, and neighboring regions, and its varied diet includes small animals and fruit as well as larger herbivores.

• Southwestern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus concinnus

  The western pygmy possum is a small marsupial with a white belly and large eyes. It moves through trees at night and rests in a leaf-lined nest by day.

• Lesser Bulldog Bat Noctilio (Dirias) albiventris

  A bat of waterside habitats. Males tend to be bright red and females dull brown, and it searches for insects near the water's surface at night.

• Mainland clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa

  A forest cat of mainland Asia, with large cloud-shaped markings edged in black on a pale coat.

• Flat-headed cat Prionailurus planiceps

  A small water-associated cat with a narrow head and a flattened forehead.

• Milne-Edwards' Sportive Lemur Lepilemur edwardsi

  This nocturnal lemur lives in western Madagascar's dry deciduous forests. It leaps among trees and mainly eats leaves.

• Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melas

  A small whale with long flippers, found in temperate and colder seas.

• Australian False Vampire Bat Macroderma gigas

  The ghost bat is a large bat with a scattered range across northern Australia. It has large ears and roosts in caves and deep rock crevices.

• Pale-throated three-toed sloth Bradypus tridactylus

  A sloth from northern South America that lives in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Domestic cattle Bos taurus

  Cattle are raised as livestock across much of the world. They eat vegetation and bring swallowed food back to the mouth to chew again.

• Japanese marten Martes melampus

  A mustelid of Japanese forests and other habitats, with yellowish-brown to dark-brown fur and a white to cream throat patch.

• Omura's Whale Balaenoptera omurai

  Omura's whale is a slender baleen whale. A study off northwestern Madagascar recorded asymmetric jaw coloration and loose groupings of mostly unassociated individuals.

• Raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides

  It belongs to the dog family and has a dark mask around the eyes and a pale muzzle. It searches for a wide range of animal and plant foods in wooded cover near forests and water.