Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded Crow Corvus cornix

  

  A crow with a gray body and black head, wings, and tail. It eats carrion and may gather with others at feeding sites.

• Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae

  

  The Superb Lyrebird lives on the ground in southeastern Australia. Males display a long tail and are famous for imitating other birds and nearby sounds.

• Botta's Pocket Gopher Megascapheus bottae

  

  This rodent digs underground tunnels with its large front claws and incisors. It carries food in cheek pouches outside its mouth.

• Dromedary camel Camelus dromedarius

  

  A dromedary is a one-humped domestic camel. People have long kept it for transport in dry regions of North Africa and the Middle East.

• Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda

  

  A white seabird with a red bill and long red tail streamers, it breeds on tropical and subtropical islands.

• Balabac Chevrotain Tragulus nigricans

  

  This small mouse-deer lives on Philippine islands and is marked by dark fur and three white throat stripes.

• Eurasian Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis

  A small finch with a red face and yellow wing patches. It eats seeds and also visits gardens and parks in Britain.

• Grey Hypocolius Hypocolius ampelinus

  The Grey Hypocolius is a long-tailed gray bird. Males have a black facial mask, while females lack this mask.

• Ferreira’s Spiny Tree-rat Mesomys hispidus

  This arboreal rodent has stiff spines on its back and a long tail ending in a tuft. It is reported throughout the Amazon Basin and was commonly captured in mature forest in a Peruvian study.

• Siberian Flying Squirrel Pteromys volans

  A small squirrel of southern and central Finland that glides between trees on a membrane joining its front and hind legs.

• New Zealand Kaka Nestor meridionalis

  The New Zealand Kaka is a forest parrot that searches for food in trees.

• Black-shouldered Opossum Caluromysiops irrupta

  The black-shouldered opossum is a South American marsupial with dark markings from its shoulders down the forelegs and back, and fur over most of its tail. It is active high in the canopy at night.

• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola

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

• Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata

  The Magpie Goose is a large waterbird with a black head and neck, a white belly, and a diet of aquatic plants in northern Australian wetlands.

• Eastern Bettong Bettongia gaimardi

  The eastern bettong is a small Tasmanian marsupial that carries nesting material with its long tail. It leaves its grass nest at night to forage on fungi, seeds and other foods.

• Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melas

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

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea

  The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a tiny, long-tailed bird with blue-gray plumage. It moves through the outer foliage of broadleaf forests and scrublands while searching for insects and spiders.

• Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena

  A hyena with a mane-like ridge along its back and dark stripes across its coat.

• 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.

• Pipipi Mohoua novaeseelandiae

  This small bird lives in forest and shrubland on New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands. A chattering flock moving high through the trees is often the first sign of its presence.

• White-handed gibbon Hylobates lar

  A gibbon of Southeast Asian forests. It swings between branches using its long arms.

• African wild dog Lycaon pictus

  A wild canid of African grasslands and open woodland. Its patches of black, white and tan differ between individuals.

• Hooded crane Grus monacha

  A gray crane with a white head and neck that also winters in Japan.

• Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus

  Large ears and a black-tipped tail help identify this deer.