Meet the world’s animals.

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• House mouse Mus (Mus) musculus

  

  A small mouse living in houses, farms and cultivated fields.

• Bar-backed Hill Partridge Arborophila brunneopectus

  A hill partridge of evergreen forest and bamboo. The nominate subspecies recorded in China has a barred back and chestnut breast.

• Thumbless Bat Furipterus horrens

  This bat has a very small thumb enclosed by the wing membrane. It roosts in cave colonies and catches moths and other insects at night.

• Common Pochard Aythya ferina

  The breeding male is a diving duck with a striking reddish-brown head.

• Pygmy Lorikeet Charminetta wilhelminae

  The Pygmy Lorikeet is a small parrot of New Guinea's mountain forests. It feeds on nectar and pollen, often gathering in flowering tree canopies.

• Pygmy hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis

  The pygmy hippopotamus is a small forest hippo from West Africa that usually lives alone.

• Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus

  A rare seal found in the Mediterranean and along northwest Africa; it feeds on fish, octopus and other prey.

• Black-and-yellow Broadbill Eurylaimus ochromalus

  The Black-and-yellow Broadbill is a small bird with a bright blue bill and bold black, white, yellow, and pink plumage. It catches insects by sallying from a perch in forest midlevels and canopy.

• Giant Otter Shrew Potamogale velox

  The giant otter shrew is a semi-aquatic mammal of central African rivers and swamps. It swims by moving its laterally flattened tail and forages near water from dusk into the night.

• Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

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

• Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius

  An African bird of prey that walks across grassland on long legs while hunting.

• Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus

  A daytime termite hunter with pale bands across its back.

• Domestic Bactrian camel Camelus bactrianus

  A domestic Bactrian camel has two humps. Kept in Central Asia, it is adapted to cold winters and hot summers.

• Olive Warbler Peucedramus taeniatus

  In the southwestern U.S. mountains, the male Olive Warbler is recognizable by its copper-colored head, gray back, and white wing bars. It searches high in trees for insects and gives a soft whistled call.

• Northern Right Whale Dolphin Lissodelphis borealis

  The northern right whale dolphin has no dorsal fin, a black back and a white underside. It travels in groups in offshore waters of the North Pacific.

• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola

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

• Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus

  This warbler lives in mountain forests on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive body and black-and-white head stripes are distinctive. The Peru account notes duller birds in Puno than farther north.

• Pouched Mouse Saccostomus campestris

  The pouched mouse is a burrowing rodent that carries seeds and similar foods in its cheek pouches. It occurs in grassland, sandy country, and cultivated areas.

• White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus

  A deer found across much of North America. Its coat is reddish brown in summer and grayish brown in winter.

• Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius

  The Sociable Weaver has pale brown plumage with dark feather edging and a black chin. Around the Kalahari, groups build and use large communal nests.

• Pacific rat Rattus exulans

  The Pacific rat is thought to have originated in Southeast Asia and spread to Pacific islands. In New Zealand it is known as kiore.

• Common Linnet Linaria cannabina

  The Common Linnet is a slim finch that eats small seeds. Breeding males show red foreheads and breasts, and the birds may gather in winter flocks.

• 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.

• Argentine Plains Viscacha Lagostomus maximus

  This large rodent is marked by a striking black-and-white face. It builds extensive communal burrow systems in grasslands and dry scrub.