Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris

  

  A sturdy heron relative that moves quietly through reeds while searching for fish and other prey.

• Western Lowland Olingo Bassaricyon medius

  An olingo of forests from Panama to Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes. It lives in trees and eats fruit.

• Hamerkop Scopus umbretta

  The hamerkop is an African wetland bird whose flat crest makes its head look like a hammer. Pairs build a large, domed nest.

• Eurasian beaver Castor fiber

  A large rodent that swims in rivers and lakes and feeds on waterside plants.

• Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus

  An egg-laying mammal that forages in Australian rivers.

• American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

  The American White Pelican is a North American pelican with broad black-and-white wings and a huge bill. It scoops fish in shallow water, sometimes herding fish with other pelicans.

• Garganey Spatula querquedula

  A small duck whose male has a broad white stripe above the eye. It feeds at the water's surface and breeds in small numbers in the UK.

• Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

  Pronghorns live in the grasslands and dry country of western North America.

• Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala

  A large stork of wetlands on the Indian subcontinent. It has a white body with a pink tinge and searches shallow water for small fish.

• 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.

• Coruro Spalacopus cyanus

  The coruro is a rodent of Chilean grasslands that lives in groups in underground tunnel systems and feeds on plant bulbs.

• Kakapo Strigops habroptila

  The kākāpō is a large, nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. It cannot fly and has moss-green plumage mottled with yellow and black. It now occurs only on forested islands, where the population is intensively managed to protect it from introduced predators.

• Redpoll Acanthis flammea

  A small finch with a red forehead patch and white wingbars; its appearance varies across the forms included in the current species.

• Chinese Pygmy Dormouse Typhlomys cinereus

  The Chinese Pygmy Dormouse is a small rodent recorded in the mountains of southeastern China. It has small eyes and a tuft at the end of its tail, and uses ultrasonic calls to move in darkness.

• African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori

  This African bird spirals up trunks in open woodland while searching bark for insects; it has spotted and barred plumage and a thin down-curved bill.

• European polecat Mustela putorius

  A slender mustelid of freshwater margins and forest edges.

• Pacarana Dinomys branickii

  The pacarana is a large rodent of Andean rainforest slopes and valleys from Colombia to Bolivia, with conspicuous pale markings on its back and flanks.

• Brown Booby Sula leucogaster

  A large seabird of tropical oceans around the world. Adults have a brown back and white belly; they dive for fish and squid and breed in colonies on islands.

• Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata

  A large wader with long legs and a down-curved bill that uses coastal wetlands and grasslands at different times of year.

• Mountain Pygmy Possum Burramys parvus

  The mountain pygmy possum is a small mammal adapted to Australia's alpine zone. It is known to store food and hibernate for long periods.

• Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aeneus

  A drongo of forests across South and Southeast Asia. Its black plumage has a bronze sheen, and its tail is forked.

• Northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus

  A whale of the deep North Atlantic, recognized by its rounded forehead and projecting, bottle-shaped beak.

• Philippine warty pig Sus philippensis

  The Philippine warty pig has one subspecies associated with the Greater Luzon Faunal Region and another with the Greater Mindanao Faunal Region. Their head hair differs, while many details of the species' diet and behavior remain unknown.

• Spotted Elachura Elachura formosa

  The Spotted Elachura is a brown bird marked with white spots. It searches for insects near the ground in damp forest, from eastern Nepal and northeastern India to southern China.