Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula

  

  A small crow with a pale grey nape and light eyes, seen year-round around towns and farmland in the UK.

• Ka'apor Capuchin Cebus kaapori

  It has cream-colored cheeks and shoulders, a dark crown, and a tail that helps it move among branches. A dry-season study in Pará found fruit to be its main food.

• Blue Cotinga Cotinga nattererii

  Males have sky-blue plumage with a dark purplish throat and belly; females are brown and scaly. The species inhabits lowland forest canopy from eastern Panama to northwestern Ecuador.

• 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.

• Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus

  A daytime termite hunter with pale bands across its back.

• Eastern Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus frugivorus

  A chocolate-brown back and bright yellow skin around the eye help identify this bird. In Hispaniola's mountain forests, it searches leaf litter for small animals and seeds.

• Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris

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

• Mountain Cuscus Phalanger carmelitae

  The mountain cuscus is an arboreal marsupial of New Guinea's mountains. It has thick, dark fur and feeds on leaves and fruit at night.

• Gray-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala

  The Grey-headed Kingfisher is a migratory kingfisher that hunts insects in woodland south of the Sahara, diving to the ground from a perch.

• Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni

  NOAA distinguishes an Eden's whale form within Balaenoptera edeni that is smaller and more coastal.

• Short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

  A spiny egg-laying mammal found in many Australian habitats.

• Blue-crowned Parakeet Thectocercus acuticaudatus

  The Blue-crowned Parakeet has a green body, blue on the face and crown, and a long tail. Its native range includes dry forest and scrub in South America.

• Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula

  A rounded bird with soft, whistle-like calls.

• Brown-throated Sloth Bradypus variegatus

  This sloth lives in forests from Central America to South America and spends much of its time in trees.

• Limpkin Aramus guarauna

  A wetland bird with long legs and a curved bill. It searches freshwater marshes for aquatic snails and ranges from southern North America into South America.

• Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus

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

• African Palm Civet Nandinia binotata

  The African palm civet is a nocturnal forest-dwelling mammal of Africa. It eats fruit often, but also takes small animals, making it an omnivore.

• Varzea Schiffornis Schiffornis major

  This Schiffornis occurs in lowland Amazonia. Its plumage is cinnamon-rufous; a 2024 study reported that head-color variation was not geographically structured. In 2015, one bird was trapped in várzea forest in Bolivia.

• 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.

• East African Spring Hare Pedetes surdaster

  The East African springhare's fur fluoresces orange to red under ultraviolet light. The examined specimens included animals from Kenya and Tanzania, but the ecological role of the glow remains unknown.

• Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus

  A large reddish-brown raptor, it usually hunts birds alone in northern Australian forest, savanna, and waterside habitats.

• Narwhal Monodon monoceros

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

• Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides

  The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise is a distinct species from the narrow-ridged finless porpoise. It has a bumpy back ridge instead of a dorsal fin and feeds in shallow coastal waters.

• Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius

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