Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos

  

  A small wader often seen walking along the water’s edge and bobbing its tail.

• Southern Common Cuscus Phalanger mimicus

  

  The southern common cuscus is a medium-sized arboreal possum of lowland southern New Guinea. Local observers reported it in both primary and secondary forest, where it eats leaves.

• Horned Screamer Anhima cornuta

  

  The Horned Screamer is a large bird of freshwater wetlands in northern South America. A long, slender hornlike projection rises from its head.

• Brown Hare Lepus europaeus

  

  A hare with long ears and powerful hind legs; a British species account records it around grassland and farmland.

• Southern African hedgehog Atelerix frontalis

  

  The southern African hedgehog has a white band across its forehead and a range of separated populations in southern Africa.

• Zigzag Heron Zebrilus undulatus

  

  A small heron with fine black waves across its body.

• Common Pochard Aythya ferina

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

• Common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius

  A small dormouse with large eyes, small rounded ears, and a furry tail.

• Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus

  The Greater Yellow-headed Vulture lives mainly in the Amazon rainforest. It has a yellow head, a dark body, and feeds on animal carcasses.

• Red deer Cervus elaphus

  Red deer are large deer native to Britain. In the New Forest, males call during the autumn rut.

• 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.

• Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus

  The Plains-wanderer is a small ground-dwelling bird of scattered grasslands in southeastern Australia. It forages by day for seeds and small ground-dwelling animals.

• Common Redshank Tringa totanus

  A shorebird with bright red legs that searches for small animals in coastal mud in the UK.

• Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

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

• White-throated Dipper Cinclus cinclus

  This bird lives along fast-flowing streams. Adults are dark brown with a white throat and chest.

• Spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus

  An Andean bear known for pale markings on the face.

• Brown-eared Woolly Opossum Caluromys lanatus

  The brown-eared woolly opossum is an arboreal marsupial with a dense coat and a long, grasping tail. It lives in South American forests.

• Crab-plover Dromas ardeola

  This coastal bird has black-and-white plumage and a heavy bill, and feeds on crabs. A field study in India’s Gulf of Kachchh recorded wintering birds foraging at low tide.

• Eurasian wigeon Mareca penelope

  A short-billed duck that feeds on plants both in water and on land. Breeding males have a chestnut head and pale forehead.

• Illiger's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus illigeri

  This saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forests of Peru. Its mottled back, black crown, and reddish-orange rump help describe its appearance.

• White-backed Mousebird Colius colius

  In southern Africa it feeds in sparse woodland and riverside vegetation. Groups may feed and roost together.

• Red fox Vulpes vulpes

  A fox of Northern Hemisphere forests, grasslands and inhabited areas. It eats insects and fruit as well as small animals.

• Lowland paca Cuniculus paca

  A spotted forest rodent that feeds on fallen fruit.

• Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius

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