Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian beaver Castor fiber

  

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

• Beecroft's Anomalure Anomalurus beecrofti

  

  Beecroft's anomalure moves between trees on a gliding membrane that extends between its limbs and tail. It rests in leafy nests by day and is active around dusk and at night.

• Dalmatian pelican Pelecanus crispus

  

  A pelican with a large bill pouch that feeds on fish in lakes and wetlands.

• Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula

  

  A rounded bird with soft, whistle-like calls.

• Broad-toed Feather-tailed Glider Acrobates frontalis

  

  This small marsupial occurs in eastern Australia. A 2023 paper describes long hairs projecting from both sides of the tail in living Acrobates, including A. frontalis, giving it a feather-like edge.

• Green Hylia Hylia prasina

  

  This small bird has separate populations in western and eastern Africa and lives in forest. Its dark olive upperparts and pale-yellow eyebrow are distinctive; it eats insects.

• Stoat Mustela erminea

  A slender mustelid with a black tail tip. In summer its upperparts are brown and its underside is pale.

• Common Red-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta leporina

  A rodent native to northern South America that sometimes buries seeds for later.

• Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni

  This account focuses on the seasonal movements of the Japanese subspecies of Olive-backed Pipit. It breeds in open woodland and grassland from Shikoku and Honshu northward, then moves to lowlands with little persistent snow in autumn and winter.

• 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.

• Red-tailed Phascogale Phascogale calura

  This marsupial has a gray back, cream underside and a black brush at the end of its tail. It mainly lives in trees.

• Grey-necked Picathartes Picathartes oreas

  Its blue forehead, red nape, and grey neck stand out. It occurs in separated patches of forest in Central Africa.

• Black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis

  A black rhinoceros grasps vegetation with a narrow, pointed upper lip. Its upper lip is narrower than a white rhino’s.

• Pygmy hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis

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

• New Caledonian Whistler Pachycephala caledonica

  In the nominate subspecies described by Province Sud, the male has a dark gray head, white throat, black collar, and yellow belly. The female is brown, with a white throat and pale brown belly.

• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

  Ruddy Turnstones flip stones and seaweed along shorelines to find insects and small crustaceans underneath.

• Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin Sousa plumbea

  A dolphin of the western Indian Ocean coast, with a small dorsal fin set on a large hump and a gray body.

• New Zealand Grebe Poliocephalus rufopectus

  The New Zealand Grebe is an endemic diving bird. In breeding plumage, the neck and breast become rich rufous red.

• Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus

  A whale with a long, slender body and mottled blue-gray skin.

• Andean Tuco-tuco Ctenomys opimus

  The Andean tuco-tuco occurs in dry highland areas of the Andes. It has long, soft, pale-yellow fur and uses underground burrows.

• Cuban Nightjar Antrostomus cubanensis

  The Cuban Nightjar is endemic to Cuba. Its cryptic plumage blends with the forest floor, where it rests between insect-hunting bouts.

• Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis

  A compact white heron with a short neck and legs, it feeds in grassland and pastures, catching insects and small animals disturbed by livestock or farm machinery.

• Grivet Chlorocebus aethiops

  The grivet is a monkey of northeastern Africa. A forest study in northern Ethiopia recorded a diet that changed with the season.

• Southern Hyliota Hyliota australis

  A small bird of miombo woodland in southern Africa. The male is black, white and yellow, and searches for insects in the canopy.