Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Raven Corvus corax

  

  A large black raven that lives widely across the Northern Hemisphere.

• Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel

  

  The Lesser Frigatebird is a seabird with long narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It ranges over tropical oceans and is recorded as a vagrant in New Zealand.

• Dwarf sperm whale Kogia sima

  

  The dwarf sperm whale is a small toothed whale found widely in temperate and tropical seas. It is distinct from the pygmy sperm whale.

• Dhole Cuon alpinus

  

  A wild canid of forests in South and Southeast Asia. Adults have a reddish coat and a dark bushy tail.

• 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.

• Juan Fernández Fur Seal Arctocephalus philippii

  

  The Juan Fernández fur seal lives on islands off Chile. It eats squid and fish and uses steep, rocky shores for resting and breeding.

• Black kite Milvus migrans

  A familiar raptor in Japan, with long wings and a long tail that has a shallow notch at its tip.

• Queen Carola's Parotia Parotia carolae

  Queen Carola's Parotia lives in mountain forests of central New Guinea. The male has a dark body with iridescent green-blue tones and white flank plumes; the brown female has a finely patterned underside.

• Atlantic White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus

  This dolphin lives in the cool-temperate North Atlantic. It has a yellowish-tan flank streak and a white patch, and eats small fish, squid, and crustaceans. It tends to move north and inshore in summer and south and offshore in winter.

• Eurasian beaver Castor fiber

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

• Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena

  The Slaty-tailed Trogon is a forest bird with different plumage in males and females. In the Costa Rican account, the male has a green head and back with a red breast and belly, while the female is mostly dark gray.

• Alaska Hare Lepus othus

  This hare lives in western Alaska's tundra and changes coat color with the seasons.

• 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.

• Western Alpine Munia Lonchura montana

  This small finch occurs in the Snow Mountains of New Guinea. In the Mimika highlands, it is recorded in boggy alpine meadows at about 2,100–4,100 m.

• Sloth bear Melursus ursinus

  A South Asian bear with a shaggy coat, a sparsely furred muzzle and a pale chest marking.

• House mouse Mus (Mus) musculus

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

• Helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris

  A mainly ground-dwelling bird native to Africa. Wild birds have dark grey plumage covered with small white spots.

• Nubra Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) nubrica

  The Nubra pika lives at high elevations in the Himalayas. It has a gray back, a pale underside, and uses rocky alpine scrub.

• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

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

• Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea

  The Blue Grosbeak is a bunting with a large, silvery bill. The breeding male is vivid blue, and the species uses scrubby habitats and old fields in the southern United States.

• Eastern Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus

  The Eastern Horseshoe Bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf and roosts in caves and mines. The museum account notes that northern and southern populations may be different species.

• Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae

  A whale with long pectoral fins and distinctive markings on the underside of its tail.

• Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula

  A tiny, active North American bird that searches for insects among leaves and branches and flicks its wings often.

• Onager Equus hemionus

  An Asiatic wild ass. The appearance and behavior here describe the Persian onager subspecies in Iran.