Meet the world’s animals.

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• White rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum

  

  A white rhinoceros grazes with a broad mouth. Despite its name, its skin is gray.

• Yellow-knobbed Curassow Crax daubentoni

  This large curassow ranges through northern Venezuela and adjacent parts of Colombia. The male is black with an erect crest and a yellow knob on its bill; both sexes have a crest. It feeds on the ground and in trees on plant matter and small animals.

• Mountain Beaver Aplodontia rufa

  The mountain beaver is a rodent distinct from true beavers. It digs burrows in moist forest soils and eats plants.

• Northern pintail Anas acuta

  A slender, long-necked duck. In breeding males the central tail feathers become especially long.

• Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens

  The Purple Indigobird's breeding male is purplish, and the species lays its eggs in the nest of Jameson's Firefinch. It searches the ground for grass seeds.

• Ganges River Dolphin Platanista gangetica

  A freshwater dolphin of river systems in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. It has very poor sight and uses echoes from ultrasonic sounds to locate fish and other prey.

• Asiatic black bear Ursus thibetanus

  A forest bear of Asia with a pale crescent- or V-shaped chest marking on its dark body.

• Barbuda Warbler Setophaga subita

  The Barbuda Warbler is a small bird whose only known home is Barbuda in the Caribbean. It lives in the island’s forest and hunts insects.

• Monito del Monte Dromiciops gliroides

  This small marsupial has dark markings around its eyes. Its confirmed range reaches the Rio Figueroa valley in southern Chile, with Nothofagus trees and Chusquea bamboo forming continuous forest along the southern range extension.

• Common Buzzard Buteo buteo

  In the UK, Common Buzzards circle on broad wings and search woods and open countryside for small prey.

• Bornean Bristlehead Pityriasis gymnocephala

  The Bornean Bristlehead is a Borneo bird with a red head, a large bill, and bristle-like feathers around its head and cheeks. It moves through the forest in noisy groups.

• 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.

• Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis

  A wild North American sheep with particularly large horns in males.

• Spectacled Parrotbill Suthora conspicillata

  A small bird of the mountains of central China, it has white rings around the eyes that look like spectacles. Small groups search among shrubs and forest edges.

• Spectacled African Dormouse Graphiurus (Graphiurus) ocularis

  The spectacled African dormouse has a bushy tail and a striking black-and-white face mask. It lives among rocky areas in southwestern South Africa and uses crevices for shelter.

• Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula

  A rounded bird with soft, whistle-like calls.

• Markham’s Storm Petrel Hydrobates markhami

  This small seabird, about 21–23 cm long, ranges over the tropical Pacific. It breeds in fissures and cavities in salt flats in Peru and Chile.

• Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus

  The rock squirrel lives among rocky sites and burrows, eating plant foods and small animals that vary with the season.

• Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae

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

• Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis caudatus

  This small babbler inhabits moist evergreen forest in the eastern Himalayas. It searches for insects in dense undergrowth in steep gullies and occurs from eastern Nepal through Bhutan to northeastern India.

• Lowland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes semispinosus

  The lowland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with striking yellow-and-black quills and stripes. It lives in eastern Madagascar’s lowland rainforests.

• Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

  Whimbrels in northern Australia are migratory waders that probe mudflats with their long bills.

• Rusty-flanked Treecreeper Certhia nipalensis

  The Rusty-flanked Treecreeper is a small bird of high forests from the eastern Himalayas into southwestern China. It is recorded in mixed conifer and broadleaf forest with tall trees.

• Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus

  A daytime termite hunter with pale bands across its back.