Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola

  

  A wader with mottled plumage that blends into woodland and feeds in nearby fields at night.

• Low's Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) lowii

  Low's squirrel is a small squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. It forages mostly on the forest floor, sometimes climbing into trees. Its thick tail and white underside are distinctive.

• Nicobar Hooded Pitta Pitta abbotti

  This bird occurs in the Nicobar Islands. A 2021 field note recorded one individual eating a fallen fig, using the older name Pitta sordida abbotti. ITIS lists Pitta abbotti as valid and the older combination as a synonym.

• Wild Goat Capra aegagrus

  The wild goat lives on steep mountain slopes. In Georgia, breeding populations are limited to Tusheti and northern Khevsureti.

• Southern Aardwolf Proteles cristata

  It can raise the long hairs along its back and feeds mainly on termites. It occurs in southern Africa, where records include karroid country, grassland and scrub, open savanna woodland, and inland gravel plains.

• Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii

  This small bird lives at forest edges and in open woodland in west-central Africa. It has chestnut on the crown, rump, and tail, with a buff breast and white belly. It gleans insects from leaves and sometimes sallies after flying insects.

• Eurasian teal Anas crecca

  A small duck seen on Japanese waters in winter. Breeding males have a chestnut head with a dark green band around the eye.

• Malabar Spiny Dormouse Platacanthomys lasiurus

  Its back has broad, flat, stiff spines mixed through the fur, and the tail is brush-tipped. It climbs in forests of southern India and is thought to be mainly active at night.

• Short-legged Ground Roller Brachypteracias leptosomus

  The Short-legged Ground Roller lives in Madagascar's humid forests. By day, it searches for invertebrates on the leaf-littered forest floor.

• Stoat Mustela erminea

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

• 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.

• Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster

  A survey of reserves in the Republic of the Congo recorded the species frequently in wooded grassland, especially at Idzoua Inkou. Males and females differ in upperpart color.

• Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

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

• Afghan Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rufescens

  The Afghan pika is a mountain pika with a cream collar edged in russet during summer. It gathers plants, dries them, and stores them in burrows.

• Chestnut-tailed Starling Sturnia malabarica

  The Chestnut-tailed Starling is a small, pale starling with chestnut on the tail tips and sides near the vent.

• Cape Hare Lepus capensis

  The Arabian hare is recorded around AlUla in north-western Saudi Arabia. In this region, its grayish coat and black ear tips are noted.

• Omura's Whale Balaenoptera omurai

  Omura's whale is a slender baleen whale. A study off northwestern Madagascar recorded asymmetric jaw coloration and loose groupings of mostly unassociated individuals.

• Seven-colored Tanager Tangara fastuosa

  This tanager has noticeable violet and orange plumage. It eats fruit and arthropods and also uses forest edges and gardens.

• Gray seal Halichoerus grypus

  A seal of North Atlantic coasts, with a long, prominent nose especially noticeable in adult males.

• Thomas's Bushbaby Galagoides thomasi

  Thomas's bushbaby is a small primate that forages in trees at night.

• European Roller Coracias garrulus

  A bird that breeds in parts of central Europe and migrates to central and southern Africa. It has a blue head and chest and a chestnut back.

• Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) vulgaris

  A bushy-tailed squirrel of forests in Europe and northern Asia.

• South American Sea Lion Otaria byronia

  The South American sea lion lives along the continent's coasts. It feeds at sea and returns to shore to breed and rear its pups.

• Brown dipper Cinclus pallasii

  A mountain-stream bird that dives underwater for insects and small fish.