Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus

  

  A cheetah is a slender, long-legged cat. It catches prey with fast sprints over short distances.

• Sincora Antwren Formicivora grantsaui

  The Sincora Antwren lives in rocky highland grasslands in Bahia, eastern Brazil. A male's white eyebrow continues along the sides of the throat and breast, separating its black face and underparts from browner upperparts. Females have black streaks on the sides of the throat and breast.

• Giant Armadillo Priodontes maximus

  It is the largest living armadillo and digs burrows with its powerful front claws.

• Ringed seal Pusa hispida

  A small seal of the seasonally ice-covered seas around the Arctic. It keeps breathing holes open in the ice.

• Snowy Sheathbill Chionis albus

  A Signy Island study from April 1961 to April 1962 described adults as white with pink skin below the eye. There, the birds fed on shore algae and limpets and also foraged near penguin colonies.

• Florida Deermouse Podomys floridanus

  The Florida deermouse lives in dry sandy uplands and scrub in peninsular Florida. It may dig a small nest burrow inside a gopher tortoise burrow.

• European polecat Mustela putorius

  A slender mustelid of freshwater margins and forest edges.

• Nuthatch Vanga Hypositta corallirostris

  The Nuthatch Vanga is a small Madagascar endemic that searches for insects while climbing up tree trunks.

• Lesser Brocket Mazama nanus

  The lesser brocket is a small deer of dense subtropical vegetation in southeastern South America. Its coat is reddish brown, darker along the back; an Argentine account says it eats leaves, shoots, and fruit.

• Mountain zebra Equus zebra

  Hartmann's mountain zebras are adapted to dry, rocky country.

• Long-tailed Potoo Nyctibius aethereus

  This nocturnal bird has a long tail and mottled plumage. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Reticulated giraffe Giraffa reticulata

  The reticulated giraffe has a network of white lines and occurs mainly in northern and northeastern Kenya.

• Spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus

  An Andean bear known for pale markings on the face.

• Wallace's Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles wallacii

  Wallace’s Owlet-nightjar is active at night. Its plumage is mottled with several colors, and it occurs on New Guinea and some surrounding islands.

• Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus

  An egg-laying mammal that forages in Australian rivers.

• Domestic sheep Ovis aries

  A domestic sheep spread around the world by people. It tends to move together with other sheep.

• White-breasted Tapaculo Eleoscytalopus indigoticus

  The White-breasted Tapaculo searches leaf litter for insects in the dark understory of humid Atlantic Forest. Males are dark blue-gray above, brown from the back to the tail, and whitish from throat to belly; females have grayer underparts.

• Bay Cat Catopuma badia

  The Bornean bay cat is a rarely detected wild cat of Borneo’s forests. Records exist, but much about its diet and way of life remains unknown.

• Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni

  NOAA distinguishes an Eden's whale form within Balaenoptera edeni that is smaller and more coastal.

• Standardwing Semioptera wallacii

  A male Standardwing spreads its wings, raises its long shoulder plumes, and opens the ornamental shields on its chest. This account is limited to Alfred Russel Wallace's historical observations recorded in 1859.

• Spix's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera tricolor

  Spix's disk-winged bat clings head-up inside leaves with tiny suction discs. Small groups roost in leaves and change resting sites each day.

• 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.

• Whiskered Treeswift Hemiprocne comata

  The Whiskered Treeswift is a forest-dwelling treeswift with long, whisker-like white feathers and a long tail. Males and females differ in ear-patch color.

• Baikal Seal Pusa sibirica

  A freshwater seal found only in Lake Baikal, with occasional records in rivers connected to the lake.