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.

• Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius

  

  The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.

• Philippine Leafbird Chloropsis flavipennis

  

  A bright green bird of lowland forest canopy and edges, the Philippine Leafbird is endemic to the Philippines. BirdLife reports recent confirmed records from Mindanao and Samar, while older records include two other islands.

• White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris

  

  This dolphin lives in the cold North Atlantic and has a short, thick beak with white lips.

• Lord Derby's Anomalure Anomalurus derbianus

  

  This squirrel-shaped rodent glides from tree to tree. It is active around dusk and at night in forests of western and central Africa.

• Swamp Boubou Laniarius bicolor

  

  This bushshrike has a black upper body and white underparts. Pairs live in thickets beside rivers and wetlands and feed mainly on invertebrates.

• Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis

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

• Short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

  A spiny egg-laying mammal found in many Australian habitats.

• Blue Bunting Cyanocompsa parellina

  The Blue Bunting lives in thickets and woodland edges in Mexico and northern Central America. Males are blue, while females are warm brown overall.

• European Roe Capreolus capreolus

  In Britain, this small deer is found in woodlands and along their edges. Its coat is reddish brown in summer and greyer in winter, with a noticeable white rump.

• Javan Rhinoceros Rhinoceros sondaicus

  The Javan rhinoceros lives in Ujung Kulon National Park, Indonesia. Its gray skin has deep folds.

• Red-billed Malkoha Zanclostomus javanicus

  The Red-billed Malkoha is a slender gray cuckoo with a red bill. It moves along branches near the canopy of lowland and foothill forests.

• Coyote Canis latrans

  A canid of North and Central America, with a slender muzzle and large erect ears.

• Fawn Antechinus Antechinus bellus

  The Fawn Antechinus is a small marsupial with pale fur, a white chin, and white feet. It is active mainly at dusk and dawn and shelters in tree hollows and fallen logs.

• Black-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus maximus

  The Black-nest Swiftlet is a small swift that feeds on flying insects and roosts communally in caves.

• European polecat Mustela putorius

  A slender mustelid of freshwater margins and forest edges.

• White-footed Deermouse Peromyscus leucopus

  The white-footed deermouse has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside and feet. The Texas account describes it as mostly nocturnal and living in woodlands and river bottoms.

• Limpkin Aramus guarauna

  A wetland bird with long legs and a curved bill. It searches freshwater marshes for aquatic snails and ranges from southern North America into South America.

• Common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata

  A whale with a pointed head and a curved dorsal fin set well back on its body.

• Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis

  Its back is gray-brown, its belly yellow-orange, and a gliding membrane stretches between its limbs. In eastern Australian eucalypt forests, it feeds on nectar and sap and glides at night.

• White-necked Picathartes Picathartes gymnocephalus

  The White-necked Picathartes is a forest bird known for nesting at rocky sites. A Cornell Living Bird field account describes nest sites and ground foraging around Bonkro, Ghana.

• Leopard Panthera pardus

  A leopard is a cat with flower-shaped rosettes. It may carry prey into trees to keep other predators away.

• Sunda Colugo Galeopterus variegatus

  A mammal of Southeast Asian forests that glides between trees using skin stretched between its limbs.

• Lesser Rhea Rhea pennata

  The Lesser Rhea is a large, flightless bird of South American plains. Adult feather tips are white, and it uses its wings to steer while running.