Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pine Marten Martes martes

  

  A forest-dwelling marten from Europe that climbs well.

• Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus

  The Golden Pipit walks through dry grassland looking for insects. Adult males show yellow below and in the wings, while females are mainly brown.

• Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii

  A seal of Antarctic coasts. It swims beneath sea ice and breathes through holes and cracks in the ice.

• Wild Goat Capra aegagrus

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

• Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen

  The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black-and-white bird found across Australia. Its back pattern varies by sex and region.

• Australian Sea Lion Neophoca cinerea

  The Australian sea lion has breeding colonies in southern and western Australia. It forages near the sea floor, and females return to their birth colony to breed.

• Spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus

  An Andean bear known for pale markings on the face.

• Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei

  This barbet is known from Cordillera Azul in Peru. During the original description study, birds were observed taking fruit in the canopy of high-elevation cloud forest and moving in loose groups.

• Gray Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) incanus

  Males are larger than females, and coat color varies with age and region. It lives along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil and searches for insects on both the ground and in trees.

• Chital Axis axis

  A deer often seen on the Indian peninsula, with white spots that remain all year.

• Streaked Scrub Warbler Scotocerca inquieta

  This small warbler lives in dry wadis and scrubby desert plains in the Middle East. It walks on the ground while searching for food, often in pairs or small groups.

• Gray mouse lemur Microcebus murinus

  A small lemur of Madagascan forests. It forages at night and sleeps in sites such as tree holes by day.

• Bobcat Lynx rufus

  A short-tailed wild cat of North America, with dark spots and stripes on a brownish coat.

• White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali

  The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver has a bold white eyebrow stripe. It lives in dry woodland and forms year-round colonies with other birds.

• Pen-tailed Tree Shrew Ptilocercus lowii

  The pen-tailed tree shrew is nocturnal and has a tuft of white fur at the end of its tail.

• Dhole Cuon alpinus

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

• Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia ruficaudata

  A foliage-gleaner that searches for small invertebrates in trees in humid lowland forest. Records extend to 1,300 m.

• Temminck's Asian Trident Bat Aselliscus tricuspidatus

  Temminck's Asian Trident Bat has three projections on the rear edge of its noseleaf. It roosts in places such as caves and feeds on insects.

• Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba

  An offshore dolphin with striking stripes running from the eyes along the sides of its body.

• Crested Satinbird Cnemophilus macgregorii

  The Crested Satinbird lives in high mountain forest. Male plumage varies by region, while females are mainly olive green.

• Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

  Pronghorns live in the grasslands and dry country of western North America.

• Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni

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

• Peach-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula aurea

  Its green wings have blue edges, and its face has fine markings. Pairs and small groups use open areas and wetland edges.

• Pileated Gibbon Hylobates pileatus

  The pileated gibbon occurs in forests of Thailand, Cambodia and southwestern Laos. Adult males and females have markedly different coat colors.