Meet the world’s animals.

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• West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus

  

  A large aquatic mammal that eats plants, with a rounded body and broad tail.

• Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea

  The Apostlebird has a gray body and long black tail and occurs in eastern Australia. It forages for seeds and insects on the ground, often in groups.

• Common Mud Turtle Kinosternon subrubrum

  This turtle sometimes shelters around alligator nests.

• Ostrich Struthio camelus

  A flightless bird with a long neck and strong legs, living in African grasslands and other open habitats.

• Common frog Rana temporaria

  A long-legged frog of damp woods and meadows that lays its eggs in water.

• Rough-skinned Sea Anemone Actinostola callosa

  A seafloor anemone. A study off eastern Canada found a diverse range of small food items in its digestive cavity.

• Colombian Red Howler Alouatta seniculus

  The Colombian red howler lives in forests of northern and western South America. Its reddish coat and grasping tail stand out; it eats leaves and its group's calls carry far.

• Troglohyphantes pedemontanus

  A small spider of caves in north-western Italy, known from three caves in Piemonte.

• 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.

• Eurasian spoonbill Platalea leucorodia

  A white waterbird with long legs and a spoon-shaped bill.

• Carmiol's Tanager Chlorothraupis carmioli

  This bird inhabits humid forest from Honduras and Panama to northwestern Colombia.

• St. Johann's Tree Snake Lycodryas maculatus

  A tree snake from Anjouan and Mayotte in the Comoros archipelago, mainly active at night.

• Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus

  A pig of savannas and open woodlands, the common warthog feeds on grasses and roots. Its range records include several subspecies.

• European Tree Frog Hyla arborea

  In a survey in western Zealand Flanders, the maximum number of males calling in one night helped estimate the seasonal male population in pools.

• Panamanian Night Monkey Aotus zonalis

  This nocturnal monkey has a coat mixed with brown, cream, and black. It lives among the trees of forests in Panama and northwestern Colombia.

• Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

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

• Red-legged Seriema Cariama cristata

  This large ground-dwelling bird has a red bill and legs and a prominent crest. In Argentina it runs through woodland and savanna and gives loud calls answered by other birds.

• Indo-Pacific Crocodile Crocodylus porosus

  Male saltwater crocodiles tracked in northern Australia moved at sea toward their original capture sites after release elsewhere.

• Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

  A whale with a large head and narrow lower jaw that dives into deep water to find food.

• Japanese fire-bellied newt Cynops pyrrhogaster

  A newt of rice fields and ponds on Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, with a dark back and a red belly patterned in black.

• Lesser New Zealand Short-tailed Bat Mystacina tuberculata

  This short-tailed bat lives in New Zealand. The Department of Conservation describes it searching for food on the forest floor.

• Eurasian wigeon Mareca penelope

  A short-billed duck that feeds on plants both in water and on land. Breeding males have a chestnut head and pale forehead.

• Rufous Bristlebird Dasyornis broadbenti

  This ground-dwelling bird has a rufous head and a pale, scalloped breast. It occurs in coastal scrub and heath from South Australia to Victoria.

• Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

  This lizard sometimes moves and basks around alligator nests.