Meet the world’s animals.

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• European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus

  

  A rabbit native to the Iberian Peninsula and nearby regions. It digs complex burrows and lives in groups where conditions allow.

• Zora silvestris

  A small spider with dark bands on the front part of its body, recorded from Europe, the Caucasus and Turkmenistan.

• Cerro Enmedio moss salamander Nototriton lignicola

  A small salamander known from mountains in Honduras. Its recorded range covers a limited part of that mountainous landscape.

• Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops

  A bird with a raised crest, an orange-beige body, and bold black-and-white wings.

• Elkhorn coral Acropora palmata

  These branching structures belong to an animal, not a plant. Elkhorn coral grows in shallow Caribbean waters; thickets shelter fish and other creatures.

• Cone-head Chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus

  The veiled chameleon is a large arboreal chameleon with grasping feet and a fully prehensile tail. In an indoor study of nine animals, it used its tail for support when crossing gaps.

• 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.

• Robust Tuco-tuco Ctenomys tuconax

  The robust tuco-tuco lives in highland grassland in Tucumán Province, northwestern Argentina. It digs underground tunnels and feeds mainly on grasses.

• Southern ground hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri

  A large black hornbill that walks over the ground searching for small animals.

• Little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis

  A small waterbird of lakes, ponds and slow rivers. It dives for fish and other prey and raises young on nests that appear to float.

• Troglohyphantes pedemontanus

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

• 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.

• Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus

  A semiaquatic rodent that lives in wetlands and along waterways in North America.

• St. Johann's Tree Snake Lycodryas maculatus

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

• Southern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon planifrons

  The southern bottlenose whale lives offshore in the Southern Hemisphere and is marked by a swollen forehead and short beak.

• White wagtail Motacilla alba

  A bird that walks in search of insects along watersides and farmland in Japan. Birds commonly seen there have white faces with a dark line through the eye.

• Plum-throated Cotinga Cotinga maynana

  This cotinga is recorded as a resident in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. BirdLife lists swamp forest as a major habitat and moist lowland forest as another suitable habitat.

• 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.

• Narwhal Monodon monoceros

  A whale without a dorsal fin that lives in Arctic seas. Males commonly develop a long tusk from a tooth.

• Yellow-bellied Slider Trachemys scripta

  This turtle sometimes basks and moves around alligator nests.

• Dassie Rat Petromus typicus

  The dassie rat is a rodent that shelters among rock crevices. It has long whiskers and a yellowish nose, and comes out in the morning and late afternoon to seek flowers, seeds, and fruit.

• Common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos

  A migratory bird breeding in scrubby woodland. Birds breeding in Britain spend winter in West Africa.

• Orange-breasted Bunting Passerina leclancherii

  The Orange-breasted Bunting forages for seeds in dry scrub and rural areas on Mexico’s Pacific slope. Males show blue, green, orange, and yellow; females are grey-green and pale yellow.

• Common frog Rana temporaria

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