Meet the world’s animals.

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• Domestic sheep Ovis aries

  

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

• Bumblebee Bat Craseonycteris thonglongyai

  

  Kitti’s hog-nosed bat is a tiny bat about the size of a large bumblebee. It roosts in limestone caves and flies out around dusk to catch insects.

• Grey-backed Storm Petrel Garrodia nereis

  

  A very small storm petrel of the Southern Ocean, with a grey back, dark head and wings, and a white belly.

• Caracal Caracal caracal

  

  A cat of Africa and parts of Asia, recognized by its reddish-brown to brown coat and long black ear tufts.

• Malayan tapir Acrocodia indica

  

  The Malayan tapir inhabits Southeast Asian tropical forests. Adults have large black-and-white areas on the body.

• White-throated Cacholote Pseudoseisura gutturalis

  

  This large ovenbird family member is recorded in Argentina's dry scrub and steppe. It is grey-brown, with a white throat and long pointed tail feathers.

• Eurasian golden jackal Canis aureus

  The Eurasian golden jackal is a medium-sized canid found across a broad part of Eurasia.

• Northern Three-toed Jerboa Dipus sagitta

  The northern three-toed jerboa changes coat color with the seasons. It lives in dry grasslands and deserts and mainly eats plants and seeds.

• Bornean Banded Pitta Hydrornis schwaneri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. Adult males show a yellow eyebrow, blue rump and tail, and a blue belly patch. It is now treated separately from related forms once grouped with it.

• Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus

  A dolphin of warm and temperate seas worldwide that feeds mainly on squid.

• Short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

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

• Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons

  The Black-fronted Bushshrike lives in mountain forests of eastern and southern Africa. Its underparts occur in several color forms, and it sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Reindeer Rangifer tarandus

  A reindeer is a deer in which both sexes grow antlers. The Eurasian subspecies lives in cold regions with snow cover.

• Guianan Weeper Capuchin Cebus olivaceus

  A troop-living capuchin with a pale buff body, dark markings on its head, and a dark tail tip. It can wrap its tail around branches.

• Northern Cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus

  The Northern Cassowary is a large flightless bird with a casque and neck wattles that lives in lowland New Guinea.

• Argali Ovis ammon

  A wild sheep of Asia’s highlands that moves with the seasons.

• Bennett's Chinchilla Rat Abrocoma bennettii

  A rodent from rocky scrubland in Chile. Its diet and activity time vary with season and locality in the records.

• Palmchat Dulus dominicus

  The Palmchat is a Caribbean island bird with a plain brown back and heavily streaked underparts. It also has a red iris and a strong, slightly decurved bill.

• European wildcat Felis silvestris

  The European wildcat is a wild cat associated mainly with European forests. Rodents, especially voles, are common prey.

• Southern hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons

  A wombat that digs underground burrows in dry southern Australia.

• New Zealand Rockwren Xenicus gilviventris

  The New Zealand Rockwren is a small ground-feeding bird of the South Island mountains, living above the bush line throughout its life.

• Gray wolf Canis lupus

  A pack-living canid of Eurasia and North America. It uses habitats ranging from forests and tundra to grasslands.

• Chinese Water Deer Hydropotes inermis

  A deer whose males are notable for long canine teeth that project from the mouth.

• Red-eyed Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys imberbis

  Erythrogenys imberbis is a scimitar babbler of Myanmar and Thailand. Clements' 2024 checklist treats it as a species split from the Himalayan E. erythrogenys.