Meet the world’s animals.

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• Caracal Caracal caracal

  

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

• Little Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites minutillus

  This small cuckoo ranges from Southeast Asia to Australia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• East African Spring Hare Pedetes surdaster

  The East African springhare's fur fluoresces orange to red under ultraviolet light. The examined specimens included animals from Kenya and Tanzania, but the ecological role of the glow remains unknown.

• Chinese White Dolphin Sousa chinensis

  This dolphin lives along coasts of the Indian and western Pacific oceans and also uses estuaries. Hong Kong has carried out long-term monitoring of the Pearl River Estuary population.

• 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.

• Southern Right Whale Eubalaena australis

  The southern right whale migrates through Southern Hemisphere waters. Its large, callosity-covered head and stocky body without a dorsal fin are distinctive.

• Honey badger Mellivora capensis

  A robust mustelid found in parts of Africa and Asia.

• White-throated Caracara Phalcoboenus albogularis

  This caracara lives in Andean-Patagonian forests. Its white throat and belly contrast with a dark brown body; it may search for food while soaring alone.

• Brown Tent-making Bat Uroderma magnirostrum

  The brown tent-making bat eats fruit and roosts in tents made from leaves. It ranges from western Mexico to southeastern Brazil.

• Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis

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

• Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectans

  Singapore's National Parks Board describes winter records in the country. The bird is mostly black with a black bill and uses shaded understory in wooded parks and waterside trees.

• Pygmy Right Whale Caperea marginata

  Despite its name, it is not a right whale; it is a baleen whale that filters small prey from the water.

• Raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides

  It belongs to the dog family and has a dark mask around the eyes and a pale muzzle. It searches for a wide range of animal and plant foods in wooded cover near forests and water.

• Cuban Tody Todus multicolor

  IWEco describes this tody as endemic to Cuba. It has vivid plumage and a long bill, and digs tunnel nests in rotten wood or soil banks.

• Black-mantled Tamarin Leontocebus nigricollis

  This entry covers the nominate subspecies of the black-mantled tamarin. It inhabits humid tropical forest and edges; its described features include a black mantle, bare ears, and a gray-white muzzle.

• Reindeer Rangifer tarandus

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

• Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla

  The Pygmy Cupwing is a small bird with a very short tail and scaled-looking brown plumage. It forages in dense understory and near the forest floor.

• Southern Common Cuscus Phalanger mimicus

  The southern common cuscus is a medium-sized arboreal possum of lowland southern New Guinea. Local observers reported it in both primary and secondary forest, where it eats leaves.

• Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni

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

• Snowy Sheathbill Chionis albus

  A Signy Island study from April 1961 to April 1962 described adults as white with pink skin below the eye. There, the birds fed on shore algae and limpets and also foraged near penguin colonies.

• Black-fronted Duiker Cephalophus nigrifrons

  This small antelope is recorded in lowland forest of the Congo Basin. It is reddish-brown to brown, with a black mark down the face.

• Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx

  A wild cat of Europe and Asia, with black ear tufts and a prominent ruff around its cheeks.

• Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius

  The Egyptian Plover is marked by a black-and-white face and a blue-gray back and feeds along sandy, gravelly banks of large rivers.

• Naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber

  The naked mole-rat lives in underground tunnels in dry parts of eastern Africa.