Meet the world’s animals.

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• Least Weasel Mustela nivalis

  

  The least weasel is a small, slender mustelid with a short tail. The Missouri account describes it as probably present in the state’s northern counties.

• Heart-nosed Bat Cardioderma cor

  The heart-nosed bat has a heart-shaped nose leaf and large eyes. It leaves its roost around dusk and catches insects from a low perch.

• Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris

  This small bird occurs widely across Australia. Its short tail and stubby bill are distinctive, and it searches among tree leaves for food.

• Common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata

  A whale with a pointed head and a curved dorsal fin set well back on its body.

• African Manatee Trichechus senegalensis

  This manatee lives from West African coasts into rivers and brackish waters. It mainly eats aquatic plants and mangrove vegetation.

• Golden-bellied White-eye Zosterops uropygialis

  Its yellow-green upperparts and bright yellow throat and belly stand out, and it has no white eye-ring. This white-eye is found only on Kai Kecil Island, Indonesia.

• False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens

  A dark, slender small whale that hunts fish and squid in warm seas.

• 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.

• Slender-billed Oriole Oriolus tenuirostris

  Its bill is long and slender with a slight downward curve, and a thin black line passes through the eye. A 2020 report documents a bird in temperate forest in northern Sikkim.

• Dhole Cuon alpinus

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

• Greater Cane Rat Thryonomys swinderianus

  The greater cane rat is a stocky African rodent with a rounded nose and short ears. It lives near marshes and riverbanks, feeding mainly on grasses and cane.

• White-necked Picathartes Picathartes gymnocephalus

  The White-necked Picathartes is a forest bird known for nesting at rocky sites. A Cornell Living Bird field account describes nest sites and ground foraging around Bonkro, Ghana.

• Eurasian elk Alces alces

  A Eurasian elk is a deer with long legs and a large muzzle. It uses forests and waterside habitats in places such as northern Europe.

• 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.

• White-browed Tit-warbler Leptopoecile sophiae

  This tiny bird is about 8–10 cm long and lives in high-mountain scrub. It eats insects and other invertebrates and may move between elevations.

• Domestic cat Felis catus

  A domesticated cat with many coat colors, patterns and hair lengths.

• Pygmy Spotted Skunk Spilogale pygmaea

  A small skunk from Mexico’s Pacific coast, with white stripes on a black coat that break into spots toward the rear.

• Andean Potoo Nyctibius maculosus

  Fine gray, brown, and black markings and yellow eyes stand out on this nocturnal bird of Andean cloud forest.

• Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis

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

• Greater Bonneted Bat Eumops perotis

  The greater bonneted bat is the largest molossid bat in North America. Its long ears meet above the head, and it launches from cliffs before hunting insects at night.

• Prong-billed Barbet Semnornis frantzii

  Its warm ochre face and neck and thick silver bill stand out. It occurs in montane forest in Costa Rica and western Panama, foraging from the midstory to the canopy, often in pairs.

• Honey badger Mellivora capensis

  A robust mustelid found in parts of Africa and Asia.

• Lesser Bulldog Bat Noctilio (Dirias) albiventris

  A bat of waterside habitats. Males tend to be bright red and females dull brown, and it searches for insects near the water's surface at night.

• White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis

  The White-shouldered Black Tit is mostly black, with a white wing patch and pale eye. It ranges across parts of western and eastern Africa and uses dry woodland, savanna and open habitats.