Meet the world’s animals.

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• African buffalo Syncerus caffer

  

  A large wild bovine of sub-Saharan Africa, usually found near water. Body size, coat color, and horn shape vary among its subspecies.

• Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus

  A white seabird with a red bill; adults have conspicuously long tail streamers.

• Crested Rat Lophiomys imhausi

  This East African rodent has fur with white stripes or spots. It is active at night and feeds on fruits and roots.

• Red deer Cervus elaphus

  Red deer are large deer native to Britain. In the New Forest, males call during the autumn rut.

• Chestnut-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus ruficeps

  The Chestnut-crowned Babbler is marked by a chestnut crown and gray facial pattern. It searches for food in small flocks on the ground in dry, open woodland.

• 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.

• Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis

  The sei whale is a baleen whale found widely in subtropical, temperate and subpolar seas around the world.

• Giant Ibis Pseudibis gigantea

  The world’s largest ibis now remains in lowland forest in northern and eastern Cambodia. It searches for food at secluded forest pools.

• Greater Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata

  This bat is marked by two white lines on its back. It roosts by day under bridges, in caves, or in hollow trees, then hunts insects at night.

• White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris

  This dolphin lives in the cold North Atlantic and has a short, thick beak with white lips.

• White-crowned Cuckoo Caliechthrus leucolophus

  The White-crowned Cuckoo is a New Guinea bird with a glossy black body and a broad silvery-white crown band. It uses the forest canopy and feeds mainly on large insects and fruit.

• Falanouc Eupleres goudotii

  The falanouc is a Malagasy carnivore with a narrow muzzle and a thick tail. It searches for earthworms and other small prey at night in humid lowland forests.

• Crab-eating Fox Cerdocyon thous

  A canid found from northern South America to northern Argentina, it eats foods ranging from fruit to small animals.

• Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris

  The Long-billed Corella is a white cockatoo with a long upper bill and red-orange chest markings. It often forages in large flocks on the ground in southeastern Australia.

• Alpine Musk Deer Moschus chrysogaster

  This deer relative lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males have long upper canine teeth that can show below the mouth.

• Caracal Caracal caracal

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

• Western Bristlebird Dasyornis longirostris

  A secretive small bird of heathland in southwestern Australia. It searches for small foods while moving on the ground.

• Amazon manatee Trichechus inunguis

  A manatee restricted to the fresh waters of the Amazon River system, with thick dark-gray skin and a pale belly patch.

• Argali Ovis ammon

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

• Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator

  A small African shrike of savanna and shrubland that catches ground-dwelling invertebrates by day.

• Central American Silky Anteater Cyclopes dorsalis

  This small anteater ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. Its yellowish-brown body has more yellow on the tail and limbs, with a broad chest stripe. It is nocturnal and arboreal in mangroves and tropical rainforest.

• Chital Axis axis

  A deer often seen on the Indian peninsula, with white spots that remain all year.

• Eastern Black-headed Batis Batis minor

  The Eastern Black-headed Batis is a small, dark bird with a sharply defined white eyebrow. It searches for insects in the dry forests and savannas of East Africa.

• Linné’s two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus

  A sloth that hangs from high branches in tropical forests, feeding and resting in the trees.