Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,825 · Stories: 19,540

• Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus

  

  A whale with a streamlined body and a dorsal fin set well back. The lower jaw has different colors on each side.

• Peter's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera discifera

  This small bat roosts in groups under leaves and uses suction cups on its feet and thumbs to cling to them.

• Nepal Cupwing Pnoepyga immaculata

  The Nepal Cupwing is known from records in central Nepal. A 2010 field note reports hearing at least four birds in northern India and later observing one individual.

• Common dolphin Delphinus delphis

  A dolphin with contrasting patches along its sides that form an hourglass-like pattern.

• Hova rice tenrec Oryzorictes hova

  The Hova rice tenrec occurs in Madagascar. In the 1996 Marojejy survey, adults were collected in lowland forest and montane mossy forest.

• Spotted Elachura Elachura formosa

  The Spotted Elachura is a brown bird marked with white spots. It searches for insects near the ground in damp forest, from eastern Nepal and northeastern India to southern China.

• 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.

• Six-banded armadillo Euphractus sexcinctus

  An armadillo of South American savannas that digs its own burrows with strong claws.

• White-winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos

  The black bird has a white wing patch, red eyes and a slightly curved bill. It forms groups in eastern and southeastern Australia and forages on the ground.

• Fallow deer Dama dama

  The fallow deer is recognized by the male’s broad, palmate antlers. Coat forms include spotted, white and dark individuals.

• Thomas's Mountain Cavy Microcavia maenas

  This cavy occurs in the hills and dry lowlands of Argentina. Its back color varies among the sample groups described in a 2017 paper, from yellowish gray to brown. In a Mendoza study, shrubs were common in the plant material identified from droppings at both a protected reserve and a neighboring grazed field.

• Great Spotted Kiwi Apteryx maxima

  A flightless, nocturnal kiwi that probes the soil and leaf litter with its long bill to find small prey.

• Chinese Mountain Cat Felis bieti

  A stocky wild cat of China's high grasslands and mountain scrub. Its coat changes with the season, and the tip of its short tail is black.

• Honey Possum Tarsipes rostratus

  The honey possum is a small marsupial that feeds only on nectar and pollen from native flowers. Its long tongue gathers pollen from inside flowers.

• Black-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus nigripectus

  The Black-breasted Boatbill is a small bird of New Guinea's mountains. It is active by day along forest edges and within forest, and is about 13–15 cm long.

• Gemsbok Oryx gazella

  The gemsbok is an oryx with bold black markings on its face and body.

• Caribbean Least Funnel-eared Bat Chilonatalus micropus

  The Caribbean Least Funnel-eared Bat is a small bat with pale yellow-brown fur. It is recorded on Caribbean islands and Colombian islands, where it roosts in humid caves.

• Western Whipbird Psophodes nigrogularis

  This bird searches for insects on the ground and in low vegetation. This entry describes the lashmari subspecies on Kangaroo Island.

• Killer whale Orcinus orca

  A member of the dolphin family with a black back, white belly and white patches near the eyes.

• Gilbert's Dunnart Sminthopsis gilberti

  This small marsupial occurs in separated populations in Western Australia. It hunts insects at night and nests in vegetation or hollows.

• Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata

  This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.

• African wild dog Lycaon pictus

  A wild canid of African grasslands and open woodland. Its patches of black, white and tan differ between individuals.

• Southern giraffe Giraffa giraffa

  The southern giraffe occurs in southern Africa and includes the Angolan and South African subspecies.

• Sapayoa Sapayoa aenigma

  A greenish bird of lowland forest from Panama to northwestern Ecuador. It has a broad, subtly hooked bill and lives in the forest understory.