Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bobcat Lynx rufus

  

  A short-tailed wild cat of North America, with dark spots and stripes on a brownish coat.

• Sage Thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus

  

  The Sage Thrasher is a small bird of western North America, where sagebrush steppe is widespread. In spring, males sing from high perches.

• Common tree shrew Tupaia glis

  

  This small mammal has a long, tapering muzzle and a bushy tail. During the day it searches for fruit and insects on the ground and among low shrubs.

• Argali Ovis ammon

  

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

• Sultan Tit Melanochlora sultanea

  

  A large, conspicuous tit that joins mixed-species flocks in lowland forest canopies.

• Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros armiger

  

  The great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat is a large bat with gray-brown fur and leaf-like folds on its nose. It rests in caves by day and emerges early in the evening.

• Crab-eating Fox Cerdocyon thous

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

• Pipipi Mohoua novaeseelandiae

  This small bird lives in forest and shrubland on New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands. A chattering flock moving high through the trees is often the first sign of its presence.

• Kivu African Climbing Mouse Dendromus nyasae

  The Kivu African Climbing Mouse is recorded in central and eastern Africa. Some taxonomic treatments recognize the Kivu population as a separate species.

• Jaguarundi Herpailurus yagouaroundi

  A slender cat with a long tail and coat colors ranging from gray to reddish tones.

• Taiwan Cupwing Pnoepyga formosana

  The Taiwan Cupwing is endemic to Taiwan's mountain forests. It keeps to dense understory near the ground, is usually solitary, and makes only short flights.

• Hispaniolan Greater Funnel-eared Bat Natalus major

  This bat has yellowish or grayish fur and pointed-looking ear tips. It roosts in humid caves on Hispaniola and catches insects at night.

• Domestic cattle Bos taurus

  Cattle are raised as livestock across much of the world. They eat vegetation and bring swallowed food back to the mouth to chew again.

• Bohemian waxwing Bombycilla garrulus

  A winter visitor to Japan that gathers in flocks to eat berries.

• Spix's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera tricolor

  Spix's disk-winged bat clings head-up inside leaves with tiny suction discs. Small groups roost in leaves and change resting sites each day.

• European wildcat Felis silvestris

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

• Greater Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis

  The female has a more vivid reddish-brown head and breast than the male. This bird searches for food in muddy freshwater wetlands.

• Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Stenella frontalis

  This dolphin lives in warm Atlantic waters. Its spots develop with age and become darker and more widespread, while groups usually number fewer than 50 but sometimes reach about 200.

• Domestic goat Capra hircus

  A goat raised by people for milk, fiber and meat. It prefers the company of other goats.

• Brown Tit-Babbler Macronus striaticeps

  This babbler is endemic to the Philippines. The nominate subspecies has black-and-white crown stripes and pale streaks above; the Mindanao survey found it in several kinds of forest.

• Shock-headed Capuchin Cebus cuscinus

  This capuchin has a conspicuous dark cap of hair. It lives in forest groups and ranges farther to find food when fruit is scarce.

• 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.

• Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis

  The Black-winged Oriole lives in forests of western and central Africa. Adults are conspicuous in black, yellow, and olive tones, with differences in color and size among the western subspecies.

• Southern Aardwolf Proteles cristata

  It can raise the long hairs along its back and feeds mainly on termites. It occurs in southern Africa, where records include karroid country, grassland and scrub, open savanna woodland, and inland gravel plains.