Meet the world’s animals.

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• Leopard Panthera pardus

  

  A leopard is a cat with flower-shaped rosettes. It may carry prey into trees to keep other predators away.

• Flame Bowerbird Sericulus ardens

  The Flame Bowerbird lives in forests of southern New Guinea. Males are brightly coloured and build a narrow avenue of sticks as a courtship display site.

• Asian Badger Meles leucurus

  The Asian badger ranges from eastern Europe to eastern Asia and is well adapted for digging. It has a white face with dark stripes over the eyes, and its coat color varies by region.

• Dhole Cuon alpinus

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

• Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus

  The Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike is a small black-and-white bird that sallies from a perch to catch insects. It lives in open forest and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups.

• Tapanuli Orangutan Pongo tapanuliensis

  An orangutan of the Tapanuli region in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where its forest habitat is fragmented; fruit is a major food.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mexican Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) mexicanus

  Its dorsal fur ranges from brown to cinnamon orange, and its tail is longer than its head and body. It uses forests and other vegetated areas, is mainly nocturnal, and eats seeds and plant material.

• Spinner dolphin Stenella longirostris

  A long-beaked dolphin known for spinning as it leaps out of the water.

• Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae

  The Superb Lyrebird lives on the ground in southeastern Australia. Males display a long tail and are famous for imitating other birds and nearby sounds.

• 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.

• Domestic cat Felis catus

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

• Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus

  The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture is a vulture of the Americas recorded in wetlands along Guatemala's Pacific coast. It feeds mainly on carrion, but may also take live fish, reptiles, and insects.

• Gerp's Mouse Lemur Microcebus gerpi

  This nocturnal mouse lemur lives in lowland forests and forest fragments in eastern Madagascar. It forages alone in trees in a heavily fragmented landscape.

• Eurasian golden jackal Canis aureus

  The Eurasian golden jackal is a medium-sized canid found across a broad part of Eurasia.

• Rand's Warbler Randia pseudozosterops

  Rand's Warbler is endemic to eastern Madagascar's humid lowland forest. It has an olive-gray head with a prominent pale eyebrow and forages for insects in treetops.

• 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.

• Domestic water buffalo Bubalus bubalis

  A water buffalo kept for farm work, milk and other uses. It cools itself in water or mud during hot weather.

• Grey-rumped Treeswift Hemiprocne longipennis

  The Grey-rumped Treeswift occurs in Southeast Asia and its islands. It uses perches and catches insects in flight.

• Mexican Agouti Dasyprocta mexicana

  The Mexican agouti is a rodent of southern Mexican forests whose activity period varies by place.

• Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melas

  A small whale with long flippers, found in temperate and colder seas.

• Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster

  A survey of reserves in the Republic of the Congo recorded the species frequently in wooded grassland, especially at Idzoua Inkou. Males and females differ in upperpart color.

• Brown Hyena Parahyaena brunnea

  A hyena of southern Africa's dry regions that is mostly active at night.