Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cougar Puma concolor

  

  A large cat of the Americas, with a slender body, a long tail and a tawny to greyish-brown adult coat.

• White-browed Babbler Pomatostomus superciliosus

  

  This group-living bird inhabits dry woodland and scrub on mainland Australia. It searches the ground for insects and spiders and keeps in contact with its companions.

• African Manatee Trichechus senegalensis

  

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

• Gemsbok Oryx gazella

  

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

• Antipodean Albatross Diomedea antipodensis

  

  This large albatross ranges over the Southern Ocean. Plumage varies with sex, age, and subspecies, and it breeds on islands south of New Zealand.

• Andean mountain cat Leopardus jacobitus

  

  A high-Andes cat with dark body markings and a thick, ringed tail.

• Chinese White Dolphin Sousa chinensis

  This dolphin lives along coasts of the Indian and western Pacific oceans and also uses estuaries. Hong Kong has carried out long-term monitoring of the Pearl River Estuary population.

• Asian Short-toed Lark Alaudala cheleensis

  The Asian Short-toed Lark is a small lark with streaks on its breast and back. It favors open, dry ground with sparse vegetation, and its appearance and range vary by region.

• Decken's Sifaka Propithecus deckenii

  Decken's Sifaka is a lemur of northwestern Madagascar's dry deciduous forests and limestone tsingy. Its ivory fur contrasts with dark skin.

• Jaguarundi Herpailurus yagouaroundi

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

• Northern Brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans

  This bulbul occurs in eastern Africa. It is mostly brown and uses semi-arid scrub, dry-forest edges, and other wooded habitats; it eats insects and fruit.

• North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena japonica

  The North Pacific right whale is a baleen whale of the North Pacific, with most contemporary sightings in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.

• American bison Bos bison

  An American bison is a cattle relative with a prominent shoulder hump. It mainly eats grasses and lives in herds.

• Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta

  The Melodious Warbler is a small bird with a yellowish throat and breast and a gray-green to brown back. It favors warm, open places with shrubs.

• Red Viscacha Rat Tympanoctomys barrerae

  The red viscacha rat burrows in dune belts around saline lakes and feeds on salt-tolerant plants. It has a yellow-brown back, white underside, and long, bicolored tail.

• Bobcat Lynx rufus

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

• Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus

  The Spangled Drongo has blue-green spots across glossy black plumage and a long forked tail. It waits on a perch and catches insects in flight.

• Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi

  This jerboa is recorded from deserts of southern and southeastern Mongolia and northern China. Mongolian samples show sex-related and geographic variation in skull size.

• Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis

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

• Thick-billed Longspur Rhynchophanes mccownii

  The Thick-billed Longspur breeds in North American shortgrass prairie and moves to open land farther south for winter.

• Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew Blarina hylophaga

  This stocky shrew has small eyes and ears hidden in its fur. It stays active year-round and searches for food under leaf litter and in the soil.

• 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.

• Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus

  This starling has glossy purple plumage and large yellow eyes. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects and roosts in large flocks outside the breeding season.

• Rice's whale Balaenoptera ricei

  Rice's whale is a baleen whale that lives year-round in the Gulf of America. It is dark gray above and pale below; it is thought to dive deep by day to feed on fish.