Meet the world’s animals.

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• Domestic goat Capra hircus

  

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

• Black-billed Amazon Amazona agilis

  

  The Black-billed Amazon is a Jamaica-endemic parrot whose red wing feathers stand out against its green body. It gathers in flocks in the forest canopy and eats fruits and seeds.

• Marañón White-fronted Capuchin Cebus yuracus

  

  This capuchin has an ochre coat; adult specimens have a dark dorsal band continuing to the tail tip. It is reported from Amazonian lowland forests and forests on Andean slopes.

• Common dolphin Delphinus delphis

  

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

• White-chested Emerald Chrysuronia brevirostris

  

  This hummingbird occurs on Trinidad and in northern South America. Its straight black bill, bronze tail, and white chest are distinctive features.

• Giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla

  

  An ant- and termite-eating mammal with a long narrow snout and a large bushy tail.

• Caracal Caracal caracal

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

• Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus

  The Green-backed Tit is a small bird found in mountain forests in northern India. Its green back, yellow underside, and black head with white cheeks stand out as it searches branches and trunks for food.

• Gervais' beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus

  Gervais' beaked whale is a member of the beaked-whale family that lives in deep Atlantic waters. It is rarely seen at sea and is usually alone or in small, closely associated groups.

• 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.

• Tristram's Storm Petrel Hydrobates tristrami

  Tristram’s Storm-Petrel has long, pointed wings and a notched tail, and glides low over the sea. It nests in island rock recesses and burrows, then ranges widely across the Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Selangor Silvery Langur Trachypithecus selangorensis

  The Selangor Silvery Langur occurs along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Adults have dark gray fur with a silvery sheen, black facial skin, hands and feet, and long straight gray whiskers. Its classification within the silvered langur group has changed and remains treated differently by some authors.

• Jaguar Panthera onca

  A jaguar is a heavily built large cat of the Americas. It often lives near water and swims well.

• Black-breasted Gnateater Conopophaga snethlageae

  This forest bird ranges in the Amazon between the Tapajós and Tocantins Rivers. In 2023, the first nest observations were reported from the understory of primary terra firme forest in Brazil.

• Kinkajou Potos flavus

  A raccoon relative that grips branches with its long tail and searches for fruit at night.

• Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis

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

• Hamerkop Scopus umbretta

  The hamerkop is an African wetland bird whose flat crest makes its head look like a hammer. Pairs build a large, domed nest.

• Greater Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma microphyllum

  This bat has a long tail that extends beyond the tail membrane, and its fur ranges from gray to reddish brown. It eats insects and roosts in caves and old buildings in dry regions.

• Cougar Puma concolor

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

• Thick-billed Longspur Rhynchophanes mccownii

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

• Domestic Pig Sus domesticus

  People keep domestic pigs as livestock. In the Kunekune breed, coat colors vary, and the pigs can graze on pasture.

• European bison Bos bonasus

  The European bison is a large cattle relative living in wooded regions of central and eastern Europe.

• White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis

  The White-browed Treecreeper has a white eyebrow and barred belly. It is patchily distributed in southern mainland Australia and searches for insects in dry woodland and scrub.

• Lesser Mouse-deer Tragulus kanchil

  It has no antlers; males have long canine teeth. This small ungulate lives alone or in pairs and eats leaves and fruit.