Meet the world’s animals.
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- Killer whale Orcinus orca
Photo: Robert Pittman · Public domain A member of the dolphin family with a black back, white belly and white patches near the eyes.
- 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.
- Rufous Bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens
The rufous bettong is a marsupial with reddish-brown fur and a furred muzzle. It rests in a grass-built nest by day and looks for food at night.
- 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.
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
A large hornbill that walks through dry open country in search of prey.
- Hoary Fox Lycalopex vetulus
The hoary fox is a small fox of open landscapes in central and eastern Brazil, with gray fur and a dark stripe along its back and tail.
- American bison Bos bison
An American bison is a cattle relative with a prominent shoulder hump. It mainly eats grasses and lives in herds.
- Scissor-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis torquata
The male has outer tail feathers that extend well beyond the body. This nightjar rests on the ground and catches flying insects at dusk and after dark.
- Ka'apor Capuchin Cebus kaapori
It has cream-colored cheeks and shoulders, a dark crown, and a tail that helps it move among branches. A dry-season study in Pará found fruit to be its main food.
- Snow leopard Panthera uncia
A snow leopard is a cat of Central Asian mountains. Thick fur and a long tail suit its life on rocky slopes.
- Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus
The Black-rumped Buttonquail occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and lives on the ground in grassland and grassy savanna. Females are larger and brighter than males, with a rufous face and throat, pale belly and dark rump.
- Malabar Spiny Dormouse Platacanthomys lasiurus
Its back has broad, flat, stiff spines mixed through the fur, and the tail is brush-tipped. It climbs in forests of southern India and is thought to be mainly active at night.
- Blue wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus
The blue wildebeest is a cattle relative living and grazing in herds in eastern and southern Africa.
- Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum
The Vulturine Guineafowl is a large bird of eastern Africa's dry grasslands and scrub. It walks on the ground in groups and is striking for its blue head and long black plumes.
- Java Warty Pig Sus verrucosus
This pig occurs on Java and Bawean Island. It has an elongated face and uses cultivated landscapes and teak plantations mixed with grassland, scrub, and secondary forest.
- Jaguar Panthera onca
A jaguar is a heavily built large cat of the Americas. It often lives near water and swims well.
- Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus
The Spotted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird that searches for seeds in dry, open country.
- Russian Desman Desmana moschata
The Russian desman is a mole relative that lives by water. It has a flexible snout and fully webbed hind feet.
- Wild Goat Capra aegagrus
The wild goat lives on steep mountain slopes. In Georgia, breeding populations are limited to Tusheti and northern Khevsureti.
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
This small bird has separate populations in western and eastern Africa and lives in forest. Its dark olive upperparts and pale-yellow eyebrow are distinctive; it eats insects.
- Northern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus leucogenys
The northern white-cheeked gibbon is a tailless Southeast Asian ape that moves from branch to branch using its long arms.
- Cougar Puma concolor
A large cat of the Americas, with a slender body, a long tail and a tawny to greyish-brown adult coat.
- Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens
The Purple Indigobird's breeding male is purplish, and the species lays its eggs in the nest of Jameson's Firefinch. It searches the ground for grass seeds.
- Javan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris javanica
A 1993 study of Southeast Asian specimens recognized this bat as a distinct Nycteris species. It concluded that the species occurs mainly on Java and nearby islands.
