Meet the world’s animals.

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• Argali Ovis ammon

  

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

• Sambar Rusa unicolor

  Asia’s largest deer, it feeds near forests and wetlands.

• Carolinian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus syrinx

  The Carolinian Reed Warbler is native to the Federated States of Micronesia. It uses dry grassland, gardens, and tropical mountain forest, searching for small animals on the ground and among trees.

• 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.

• Hairy Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus pilosus

  A Peruvian armadillo with thick reddish hair over its shell, cheeks, and upper forelimbs.

• Crab-plover Dromas ardeola

  This coastal bird has black-and-white plumage and a heavy bill, and feeds on crabs. A field study in India’s Gulf of Kachchh recorded wintering birds foraging at low tide.

• Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus

  The southern brown bandicoot is a ground-dwelling marsupial. This entry follows the source’s account of the eastern subspecies.

• Rosy Thrush-Tanager Rhodinocichla rosea

  The Rosy Thrush-Tanager is a forest bird whose males have dark grey upperparts and rosy underparts. Female colors and facial markings vary among subspecies and regions.

• Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus

  A small marsupial with large eyes, long whiskers, and a grasping tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and pollen and nests in tree hollows and other sheltered places.

• Hooded Butcherbird Cracticus cassicus

  This butcherbird occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It searches for insects, fruit, and other food in the canopy of lowland forest and dense secondary growth.

• Natal Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus natalensis

  An insect-eating bat that roosts in caves. Seasonal movements between caves have been studied in populations in northeastern South Africa.

• Forty-spotted Pardalote Pardalotus quadragintus

  A small bird found only in Tasmania and closely tied to forests containing white gum (Eucalyptus viminalis).

• Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis

  The Sumatran rhinoceros is the smallest living rhino and survives in Indonesia’s tropical forests.

• Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus

  In India's Great Himalayan National Park, this fantail is found in mid-elevation forests. It has a yellow belly, olive upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It flicks its tail while moving through the understory and mid-canopy in pursuit of small insects.

• Southern hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons

  A wombat that digs underground burrows in dry southern Australia.

• Rufous-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus speciosus

  Rufous-breasted Wood-Quails inhabit humid forest on the eastern Andes and forage on the ground in family groups. Adult males have rufous underparts, while female plumage differs among the populations described.

• Coast Mole Scapanus orarius

  The coast mole lives in underground tunnels. It has large, spade-shaped forefeet for digging and velvety dark-gray fur.

• Pacific Diver Gavia pacifica

  The Pacific Diver breeds on Arctic lakes and moves to Pacific coastal waters for winter; it is an accomplished diver.

• Lami Tuco-tuco Ctenomys lami

  Lami's Tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent known from sandy grasslands in southern Brazil. Its coat is darker above and lighter below.

• Elliot's Storm Petrel Oceanites gracilis

  It is dark overall, with white on the rump and center of the belly and a small pale area under the wing. While feeding, it patters across the water with its wings held upright.

• African Linsang Poiana richardsonii

  The African linsang is a small carnivore with a slender, spotted body and a long ringed tail. It is active at night in trees and eats insects, fruit and other foods.

• Loria's Satinbird Cnemophilus loriae

  Loria's Satinbird lives in the canopy of montane forest. Males are black while females are olive-toned, and a male's far-carrying whistle can be heard from a perch.

• Pileated Gibbon Hylobates pileatus

  The pileated gibbon occurs in forests of Thailand, Cambodia and southwestern Laos. Adult males and females have markedly different coat colors.

• Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus

  A goose with black bars on its white head, found from Central to South Asia.