Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chinese pangolin Manis pentadactyla

  

  A pangolin covered in overlapping scales that digs burrows in the ground.

• Arctic Loon Gavia arctica

  A waterbird that breeds on large lakes in northern Europe and Asia. Its breeding plumage is boldly patterned, and outside the breeding season it also uses sheltered coastal waters.

• Greater Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous tatouay

  An armadillo whose tail lacks armor. At night it digs into soil and termite mounds with its large claws, feeding mainly on ants and termites.

• Brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis

  A dark-bodied pelican that plunge-dives into the sea to catch fish.

• Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma muscatellum

  The Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat is a small bat whose tail is longer than its forearm. It feeds over dry, open ground and rests in rocky crevices and caves.

• Eurasian Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus

  A bird with sandy, patterned plumage and large eyes. In Britain, it breeds in places with sparse vegetation.

• Horsfield's Fruit Bat Cynopterus horsfieldii

  This fruit bat ranges from mainland Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula and islands including Sumatra and Java. It has been recorded in lowland and montane forest, orchards, and agricultural areas.

• White-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis malouinus

  This ground-dwelling bird has a white belly and fine barring above. It uses rocky slopes and wetlands above treeline and may descend in winter.

• Layard's beaked whale Mesoplodon layardii

  This beaked whale is recorded in cold-temperate seas of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a spindle-shaped body and slender beak, with a bluish-black to dark-purple body and white patches, according to a university species account.

• Slaty Egret Egretta vinaceigula

  This egret forages mainly in shallow wetlands of northern Botswana. Adults are blue-grey, though they can look black in poor light.

• Giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla

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

• Russet-throated Puffbird Hypnelus ruficollis

  Nominate adults have pale cheeks and a russet throat and chest. They wait quietly on open branches and dart out after prey.

• Brandt's Hedgehog Paraechinus hypomelas

  Brandt's hedgehog lives in dry regions. One female found in Saudi Arabia in 2024 was described as having a dark face and large ears.

• Lesser Melampitta Melampitta lugubris

  The Lesser Melampitta lives in New Guinea's montane forests. This account separates an early description of an adult male from one survey record in eastern Papua New Guinea.

• Spectacled Porpoise Phocoena dioptrica

  The spectacled porpoise is found in cold seas of the Southern Hemisphere and is known for the dark rings around its eyes.

• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

  Adults have a bare red head and soar with raised wings in a teetering flight. They use their sense of smell to find carrion.

• Godman's Long-tailed Bat Choeroniscus godmani

  Godman's long-tailed bat belongs to a nectar-feeding genus and is described as the smallest species in Choeroniscus.

• European Roller Coracias garrulus

  A bird that breeds in parts of central Europe and migrates to central and southern Africa. It has a blue head and chest and a chestnut back.

• Ring-tailed Mongoose Galidia elegans

  The ring-tailed mongoose is a carnivorous mammal from Madagascar, notable for the red and black rings on its tail. It is active by day, moving mainly on the ground but also climbing trees.

• Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius

  The Egyptian Plover is marked by a black-and-white face and a blue-gray back and feeds along sandy, gravelly banks of large rivers.

• Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

  An ape of northern Sumatra that moves through trees using its long arms.

• Magellanic Plover Pluvianellus socialis

  This bird uses saline and alkaline lakes and coasts in Patagonia. It has a rounded head, red eyes and pink legs. Some move from inland breeding grounds to the coast in winter.

• Chacoan Peccary Catagonus wagneri

  The Chacoan peccary looks pig-like and also eats cacti.

• Malaysian Rail-babbler Eupetes macrocerus

  It has long legs and a long tail and searches for food on the forest floor. It rarely flies and avoids open patches, according to the account.