Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rifleman Acanthisitta chloris

  

  The Rifleman is a tiny forest bird endemic to New Zealand and feeds on insects and spiders. It keeps moving as it searches along trunks and branches.

• Indo-Pacific crocodile Crocodylus porosus

  

  Male saltwater crocodiles tracked in northern Australia moved at sea toward their original capture sites after release elsewhere.

• Guinea pig Cavia porcellus

  

  A domesticated rodent originating in South America and now kept worldwide. It has a compact body and stays close to companions.

• Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides

  

  The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise is a distinct species from the narrow-ridged finless porpoise. It has a bumpy back ridge instead of a dorsal fin and feeds in shallow coastal waters.

• Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius melitophrys

  

  A shrike-vireo of forests and scrub in Mexico and Guatemala. Males and females differ in the chestnut markings on the head and breast.

• Common Swift Apus apus

  

  A summer visitor to the UK, the Common Swift spends almost all its life on the wing, catching small insects and spiders in the air.

• Green turtle Chelonia mydas

  A sea turtle with a small head and hard shell. Adults feed mainly on seagrasses and algae.

• Southern muriqui Brachyteles arachnoides

  The southern muriqui is a large monkey that lives in remaining Atlantic Forest areas of southeastern Brazil and spends much of its time in trees.

• Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

  A whale with a large head and narrow lower jaw that dives into deep water to find food.

• Sooty Falcon Falco concolor

  The Sooty Falcon has long, narrow wings. After breeding, it migrates across eastern Africa to Madagascar for the southern summer.

• Northern Tree Shrew Tupaia belangeri

  The northern tree shrew has grey-olive fur and a long snout and lives in moist forests across South and Southeast Asia.

• Ostrich Struthio camelus

  A flightless bird with a long neck and strong legs, living in African grasslands and other open habitats.

• Western Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus tertius

  This long-tailed, ground-feeding bird lives in wet broadleaf forest on Hispaniola. It searches through leaf litter and stays among dense undergrowth, especially near streams.

• Pygmy Right Whale Caperea marginata

  Despite its name, it is not a right whale; it is a baleen whale that filters small prey from the water.

• Walrus Odobenus rosmarus

  A northern marine mammal recognized by long tusks and sturdy whiskers around its muzzle.

• Southern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus rufirostris

  The Southern Red-billed Hornbill is a southern African form within a red-billed hornbill complex. Compared with the Damaraland form, the study population had yellow eyes and grey facial feathers and used moister savanna woodland.

• 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 spoonbill Platalea leucorodia

  A white waterbird with long legs and a spoon-shaped bill.

• Hodgson's Treecreeper Certhia hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Treecreeper is a small bird of mountain regions from Pakistan east to China. It has a brown back and pale underside, and searches tree bark for insects and spiders.

• Bennett's Chinchilla Rat Abrocoma bennettii

  A rodent from rocky scrubland in Chile. Its diet and activity time vary with season and locality in the records.

• Northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus

  A whale of the deep North Atlantic, recognized by its rounded forehead and projecting, bottle-shaped beak.

• Rufous-bellied Euphonia Euphonia rufiventris

  Bolivian records describe this bird eating mainly fruit among dense foliage in the canopy and subcanopy. The male and female also differ in some plumage features.

• Chacoan Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous chacoensis

  A small armadillo of the dry Chaco that spends much of its time underground and mainly eats ants and termites.

• Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus

  Often hidden high in trees, this bird has an adult male with a bright yellow body and black wings.