Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

  

  A large heron with a typical blue-gray plumage and long legs. It waits for prey near water and strikes quickly with its neck.

• 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.

• White-crowned Penduline Tit Remiz coronatus

  

  This small bird is marked by a white crown and a dark facial band. It breeds in Central Asia and moves south for winter.

• Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus

  

  A North American fox that can climb trees.

• White-browed Woodswallow Artamus superciliosus

  

  The White-browed Woodswallow is an Australian bird with a striking white eyebrow. It moves in large flocks between seasonal ranges and catches insects in flight.

• Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops megalophylla

  

  The ghost-faced bat ranges from the southern United States through Central America to northern South America. It roosts in caves by day and emerges in the evening to hunt large moths and insects.

• African Jacana Actophilornis africanus

  The African Jacana walks on floating plants with its long toes and forages in wetlands. During breeding, the male incubates the eggs and cares for the chicks.

• Northern fur seal Callorhinus ursinus

  A North Pacific fur seal that spends much of its time in the open ocean. It comes ashore on island beaches to breed and rest.

• Noisy Scrubbird Atrichornis clamosus

  The Noisy Scrub-bird has short wings and strong legs and moves along the ground and through low shrubs. It occurs on the mainland of southwestern Western Australia.

• Pygmy Three-toed Sloth Bradypus pygmaeus

  The pygmy three-toed sloth is a small sloth from an island off Panama. It lives in coastal red mangroves, and its long head and shoulder fur can look like a hood.

• Black Solitaire Entomodestes coracinus

  The Black Solitaire occurs in humid forests of the Chocó region of Colombia and Ecuador. Its black plumage contrasts with white cheek and breast tufts and red eyes.

• Hawaiian Monk Seal Neomonachus schauinslandi

  A tropical monk seal that lives across the Hawaiian Islands.

• Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus

  The Brown Skua is a large seabird that breeds on islands south of New Zealand and may pursue other seabirds at sea.

• Insular Flying Fox Pteropus tonganus

  The insular flying fox, also called the Pacific flying fox, is a large bat of Pacific islands. It roosts in tall trees by day and searches for fruit and flowers at night.

• Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus

  It moves through branches and brush like a mouse. It eats fruit, seeds, nectar, ants, and termites.

• Hova rice tenrec Oryzorictes hova

  The Hova rice tenrec occurs in Madagascar. In the 1996 Marojejy survey, adults were collected in lowland forest and montane mossy forest.

• Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa

  This whydah inhabits woodland and grassland in eastern and southern Africa. It eats grass seeds on the ground; breeding males have a conspicuously long tail.

• Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuscus

  The Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat has narrow, elongated wings. An Okinawa Prefecture account describes it roosting on the islands and feeding on insects at night.

• Asian Openbill Anastomus oscitans

  A stork of Asian wetlands whose bill has a gap between the mandibles except near the tip.

• Javan Ferret-badger Melogale orientalis

  The Javan ferret-badger is recorded in the hills and mountains of Java and Bali. It searches for food by digging through leaf litter at night.

• Slaty-headed Longbill Toxorhamphus poliopterus

  The Slaty-headed Longbill has a dark head and a long, strongly curved bill. Records from New Guinea's mountain forests include feeding on nectar and arthropods.

• Baird’s Beaked Whale Berardius bairdii

  Baird’s beaked whale inhabits the North Pacific and nearby seas. It mainly uses cold, deep offshore water, but can also occur near steep coastal slopes.

• Spot-breasted Wren Pheugopedius maculipectus

  This wren is recorded in the northern lowlands of Costa Rica south of Lake Nicaragua. Adults have many black spots on the breast and belly.

• Siberian Musk Deer Moschus moschiferus

  The Siberian musk deer is a small deer relative that lives in mountain forests. Males have tusks instead of antlers.