Meet the world’s animals.

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• Amazon river dolphin Inia geoffrensis

  

  A long-beaked dolphin that lives in freshwater in the Amazon basin.

• Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus

  

  A small hornbill with a striking red bill. It inhabits tropical lowland forest and gives wavering whistles alone or in pairs.

• Green turtle Chelonia mydas

  

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

• Common Quail Coturnix coturnix

  

  A small pheasant-family bird that visits Britain's lowlands in summer, where open grassland and farmland occur. It is secretive and may be noticed by its call.

• Thomas's Shaggy Bat Centronycteris centralis

  

  Thomas’s shaggy bat is a rare, long-furred bat found mainly in lowland forests from Central America to Peru. A Costa Rican specimen contained plant hoppers and other insects.

• Oilbird Steatornis caripensis

  

  This South American bird flies out at night to find fruit and rests in caves or rainforest canopies. It regurgitates fruit seeds and carries them through the forest.

• American beaver Castor canadensis

  An animal of North American rivers and lakes. It builds dams and lodges from branches and mud, changing its waterside habitat.

• Andean Caenolestid Caenolestes condorensis

  A small marsupial known from the Cordillera del Condor in Ecuador. Very few specimens have been captured and described.

• African Finfoot Podica senegalensis

  This river bird differs by sex in size and facial pattern. It searches along the water's edge for fish and other small aquatic prey.

• Eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius

  A woodland bird with a conspicuous white rump in flight. In Britain it is found widely except in northern Scotland.

• San Diego Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus fallax

  The San Diego pocket mouse is a small rodent that comes out at night to gather seeds.

• Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata

  A small bird that searches for insects in the understory of eastern South American forest. A 2015 study used the older treatment that grouped three traditionally recognized subspecies within one species.

• Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus

  A whale with a long, slender body and mottled blue-gray skin.

• Amazon manatee Trichechus inunguis

  A manatee restricted to the fresh waters of the Amazon River system, with thick dark-gray skin and a pale belly patch.

• White-bearded Manakin Manacus manacus

  Males are black and white, while females are olive green. During breeding, males gather to display to females.

• Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops

  A bird with a raised crest, an orange-beige body, and bold black-and-white wings.

• Big-eared Opossum Didelphis aurita

  The big-eared opossum is a marsupial with bare black ears and a dark line down the middle of its forehead. It is nocturnal and uses both the ground and trees.

• Black-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi

  This locally distributed East African weaver inhabits dry thornveld and forages on the ground, mainly for seeds; it also eats insects.

• European bison Bos bonasus

  The European bison is a large cattle relative living in wooded regions of central and eastern Europe.

• Indus river dolphin Platanista minor

  The Indus river dolphin is a freshwater dolphin of the Indus River system. A 2021 study treated it as a species separate from the related Ganges river dolphin.

• Puerto Rican Tanager Nesospingus speculiferus

  This species is endemic to Puerto Rico's mountain forests. It often stays hidden in dense vegetation but forages in small mixed-species flocks.

• Osprey Pandion haliaetus

  A fish-catching raptor with a white head crossed by a dark eye stripe. On Hachijojima it is seen near the coast in winter.

• Capped Langur Trachypithecus pileatus

  The capped langur has a cap-like tuft of hair on its crown. In one group studied in northeastern India, leaves made up most of the observed feeding time.

• Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis

  A pale-pink flamingo of South American coasts and high-altitude lakes. It filters tiny food particles from shallow water.