Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos

  

  A small wader often seen walking along the water’s edge and bobbing its tail.

• Broad-headed Skink Plestiodon laticeps

  

  This lizard sometimes moves and basks around alligator nests.

• Greater Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) kappleri

  

  The greater dog-like bat has light and dark brown color phases, with paler fur underneath. It uses wet forests and wetlands, eats insects, and roosts in groups in caves and tree hollows.

• West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus

  

  A large aquatic mammal that eats plants, with a rounded body and broad tail.

• 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.

• Loggerhead Turtle Caretta caretta

  

  A genome study reported about 2.13 billion base pairs in the loggerhead sea turtle assembly.

• White wagtail Motacilla alba

  A bird that walks in search of insects along watersides and farmland in Japan. Birds commonly seen there have white faces with a dark line through the eye.

• Peleng Tarsier Tarsius pelengensis

  The Peleng tarsier is a primate found on Peleng Island, Indonesia. Field work from 2016 to 2018 recorded individuals traveling alone or in groups and using several trees as sleeping sites.

• Sulawesi Masked Owl Tyto rosenbergii

  The Sulawesi Masked Owl is a nocturnal owl with a pale grey, heart-shaped facial disc edged in rufous. It is thought to hunt small animals over open farmland and forest edges.

• Lowland tapir Tapirus terrestris

  The lowland tapir lives in South American forests and wetlands, preferring sites near water where it swims well.

• Corn Snake Pantherophis guttatus

  This snake sometimes moves around alligator nests.

• Lowland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes semispinosus

  The lowland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with striking yellow-and-black quills and stripes. It lives in eastern Madagascar’s lowland rainforests.

• European robin Erithacus rubecula

  A small bird seen in British gardens and parks. Adults have reddish breasts, and males and females look alike.

• Lesser Ground Robin Amalocichla incerta

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in mid-mountain forests on mainland New Guinea. A breeding study in the YUS Conservation Area on the Huon Peninsula recorded a pair carrying food to a nestling. It has a brown head, rufous-brown upperparts, and pale underparts.

• Louisiana Alligator Alligator mississippiensis

  Other animals sometimes visit the area around its nests.

• Nine-banded Armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus

  An armadillo active around dusk and at night that searches leaf litter for insects. It also occurs in parts of the United States east and north of Texas.

• Asian Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuliginosus

  The 2019 species account describes soft, velvety fur that is blackish brown to gray-brown above and slightly paler, dark gray-brown below. At Ohse-do Cave in Kyushu, Japan, emergence was synchronized with sunset and the appearance of prey. The range here covers the account’s Japanese records, excluding Hokkaido.

• Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus

  The yellow crest makes the Macaroni Penguin easy to notice. It breeds on sub-Antarctic islands and elsewhere nearby, and feeds on krill and fish at sea.

• White stork Ciconia ciconia

  Adults have white bodies, black wing feathers, long legs and a reddish bill. They use open wetlands in Europe and other parts of their range.

• Indo-Pacific Crocodile Crocodylus porosus

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

• Oriental Basin Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fulvescens

  This pocket gopher is recorded in central Mexico. Surveys found it in second-growth vegetation or scrub depending on the site, and reported a preference for flat, sandy ground with few rocks.

• American bison Bos bison

  An American bison is a cattle relative with a prominent shoulder hump. It mainly eats grasses and lives in herds.

• White-browed Babbler Pomatostomus superciliosus

  This group-living bird inhabits dry woodland and scrub on mainland Australia. It searches the ground for insects and spiders and keeps in contact with its companions.

• Bridled House Gecko Hemidactylus frenatus

  A gecko found on Mo’orea.