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The African wildcat is a small striped cat of dry Africa and Asia, and the ancestor of every domestic cat.

The American badger is a flat, powerful digger of the North American grassland that tunnels after gophers and ground squirrels.

The American kestrel is the smallest falcon in the Americas and the most numerous.

The Andean condor is a huge black vulture of the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

The Arizona bark scorpion is a climbing arachnid of the Sonoran Desert.

The domestic Bactrian camel is a two-humped camel associated with Central Asia.

Bearded dragons are Australian lizards.

The bighorn sheep is a wild sheep of the mountains and deserts of western North America.

The black rhinoceros is a two-horned browser of eastern and southern Africa with a pointed, gripping upper lip.

The black-footed cat is Africa's smallest wild cat, a spotted night hunter of the dry grasslands of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

The bobcat is a medium-sized lynx with a short black-tipped tail, found from southern Canada to southern Mexico.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The burrowing owl is a small, long-legged owl of open country in the Americas.

The California condor is the largest land bird in North America, with a wingspan of about 3 metres and a bare orange head.

Camels are large dry-country mammals.

Camel spiders are fast-running arachnids of the order Solifugae.

The caracal is a slim, long-legged cat with black ear tufts, found across Africa and from Arabia to India.

Chameleons are climbing lizards with specialized prey-catching tongues.

The cheetah is the fastest land animal.

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

The common ostrich is the largest and heaviest living bird and lays the largest egg.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The coyote is a mid-sized wild dog of North and Central America, smaller than a wolf and larger than a fox.

The Mojave desert tortoise is a burrowing reptile of the southwestern United States.

The dingo is a dog associated with Australia.

The domestic donkey is an herbivorous equid with long ears and sturdy hooves.

The dromedary is the one-humped domestic camel.

Echidnas are spiny, egg-laying mammals.

The emu is a tall flightless bird found only in Australia, and no native bird there stands higher.

The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the largest owls in the world, with orange eyes and long ear tufts.

The fennec fox is the smallest canid, a cream-coloured fox of the Sahara with enormous ears that shed heat and hear prey under the sand.

Gazelles are slender antelopes, but their habitats and ranges differ by species.

The Gila monster is a stout venomous lizard of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

The great horned owl is a heavy, ear-tufted owl of the Americas, at home from Alaska to Argentina.

The guanaco is the wild camelid of South America and the ancestor of the llama.

The honey badger is a stocky, loose-skinned mustelid that roams Africa, Arabia and India.

Kangaroos are hopping marsupials in the macropod family.

The leopard gecko is a ground-dwelling Asian lizard with dark spots and movable eyelids.

Locusts are grasshoppers capable of forming dense migrating groups.

Lovebirds are small social parrots.

The meerkat is a small mongoose of the dry plains of southern Africa.

The naked mole-rat is a hairless, wrinkled rodent that lives underground in East Africa in colonies ruled by one queen.

The northern mockingbird is a grey songbird of North America that copies the songs of other birds.

The common ostrich is a large, ground-dwelling African bird.

The Pallas's cat is a small, thick-furred wild cat of the Central Asian steppe and mountains.

The pronghorn is a hoofed animal of western North America, the last of its family and the fastest land mammal in the Americas.

Rattlesnakes are venomous pit vipers with a tail rattle.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and the largest animal in Australia.

The red-tailed hawk is the common broad-winged hawk of North America, named for the brick-red tail of the adult.

Roadrunners are ground-running cuckoos.

The rock hyrax is a squat, rabbit-sized mammal of African and Middle Eastern rock outcrops.

The sand cat is a small, pale wild cat that lives only in the deserts of North Africa, Arabia and Central Asia.

Scorpions are predatory arachnids.

The spotted hyena is Africa's most common large carnivore and a hunter first, not a scavenger.

The striped hyena is a small, shaggy scavenger of dry country from North Africa to India.

Tarantulas are large, hairy spiders.

The turkey vulture is the most widespread vulture in the Americas, and it finds its food by smell.

Velociraptor mongoliensis was a small feathered predatory dinosaur of Cretaceous Asia.

Vultures are scavenging birds from several evolutionary lineages.