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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 alpaca is a domesticated Andean camelid kept for its fleece.

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

The American bison is the heaviest land animal in North America and the national mammal of the United States.

The American black bear is the smallest and most widespread bear in North America, at home in forest from Alaska to Mexico.

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 Arctic fox is a small fox of the tundra with the best insulating fur of any mammal.

The Asian black bear is a medium-sized forest bear of Asia with a pale crescent on its chest and a gift for climbing.

The bearded vulture is a huge mountain raptor that lives almost entirely on bone.

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

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

The brown bear is one of the two largest land carnivores, and it ranges across the forests and mountains of Eurasia and North America.

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

The Canada lynx is a thick-furred cat of the boreal forest with tufted ears and huge snowshoe paws.

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 chamois is a small goat-antelope of the steep mountains of Europe and western Asia, with hooked horns and a striped face.

Chinchillas are South American rodents with exceptionally dense fur.

The clouded leopard is a mid-sized cat of the forests of the Himalayan foothills, Southeast Asia and southern China.

The common buzzard is a broad-winged hawk of Europe and northern Asia, and the commonest bird of prey across most of that range.

The common frog is a widespread European amphibian that also occurs in northwestern Asia.

The common raven is a large black crow that lives right across the northern half of the world.

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

The dingo is a dog associated with Australia.

Echidnas are spiny, egg-laying mammals.

The elk, or wapiti, is the second largest deer in the world.

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

The Eurasian lynx is the biggest of the four lynx species and the largest wild cat in Europe.

The European bison, or wisent, is the heaviest wild animal on land in Europe.

The European pine marten is a cat-sized mustelid with a brown coat and a cream bib.

The fisher is a large, dark member of the weasel family that lives in the northern forests of North America.

The fossa is the largest carnivorous mammal on Madagascar, a cat-like relative of the mongooses that hunts lemurs in the trees.

The gaur, or Indian bison, is the largest of all wild cattle, a forest bovine of India and Southeast Asia.

The giant panda is a bear that eats almost nothing but bamboo.

The golden eagle is a large dark brown raptor of open country across the Northern Hemisphere.

The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.

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

The gyrfalcon is the biggest of all falcons, and it hunts across the Arctic tundra.

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

The Japanese giant salamander spends its life in cool flowing streams.

The Japanese macaque, or snow monkey, is the only monkey native to Japan and the most northerly primate apart from people.

The least weasel is the smallest carnivore in the world, a tube-shaped hunter that follows voles and mice down their own tunnels.

The leopard is a spotted big cat that lives across Africa and Asia in more kinds of country than any other cat.

The leopard cat is a small spotted cat found across South, Southeast and East Asia, from Pakistan to the Russian Far East.

The llama is a domesticated South American camelid used as a pack animal.

Lynx are short-tailed wild cats with tufted ears.

Macaques are adaptable monkeys with many different species across Asia and beyond.

The mountain goat is a white, cliff-climbing goat-antelope of western North America.

The muskox is a shaggy Arctic grazer, a giant relative of sheep and goats that outlived the Ice Age in Canada and Greenland.

The northern flicker is a large brown woodpecker of North America that feeds mainly on ants taken from the ground.

The ortolan bunting is a small seed-eating songbird that breeds across Europe and West Asia and winters in Africa.

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

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The Philippine eagle is the longest eagle in the world, a crested forest hunter found on only four Philippine islands.

Pikas are small rabbit relatives with rounded ears and no conspicuous tail.

Porcupines are rodents protected by quills.

The red deer is one of the largest deer, found across Europe, western Asia and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.

The red panda is a tree-climbing mammal of Himalayan mountain forests.

The red squirrel is a small tree squirrel of the conifer and broadleaf forests of Europe and northern Asia.