All animals

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• Watch 3D Animal Cheetah The cheetah is the fastest land animal. It can go from standing still to 72 kilometers per hour in about two and a half seconds, and its top speed is around 100 kilometers per hour, as fast as a car on a highway. Cheetahs live mostly in Africa, with a very small group in Iran.
• Watch 3D Animal Chicken The chicken is a domesticated bird: people raise it on farms and in backyards all over the world for eggs and meat. Its wild ancestor is the red junglefowl of the forests of southern and Southeast Asia, and scientists think chickens were first domesticated about 3,500 years ago near rice fields in Southeast Asia.
• Watch Animal Chinook salmon The Chinook salmon, also called the king salmon, is the largest Pacific salmon. It hatches in a cold river, travels to the ocean to feed and grow for a few years, then swims back up its home river to lay eggs.
• Watch Animal Chinstrap penguin The chinstrap penguin is named for the thin black band that runs under its chin from ear to ear, like a helmet strap. It breeds in huge colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands, raises two chicks each summer and dives for krill close to shore.
• Watch Animal Christmas Island red crab The Christmas Island red crab is a bright red land crab that lives almost only on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. It lives in burrows in the rainforest, and when the wet season begins, millions of crabs march down to the ocean together to breed, crossing roads, rocks and beaches.
• Watch Animal Christmas tree worm The Christmas tree worm is a small sea worm that lives in a tube inside living coral on Caribbean reefs. Only its two colorful, spiral crowns show. They catch tiny floating food and help it breathe, and the worm pulls them in with a flash if anything comes too close.
• Watch Animal Clouded leopard The clouded leopard is a forest cat of mainland Southeast Asia and the Himalayan foothills. It is named for the cloud-shaped patches on its coat, and it is an amazing climber that can creep headfirst down a tree trunk. It is Vulnerable, and fewer of them are left each year.
• Watch 3D Animal Cockatiel The cockatiel is a small, slim parrot with a tall crest that lives wild in the dry inland of Australia. Flocks fly fast across open country, looking for grass seeds and water, and pairs nest in hollow trees after the rain.
• Watch Animal Coconut crab The coconut crab, also called the robber crab, is the biggest crustacean that lives on land. It is a close relative of hermit crabs, lives on tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, climbs trees, and can open coconuts with its powerful claws.
• Watch Animal Colossal squid The colossal squid lives deep in the icy Southern Ocean around Antarctica. It is thought to be the heaviest animal without a backbone: one caught in 2007 weighed about 470 kilograms. Its arms and tentacles carry sharp, turning hooks, and in 2025 scientists filmed a living one in the wild for the first time.
• Watch Animal Common basilisk The common basilisk is a lizard of riversides and streams from Nicaragua to Venezuela. It climbs trees, swims well and, when it is startled, can sprint upright across the surface of the water on its big back feet before it sinks and swims.
• Watch Animal Common blackbird The common blackbird is a thrush found in gardens, parks and woods across Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia. Males are glossy black with a bright yellow-orange bill and eye-ring, females are brown, and on summer evenings males sing a mellow, fluting song from high perches.
• Watch Animal Common blue morpho The common blue morpho is a large butterfly of the forests of Mexico, Central America and South America. The tops of its wings flash bright blue, but the undersides are brown with big eyespots, which camouflage it when it lands with its wings closed. Adults sip juice from rotting fruit instead of nectar.
• Watch 3D Animal Common bottlenose dolphin The common bottlenose dolphin is a fast, clever ocean mammal named for its short, thick snout. It finds fish with echoes, talks with whistles and clicks, and lives in warm and mild seas all around the world.
• Watch 3D Animal Common carp The common carp is a large, sturdy fish with big scales and little whisker-like barbels by its mouth. It comes from rivers and lakes of Europe and Central Asia, but people have carried it to every continent except Antarctica, where it can muddy the water and harm water plants. Koi are a colorful kind of carp.
• Watch Animal Common cuttlefish The common cuttlefish lives in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a relative of octopuses and squids, and it is a champion of camouflage: it can change its colors and patterns in moments to match the sea floor, and it floats using a light, hollow shell inside its body called a cuttlebone.
• Watch Animal Common earthworm The common earthworm digs deep tunnels in the soil and comes up at night to drag fallen leaves down to eat. It breathes through its damp skin, has red blood and five pairs of heart-like pumps. Its tunnels and droppings help keep soil healthy.
• Watch Animal Common eastern firefly The common eastern firefly, or big dipper firefly, is a beetle that makes its own light. On summer evenings, males fly over lawns and fields, drawing a J-shaped flash in the air, and females on the ground flash back. Most of its life is spent as a glowing larva in damp soil, hunting snails and worms.
• Watch Animal Common frog The common frog is a familiar frog of ponds and gardens across Europe. It spends most of the year in damp grass, gardens and woods, and every spring it returns to ponds to lay clumps of frogspawn that grow into tadpoles and then little froglets.
• Watch Animal Common garter snake The common garter snake is one of the most familiar snakes in North America. It has light stripes along a dark body, it lives almost everywhere from Canada to Florida, and it copes with cold better than most snakes. In spring, huge numbers come out of their winter dens together.
• Watch Animal Common green darner The common green darner is one of North America's larger and best-known dragonflies, up to about 8 centimeters long. It begins life as an underwater nymph, then becomes a fast flier that catches insects in the air. Many green darners migrate, in a relay that takes at least three generations each year.
• Watch Animal Common hippopotamus The common hippopotamus is one of the biggest animals on land, yet it spends most of the day resting in rivers and lakes to keep cool. At night it walks out to graze, and its special skin makes its own sunscreen.
• Watch 3D Animal Common kingfisher The common kingfisher is a small, dazzling blue and orange bird of rivers, canals and lakes across Europe, Asia and North Africa. It watches from a perch, then dives headfirst into the water to catch small fish with its dagger-shaped bill.
• Watch Animal Common loon The common loon is a big diving bird of northern lakes. In summer it wears a black head, a striped white necklace and a checkered back. It chases fish underwater, calls with eerie wails and yodels, and spends the winter on the coast.
• Watch 3D Animal Common murre The common murre is a seabird of cold northern oceans that looks a little like a flying penguin. It dives deep to chase fish, nests in huge crowds on cliff ledges, and its chicks flutter down from the cliff to the sea before they can even fly.
• Watch Animal Common nightingale The common nightingale is a plain brown songbird with one of the most famous songs in the world. Males sing from thick bushes, often in the middle of the night, and every year the birds fly from Europe and Asia to Africa for the winter.
• Watch 3D Animal Common octopus The common octopus is a soft-bodied mollusc with eight sucker-lined arms. It lives in coastal waters, hides in a den by day, hunts snails and clams at night, and can change its color, skin texture and shape to vanish against rocks or sand. It lives only one to two years.
• Watch 3D Animal Common ostrich The common ostrich is the tallest and heaviest bird alive. It cannot fly, but it is the fastest runner on two legs, sprinting at about 70 kilometers an hour across the savannas and deserts of Africa. It also lays the biggest egg of any living animal.
• Watch Animal Common pheasant The common pheasant is a long-tailed ground bird. Its wild home is Asia, from the Caspian Sea to China and Korea, but people have taken it to Europe, North America, New Zealand and other places. Males are bright and coppery with a red face; females are mottled brown.
• Watch Animal Common raccoon The common raccoon is a clever night-time animal from North and Central America, famous for its black mask, ringed tail and nimble, hand-like front paws. It eats almost anything and lives in forests, wetlands, farms and even big cities. People have also brought raccoons to Europe and Japan, where they now live wild.
• Watch Animal Common raven The common raven is the biggest member of the crow family and the largest songbird. It lives across most of the Northern Hemisphere, from deserts to Arctic tundra. Ravens eat almost anything, play games in the air, and have solved puzzles that scientists designed to test how well they can plan ahead.
• Watch 3D Animal Common snapping turtle The common snapping turtle is a big freshwater turtle of eastern North America. It hides in the mud of ponds and rivers with just its nose poking up, eats almost anything it finds, and can live for many decades. Each summer, mother turtles walk over land to dig nests in sand and gravel.
• Watch Animal Common starfish The common starfish is the most familiar starfish of the north-east Atlantic coasts. It has five arms, an eye spot at the tip of each one, and many tube feet. It can pull open a mussel shell and push its own stomach inside to eat.
• Watch 3D Animal Common starling The common starling, also called the European starling, is a glossy, spotted songbird from Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is a brilliant copycat that can imitate other birds and even car alarms, and in winter huge flocks swirl through the evening sky in shows called murmurations. People also carried starlings to North America, Australia and other places, where they now live in the wild.
• Watch Animal Common toad The common toad is a warty brown amphibian that lives across Europe and into Asia. It spends most of the year on land, hunting slugs, worms and insects at night, then travels back to the pond where it hatched to lay long strings of eggs each spring.
• Watch Animal Common vampire bat Common vampire bats are small bats of warm parts of Mexico, Central and South America. They feed only on blood, mostly from livestock such as cattle, horses and pigs. They can walk, run and hop on the ground, and they share food with their roost mates.
• Watch Animal Common warthog Common warthogs are tough wild pigs of the African savanna. They kneel down to eat short grass, sleep in old aardvark burrows and run with their tails held straight up like little flags. The bumps on their faces are thick pads of skin.
• Watch 3D Animal Common wasp The common wasp is a black and yellow striped insect that lives in a big family called a colony. Thousands of wasps share a round nest made of paper that they make by chewing wood. They catch insects such as caterpillars and flies to feed their young, which makes them useful garden helpers.
• Watch Animal Common wombat The common wombat, or bare-nosed wombat, is a stocky, barrel-shaped marsupial of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is one of the world's largest burrowing animals, spends about two thirds of its life underground and leaves cube-shaped poop to mark its patch.
• Watch Animal Corn snake The corn snake is a slender, colorful snake of the pine woods, fields and old barns of the southeastern United States. It has red blotches outlined in black and a black-and-white checkered belly. It has no venom: it catches mice and rats by squeezing them, and it spends much of its time hidden in burrows.
• Watch 3D Animal Coyote The coyote is a clever, adaptable wild dog that lives from Alaska and Canada to Panama. It is smaller than a wolf and bigger than a fox. Coyotes eat mostly mice, voles and rabbits, howl and yip to keep in touch, and live everywhere from deserts and forests to city parks.
• Watch Animal Crown-of-thorns starfish The crown-of-thorns starfish is a large sea star of Indian and Pacific Ocean reefs, with up to 21 arms and hundreds of sharp, toxic spines. It eats living coral by pushing its stomach out over it. Usually it is a normal part of the reef, but sometimes huge numbers appear, called outbreaks, and they can eat much of a reef's coral.
• Watch Animal Desert locust The desert locust is a large grasshopper of the deserts of Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Most of the time it lives alone. But after good rains, when locusts become crowded, they change their color and behavior and can gather into enormous swarms that fly long distances and eat farmers' crops.
• Watch Animal Desert tortoise The desert tortoise, also called the Mojave desert tortoise, lives in the deserts of the south-western United States. It spends most of its life in underground burrows, stores water in its body, and can live for 50 years or more. Sadly, it is now critically endangered.
• Watch Animal Dingo The dingo is Australia's wild dog and the country's largest meat-eating mammal. People brought its ancestors to Australia about 4,000 years ago. It hunts rabbits, kangaroos and wallabies, howls rather than barks, and scientists still argue about whether it is its own species or a very old kind of dog.
• Watch 3D Animal Domestic cat The domestic cat is one of the world's favorite pets. Cats live with people in homes, farms and towns in almost every country on Earth. Long ago they came from a small wildcat of the Middle East and Africa, and they still have the sharp senses and soft paws of a wild hunter.
• Watch 3D Animal Domestic dog The domestic dog has lived with people for more than 12,000 years. Dogs came from gray wolves, and today there are more than 400 breeds, from tiny Chihuahuas to giant Irish wolfhounds. They live with people all over the world as pets, helpers and friends.
• Watch 3D Animal Domestic goat Domestic goats are lively farm animals that came from a wild goat of Asia. They reach up to nibble leaves, twigs and weeds that other farm animals leave behind, and people keep them for milk, cheese, meat, wool and leather.