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• Watch Animal House sparrow The house sparrow is one of the most widespread songbirds in the world. It is native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, but people released it in many other places, and now it lives in towns and farms almost everywhere people do. Its numbers have fallen sharply in some places, including Britain and North America.
• Watch 3D Animal Housefly The housefly is a small gray fly with two big red eyes and one pair of see-through wings. It cannot chew, so it soaks up liquid food with a mouth like a sponge. Houseflies started out in central Asia and now live almost everywhere that people live. Their eggs hatch in less than a day, and the young grow up fast.
• Watch Animal Humpback anglerfish The humpback anglerfish is a small, round, black fish of the deep, dark ocean. A long spine on the female's head ends in a glowing lure, lit by tiny bacteria, which draws prey close enough to catch in her big, toothy mouth. The males are tiny, only about 3 centimeters long, and their job is to find a female.
• Watch 3D Animal Humpback whale The humpback whale is a baleen whale famous for leaping out of the water, slapping its giant flippers and singing long, complex songs. It lives in every ocean and makes one of the longest journeys of any mammal, between cold feeding waters and warm waters where calves are born. Once hunted almost to extinction, it is now recovering.
• Watch Animal Humphead wrasse The humphead wrasse is the biggest fish in the wrasse family, up to about 2.3 meters long. Adults have thick lips, a forehead hump and wavy lines on the face. They eat shellfish, sea urchins and even toxic crown-of-thorns starfish, and many change from female to male. Too many have been caught, so it is endangered.
• Watch Animal Hyacinth macaw The hyacinth macaw is the largest parrot in the world, about a meter long and deep blue from head to tail. It lives in the open woodlands, palm groves and wetlands of central South America, especially Brazil's Pantanal, and cracks very hard palm nuts with its enormous beak.
• Watch Animal Immortal jellyfish The immortal jellyfish is a tiny sea jelly only about 3 millimeters across. Most jellyfish die after they grow up and make babies, but this one can do something amazing: a starving adult can turn back into a polyp, the young stage, and grow up all over again. It can still be eaten or get sick, so it does not really live forever.
• Watch Animal Impala The impala is a slender, reddish-brown antelope of the savannas of eastern and southern Africa. It can both graze on grass and browse on leaves, lives in herds, and when startled the whole herd bursts into spectacular leaps. Only males have the long, curving horns.
• Watch Animal Indian cobra The Indian cobra, or spectacled cobra, lives across South Asia, from Pakistan to Sri Lanka. It raises its head and spreads a hood marked with a pattern like a pair of glasses, it eats lots of rats and mice, and it is venomous, so it is an animal to admire from far away.
• Watch 3D Animal Indian peafowl The Indian peafowl is a large bird of the pheasant family from South Asia. Males, called peacocks, have a bright blue neck and a long train of shimmering feathers decorated with eyespots, which they spread into a giant fan to impress females, called peahens. It is the national bird of India.
• Watch 3D Animal Indian rhinoceros The Indian rhinoceros, also called the greater one-horned rhino, has a single horn and deep folds in its skin that make it look armor-plated. It grazes on tall grass by rivers in India and Nepal, swims well, and has made a remarkable comeback from about 200 animals to more than 4,000.
• Watch 3D Animal Indo-Pacific sailfish The sailfish is a long, sleek ocean fish with a tall, sail-like fin on its back and a long, spear-shaped upper jaw called a bill. It hunts schools of small fish in warm seas, folding its sail away to speed up and raising it to make sharp turns.
• Watch 3D Animal Jaguar The jaguar is the largest cat in North and South America. It lives near rivers and swamps, swims well, and has such a powerful bite that it can crack a turtle's shell. Most jaguars live in the Amazon rainforest.
• Watch Animal Japanese giant salamander The Japanese giant salamander is one of the biggest salamanders in the world, growing up to 1.5 meters long. It lives its whole life in cool, clear rivers in Japan, breathes mostly through its wrinkly skin, and the fathers guard the eggs and babies for months.
• Watch Animal Japanese macaque The Japanese macaque, or snow monkey, lives farther north than any other monkey or ape except people. Thick fur keeps it warm through snowy winters, and some troops have learned to sit in warm hot springs.
• Watch 3D Animal Japanese spider crab The Japanese spider crab is a gentle giant of the sea floor off Japan. Its body is only about the size of a large pizza, but its legs can stretch almost 4 meters from claw tip to claw tip, more than any other crab. It crawls slowly along the bottom, eating dead animals and plants.
• Watch Animal Kākāpō The kākāpō is a large, moss-green parrot from New Zealand with an owl-like face. It cannot fly, it is active at night, and it eats only plants. It nearly died out, but careful work by New Zealand's Department of Conservation has grown the population to 325 birds (September 2026).
• Watch Animal Kea The kea is a big, olive-green parrot found only on the South Island of New Zealand. It lives in mountain forests and alpine meadows, digs for food with its long, curved beak, nests on the ground and is famous for being curious, playful and clever.
• Watch 3D Animal Keel-billed toucan The keel-billed toucan lives in the forests of southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Its huge, colorful bill can be a third of its whole length, yet it is light, and the bird uses it to pick fruit from thin branches.
• Watch Animal King cobra The king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world, growing to more than 5 meters long. It lives in forests and near streams in South and Southeast Asia, eats mainly other snakes, and the mother builds a nest of leaves and guards her eggs.
• Watch 3D Animal King penguin The king penguin is the second-largest penguin in the world. It lives in huge, noisy colonies on windy islands in the Southern Ocean and dives deep to catch lantern fish. Its babies grow a thick coat of brown fluff and take more than a year to raise.
• Watch Animal Koala The koala is a tree-living marsupial from eastern Australia. It eats almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves, sleeps up to 20 hours a day to save energy, and carries its jellybean-sized baby in a pouch that opens toward its back legs.
• Watch 3D Animal Komodo dragon The Komodo dragon is the largest lizard alive today. It lives only on a handful of Indonesian islands, where it tracks food with its flicking yellow tongue, rests in burrows in the heat and spends its first years safely up in the trees.
• Watch Animal Large flying fox The large flying fox is a giant fruit bat of Southeast Asia, with wings about 1.5 meters across. It flies out at night to eat fruit, flowers and nectar, spreading seeds and pollinating trees. Because of hunting and forest loss, it is now Endangered.
• Watch Animal Laughing kookaburra The laughing kookaburra is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family. It lives in the woodlands of eastern Australia, pounces on insects, worms and small animals, and lives in family groups. Its famous 'laugh' is really a territorial call that warns other birds to stay away.
• Watch Animal Leafcutter ant Leafcutter ants are farmers. Workers cut pieces of leaves, carry them home along busy trails and use them to grow a fungus garden underground, and the fungus is their food. This page is about one well-known kind, Atta cephalotes, which lives in Central and South America in giant nests of hundreds of thousands to millions of ants.
• Watch 3D Animal Leafy seadragon The leafy seadragon is a relative of the seahorse covered in leaf-shaped flaps of skin. It drifts among seaweed so well that it almost disappears. It sucks up tiny shrimp through its long snout, and the father carries the eggs on his tail.
• Watch Animal Leatherback sea turtle The leatherback sea turtle is the largest turtle on Earth. Instead of a hard shell it has tough, rubbery skin over a layer of tiny bones. It eats jellyfish, dives deeper than any other turtle and swims thousands of kilometers between feeding waters and the beaches where it lays its eggs.
• Watch 3D Animal Leopard The leopard is a strong, spotted big cat and the best climber of them all. It can carry its food high up into a tree, away from lions and hyenas. Leopards live in more kinds of places than any other big cat, from deserts to rainforests, across Africa and Asia.
• Watch Animal Leopard gecko The leopard gecko is a spotted lizard from the rocky deserts and dry grasslands of Pakistan, Afghanistan, northwestern India and Nepal. It hunts insects and scorpions at night, stores fat in its thick tail, and has real eyelids. It is also one of the most popular pet lizards in the world.
• Watch Animal Leopard seal The leopard seal is a large, slender seal of the icy seas around Antarctica, named for the dark spots on its gray coat. It is a fast, powerful hunter with a big head and long teeth, and it eats everything from tiny krill to fish, penguins and young seals.
• Watch 3D Animal Lesser flamingo The lesser flamingo is the smallest flamingo. Millions live on salty, soda-rich lakes in Africa and India, where they sweep their upside-down bills through the water to filter out tiny algae, which help give them their pink color.
• Watch Animal Lilac-breasted roller The lilac-breasted roller is a dazzling bird of the open woodlands and savannas of eastern and southern Africa. It sits on high perches watching for insects, swoops down to catch them, and gets its name from the rolling, tumbling flights it makes in the breeding season.
• Watch 3D Animal Lined seahorse The lined seahorse is a small fish of the western Atlantic Ocean, from Canada and the United States down to Brazil. It has a horse-shaped head, a long snout with no teeth and a tail that grips seagrass. The male carries the eggs in a pouch until tiny seahorses are born.
• Watch 3D Animal Lion The lion is the only big cat that lives in a family group, called a pride. Lionesses hunt together, males guard the pride's land, and their roar can be heard about 8 kilometers away. Wild lions live in Africa, plus one small group in western India.
• Watch Animal Lion's mane jellyfish The lion's mane jellyfish is one of the biggest jellyfish in the world. Its bell is usually 30 to 50 centimeters across, but in very cold seas it can grow to about 2 meters, and hundreds of long, hair-like tentacles trail beneath it to catch food.
• Watch 3D Animal Little penguin The little penguin is the smallest penguin in the world, only about 33 centimeters long and about 1 kilogram. It lives along the coasts of southern Australia and New Zealand, where it is also called the fairy penguin, the blue penguin or kororā. It fishes at sea by day and comes ashore after dark to its burrow.
• Watch 3D Animal Llama Llamas are South American cousins of camels, without the hump. People in the Andes Mountains bred them from wild guanacos thousands of years ago, and they still carry loads, give wool and even guard sheep. Llamas do not live in the wild: every llama lives with people.
• Watch Animal Loggerhead sea turtle The loggerhead sea turtle is named for its huge head and powerful jaws, which crush crabs, conchs and other hard-shelled animals. Babies hatch on sandy beaches, ride the open ocean for years and may cross an entire ocean before coming home to nest.
• Watch 3D Animal Luna moth The luna moth is a large green moth of the forests of eastern North America. Its long, twisting wing tails may help it escape hungry bats. Grown-up luna moths have no working mouth, so they live only about a week, just long enough to find a mate and lay eggs.
• Watch 3D Animal Madagascar hissing cockroach The Madagascar hissing cockroach is one of the largest cockroaches in the world, up to 10 centimeters long, and it has no wings. It lives on the floor of rainforests on the island of Madagascar, where it eats fallen leaves and fruit. It makes a hissing sound by pushing air out of the breathing holes on its body.
• Watch Animal Magnificent sea anemone The magnificent sea anemone is a large sea anemone of warm Indian and Pacific Ocean reefs. Its body is a soft column topped with hundreds of finger-shaped tentacles, and it often perches on top of rocks in plain view. Many kinds of clownfish live safely among its stinging tentacles.
• Watch 3D Animal Mallard The mallard is perhaps the most familiar duck in the world, found on ponds, lakes, rivers and city parks across North America, Europe and Asia. Males have glossy green heads; females are mottled brown. Almost all farm ducks are descended from mallards.
• Watch Animal Mandarin duck The mandarin duck is a small, very colorful duck from East Asia. The male has orange 'sail' feathers on his back and orange whiskers on his face, while the female is soft gray and brown. Mandarins nest in holes in trees, and the ducklings jump down to the ground soon after hatching.
• Watch Animal Mandarinfish The mandarinfish is a small, shy fish from the coral reefs of the western Pacific Ocean. It has no scales; instead its skin is covered with slimy mucus and painted with swirling blue, orange and green lines. It hops along the reef bottom on fan-shaped fins, picking up tiny animals, and at dusk males and females rise together to release their eggs.
• Watch Animal Mandrill The mandrill is the largest and most colorful of the Old World monkeys. Grown-up males have red noses, blue-ridged cheeks and a golden beard. Mandrills roam the rainforests of west-central Africa in huge, noisy groups called hordes.
• Watch Animal Maned wolf The maned wolf lives in the grasslands and open woodlands of central South America. It looks like a big red fox on long black legs, but it is neither a fox nor a true wolf. It eats small animals and lots of fruit, and its long legs help it see over tall grass.
• Watch Animal Marine iguana The marine iguana is the only lizard in the world that finds its food in the sea. It lives only on the rocky shores of the Galápagos Islands, where it grazes on seaweed, warms up on black lava rocks and sneezes out extra salt.