Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ribbon Seal Histriophoca fasciata

  

  A seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic Ocean whose mature coat has pale bands around the neck, foreflippers and hips.

• Wilson's Storm Petrel Oceanites oceanicus

  

  Wilson's Storm Petrel is a small seabird with long legs and a white rump patch. It breeds around Antarctica and travels widely over the oceans.

• Australian Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus nudicaudatus

  

  This cuscus occurs in Cape York, Australia. It spends time in the canopy and has been seen wrapping palm fronds around its body to hide its fur.

• American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus

  

  The American Dipper is a gray bird of fast-flowing streams. It dives underwater to find aquatic insects and other prey.

• Antipodean fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri

  

  A fur seal breeding around New Zealand and nearby islands. It eats squid and small fish at sea.

• Hooded Cuckooshrike Coracina longicauda

  

  This bird is about 33 cm long and lives in dense highland forest. It is active by day and searches the trees for small invertebrates.

• Pantanal Punare Thrichomys pachyurus

  This spiny rat lives in central South America. Most animals have the usual coat, but some individuals with predominantly white fur have been reported; it uses densely vegetated places.

• Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana

  This small bird has a rounded head and long tail; adults are orange-brown with rufous wing patches. It is social and uses habitats from woods and gardens to reedbeds and scrubby farmland.

• Red-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur rufifrons

  The red-fronted brown lemur is a tree-dwelling lemur from Madagascar that mainly eats fruit and leaves.

• Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis

  The Australian Painted-Snipe lives in shallow wetlands and searches for food from dusk into the night. Females are more brightly colored than males.

• Kinkajou Potos flavus

  A raccoon relative that grips branches with its long tail and searches for fruit at night.

• North Island Saddleback Philesturnus rufusater

  The North Island Saddleback is glossy black with a chestnut saddle and rump, a pale line at the saddle’s front, and red wattles at the bill base. It feeds on insects, fruit, and nectar in New Zealand forests.

• Wood's Slit-faced Bat Nycteris woodi

  Wood's slit-faced bat is a small bat of southern African woodland savannas. Its fur ranges from gray to reddish brown, and it roosts by day in places such as hollow trees and caves.

• Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens

  This large reed warbler lives in reedbeds. In northeastern Namibia it climbs papyrus stems while searching for insects and small frogs.

• Red-tailed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur ruficaudatus

  The red-tailed sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with a gray-brown body and reddish tail. It rests in tree holes by day and feeds on leaves.

• African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori

  This African bird spirals up trunks in open woodland while searching bark for insects; it has spotted and barred plumage and a thin down-curved bill.

• African Linsang Poiana richardsonii

  The African linsang is a small carnivore with a slender, spotted body and a long ringed tail. It is active at night in trees and eats insects, fruit and other foods.

• Red-crowned crane Grus japonensis

  A crane of East Asian wetlands, recognized by a white body and a red patch on the head.

• Brown Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) concolor

  This small fruit-eating bat lives in South America. A study in French Guiana recorded Cecropia fruit in fecal samples from this species.

• Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens

  The Rufous-winged Illadopsis searches the ground and low growth of West African evergreen forest. Its rufous-brown head and back contrast with pale underparts.

• Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur Cheirogaleus medius

  The fat-tailed dwarf lemur stores fat in its tail and uses those reserves during its season of torpor.

• Smith's Longspur Calcarius pictus

  This longspur breeds in the Arctic and moves to central North American grasslands for winter.

• Large-eared Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) macrotis

  The large-eared pika lives among rocky high mountains in Central Asia. Its large ears and thick fur stand out, and it is active during the day.

• Speckled Warbler Pyrrholaemus sagittatus

  This small ground-dwelling bird lives in grassy eucalypt communities of south-eastern Australia. Its grey-brown plumage is finely streaked, and it searches for seeds and insects around tussocks.