Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii

  

  A wetland antelope adapted to life among swamp vegetation.

• Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius

  

  The Bush Stone-curlew lives in forests and open woodlands on mainland Australia. It walks on long legs and is active at night while searching for food.

• Southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina

  

  A seal of the seas around Antarctica that dives deep to find food.

• New Zealand Kaka Nestor meridionalis

  

  The New Zealand Kaka is a forest parrot that searches for food in trees.

• Narrow-striped Boky Mungotictis decemlineata

  

  The narrow-striped mongoose is a small mongoose of the dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar. Its gray-beige coat has dark stripes along the back and flanks. It often rests in tree holes on wet-season nights and in ground burrows in the dry season.

• Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis

  

  The Eastern Nicator lives in lowland forest and woodland from eastern to southern Africa. The tip of its upper bill is hooked, and it builds a low nest in a branch.

• Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros ater

  The Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat is a small bat that feeds on flying insects. It has a leaf-like nose structure and roosts in dark, warm caves or rock crevices.

• Philippine Coucal Centropus viridis

  This coucal is about 41–43 cm long. It is active on the ground by day and feeds on ground invertebrates.

• North-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) demerarae

  The North-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum is a small marsupial with long, soft fur and dark rings around the eyes. Its tail is longer than the body and furred only near the base.

• Sucre Antpitta Grallaricula cumanensis

  This antpitta occurs in the Turimiquire and Paria mountains of northeastern Venezuela. It stays close to the ground in dense or more open undergrowth.

• Barbara Brown's Titi Callicebus barbarabrownae

  The blond titi is a titi monkey recorded in small forest patches in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia. It has pale buff fur and an orange tail.

• Crested Treeswift Hemiprocne coronata

  This swift is marked by a forehead crest and long wing tips that cross over its back when it perches.

• Pallas' Free-tailed Bat Molossus molossus

  Pallas's free-tailed bat is a medium-sized bat recorded in several habitats in Argentina. It roosts in groups in tree hollows and buildings and eats insects.

• Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

  This large honeyeater is endemic to New Zealand. It occurs from forest to suburban gardens and moves locally as flowering and fruiting plants change through the seasons.

• Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides

  The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise is a distinct species from the narrow-ridged finless porpoise. It has a bumpy back ridge instead of a dorsal fin and feeds in shallow coastal waters.

• South American Painted Snipe Nycticryphes semicollaris

  A painted-snipe of southern South American wetlands, with a reddish-brown head, neck and upper breast and white-marked dark wings. It feeds along muddy water margins.

• Agile Gibbon Hylobates agilis

  This gibbon lives high in tropical forest and uses its long arms to move from branch to branch.

• 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.

• Black-striped Squirrel Callosciurus nigrovittatus

  A squirrel with black stripes along its sides. It is active by day in trees and eats fruit and insects. Stripe patterns vary among subspecies.

• Black-necked Wattle-eye Platysteira chalybea

  This forest bird occurs in west-central Africa. Males are glossy greenish black, while females are duller and have a smaller blue-green eye wattle.

• Masai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi

  The Masai giraffe occurs in Kenya, Tanzania and part of Zambia.

• Atlantic Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus swainsoni

  The Atlantic Royal Flycatcher occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It usually keeps its crest flat, but the crest has different colors in males and females when raised.

• Woodland Jumping Mouse Napaeozapus insignis

  A small jumping mouse of northeastern North American forests. It is mostly active at night and spends a long part of winter hibernating.

• Common Whitethroat Curruca communis

  A small bird that darts through low scrub and often flicks its long tail.