Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus

  

  A small marsupial with large eyes, long whiskers, and a grasping tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and pollen and nests in tree hollows and other sheltered places.

• White-throated Dipper Cinclus cinclus

  This bird lives along fast-flowing streams. Adults are dark brown with a white throat and chest.

• Visayan Warty Pig Sus cebifrons

  It has mane-like hair that can fall across the face. The range entry is limited to the living population on Negros and Panay.

• Craveri's Murrelet Synthliboramphus craveri

  Craveri's Murrelet is a small seabird that nests on islands off western Mexico; some wander north to California's offshore waters in late summer.

• Common Ringtail Pseudocheirus peregrinus

  The common ringtail is a nocturnal Australian marsupial with a grasping tail that helps it move along branches.

• Whiskered Treeswift Hemiprocne comata

  The Whiskered Treeswift is a forest-dwelling treeswift with long, whisker-like white feathers and a long tail. Males and females differ in ear-patch color.

• Ecuador Red Brocket Mazama rufina

  This small deer lives in the Andes. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a black head and legs.

• Marshall's Iora Aegithina nigrolutea

  Marshall's Iora shows conspicuous white edges on its tail and wings. It searches for insects in dry acacia scrub and may join mixed-species flocks after breeding.

• California Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys californicus

  The California kangaroo rat has large hind feet for hopping and a long tail. It is active mainly at night and eats seeds and fruit.

• Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri

  A small sandpiper whose breeding adults show rufous and golden markings.

• Spectacled Porpoise Phocoena dioptrica

  The spectacled porpoise is found in cold seas of the Southern Hemisphere and is known for the dark rings around its eyes.

• Black-throated Accentor Prunella atrogularis

  The Black-throated Accentor breeds in mountain regions of Central Asia and around the Urals. The nominate form and subspecies huttoni differ in throat markings and winter movements.

• Dwarf Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys velutinus

  The velvety fat-tailed opossum has been recorded in Brazil’s Cerrado and has a tail whose thickness changes seasonally.

• Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus

  This hawk lives in tropical forests of western and central Africa. It has a long tail, and adults occur in pale and dark forms.

• Bornean orangutan Pongo pygmaeus

  An ape of Borneo’s tropical forests. It moves through trees using long arms and grasping hands and feet.

• Ashy-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa randi

  This flycatcher occurs in moist lowland forest on Luzon and Negros in the Philippines. The account places it mainly below 1,000 m.

• Uta Hick's Bearded Saki Chiropotes utahicki

  Chiropotes utahicki occurs south of the Amazon between the Xingu and Tocantins rivers in Brazil. Its beard-like facial fur and bushy tail stand out; a studied group ate mainly seeds and fruit.

• Green Hylia Hylia prasina

  This small bird has separate populations in western and eastern Africa and lives in forest. Its dark olive upperparts and pale-yellow eyebrow are distinctive; it eats insects.

• Long-nosed Echymipera Echymipera rufescens

  This bandicoot has a long snout and a reddish rump. It occurs around New Guinea and on Australia's northeastern Cape York Peninsula.

• Red-capped Crombec Sylvietta ruficapilla

  This small bird occurs in Africa. It has a pale-grey back, chestnut ear-coverts and breast band, while the forehead and crown vary from grey to chestnut.

• Greater Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma microphyllum

  This bat has a long tail that extends beyond the tail membrane, and its fur ranges from gray to reddish brown. It eats insects and roosts in caves and old buildings in dry regions.

• Rufous-booted Racket-tail Ocreatus addae

  This hummingbird occurs on the eastern Andes from central and southern Peru to Bolivia. Males have green upperparts, long outer tail streamers with racket-shaped tips, and rufous leg puffs.

• Balabac Chevrotain Tragulus nigricans

  This small mouse-deer lives on Philippine islands and is marked by dark fur and three white throat stripes.

• Jamaican Tody Todus todus

  The Jamaican Tody is a small island endemic with a green back, red throat, and concealed pink flank tufts. It catches insects below the canopy and excavates nesting burrows.