Meet the world’s animals.

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• Robust Golden Mole Amblysomus robustus

  

  The robust golden mole digs through soil and eats insects and earthworms. Its eyes and ears are hidden by fur.

• Blue-throated Motmot Aspatha gularis

  

  The Blue-throated Motmot has a vivid blue throat and a short tail. It lives in mountain forest from southern Mexico into northern Central America.

• Gray-faced Sengi Rhynchocyon udzungwensis

  

  This large sengi is recorded in two forest blocks in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Its face is grizzled gray, and it lives in moist evergreen montane forest. It makes ground nests lined with leaves.

• 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.

• Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula

  

  The Greater White-toothed Shrew occurs throughout mainland Portugal. Its back changes from gray in winter to reddish brown in summer. It uses open places, shrub-rich woodland edges, gardens and farmland, and is mostly nocturnal but also active by day.

• White-backed Stilt Himantopus melanurus

  

  A South American wetland stilt. Adults often show a white crown and a white bar across the upper back. A Brazilian study documented nests made with salt-marsh vegetation, mud, and shells.

• Black lemur Eulemur macaco

  A northwestern Madagascar lemur whose males and females have different coat colours.

• Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor

  This large cotinga searches for fruit in the canopy. A 1970 study in southern Guyana recorded males displaying at forest leks and feeding on fruit and insects.

• Gray Sac-winged Bat Balantiopteryx plicata

  A white edge on the wing membrane contrasts with this bat's pale-gray to dark-brown back. A diet study in a fragmented dry forest in Mexico found that its prey mix differed from that of two other bat species in the same community.

• Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus

  The Hooded Vulture is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It feeds mainly on animal carcasses and also occurs near human settlements.

• Dian's Tarsier Tarsius dentatus

  Dian's tarsier is a small primate of central Sulawesi's forests in Indonesia. Its very large eyes and long tail with a tuft of hair at the tip stand out.

• Moustached Wren Pheugopedius genibarbis

  A wren of forests in the Amazon Basin. It occurs in dense understory, especially near bamboo, in pairs or small groups.

• Hova rice tenrec Oryzorictes hova

  The Hova rice tenrec occurs in Madagascar. In the 1996 Marojejy survey, adults were collected in lowland forest and montane mossy forest.

• Thick-billed Grasswren Amytornis modestus

  This profile focuses on the Grey Range subspecies, A. m. obscurior, in New South Wales. The state government page describes it in bluebush shrubland in arid and semi-arid country.

• Natal Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus natalensis

  An insect-eating bat that roosts in caves. Seasonal movements between caves have been studied in populations in northeastern South Africa.

• Southern Screamer Chauna torquata

  The Southern Screamer is a large South American wetland bird with a black-and-white neck band and long red legs. It feeds on grasses and aquatic plants near shallow water.

• Southern Pocket Gopher Megascapheus atrovarius

  A pocket gopher from Mexico's Pacific-side mountains. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in Megascapheus; a 2011 redescription reports dry thornscrub along the western Sierra Madre Occidental.

• African Finfoot Podica senegalensis

  This river bird differs by sex in size and facial pattern. It searches along the water's edge for fish and other small aquatic prey.

• Bare-eared Squirrel Monkey Saimiri ustus

  A diurnal monkey from south of the Amazon River in Brazil that searches for fruit and insects in trees.

• Cryptic Antthrush Chamaeza meruloides

  This antthrush walks on the floor of montane forest in southeastern Brazil. Its reddish tail has a black band near the tip and pale tips. It may climb over fallen logs and roots.

• Blainville's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon densirostris

  Blainville's beaked whale is a toothed whale of deep offshore waters in tropical to temperate regions. In mature males, tusk-like teeth project from the arched lower jaw.

• Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens

  This mockingbird occurs mainly in Mexico. In a study of three riparian sites in Jalisco, abundance was higher where shrub cover was greater, and breeding took place from April to August.

• Tufted Gray Langur Semnopithecus priam

  The tufted gray langur lives in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is active by day and often uses trees, while also travelling on the ground.

• Burchell's Courser Cursorius rufus

  This bird walks through open, dry country to find food. Its sandy back and blue-gray hind-crown help identify it, and it eats mainly insects.