Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great Spotted Kiwi Apteryx maxima

  

  A flightless, nocturnal kiwi that probes the soil and leaf litter with its long bill to find small prey.

• Bearded Seal Erignathus barbatus

  

  The bearded seal lives in shallow Arctic and subarctic seas where seasonal sea ice forms.

• Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus

  

  The Ancient Murrelet is a North Pacific seabird. Its breeding range extends from the Sea of Japan to the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, where it nests in burrows on islands.

• Western Dwarf Squirrel Microsciurus mimulus

  

  This small squirrel has reddish or olive tones mixed into its dark back. It is active by day, uses trees and the ground, and feeds on tree sap and insects.

• Fork-tailed Storm Petrel Hydrobates furcatus

  

  The Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel is a North Pacific seabird. Its bluish-grey body and forked tail are distinctive, and it feeds close to the sea surface.

• Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus

  

  A large kangaroo from southern Australia that eats grasses and shrubs.

• Spectacled Warbler Curruca conspicillata

  The Spectacled Warbler occurs around the Mediterranean and on Macaronesian islands. Breeding males have a conspicuous white eye ring, and the species uses dry scrub.

• Shepherd's Beaked Whale Tasmacetus shepherdi

  Shepherd's beaked whale is a beaked whale with functional teeth in both upper and lower jaws in both sexes. It lives in deep, cool offshore waters of the Southern Hemisphere, but is rarely seen at sea and much about its biology remains unknown.

• Fire-tailed Myzornis Myzornis pyrrhoura

  The Fire-tailed Myzornis has green-and-gold plumage, a dark face mask, and a red tail. It searches flowering shrubs for food in the Himalayas.

• Australian Sea Lion Neophoca cinerea

  The Australian sea lion has breeding colonies in southern and western Australia. It forages near the sea floor, and females return to their birth colony to breed.

• Swallow-wing Puffbird Chelidoptera tenebrosa

  This puffbird occurs in Amazonian lowlands and forest edges. It is dark slate with a rufous lower belly and white vent and back; its broad wings and short tail show clearly in flight. It hawks passing prey from a perch.

• Anosi Mouse Lemur Microcebus tanosi

  This small lemur is recorded in the Anosy region of southeastern Madagascar. Its back is dark brown and its head is reddish. Night transects at Sainte Luce from 2011 to 2018 recorded it in all four study fragments in littoral forest.

• Helmet Vanga Euryceros prevostii

  The Helmet Vanga is a large vanga of eastern Madagascar’s humid evergreen forests. It is notable for its huge blue bill; a field study recorded insects as its main prey and both parents sharing incubation.

• Decken's Sifaka Propithecus deckenii

  Decken's Sifaka is a lemur of northwestern Madagascar's dry deciduous forests and limestone tsingy. Its ivory fur contrasts with dark skin.

• Bar-tailed Lark Ammomanes cinctura

  This small lark has inconspicuous plumage. It forages on the desert ground in small flocks and seeks shade during the hottest part of the day.

• Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea

  A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

• Short-tailed Scimitar Babbler Napothera danjoui

  This babbler occurs in evergreen forest in Vietnam and southern Laos. It searches for invertebrates on or just above the ground in dense cover.

• Central American Agouti Dasyprocta punctata

  The Central American agouti is a slender rodent with a short tail. A field study in Panama recorded it carrying fruit and seeds and burying them in scattered caches.

• Great Barbet Psilopogon virens

  A large, colorful barbet that lives in tall trees in Hong Kong. Several birds may gather at fruiting trees.

• Lesser Egyptian Jerboa Jaculus jaculus

  The lesser Egyptian jerboa is a small rodent that bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night in deserts and semi-deserts.

• Southern Royal Albatross Diomedea epomophora

  The Southern Royal Albatross is a large seabird with a white body and broad wings. It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere and travels over the open ocean.

• Spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus

  A quoll with white spots extending onto its tail.

• Grey-chested Greenlet Hylophilus semicinereus

  This small bird occurs in forests of northern South America and the Amazon region. It uses the canopy, forest borders, and secondary woodland, where it feeds on small insects.

• Beach Vole Microtus (Mynomes) breweri

  This vole is known only from Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, an island of about 2.6 km². It lives in sandy grassland.