Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bearded Seal Erignathus barbatus

  

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

• Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla

  

  This small fulvetta occurs in central and southern China. It has a brown to gray-brown crown, a dark side crown stripe, a broad pale-gray eyebrow, and rufous wings. It eats invertebrates and seeds.

• Egyptian rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus

  

  A large-eyed fruit bat that feeds on very ripe fruit.

• Madagascar Forest Rail Mentocrex kioloides

  

  This secretive, ground-dwelling forest rail is endemic to Madagascar. The paper records one subspecies in eastern humid forest and another in the northwestern transition between humid and dry deciduous forest, with regional plumage differences.

• Highland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes nigriceps

  

  The highland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with black-and-yellow spines along its back. It searches leaf litter for earthworms at night.

• Narcondam Hornbill Rhyticeros narcondami

  

  This hornbill occurs only in the forests of Narcondam Island. Males and females differ in head color, and fruit is its main food.

• Asian Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuliginosus

  The 2019 species account describes soft, velvety fur that is blackish brown to gray-brown above and slightly paler, dark gray-brown below. At Ohse-do Cave in Kyushu, Japan, emergence was synchronized with sunset and the appearance of prey. The range here covers the account’s Japanese records, excluding Hokkaido.

• White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus

  A seabird of tropical and subtropical oceans that nests in rocky crevices on remote islands.

• Japanese weasel Mustela itatsi

  A weasel native to Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and nearby islands, with an elongated body, short legs and a dark mark from forehead to nose.

• Kakapo Strigops habroptila

  The kākāpō is a large, nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. It cannot fly and has moss-green plumage mottled with yellow and black. It now occurs only on forested islands, where the population is intensively managed to protect it from introduced predators.

• Southern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon planifrons

  The southern bottlenose whale lives offshore in the Southern Hemisphere and is marked by a swollen forehead and short beak.

• White-lored Gnatcatcher Polioptila albiloris

  The White-lored Gnatcatcher ranges from western Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It uses open woodland and semi-open wooded areas; its white eyebrow and black crown pattern changes with season.

• Broad-footed Mole Scapanus latimanus

  The broad-footed mole is a burrowing mole of the western United States and northern Mexico. Its coat ranges from dark brown to silvery gray.

• Yellowhead Mohoua ochrocephala

  A small songbird endemic to New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands that now remains mainly in beech forest.

• Spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus

  A quoll with white spots extending onto its tail.

• Black crowned crane Balearica pavonina

  A crane with a golden crown of stiff feathers. Adults have a dark body and red and white cheek patches.

• Golden-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis

  This is a small, golden-brown lemur. At study sites in northwestern Madagascar, it searched for food alone in trees at night and was recorded resting in tree holes and similar places.

• Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex

  This small finch uses western Andean foothills and farmland in Peru. Males are gray and females brown; both sexes have two white wing bars and feed in shrubs at forest edges and fallow fields.

• Panamanian Night Monkey Aotus zonalis

  This nocturnal monkey has a coat mixed with brown, cream, and black. It lives among the trees of forests in Panama and northwestern Colombia.

• Brownish Twistwing Cnipodectes subbrunneus

  The Brownish Twistwing uses terra firme forest in the northern Bolivian Amazon, especially dense understory. It has shaggy plumage, a pale lower mandible, ochre edges on the wing feathers and a rufous-brown tail; it is usually solitary.

• Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

  An ape of northern Sumatra that moves through trees using its long arms.

• Anhinga Anhinga anhinga

  The Anhinga is a fish-eating waterbird. When swimming, it may show only its long neck and head above the surface.

• Red Silky Anteater Cyclopes rufus

  This red silky anteater is one of the distinct silky anteater species recognized in modern taxonomic work. The specialist account confirms records in Brazil's western Amazon and says the southern range limit is unknown.

• Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris

  The Golden-breasted Bunting is known for its yellow-to-golden breast and black-and-white head pattern. Males are brighter, while females have more brown in the head and back.