Meet the world’s animals.

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• Florida Deermouse Podomys floridanus

  

  The Florida deermouse lives in dry sandy uplands and scrub in peninsular Florida. It may dig a small nest burrow inside a gopher tortoise burrow.

• Pantanal Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae

  

  The Pantanal Snipe has fine streaks on its head and back, with a pale center to its belly. It stays inconspicuous in marshes and muddy places.

• Kellen's African Dormouse Graphiurus (Graphiurus) kelleni

  

  Kellen's African dormouse is a small dormouse recorded patchily across sub-Saharan Africa. The name in current accounts may cover more than one species.

• 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.

• Hawaiian Monk Seal Neomonachus schauinslandi

  

  A tropical monk seal that lives across the Hawaiian Islands.

• Chestnut-headed Tesia Cettia castaneocoronata

  

  The Chestnut-headed Tesia is a round, nearly tailless bird with a white eye-ring, chestnut head, and yellow throat. It searches for insects close to the ground.

• North Atlantic beaked whale Mesoplodon bidens

  This beaked whale lives in cold North Atlantic waters. Its reported diet is mainly squid and small fish, although its natural history remains poorly known.

• Melodious Lark Mirafra cheniana

  This lark occurs in open grassland in South Africa. A study comparing it with a close relative describes color differences that are clearest in fresh plumage.

• Desmarest's Hutia Capromys pilorides

  This hutia lives in Cuba and nearby islands. Its back is often darker than its underside, and coat colors vary.

• Red-browed Pardalote Pardalotus rubricatus

  This pardalote occurs in Australia. Gould’s early description notes a vivid orange spot before the eye, while a regional account from the southern Carnarvon Basin reports it mainly in eucalypt canopies.

• Great-tailed Striped Possum Dactylopsila megalura

  The great-tailed triok is a nocturnal, arboreal marsupial of interior New Guinea forests. Its thick fur has dark stripes over a white or gray base.

• Brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis

  A dark-bodied pelican that plunge-dives into the sea to catch fish.

• Philippine Tarsier Carlito syrichta

  The Philippine tarsier is a small primate with very large eyes and ears and long hind limbs. It moves through trees at night and catches insects and other prey.

• Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi

  Böhm’s Bee-eater is a small bee-eater about 16 cm long. It uses riverine woodland, savanna, and scrub, and catches flying insects by day.

• Ma's Night Monkey Aotus nancymai

  This nocturnal monkey occurs in seasonally flooded lowland forest in northeastern Peru. At night it searches the trees for fruit, flowers, nectar, and insects. The Mammal Diversity Database accepts Aotus nancymai, while the ADW species account uses A. nancymaae.

• Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch Sitta cinnamoventris

  A historical Himalayan account describes this nuthatch with a cinnamon belly and records nests in decayed bamboo and roadside walls.

• Tristram's Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) tristrami

  Tristram’s jird lives in dry steppe from the eastern Mediterranean into the Middle East. Its boundary from a close relative remains debated.

• Great Skua Stercorarius skua

  The Great Skua is a stout, dark seabird with white flashes on its wings. It sometimes steals food from other birds.

• Green Acouchi Myoprocta pratti

  This rodent has an olive-colored back, a pale orange underside, and slender legs. It is active by day and uses trails through forest undergrowth.

• Sennar Penduline Tit Anthoscopus punctifrons

  The Sennar Penduline Tit is a tiny bird with an olive-grey back and a black-speckled forehead. It forages in small parties in acacia canopies across semi-desert parts of the Sahel.

• North American porcupine Erethizon dorsatus

  A rodent with quills among its fur that feeds on plants, including tree bark.

• Sword-billed Hummingbird Ensifera ensifera

  The Sword-billed Hummingbird has a bill 8.1–12 cm long, nearly as long as its body. A study examined its Andean range and overlap with long-flowered plants.

• Darling's Mole-rat Fukomys darlingi

  Darling's mole-rat is a social, subterranean rodent centered on the Zimbabwean highlands and lowland Mozambique. Wild-caught animals from southern Malawi had white spots on the head.

• Kea Nestor notabilis

  The Kea is a parrot of the mountains of New Zealand’s South Island. It has olive-green feathers edged in black and orange-red underwings. It eats both plants and animals, and the elevations it uses vary by season.