Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-footed booby Sula sula

  

  A red-footed booby that nests in trees and shrubs on tropical islands.

• Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata

  The marbled cat is a wild cat of forests from South Asia to Southeast Asia. Its marble-like markings and unusually long tail are distinctive.

• Burmese Nuthatch Sitta neglecta

  An early bird reference described the Burmese Nuthatch as Sitta castaneiventris neglecta. It noted that birds from the Karen Hills had a paler throat and breast than belly and flanks.

• Ribbon Seal Histriophoca fasciata

  A seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic Ocean whose mature coat has pale bands around the neck, foreflippers and hips.

• Red-crowned Barbet Psilopogon rafflesii

  The Red-crowned Barbet is green with a conspicuous red crown. It eats fruit and insects in lowland forests of Southeast Asia.

• Lesser False Vampire Bat Megaderma spasma

  The lesser false vampire bat is a forest bat with a large noseleaf and large ears. It is nocturnal and eats insects and small animals, but does not drink blood.

• Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris

  The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small bird of Southeast Asian forest and bamboo. Its yellow belly and white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Flamarion's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys flamarioni

  Flamarion's Tuco-tuco is a rodent with sandy fur and long, stiff hairs on its digging fingers. It lives alone in burrows in coastal dunes of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.

• Red-throated Caracara Ibycter americanus

  A mostly black caracara with a red face and throat. It travels in groups and eats wasp larvae and fruit.

• Pousargues' mongoose Dologale dybowskii

  This small mongoose has a brown body, a gray face, and a bushy tail. It has been recorded in Central Africa, but little is known about its life in the wild.

• Blue Noddy Anous ceruleus

  The Blue Noddy is a small tern with bluish-gray plumage. It breeds on Pacific islands and forages in waters near land.

• True's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon mirus

  A whale with a rounded forehead and short beak that feeds on fish and squid in deep water.

• Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus

  A seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and may steal food from other seabirds. Adults vary from dark to pale color forms.

• Weasel Lemur Lepilemur mustelinus

  The weasel sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur of eastern Madagascar's rainforests. Most have chestnut-brown fur, though bright orange individuals have also been observed.

• Pipipi Mohoua novaeseelandiae

  This small bird lives in forest and shrubland on New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands. A chattering flock moving high through the trees is often the first sign of its presence.

• 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.

• Pale-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus fulviventris

  This greenbul has Gabon forest records. In two, a pale eyebrow and dark eye-line were conspicuous.

• Malay Weasel Mustela nudipes

  The Malay weasel has a pale head and a slender reddish-brown to orange body. It searches for small animals on the ground during the day.

• Vinaceous-breasted Amazon Amazona vinacea

  Adults are green with wine-red feathers on the head and breast. They feed on fruit and seeds in South America’s Atlantic Forest.

• Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuscus

  The Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat has narrow, elongated wings. An Okinawa Prefecture account describes it roosting on the islands and feeding on insects at night.

• Fatu Hiva Monarch Pomarea whitneyi

  This monarch is endemic to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas. Adults are glossy purplish-black and forage for insects and spiders in stream-centred valley forest.

• Wagner's Common Mustached Bat Pteronotus (Phyllodia) rubiginosus

  A bat of the Amazon region that roosts in caves. The INPA species account reports coat colors ranging from black to reddish brown.

• Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis

  A small bird that breeds among Arctic rocks and forms flocks in open places in North America during winter. It searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Plush-coated Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops corinnae

  This ring-tailed possum lives in the trees of New Guinea's montane forests. It curls its tail into a ring and feeds mainly on leaves.