Meet the world’s animals.

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• Marmora's Warbler Curruca sarda

  

  This small warbler occurs on western Mediterranean islands. It moves through low scrub and catches insects and spiders.

• Mountain Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii

  This cottontail has a grey-brown back, white underside, and black-tipped ears. It hides in brush on western North American mountainsides and riverbanks.

• Great-billed Munia Lonchura grandis

  A small bird of New Guinea's grasslands and wetlands, with a black head and underside set off by a yellow-orange rump.

• Visayan Warty Pig Sus cebifrons

  It has mane-like hair that can fall across the face. The range entry is limited to the living population on Negros and Panay.

• Great Thrush Turdus fuscater

  A large thrush common in Andean highlands, it is brown with an orange bill and legs. Males have a yellow eye-ring.

• Eastern Wolf Canis lycaon

  The COSEWIC report describes the Eastern Wolf as an intermediate-sized canid whose coat varies from reddish brown to tawny. It identifies this population using genetic evidence as well as appearance.

• Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus

  The Swallow-tailed Bee-eater is a bee-eater with a deeply forked tail. It waits in savanna woodland and catches insects in flight.

• Javan Chevrotain Tragulus javanicus

  This small ruminant is native to Java. It has no horns, and adult males have canines.

• Greater Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis

  The female has a more vivid reddish-brown head and breast than the male. This bird searches for food in muddy freshwater wetlands.

• Eastern Bettong Bettongia gaimardi

  The eastern bettong is a small Tasmanian marsupial that carries nesting material with its long tail. It leaves its grass nest at night to forage on fungi, seeds and other foods.

• Greater Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa

  The Greater Sooty Owl is a nocturnal forest owl recorded in eastern Australia and New Guinea. It hunts vertebrate prey in dense forest.

• Humboldt's Night Monkey Aotus trivirgatus

  Humboldt's night monkey occurs in Venezuela and northern Brazil. It uses humid forests, including seasonally flooded forest, and eats fruits, nectar, and other foods.

• South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki

  The South Polar Skua is a large seabird that breeds in Antarctica and makes a shallow nest on the ground among rocks or moss.

• Slender Tree Shrew Tupaia gracilis

  The slender treeshrew has a slim body and long tail. In Bornean forest it forages alone on the ground and in low undergrowth, feeding on insects.

• Marshall's Iora Aegithina nigrolutea

  Marshall's Iora shows conspicuous white edges on its tail and wings. It searches for insects in dry acacia scrub and may join mixed-species flocks after breeding.

• Abbott's Duiker Cephalophus spadix

  Abbott's duiker is a forest antelope of Tanzania's mountain forests. Its dark body contrasts with a reddish crown.

• Grey-backed Storm Petrel Garrodia nereis

  A very small storm petrel of the Southern Ocean, with a grey back, dark head and wings, and a white belly.

• Ka'apor Capuchin Cebus kaapori

  It has cream-colored cheeks and shoulders, a dark crown, and a tail that helps it move among branches. A dry-season study in Pará found fruit to be its main food.

• Red-billed Pied Tanager Lamprospiza melanoleuca

  This tanager is usually seen in groups of three to eight in the canopy of Amazonian forest.

• Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis

  The tucuxi is a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon basin, separate from the marine Guiana dolphin.

• Green-backed Becard Pachyramphus viridis

  This becard is recorded rarely or irregularly in Bolivia. Its back and wings are green, and its chest is yellow. It searches for arthropods in semi-humid to wet lowland woodland and forest on lower eastern slopes.

• Dormouse Tufted-tailed Rat Eliurus myoxinus

  This tufted-tail rat is endemic to Madagascar. It is nocturnal and solitary, lives mainly in trees, and feeds chiefly on fruit.

• Sooty Barbet Caloramphus hayii

  Recorded in forests and forest edges of Peninsular Malaysia, this barbet is dark-backed with a rusty orange head and breast.

• Tarabul's Gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) tarabuli

  Tarabul's gerbil is a nocturnal desert rodent that eats dry seeds. The study describes it as independent of drinking water and reliant on water produced through metabolism.