Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Ceara Gnateater Conopophaga cearae

  

  The Ceara Gnateater is a small bird of northeastern Brazil. It was first described as a subspecies of Conopophaga lineata, then treated as a separate species following genetic research.

• Greater Blind Mole Rat Spalax microphthalmus

  

  This subterranean rodent has small eyes covered by a skin membrane and digs with its front teeth. It makes underground passages and food stores, and eats plant parts from below the ground.

• Red-headed Manakin Ceratopipra rubrocapilla

  

  This manakin lives in the understory of southern Amazonian forest in Peru. Males stand out with a red head on a black body, while females are green.

• Ankarana Sportive Lemur Lepilemur ankaranensis

  

  The Ankarana sportive lemur is a tree-dwelling lemur active at night in forests of northern Madagascar. Its long, bushy tail is another recognizable feature.

• White-rumped Snowfinch Onychostruthus taczanowskii

  

  This bird lives in high mountains around the Tibetan Plateau. Its dark-mottled back contrasts with a white rump that stands out in flight. In the breeding season it is found near pika colonies.

• Bangka Slow Loris Nycticebus bancanus

  A slow loris known from Bangka Island, Indonesia. The adult female described by Lyon has an ochre-buff coat and a dark back stripe that fades around the lower back.

• Andean Flamingo Phoenicoparrus andinus

  A flamingo of high Andean lakes, it has a pale pink body and yellow legs and filters algae and other small food from the water.

• Bokhara Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus bocharicus

  The Bokhara horseshoe bat lives in arid Central Asian foothills and uses caves and mines as roosts.

• Crested Treeswift Hemiprocne coronata

  This swift is marked by a forehead crest and long wing tips that cross over its back when it perches.

• Culpeo Lycalopex culpaeus

  This fox is recognizable by its large ears and reddish fur. The Andean regional account describes it foraging alone over a broad area.

• Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens

  This cormorant inhabits southern Australian coasts. Adults have a black face and back with white underparts, and dive for fish.

• Capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

  A large rodent of South American watersides. It lives in groups, grazes on land and uses water to rest or escape danger.

• Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum

  This forest bird ranges from Central America into northwestern South America and catches insects and small animals.

• White-tailed jackrabbit Lepus townsendii

  The white-tailed jackrabbit is a large hare. Colorado Parks and Wildlife reports it throughout the state except at the highest elevations.

• Western Whipbird Psophodes nigrogularis

  This bird searches for insects on the ground and in low vegetation. This entry describes the lashmari subspecies on Kangaroo Island.

• Kano's Mole Mogera kanoana

  Kano's mole occurs in Taiwan. A revision describes broadleaf forest as its main habitat and records tunnels along mountain trails as well as mounds and surface tunnels in gardens, fields and lawns.

• Bronze-winged Jacana Metopidius indicus

  This wetland bird has a black head and breast, bronze-green back and wings, and a short reddish tail.

• Fulvus Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros fulvus

  The fulvous leaf-nosed bat is a small bat found across much of southern Asia. It rests in caves, burrows, or other roosts by day and searches for insects at night.

• Deep-blue Flowerpiercer Diglossa glauca

  A flowerpiercer of wet Andean montane forest from Colombia to Bolivia.

• Black-bellied Pangolin Phataginus tetradactyla

  An arboreal pangolin of West and Central Africa with a tail longer than its body.

• Island Whistler Pachycephala phaionota

  This bird ranges from the Moluccas to western New Guinea. Its white throat and grey-brown back are useful field marks, and it eats insects in coastal scrub and similar habitats.

• Greater Glider Petauroides volans

  This nocturnal marsupial lives in forests of eastern Australia. It glides between trees using a membrane between its limbs and eats eucalyptus leaves.

• Sand-colored Nighthawk Chordeiles rupestris

  The Sand-colored Nighthawk has sandy mottled plumage and occurs along rivers in the Peruvian Amazon region. It also forages above rivers during the day.