Meet the world’s animals.

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• Marbled Polecat Vormela peregusna

  

  A mustelid found from southeastern Europe through parts of the Middle East and Asia, including grassland and semidesert.

• Common Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla

  The Common Firecrest is a small bird with a pale eyebrow and a bright crown. In Spain, it searches for small invertebrates in cool, humid forests.

• Milne-Edwards' Sifaka Propithecus edwardsi

  This sifaka lives in southeastern Madagascar. It clings to tree trunks and leaps between trees with its long hind legs.

• Nullarbor Quail-thrush Cinclosoma alisteri

  The Nullarbor Quail-thrush is a ground-dwelling bird of southern Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. It walks slowly while foraging in low vegetation around limestone outcrops.

• Prehensile-tailed Hutia Mysateles prehensilis

  This large rodent lives in Cuba and is an accomplished climber. Its tail can curl around branches to help it grip.

• Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani

  It lives in East African savannas and dry forests and eats both plant matter and small invertebrates.

• Long-winged Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) longimanus

  This bat ranges from South to Southeast Asia. The nominate Indian subspecies has a tail extending beyond its narrow tail membrane, and caves were recorded as roosts in Sri Lanka.

• Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.

• Variegated Spider Monkey Ateles hybridus

  The variegated spider monkey lives in forests of northern South America and uses its long limbs and grasping tail to move through the canopy.

• Flores Crow Corvus florensis

  The Flores Crow is a relatively small crow found only on Flores Island, Indonesia. BirdLife's older account recorded it widely in lowland forests in the west of the island.

• Desert Hare Lepus tibetanus

  The desert hare has sandy fur and long ears and feeds on plants in steppe, desert and semi-desert habitats.

• Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius eximius

  This shrike-vireo occurs from eastern Panama through northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It uses humid lowland forest and tall second-growth woodland, gleaning food in the canopy.

• Green Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops archeri

  The green ringtail possum has a lime-green-looking coat and a thick tail. It lives in trees in northeastern Queensland and mainly eats leaves.

• Whiskered Myiobius Myiobius barbatus

  The Whiskered Myiobius ranges across northern and western South America. In the nominate subspecies described by the source, the back is olive green and the rump is yellow.

• Leopard seal Hydrurga leptonyx

  A seal of the pack ice around Antarctica. Usually solitary, it eats fish, penguins, krill and other prey.

• Mangrove Golden Whistler Pachycephala melanura

  Males have a black head and breast, a yellow nape band, and an olive back. Females are duller, and the yellow on their underparts varies among subspecies.

• Orange-bellied Himalayan Squirrel Dremomys lokriah

  The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel lives in forests around the Himalayas and uses both trees and the ground. Its underside varies among subspecies.

• Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius

  This large hummingbird is endemic to Brazil. Orange throat and neck markings with a dark central stripe, and its bill shape, help identify it. A study site in southeastern Atlantic rainforest documented flower feeding.

• Mongolian Pika Ochotona (Pika) pallasi

  The Mongolian Pika is a small pika whose coat is lighter in summer and darker in winter. It is active by day around its burrow and stores gathered grasses as food for winter.

• White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus

  The White-headed Mousebird lives in dry scrub and thornbush.

• Dusky Bushbaby Galago matschiei

  Matschie's galago is a nocturnal primate of montane forests east of Lake Albert in central Africa. It is arboreal.

• Cheer Pheasant Catreus wallichii

  This pheasant is notable for its long crest and red bare facial skin. It lives on rocky western Himalayan slopes and lays its eggs in undergrowth during the breeding season.

• California sea lion Zalophus californianus

  It has small external ears and broad front flippers and lives along the Pacific coast of North America.

• Common Newtonia Newtonia brunneicauda

  The Common Newtonia is endemic to Madagascar. It has grey-brown upperparts and pale underparts, and searches forests for small invertebrates.