Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tawny-faced Gnatwren Microbates cinereiventris

  

  The Tawny-faced Gnatwren lives in the lower levels of humid forest from Central America to northwestern South America. It forages near the ground and in leaf litter, and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Diani Dwarf Galago Paragalago cocos

  This small nocturnal primate lives from coastal Kenya into northern Tanzania. It rests with others in tree holes by day and searches for fruit and invertebrates at night.

• Slaty-backed Thornbill Acanthiza robustirostris

  This small bird has a gray head, dark gray tail, and cinnamon rump. It lives in Australia's dry inland scrub and builds a globular nest from grass stems and spider web.

• New Zealand Sea Lion Phocarctos hookeri

  A large sea lion endemic to New Zealand; adult males and females differ in size and coat color.

• Bearded Guan Penelope barbata

  The Bearded Guan is a large forest bird with a small red throat wattle and gray speckles. It lives in montane forests of southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus rufus

  The brown mouse lemur is a small mouse lemur found in rainforest and swamp habitats in southeastern Madagascar.

• Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata

  This small bird ranges widely across Africa. Breeding males vary in plumage and bill color among regional forms, and they mimic the songs of their firefinch hosts.

• Southern Common Cuscus Phalanger mimicus

  The southern common cuscus is a medium-sized arboreal possum of lowland southern New Guinea. Local observers reported it in both primary and secondary forest, where it eats leaves.

• Pale-legged Warbler Myiothlypis signata

  The Pale-legged Warbler searches for food in the lower growth and edges of mountain forest on the eastern Andes, including bamboo thickets.

• Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica

  The red-legged pademelon is a small kangaroo relative that feeds within forests and along their edges.

• Jerdon's Babbler Chrysomma altirostre

  It is a babbler with rich brown upperparts, grey and buff underparts, and a long tail. Its feeding and habitat were studied in riverine grasslands of Pakistan.

• Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon Cercopithecus petaurista

  The lesser spot-nosed guenon is marked by a white nose spot and beard. It carries food in cheek pouches.

• 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.

• White-striped Free-tailed Bat Austronomus australis

  It has a brown back, a paler underside, and broad white stripes along its sides. This Australian bat is nocturnal and uses echolocation to find insects.

• Chestnut-winged Babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum

  The Chestnut-winged Babbler ranges from southern Myanmar and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It forages in small groups in the middle storey of evergreen forests.

• Gray Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis (Monodelphis) domestica

  The gray short-tailed opossum is a small South American marsupial that lives on the ground or in low vegetation. Most have gray fur and a naked, rat-like tail.

• Hume's Treecreeper Certhia manipurensis

  Hume’s Treecreeper has a brown back with pale streaks and spots and an orange-brown rump. In Yunnan, the shanensis form occurs in forest and searches bark for small prey.

• Silky Sifaka Propithecus candidus

  A sifaka known for its long, silky white fur. It moves among trees by day in mountain forest in northeastern Madagascar.

• Tawny-tufted Toucanet Selenidera nattereri

  The male is a small toucanet with a black head and neck and a golden ear tuft. It feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid forest, alone or in pairs.

• Dusky Dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus

  This dolphin is recorded widely in temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a blue-black back and a diagonal dark band along each side.

• Gray-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyianus

  The Gray-breasted Seedsnipe lives on the ground in the high Andes. Males are gray, while females have mottled brown plumage.

• Tufted capuchin Sapajus apella

  A monkey that spends much of its time in trees but also comes down to forage on the ground.

• Chestnut-crowned Gnateater Conopophaga castaneiceps

  Males have a chestnut head and a white plume behind the eye; females also have a white postocular plume, with chestnut on the forehead and throat. It forages near the ground in humid montane forest.

• Greater Red Musk Shrew Crocidura flavescens

  The greater red musk shrew is a large shrew of southern Africa, where it uses moist grassland and woodland. It has also been recorded in gardens and near settlements.