Meet the world’s animals.

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• California Quail Callipepla californica

  

  A ground-foraging quail with a forward-drooping head plume, often seen in family groups.

• Black Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysopygus

  The black lion tamarin is a small monkey of forests in São Paulo state, Brazil. Its mostly black coat has golden fur on the rump and at the base of the tail.

• Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus

  The Long-tailed Jaeger is a slender seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and hunts lemmings during the breeding season. Outside that season, it travels to oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Goodman’s mouse lemur Microcebus lehilahytsara

  Goodman’s mouse lemur is a small lemur that looks very similar to another mouse lemur species.

• Black Turnstone Arenaria melanocephala

  The Black Turnstone is a seasonal migrant along the Pacific coast that searches for food by turning over rocks and seaweed.

• Mareeba Rock Wallaby Petrogale mareeba

  A grey to brown rock-wallaby with a pale cheek stripe, it lives in rocky habitat in northern Queensland. At Granite Gorge, provisioned animals began afternoon activity earlier.

• Andean condor Vultur gryphus

  A large soaring bird that searches for carrion in the Andes and nearby open country.

• Antillean Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops blainvillei

  This nocturnal, insect-eating bat roosts in caves. Its face has conspicuous folds of skin, and the species occurs on Caribbean islands.

• Yellow-bellied Whistler Pachycephala philippinensis

  The Yellow-bellied Whistler lives in Philippine forests. It has several island subspecies with regional plumage differences, and usually searches for insects in the forest understory.

• Common Genet Genetta genetta

  The common genet is a small African mammal with dark spots and a banded tail; it is active at night.

• Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator

  The Greater Honeyguide is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It can lead people, honey badgers, or baboons to a hive, then eat wax and larvae after the hive is opened.

• Spotted seal Phoca largha

  A spotted seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic. It lives around seasonal sea ice.

• Martinique Thrasher Ramphocinclus brachyurus

  In the population studied on Martinique's Caravelle Peninsula, the brown back and sides contrast with a white breast. Researchers also recorded foraging among fallen leaves.

• Somali Bushbaby Galago gallarum

  This small nocturnal primate has a pale face, dark eye rings, black ears and tail, and a light buff back.

• Reunion Bulbul Hypsipetes borbonicus

  The Reunion Bulbul is a forest bird endemic to Réunion. Its gray-black plumage contrasts with a bright orange bill and legs, and it has a crest. It eats fruit and insects.

• Black Agouti Dasyprocta fuliginosa

  The black agouti is a slim rodent whose back fur ranges from orange to almost black. It is mainly active by day, feeding on fruit and plants in forests, brush, and places near water.

• Keel-billed Motmot Electron carinatum

  The Keel-billed Motmot is a Central American motmot with a keel-like ridge along the upper bill.

• Guianan Red Howler Alouatta macconnelli

  Its back is bright orange to golden, and its tail is dark red. This howler monkey is centered in forests north of the Amazon, including the Guianas.

• Madagascar Mannikin Lemuresthes nana

  Lepidopygia nana is a small finch found widely across Madagascar. It eats grass seeds and often forages in flocks of its own species.

• Yellow-striped Chevrotain Moschiola kathygre

  This small chevrotain is endemic to Sri Lanka. It has warm ochre-brown fur with yellow spots and stripes, and is recorded from wet-zone forests as well as paddies, plantations, and gardens.

• Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli

  The Northern Giant Petrel is a large seabird whose plumage becomes paler with age. It breeds on subantarctic islands and feeds at sea on fish and squid.

• Common Echymipera Echymipera kalubu

  This marsupial lives on New Guinea and nearby islands. It probes the ground with its long snout, is active at night, and eats fruits and small animals.

• Grey-breasted Babbler Malacopteron albogulare

  This poorly known babbler occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. A 2014 account found many records in lowland peat-swamp and heath forests.

• Barbara Brown's Titi Callicebus barbarabrownae

  The blond titi is a titi monkey recorded in small forest patches in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia. It has pale buff fur and an orange tail.