Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-billed Pied Tanager Lamprospiza melanoleuca

  

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

• Butler's Dunnart Sminthopsis butleri

  This small carnivorous marsupial has a reported head-and-body length of 88 mm and a tail about 90 mm long. The report gives an average mass of 15–30 g.

• Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans

  The Buff-spotted Flufftail occurs in scattered parts of sub-Saharan Africa, in forests and dense cover. It walks slowly through leaf litter in search of invertebrates. Males have orange-chestnut heads and necks, while females have spotted backs and barred bellies.

• Rock Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus intermedius

  The rock pocket mouse is a small rodent of rocky areas in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its back is grey-brown, its underside is white, and its tail has a tuft at the tip.

• Boulder Finch Idiopsar brachyurus

  This finch lives among boulder fields and high-altitude grasslands in the southern Andes. Its large bill is distinctive.

• Southern Pocket Gopher Megascapheus atrovarius

  A pocket gopher from Mexico's Pacific-side mountains. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in Megascapheus; a 2011 redescription reports dry thornscrub along the western Sierra Madre Occidental.

• Elegant Crescentchest Melanopareia elegans

  The Elegant Crescentchest is recorded in dry forest and scrub in extreme northwestern Peru. Males have black heads, creamy eyebrows and throats, chestnut breasts, and broad black crescent bands; females have a reduced band and rufous underparts.

• Pygmy Tree Shrew Tupaia minor

  The pygmy tree shrew is a small, squirrel-like animal with a long, pointed snout. It is active by day and spends much of its time in the forest canopy.

• Dusky Robin Melanodryas vittata

  This robin is endemic to Tasmania, where it occurs in eucalypt forest, woodland, and coastal heath. It is plain brown compared with the other local robins.

• White-nosed coati Nasua narica

  A long-tailed coati that searches for insects with its snout close to the ground.

• Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus

  The Abyssinian Roller lives in dry open country in Africa. Its blue and turquoise feathers contrast with brown areas, and it catches large insects.

• Southern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus siki

  The southern white-cheeked gibbon lives in forests of central Laos and Vietnam. It stays in the canopy, and its diet changes with the seasons.

• Fairy Flycatcher Stenostira scita

  The Fairy Flycatcher is a small bird of southern Africa. It makes seasonal movements between the southern Karoo and fynbos in summer and thorn scrub farther north in winter.

• Small Indian civet Viverricula indica

  A civet that uses woodland, grassland and areas near people.

• Kerguelen Petrel Aphrodroma brevirostris

  The Kerguelen Petrel is a medium-sized, all-dark petrel with a broad range across the Southern Ocean. It nests in deep burrows on islands and feeds mainly on squid.

• Loring's Thallomys Thallomys loringi

  Loring's Thallomys is recorded in western, central, and southwestern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It lives in trees in acacia woodland and savanna scrub.

• Brown-headed Apalis Apalis alticola

  This small bird inhabits mid- to high-elevation forest in central and eastern Africa. A Tanzanian regional account notes a dark brown crown, grey outer tail feathers, and white tail tips.

• MacConnell's Bat Mesophylla macconnelli

  Among the smallest fruit-eating bats, it uses leaf tents as roosts. It has a broad range across humid forests of Central and South America.

• 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.

• White-faced Spiny Tree-rat Echimys chrysurus

  This tree rat lives in lowland forests of the Guianas and eastern Amazonia and spends much of its time in trees.

• New Zealand Storm Petrel Fregetta maoriana

  This seabird is recorded in northern New Zealand waters, with the outer Hauraki Gulf identified as a core area of activity during the New Zealand summer.

• Hooded skunk Mephitis macroura

  The hooded skunk ranges from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America.

• Peruvian Wren Cinnycerthia peruana

  The Peruvian Wren is rufous with dark bars and a noticeable grey eyebrow. It searches the understory in pairs or family groups in humid mountain forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope.

• Prince Bernhard's titi Plecturocebus bernhardi

  Prince Bernhard's titi is a small monkey studied in forest in Rondônia, Brazil. Groups of two to four were observed at one remnant, and sampled animals had continuous orange fur across the chest and limbs.