Meet the world’s animals.

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• California sea lion Zalophus californianus

  

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

• Himalayan Monal Lophophorus impejanus

  

  A pheasant of high Asian mountain forests whose male and female plumages differ markedly; it digs for food with its bill.

• Harp seal Pagophilus groenlandicus

  

  A seal of cold North Atlantic and Arctic waters. It gathers on pack ice during breeding and molting seasons.

• Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles affinis

  

  It lives in lower montane forest on the Bird’s Head Peninsula of western New Guinea, with brownish plumage and a pale collar.

• Fijian Long-tailed Fruit Bat Notopteris macdonaldii

  

  A Pacific fruit bat with a long tail. A Fiji survey found nursing colonies in caves on Viti Levu.

• White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus

  

  In breeding plumage, its black body and silvery-white wings stand out. It breeds in eastern Europe and western Asia.

• Malay Weasel Mustela nudipes

  The Malay weasel has a pale head and a slender reddish-brown to orange body. It searches for small animals on the ground during the day.

• Black-throated Toucanet Aulacorhynchus atrogularis

  This toucanet occurs along the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A study of the former broad Emerald Toucanet complex describes black throat and cheek markings and a two-colored band at the bill base for the atrogularis form.

• North Atlantic beaked whale Mesoplodon bidens

  This beaked whale lives in cold North Atlantic waters. Its reported diet is mainly squid and small fish, although its natural history remains poorly known.

• Grey-backed Storm Petrel Garrodia nereis

  A very small storm petrel of the Southern Ocean, with a grey back, dark head and wings, and a white belly.

• Pyrenean Desman Galemys pyrenaicus

  The Pyrenean desman is a small mammal of mountain streams. It uses its long, mobile snout to find small aquatic animals on the streambed.

• Northern Black Bustard Afrotis afraoides

  The Northern Black Bustard, also called the Northern Black Korhaan, is a ground-dwelling bird of open, dry country in southern Africa, with very different male and female plumage.

• Fawn Antechinus Antechinus bellus

  The Fawn Antechinus is a small marsupial with pale fur, a white chin, and white feet. It is active mainly at dusk and dawn and shelters in tree hollows and fallen logs.

• Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni

  A pratincole that catches insects in flight. It breeds in Eurasia and migrates to Africa.

• Brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus rufus

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

• Lesser Green Leafbird Chloropsis cyanopogon

  The Lesser Green Leafbird blends with foliage, while the male has a black face and blue throat. It searches for food in the canopy of Southeast Asian lowland forest.

• Gray-legged Night Monkey Aotus griseimembra

  This nocturnal monkey has large eyes and gray-brown fur. In the wild it lives in rainforest from northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela and eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Chocolate Boobook Ninox randi

  The Chocolate Boobook is an owl of the main Philippine islands. It is recorded in lowland and foothill forest and along forest edges.

• Felten's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) punicus

  Felten’s myotis occurs in northwestern Africa and several Mediterranean islands. It forages over semi-desert and sparsely vegetated areas and roosts underground.

• African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta

  The African Pygmy Kingfisher is a small kingfisher widespread south of the Sahara. It eats insects more often than fish and searches for prey from a perch.

• Kinkajou Potos flavus

  A raccoon relative that grips branches with its long tail and searches for fruit at night.

• Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni

  The Blue-bearded Bee-eater has a green body, long blue throat feathers and a large curved bill. It uses openings in forests, and the species account reports spring-to-summer breeding in India.

• Ocelot Leopardus pardalis

  A patterned cat of parts of the Americas, with black-bordered blotches arranged in chain-like rows along its body.

• Rufous-eared Brush Finch Atlapetes rufigenis

  The Rufous-eared Brush-Finch is endemic to Peru. It forages in Andean scrub and Polylepis forest; its rufous head and black-and-white facial markings are distinctive.