Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica

  

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

• Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens

  

  The Glaucous-winged Gull is a large gull of Pacific shorelines. Adult wingtips are pale gray like the rest of the upperwing, and the bird searches coastlines for fish and crabs.

• Southern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon planifrons

  

  The southern bottlenose whale lives offshore in the Southern Hemisphere and is marked by a swollen forehead and short beak.

• Montane Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger

  

  A woodcreeper of humid Andean montane forest. It climbs trunks and branches while foraging at different forest heights.

• Geoffroy's Marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi

  

  Geoffroy's marmoset is a small monkey with dark ear tufts and a white face. It lives in Brazil's lowland rainforests, where group members help care for young.

• Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus

  

  A seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and may steal food from other seabirds. Adults vary from dark to pale color forms.

• Antipodean fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri

  A fur seal breeding around New Zealand and nearby islands. It eats squid and small fish at sea.

• White-necked Thrush Turdus albicollis

  This thrush is described from Trinidad and Tobago. It searches among leaf litter for small prey and also eats fruit.

• Milton's Titi Plecturocebus miltoni

  This southern Amazonian titi monkey was described in 2014 as Callicebus miltoni; the current genus used here is Plecturocebus. Its most distinctive pattern combines a pale forehead stripe, dark orange-brown sideburns and throat, a dark gray upper body, and an orange tail.

• Black-headed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius rufiventer

  The Black-headed Shrike-Babbler lives in Himalayan forests. Males have a black head and chestnut breast, while females are mainly olive green.

• Angolan Genet Genetta angolensis

  The Angolan genet inhabits open miombo woodland interspersed with savanna. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night with camera traps and night transects.

• New Zealand Falcon Falco novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Falcon is endemic to New Zealand. Its regional forms differ in size and color, from a small dark forest form to a larger, paler form in dry open country.

• Alpine Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) alpinus

  This chipmunk lives high in California's Sierra Nevada, among rocky slopes and subalpine forest.

• Samar Hornbill Penelopides samarensis

  A hornbill of several central Philippine islands. The male is strongly patterned in cream and black, while the female is mostly black.

• Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina

  The common dunnart is a small marsupial of eastern and southern Australia. It searches for insects at night and rests in a nest or shallow burrow by day.

• Rusty-flanked Treecreeper Certhia nipalensis

  The Rusty-flanked Treecreeper is a small bird of high forests from the eastern Himalayas into southwestern China. It is recorded in mixed conifer and broadleaf forest with tall trees.

• Durga Das's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros durgadasi

  It is a small bat with rounded ears and a simple noseleaf without supplementary leaflets. In Karnataka, it roosts in subterranean caves.

• Pink-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus waltoni

  A rosefinch found in central China and Tibet. It uses open areas such as forest edges and shrubby expanses.

• Sanford's Brown Lemur Eulemur sanfordi

  Sanford's brown lemur inhabits forests in northern Madagascar. Males have conspicuous cheek fur, and females differ in coat color.

• Javan Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratum

  The Javan Black-capped Babbler has a black head and chestnut-brown back. On Java, it searches for small prey among leaf litter in moist forest.

• Bailey's Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus baileyi

  Bailey's pocket mouse is a small rodent of the Sonoran Desert. It is active at night and carries seeds and other food in its cheek pouches.

• Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata

  For the nominate subspecies described in the Ehime account, chestnut ear patches and bands across the breast are distinctive. It breeds in Japanese grassland and uses grassy riverbanks and rice-field areas in Ehime during winter.

• Panamanian White-faced Capuchin Cebus imitator

  A capuchin monkey of Central American forests. Its dark body contrasts with a pale face, and its hands and tail help it search for varied foods.

• Ash-throated Casiornis Casiornis fuscus

  A rufous flycatcher of Brazil. Its breeding habitat differs from the open woodland and savannas used by migrants outside the breeding period.