Meet the world’s animals.

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• Prehensile-tailed Hutia Mysateles prehensilis

  

  This large rodent lives in Cuba and is an accomplished climber. Its tail can curl around branches to help it grip.

• Puerto Rican Tody Todus mexicanus

  

  The Puerto Rican Tody lives only in Puerto Rico. Its green back, red throat, and yellowish-white underside stand out.

• Dulzura Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys simulans

  

  The Dulzura kangaroo rat ranges from coastal southern California to southern Baja California Sur, Mexico. Reported populations differ in body size across regions and habitats.

• Jerdon's Leafbird Chloropsis jerdoni

  

  A green leafbird with a dark blue-black throat in males. It may join mixed-species flocks at trees bearing flowers or fruit.

• White-bellied Nesomys Nesomys audeberti

  

  The white-bellied nesomys has ventral hairs that are white to their bases. In a Madagascar field study, the animals were also active during daylight.

• Parrot-billed Sparrow Passer gongonensis

  

  The Parrot-billed Sparrow is an eastern and central African sparrow with a large, thick bill. It feeds on seeds in dry open country.

• Brown Dorcopsis Dorcopsis muelleri

  The brown dorcopsis is a wallaby of New Guinea forests. A field study in West Papua also recorded its use of riverbank grassland.

• Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus

  The Black-faced Rufous Warbler moves through dense undergrowth in damp forests of central and eastern Africa. The male has a black face and throat, chestnut upperparts, and grayish underparts, and searches for insects. The identification account centers on males, so it does not represent full female plumage.

• Pacific Tent-making Bat Uroderma convexum

  This bat ranges from southern Mexico through Panama to western South America. It has white facial stripes and a white line down the middle of its back. In Panama, it was recorded using tent-like roosts made from modified American oil-palm leaves.

• Fan-tailed Berrypecker Melanocharis versteri

  This bird lives in New Guinea’s mountains. Males have white pectoral tufts, females are olive-colored, and the species eats small berries and arthropods.

• American Shrew Mole Neurotrichus gibbsii

  The American shrew mole has tiny eyes and a flat, elongated nose. It digs shallow tunnels beneath leaf litter and sometimes climbs low bushes above ground.

• Scaly Ground Roller Geobiastes squamiger

  The Scaly Ground Roller is a terrestrial bird of Madagascar’s moist lowland forests.

• Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus brachyotis

  A fruit-eating bat distributed from South to Southeast Asia. Records from Peninsular Malaysia include forests, gardens, farmland, and mangroves.

• Buff-breasted Flycatcher Empidonax fulvifrons

  A small flycatcher with a warm buff chest that launches from a perch to catch insects in the air.

• Cinereus Ringtail Possum Pseudochirulus cinereus

  This marsupial lives in tropical rainforest in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a ringtail possum adapted to life in trees.

• Loja Tapaculo Scytalopus androstictus

  The Loja Tapaculo occurs in the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru, in scrub near the tree line. A 2010 paper described this population under the subspecies name Scytalopus opacus androstictus.

• California sea lion Zalophus californianus

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

• Scheepmaker's Crowned Pigeon Goura scheepmakeri

  Scheepmaker’s crowned pigeon is a large pigeon with a lacy blue crest and deep maroon chest. It lives in lowland forests of south-eastern New Guinea.

• Chilean Dolphin Cephalorhynchus eutropia

  The Chilean dolphin is a small dolphin found along Chile’s coast. Records are patchy, and it often uses sheltered shallow waters such as bays and fjords.

• Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis

  The contrast between its grey head and yellow belly is striking. It catches insects in woodland and appears in Hong Kong during autumn and winter migration.

• Korean Hare Lepus coreanus

  The Korean hare has brown or grey-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. It uses vegetated areas from plains to mountains and is reported to feed in open places in the late afternoon or evening.

• White-winged Flufftail Sarothrura ayresi

  The White-winged Flufftail breeds in seasonal high-altitude wetlands. White patches on both sexes' wings show clearly in flight.

• Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea

  A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

• Nyanza Swift Apus niansae

  A swift with dark wings and a pale throat that catches insects over eastern African highlands, cliffs, and towns.