Meet the world’s animals.

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• Orange Ground Thrush Geokichla gurneyi

  

  The Orange Ground Thrush lives in mountain forests of eastern and southeastern Africa. Its orange face and chest contrast with a white belly, and it searches for small animals and fruit in the lower forest.

• Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys castanops

  

  The yellow-faced pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent of the southern United States and northern Mexico. It carries food in its cheek pouches.

• Pitta-like Ground Roller Atelornis pittoides

  

  The Pitta-like Ground Roller lives in forests of eastern Madagascar and the central High Plateau. Its blue head and black eye mask stand out, while it searches the leaf litter for prey.

• Plains Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavescens

  

  The plains pocket mouse is a small rodent of the North American Great Plains. It carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches and stores food in its burrow.

• Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Pterocles gutturalis

  

  The Yellow-throated Sandgrouse is marked by the male's yellow throat and eyebrow, framed by a dark neck band. In southern Africa, studies describe pairs nesting on the ground and using farmland.

• Hooded seal Cystophora cristata

  

  A seal of the cold North Atlantic and Arctic waters, the mature male can inflate a pouch on its nose.

• Sooty Falcon Falco concolor

  The Sooty Falcon has long, narrow wings. After breeding, it migrates across eastern Africa to Madagascar for the southern summer.

• Small Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus punctatus

  This squirrel has dark, soft fur and a long ringed tail. In West Africa, it is recorded in rainforest and forests within forest–savanna mosaics.

• Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon Treron fulvicollis

  The male is a green pigeon with an orange-rufous head and maroon wings, and it eats fruit. It lives in coastal forest and mangroves of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

• White-striped dorcopsis Dorcopsis hageni

  The white-striped dorcopsis is a macropod marsupial of lowland forests in northern New Guinea. A pale stripe on the back is a distinguishing feature.

• Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata

  Masked Tityras range from Mexico through Central America into South America. They use forests, edges, clearings and cultivated areas, feeding in pairs or small flocks on insects, small vertebrates and fruit.

• True's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon mirus

  A whale with a rounded forehead and short beak that feeds on fish and squid in deep water.

• Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum

  The Yellow-vented Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker found from the Indian subcontinent through Southeast Asia. It has yellowish-green upperparts, streaked white underparts, and orange-yellow undertail coverts.

• Antipodean fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri

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

• Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis

  This raptor feeds mainly on freshwater snails. Its long, strongly curved bill fits inside the shell to pull out the animal.

• Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur Allocebus trichotis

  The hairy-eared dwarf lemur is a nocturnal small lemur recorded in northeastern Madagascar. Tufts on its ears and a leaf nest in a tree hollow are distinctive features.

• Fulvous-breasted Flatbill Rhynchocyclus fulvipectus

  It forages in the mid-story of humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slopes and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks. It has olive upperparts, a tawny breast and a broad, flat bill.

• Perrier's Sifaka Propithecus perrieri

  Perrier’s sifaka is an arboreal lemur with a black coat. It is active by day in small groups and eats mainly leaves, along with flowers and fruit.

• Minahasa Masked Owl Tyto inexspectata

  A forest owl endemic to Sulawesi. Accounts describe a dark-edged facial disc and dark bars across its cinnamon-colored plumage.

• Forrest's Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) forresti

  Forrest's pika is recorded at high elevations in Bhutan. A dark patch behind each ear meets across the nape.

• Pohnpei Kingfisher Todiramphus reichenbachii

  This kingfisher is endemic to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. It occurs at forest edges and mangroves and excavates a nest burrow in rotten wood.

• Common Red-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta leporina

  A rodent native to northern South America that sometimes buries seeds for later.

• Okarito Brown Kiwi Apteryx rowi

  The Okarito Brown Kiwi is a nocturnal kiwi of lowland forest on New Zealand's South Island. It has pale grey-brown, streaked feathers and a long bill.

• Williams's Jerboa Allactaga (Paralactaga) williamsi

  This West Asian rodent is reported from Turkey, the South Caucasus, Iran, and Lebanon. An Iranian study recorded it on sparsely vegetated, hard soils from 350 to 2,500 m.