Meet the world’s animals.

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• Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata

  

  The Waved Albatross is a large seabird with a white head and neck, brown-to-gray body plumage, and bluish legs. It nests on the ground on its breeding island and searches the open ocean for fish, squid, and other prey.

• Bearded Capuchin Sapajus libidinosus

  The bearded capuchin is a capuchin monkey native to Brazil. Its coat is yellowish to beige, with dark limbs and a thick cap of hair.

• Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris

  The Alpine Accentor is a small bird seen near alpine rocks and snowfields. In the Japanese account, its head and chest are gray-black, its flanks are reddish brown, and its back is finely mottled.

• Zacatecan Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) zacatecae

  The Zacatecan harvest mouse has a reddish-brown back and a relatively long tail. In Jalisco, it is recorded in high temperate areas.

• Purple Roller Coracias naevius

  The Purple Roller scans for prey from high perches in open African savannas.

• Indian Brown Mongoose Urva fusca

  The Indian brown mongoose is a dark-brown mongoose found in the Western Ghats and parts of Sri Lanka.

• King Bird-of-paradise Cicinnurus regius

  The King Bird-of-paradise occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. Males court with brilliant red plumage and their long ornamental tail feathers.

• Western Pocket Gopher Thomomys mazama

  This pocket gopher occurs in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It spends much of its life in burrow systems and is recorded in prairies, meadows, orchards, and abandoned farms.

• Bare-faced Ibis Phimosus infuscatus

  The Bare-faced Ibis occurs in South America and feeds on small animals such as beetles in wetlands.

• Yellow-throated Marten Martes flavigula

  The yellow-throated marten lives in forests of southern and eastern Asia and stands out for its dark head and golden throat.

• Amami Woodcock Scolopax mira

  The Amami Woodcock is a large ground-dwelling shorebird of broadleaf forests in the Amami Islands and northern Okinawa Island. Its dark plumage and long legs blend into the forest floor.

• Daurian Hedgehog Mesechinus dauuricus

  Daurian hedgehogs studied at Ikh Nart Nature Reserve in Mongolia often used rocky areas and sparse shrubland. In samples compared at the same reserve, they tended to have greater girth and weight than long-eared hedgehogs.

• Baer's Pochard Aythya baeri

  This duck breeds at lakes with rich vegetation and uses freshwater lakes and reservoirs in winter. Breeding males have a green gloss on the head.

• Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk Conepatus humboldtii

  Conepatus humboldtii is a Patagonian skunk from Argentina and Chile. It has a broad projecting face and one or two side stripes, and searches mainly for insects in grassland at night.

• Scrub Blackbird Dives warczewiczi

  The Scrub Blackbird is a black bird found in western Peru's Andean foothills and nearby areas. It searches for food in scrub and semi-open places.

• Mainland Dusky Antechinus Antechinus mimetes

  This small marsupial occurs in southeastern Australia. It is usually regarded as terrestrial, but camera traps at Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, Victoria, recorded it visiting tree baits about 3.5 m high on 29 occasions.

• Philippine Megapode Megapodius cumingii

  This megapode has brown-to-grey plumage and bare red facial skin. In Borneo it searches on the ground and buries eggs in a mound of plant material, where heat from decomposition incubates them.

• Somali Elephant Shrew Galegeeska revoili

  The Somali Elephant Shrew is a small sengi with a tail that appears much longer than its head and body. In southern Djibouti, pairs were observed sheltering beneath low bushes.

• Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus

  The Spotted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird that searches for seeds in dry, open country.

• Marco Polo Argali Ovis polii

  Ovis polii is a wild sheep described from the dry Pamir steppe. Males have long, winding horns, and the sheep use rolling hills, broad valleys, and gradual mountain sides.

• Western Quail-thrush Cinclosoma marginatum

  The Western Quail-thrush lives on stony hills and low acacia ridges in western Australia, walking on the ground to forage. Males and females differ in breast pattern.

• Rio Mayo Titi Plecturocebus oenanthe

  This titi monkey is endemic to the San Martín region of Peru. Pale fur around the face is a characteristic feature, though it is faint in some individuals.

• Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus

  This ground-dwelling pheasant relative moves through grasslands and shrublands. Males are black and chestnut, while females are golden-brown with black and white spots, so the sexes look very different.

• Mesopotamian fallow deer Dama mesopotamica

  A deer with wild populations remaining in southwestern Iran; males have antlers that do not flatten into a broad palm.