Meet the world’s animals.

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• Diani Dwarf Galago Paragalago cocos

  

  This small nocturnal primate lives from coastal Kenya into northern Tanzania. It rests with others in tree holes by day and searches for fruit and invertebrates at night.

• White-eared Jacamar Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis

  A white patch behind the ear and a rufous breast stand out. It perches in riverside woodland and darts out to catch flying insects.

• Northern fur seal Callorhinus ursinus

  A North Pacific fur seal that spends much of its time in the open ocean. It comes ashore on island beaches to breed and rest.

• Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea

  This brood-parasitic finch occurs in southeastern Africa. Males are known to mimic the song of their host, the African Firefinch.

• Haviside's Dolphin Cephalorhynchus heavisidii

  This small dolphin lives off southwestern Africa. Its grey body has a dark cape and white markings, and it is observed in shallow coastal and shelf waters, usually in small groups.

• Mouse-colored Penduline Tit Anthoscopus musculus

  This tiny bird is about 8 cm long, with a brownish-grey head and back, darker wings and a short tail. It forages in pairs or family groups in dry savanna and shrubland.

• Ring-tailed lemur Lemur catta

  A lemur of southern Madagascar and nearby regions, recognizable by its long tail with black-and-white rings.

• Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea

  This small gnatcatcher includes several regional forms. In Peru it has grey upperparts, whitish to greyish underparts, and a black-and-white tail that it often cocks.

• Geoffroy's Tamarin Oedipomidas geoffroyi

  This small monkey occurs from Colombia's Pacific coast into Panama. It uses primary and secondary forest, including secondary growth with large trees, and can be found near cultivated areas.

• Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis

  Western Reef Herons occur in pale and dark plumage forms; the dark form is marked by a white throat. They hunt along coasts and estuaries.

• Narrow-skulled Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus artus

  This pocket mouse is smaller than the Sonoran pocket mouse. Its rump spines vary, and the paper's records are from Sonora and Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico.

• Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi

  An adult of the nominate subspecies has a pale gray crown and sandy body, with a white eye-ring and black bill.

• Eastern Red Bat Lasiurus borealis

  The eastern red bat has bright red fur and rests curled in its tail membrane among foliage, where it can resemble a dead leaf or pine cone. It feeds mainly on moths in summer and migrates in fall.

• Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris

  It occurs in Idaho's South Hills and Albion Mountains, using older lodgepole pine forests.

• Thomas' Dwarf Lemur Cheirogaleus thomasi

  This lemur is known from littoral forests in southeastern Madagascar. The 2020 IUCN assessment lists forest fragments from the dry forest at Petriky to the wetter forest at Ste Luce.

• White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea

  The White-throated Treecreeper forages along tree trunks in the moist forests of southeastern Australia.

• Layard's beaked whale Mesoplodon layardii

  This beaked whale is recorded in cold-temperate seas of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a spindle-shaped body and slender beak, with a bluish-black to dark-purple body and white patches, according to a university species account.

• Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei

  This barbet is known from Cordillera Azul in Peru. During the original description study, birds were observed taking fruit in the canopy of high-elevation cloud forest and moving in loose groups.

• Straw-colored Colilargo Oligoryzomys stramineus

  The Straw-colored Colilargo is a Brazilian rodent with pale dorsal fur sharply set off from its whitish underside. In the Cerrado it is chiefly reported from gallery forests.

• Flaming Sunbird Aethopyga flagrans

  This sunbird lives in Philippine forest and feeds mainly on nectar. A 2006 preliminary taxonomic review recorded geographic differences in plumage among populations.

• Pale fox Vulpes pallida

  An African fox with sandy upper fur and a bushy, black-tipped tail.

• Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides panini

  On Panay and Negros, this small hornbill stands out by the blue bare skin around the eye and its pale tail with a black tip.

• Molina's Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus chinga

  A South American skunk with a black coat, white back stripes and a broad nose.

• Black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus

  A black-and-white bird that wades through shallow water on long legs.