Meet the world’s animals.

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• Nicobar Scops Owl Otus alius

  

  This scops owl is from the Nicobar Islands. The original description is based on specimens from Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island. Reports describe coastal forest and prey found in specimens, but ecological information remains limited.

• Spotted seal Phoca largha

  

  A spotted seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic. It lives around seasonal sea ice.

• McKay's Bunting Plectrophenax hyperboreus

  

  McKay's Bunting breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and moves to the west coast of Alaska for winter.

• Woolly Flying Squirrel Eupetaurus cinereus

  

  The woolly flying squirrel has a dense coat and a gliding membrane between its limbs. In the northern Pakistan highlands, it remains active in winter and feeds on mosses and other foods.

• Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus

  

  The Grey-headed Lapwing has a grey head, yellow legs, and a dark breast band; it breeds in Japan and northeastern China.

• Red kangaroo Osphranter rufus

  

  A kangaroo of dry inland grasslands and other habitats in Australia. It hops on powerful hind legs and uses its long tail for balance.

• Rufous Potoo Phyllaemulor bracteatus

  The Rufous Potoo is a nocturnal bird with deep rufous plumage and conspicuous white spots. By day it can look like a dead leaf while perched on a branch.

• Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella

  An ocean-foraging fur seal that breeds on South Georgia and other islands around Antarctica and in the subantarctic.

• Patagonian Mockingbird Mimus patagonicus

  About 23 cm long, this bird has grey-brown upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and an ochre belly. It uses shrub steppe and searches the ground for insects and worms.

• Jolly's Mouse Lemur Microcebus jollyae

  Jolly's mouse lemur is a small nocturnal lemur recorded in southeastern Madagascar. Rainforest research has also studied its role in carrying seeds.

• Black-bibbed Tit Poecile hypermelaenus

  This tit ranges from central and eastern China through southeastern Tibet to western Myanmar. It searches for insects in open woodland and forest edges.

• Milne-Edwards' Sifaka Propithecus edwardsi

  This sifaka lives in southeastern Madagascar. It clings to tree trunks and leaps between trees with its long hind legs.

• Taiwan Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus musicus

  The Taiwan Scimitar Babbler is endemic to Taiwan. It has a pale face marked with dark head stripes and uses its long, downcurved bill to search low vegetation and forest edges.

• Ladak Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) ladacensis

  The Ladak Pika is a large pika living in groups in open high-elevation habitats of Ladakh. A study in Changthang observed it gathering plants and storing them in haypiles.

• African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus

  The African Golden Oriole breeds in tree-rich savannas south of the Sahara and moves seasonally between regions.

• Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi

  This jerboa is recorded from deserts of southern and southeastern Mongolia and northern China. Mongolian samples show sex-related and geographic variation in skull size.

• White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra

  Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.

• Southern Ningaui Ningaui yvonnae

  This small marsupial lives in semi-arid parts of southern Australia. It has short light-brown fur and a long, thin tail, and occurs in open heath and low mallee scrub.

• White-fronted Manakin Lepidothrix serena

  This small manakin inhabits humid forest north of the Amazon and in the Guianas; it also occurs at forest edges.

• Bristly Mouse Neacomys spinosus

  The bristly mouse occurs in Amazonian forests of South America, from lowland evergreen forest to montane forest.

• African Broadbill Smithornis capensis

  This small bird has two separated ranges: coastal West Africa and a larger area from Uganda to southern Africa. It perches quietly in forest and feeds on invertebrates.

• 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.

• Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrochalybeia

  The Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher is found only on São Tomé. It uses forest understory and midstory, including shaded lowland cocoa plantations, and has been recorded catching insects over rivers.

• Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata

  The marbled cat is a wild cat of forests from South Asia to Southeast Asia. Its marble-like markings and unusually long tail are distinctive.