Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chinese Dormouse Chaetocauda sichuanensis

  

  The Chinese dormouse was described from subalpine forest in northern Sichuan. Its original description notes large eyes and a tail ending in a tuft of dense fur.

• Abbott's Booby Papasula abbotti

  

  Abbott’s Booby is a seabird that nests high in forest trees on Christmas Island and catches fish and squid at sea.

• Daurian Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) dauurica

  

  The Daurian Pika is a small herbivore with short legs and rounded ears. It digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert habitats and feeds on vegetation.

• Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen

  

  The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black-and-white bird found across Australia. Its back pattern varies by sex and region.

• Common Bear Cuscus Ailurops ursinus

  

  The common bear cuscus is an arboreal marsupial that moves slowly through trees with its grasping tail and forefeet and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Brown-breasted Barbet Lybius melanopterus

  

  This East African barbet occurs in coastal and riverine woodland and savanna. It has a red cap and throat, a brown upper breast, and white lower parts.

• Phillips' Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys phillipsii

  Phillips' kangaroo rat is a small rodent of sandy ground and short grasslands on the Mexican Plateau. It emerges at night and carries food in its cheek pouches.

• Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii

  A large loon with a black head, white back spots, and a pale yellow bill in breeding plumage. In Alaska it uses northern and western lakes in summer and nearshore waters in winter.

• Northern Sportive Lemur Lepilemur septentrionalis

  The northern sportive lemur lives at the northern tip of Madagascar. It is active at night and rests in trees.

• Black-browed Tit Aegithalos bonvaloti

  A 2013 Indian BIRDS paper reports photographs of this tit near Namti and Walong in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. The observed group held six to seven birds and used an open area with ferns and scattered pines.

• Etendeka Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides micus

  This small sengi has been recorded near the Etendeka volcanic formation in northwestern Namibia. It has rust-colored fur and a hairless gland on the underside of the tail. It is nocturnal and uses the space beneath rocks as a daytime shelter.

• Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami

  The Australian Brush-turkey is a large bird with dark plumage, a bare red head, and a yellow wattle. It rakes leaf litter for food, and males use mounds of vegetation to warm the eggs.

• Dusky Dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus

  This dolphin is recorded widely in temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a blue-black back and a diagonal dark band along each side.

• Silver-breasted Broadbill Serilophus lunatus

  The Silver-breasted Broadbill has a broad black eyebrow and a pale blue bill. It feeds on insects in the middle and upper levels of forest, where it often sits quietly on a high perch.

• Common Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea musteloides

  The common yellow-toothed cavy, or cui, is a guinea pig-like rodent from South America. Its coat varies from light to dark brown, and its white underside has a sharp boundary along the flanks. It is most active at dawn and dusk and lives in mixed-sex groups.

• Banded Wattle-eye Platysteira laticincta

  This small bird lives in the montane forests of western Cameroon. The male has a broad blue-black band across its white belly and a red bare wattle above the eye.

• Spix's White-fronted Capuchin Cebus unicolor

  This capuchin occurs in the upper Brazilian Amazon. Its specialist handbook account lists lowland and seasonally flooded forest and describes a diet of fruits and invertebrates.

• Roseate spoonbill Platalea ajaja

  A pink waterbird with a large spoon-shaped bill.

• Channel Islands Gray Fox Urocyon littoralis

  This small fox lives only on six of the Channel Islands off California. Each island has its own distinct subspecies.

• Oriental Plover Charadrius veredus

  This migratory plover searches for insects in dry, open country. The breeding male has broad orange and black breast bands, while nonbreeding plumage is mottled brown.

• Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella

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

• Glossy-backed Becard Pachyramphus surinamus

  This becard occurs in the Guianas and lower Amazon region. It searches for insects and fruit in the upper and middle parts of humid forest.

• Harbor seal Phoca vitulina

  A rounded head and short front flippers distinguish this seal. It has ears, but no external ear flaps.

• Sickle-billed Vanga Falculea palliata

  The Sickle-billed Vanga is a black-and-white bird with a long, slender bill that curves down. It searches among branches for food in Madagascar's forest and savanna habitats.