Meet the world’s animals.

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• Santarém Marmoset Mico humeralifer

  

  The Santarém marmoset is a small monkey from a limited area of northern Brazil. Pale ear tufts and alternating black and silvery rings on its tail are distinctive.

• Pallid Honeyguide Indicator meliphilus

  

  The Pallid Honeyguide is a small bird about 13 cm long. It is active by day in woodland and forest edges, where it feeds on invertebrates such as insects.

• Lusitanian Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) lusitanicus

  

  This small vole is native to the Iberian Peninsula and makes underground passages in moist grassland soil.

• Least Auklet Aethia pusilla

  

  The Least Auklet is a very small seabird that breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and Alaska. It nests in rock crevices and eats small animals from the sea.

• Milne-Edwards' Sportive Lemur Lepilemur edwardsi

  

  This nocturnal lemur lives in western Madagascar's dry deciduous forests. It leaps among trees and mainly eats leaves.

• Grey-crowned Greenbul Xanthomixis cinereiceps

  

  It lives in eastern Madagascar's middle- and high-elevation rainforest. It forages along mossy branches in the mid-story and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Feline Genet Genetta felina

  This genet occurs in southern Africa. It has a pale grey coat with a continuous black line down the middle of its back, and uses grassland, open woodland and thickets.

• Brown-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon gularis

  This kingfisher occurs in the Philippines. Its brown breast and blue wings stand out, and it takes small animals in open country and along forest edges.

• Golden-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis

  This is a small, golden-brown lemur. At study sites in northwestern Madagascar, it searched for food alone in trees at night and was recorded resting in tree holes and similar places.

• Sabota Lark Calendulauda sabota

  This lark has a noticeable white eyebrow. It searches the ground for insects and seeds in savanna and open woodland. Plumage and bill thickness vary by region.

• Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli

  Coquerel’s Sifaka is a lemur with a mostly white coat and chestnut patches on its chest and limbs. It leaps between trees and eats mainly leaves.

• Rufous-capped Motmot Baryphthengus ruficapillus

  The Rufous-capped Motmot has a rufous head and blue-green eyebrow. It perches in the lower forest canopy and eats insects and small animals.

• Kuhl's pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii

  Kuhl's pipistrelle is a small bat found from the Mediterranean region through West Asia to South Asia. It also lives around farmland and towns, catching small insects in flight.

• American Avocet Recurvirostra americana

  The American Avocet has long legs and a slender, upturned bill that it sweeps through shallow water for food.

• Smoky Pseudomys Pseudomys fumeus

  The smoky mouse lives in isolated populations in southeastern mainland Australia. Its dark grey fur and long pink tail are easy to distinguish.

• Amazonian Umbrellabird Cephalopterus ornatus

  The Amazonian Umbrellabird is a large cotinga with a black body, bushy crest, and heavy bill. It feeds on fruit and large insects in forests of the Amazon basin and the eastern Andean foothills.

• Chacoan Tuco-tuco Ctenomys conoveri

  Conover's Tuco-tuco is a fossorial rodent of the Gran Chaco in Bolivia and Paraguay. It has a robust cylindrical body and builds branching burrows.

• Eastern buzzard Buteo japonicus

  A raptor with a brown back and paler brown underside, distributed from Siberia through Mongolia and China to Japan.

• North African Elephant Shrew Petrosaltator rozeti

  The North African elephant shrew occurs in the Maghreb north of the Sahara. It uses rocky, boulder-strewn habitats and is described as lacking facial markings that distinguish some related genera.

• Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus

  A long white eyebrow, cinnamon plumage and often upturned tail distinguish the Carolina Wren. It lives in woods and dense vegetation; pairs stay in the same territory year-round.

• Transcaucasian Water Shrew Neomys teres

  The Transcaucasian Water Shrew is a semiaquatic shrew found in the Black Sea highlands of Turkey. It usually favors the edges of small streams and creeks.

• Kalkadoon Grasswren Amytornis ballarae

  This grasswren lives on rocky hills near Mount Isa, moving on the ground through spinifex clumps. Its range and biology remain incompletely studied.

• Red-collared Brown Lemur Eulemur collaris

  This lemur is notable for reddish-brown fur around its neck and orange-red eyes. Its tail is longer than its body and helps it balance as it moves through trees.

• Mayan Antthrush Formicarius moniliger

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in humid forests from southern Mexico to central Honduras. The sexes have similar plumage: olive-brown above, black on the throat, and gray on the breast and belly. It walks on the forest floor while searching for insects and land snails.