Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel Hydrobates tethys

  

  The Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel has separate breeding populations in the Galápagos and off South America. It lives at sea, and the populations differ in some features.

• Brown fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus

  

  A fur seal with separate subspecies in southern Africa and southern Australia. It lives at sea and comes ashore to breed.

• Eastern Subalpine Warbler Curruca cantillans

  

  The Eastern Subalpine Warbler is a small warbler that breeds around the Mediterranean and moves to the Sahara region for winter. Males are grey and brick-red, while females are brownish.

• 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.

• Eye-ringed Parrotbill Suthora ricketti

  

  The Eye-ringed Parrotbill is a small mountain bird of Yunnan, China. It has a dark eye-ring bordered by pale skin and is treated as a species separate from the Brown-winged Parrotbill.

• Indri Indri indri

  

  A lemur of northeastern Madagascar’s rainforests. It leaps between trees and eats leaves, fruit and other plant foods.

• White-chested Puffbird Malacoptila fusca

  This puffbird inhabits lowland evergreen forest in northwestern Amazonia and nearby regions. Its streaked plumage, small white collar, and orange bill base stand out; it feeds on spiders and caterpillars in the understory.

• Manchurian Pika Ochotona (Pika) mantchurica

  This pika is found in northeastern China. Recent research models suitable habitat in nearby areas, but predicted areas are not the same as confirmed occupied sites.

• Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii

  Retz's Helmetshrike lives in woodland south of the Sahara and forages in cohesive groups of several to more than a dozen birds.

• Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa Allactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica

  This jerboa is recorded in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and other parts of Asia. A specialist mammal account places it in dry steppe, semi-desert, and desert habitats. Coat colors and tail markings vary across its range, and genetic evidence may indicate that the broad current taxon includes more than one unnamed species.

• Mongolian Lark Melanocorypha mongolica

  This lark breeds in Mongolia and northern China, and moves as far as central China in winter.

• Butler's Dunnart Sminthopsis butleri

  This small carnivorous marsupial has a reported head-and-body length of 88 mm and a tail about 90 mm long. The report gives an average mass of 15–30 g.

• Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens

  The Rufous-winged Illadopsis searches the ground and low growth of West African evergreen forest. Its rufous-brown head and back contrast with pale underparts.

• Drylands Laucha Calomys musculinus

  The drylands laucha is a small mouse recorded around grassland and farmland in Argentina. It eats seeds and is mainly nocturnal, though daytime activity has also been reported.

• Blue-throated Barbet Psilopogon asiaticus

  The Blue-throated Barbet has a green body and blue throat and ranges through forests from South Asia to northern mainland Southeast Asia.

• Desert Spotted Skunk Spilogale leucoparia

  This skunk has black and white back stripes of nearly equal width in the Texas account. Most Texas capture records are from rocky bluffs, cliffs, or brush-lined canyon streams.

• Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca

  The Sooty Albatross is a large seabird with dusky plumage that ranges over the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean.

• Black-footed cat Felis nigripes

  A small cat with tawny fur, dark spots and bands, and black foot pads.

• Blue Mountain Vireo Vireo osburni

  This vireo lives in humid montane forests of north-western Jamaica and feeds within dense leaf cover.

• Cape Gray Mongoose Galerella pulverulenta

  This slender mongoose lives in southern Africa. It uses bushes and rocky areas and may dig for prey in the soil.

• Large-footed Tapaculo Scytalopus macropus

  This tapaculo lives in streamside forest in the central Peruvian Andes. Adults are uniformly blackish gray and are often encountered on the ground.

• Red Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) ruber

  The red myotis has bright cinnamon-red fur on its back and yellowish fur underneath. It is recorded in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, and has been captured in forest and building settings.

• New Guinea Megapode Megapodius decollatus

  The New Guinea Megapode lives in lowland and foothill forest. It has dark plumage, a reddish face, and a pointed crest at the back of the head, with large feet adapted for digging.

• Masked palm civet Paguma larvata

  A climbing civet that lives in forests and near human settlements.