Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cuban Gnatcatcher Polioptila lembeyei

  

  This Cuban endemic lives in coastal scrub. An older specimen account records a fine black line from the eye toward the ear-coverts, bluish-grey upperparts, and ashy-white underparts.

• Riverine Rabbit Bunolagus monticularis

  

  The riverine rabbit lives in separate areas of South Africa. It is active around dawn and dusk; some populations live along seasonal rivers.

• Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh

  

  A grey parrot of West African forests and adjoining habitats. It eats fruit and seeds and nests in high tree cavities.

• Commerson's Leaf-nosed Bat Macronycteris commersonii

  

  A bat found only in Madagascar. It eats beetles and has been recorded roosting by day in caves and vegetation.

• Japanese paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata

  

  A visitor to shaded forest with a blue bill and blue eye-rings.

• Western Ring-tailed Possum Pseudocheirus occidentalis

  

  A nocturnal marsupial of forests in south-western Australia. It eats leaves and other plant foods, then rests by day in leafy nests built among branches.

• Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rufigaster

  The Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon with a gray head, glossy green upperparts, a chestnut belly, and a purple sheen on the tail. It feeds on fruit in the forest canopy around New Guinea.

• Simmons' Mouse Lemur Microcebus simmonsi

  A small lemur recorded in eastern lowland rainforest in northeastern Madagascar. Its life in the wild is still not well documented.

• Sulawesi Drongo Dicrurus montanus

  A Togian Islands survey reported sightings and a nest-related observation of the Sulawesi Drongo. The source concerns a limited survey area off central Sulawesi.

• Eastern Spotted Skunk Spilogale putorius

  White stripes on the black body break into spots toward the rump. A 2015 survey in South Carolina recorded it at night in mixed and conifer-dominated forests.

• Red-browed Treecreeper Climacteris erythrops

  A small treecreeper that searches bark for invertebrates in rainforest and dense eucalypt woodland.

• White-bellied Nesomys Nesomys audeberti

  The white-bellied nesomys has ventral hairs that are white to their bases. In a Madagascar field study, the animals were also active during daylight.

• Yellow-billed Jacamar Galbula albirostris

  The male has a white throat, rich rufous underparts, and an iridescent green head and back. It waits on a forest perch and catches passing insects in flight.

• Botta's Pocket Gopher Megascapheus bottae

  This rodent digs underground tunnels with its large front claws and incisors. It carries food in cheek pouches outside its mouth.

• Scarlet-hooded Barbet Eubucco tucinkae

  Males have a red head and throat, green back, and yellow belly; females have a yellow throat. It occurs in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western Brazil, using riverine vegetation and bamboo-rich secondary growth.

• Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus

  A small whale with a bulging forehead and relatively short flippers, found in warm seas.

• Malaita Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx malaitae

  The Malaita Dwarf-Kingfisher is endemic to Malaita in the Solomon Islands.

• Dekeyser's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla dekeyseri

  Dekeyser's Nectar Bat is a small bat native to Brazil's Cerrado. It uses nectar and pollen, and a field study also recorded fruit and insect feeding.

• Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena

  This large albatross breeds on islands in the South Atlantic. Adults are mostly white, and birds range widely across the South Atlantic outside the breeding period.

• Woodland Jumping Mouse Napaeozapus insignis

  A small jumping mouse of northeastern North American forests. It is mostly active at night and spends a long part of winter hibernating.

• Smith's Longspur Calcarius pictus

  This longspur breeds in the Arctic and moves to central North American grasslands for winter.

• Common squirrel monkey Saimiri sciureus

  A small monkey that moves quickly between branches in tropical forests near rivers.

• Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus

  This is the coastal Striated Fieldwren. It is streaked with black, and males have white eyebrows and throats while females have brown ones. It is treated as a separate species from the inland Rufous Fieldwren.

• Hog deer Axis porcinus

  A stocky deer that moves with its head low under forest cover.