Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great Skua Stercorarius skua

  

  The Great Skua is a stout, dark seabird with white flashes on its wings. It sometimes steals food from other birds.

• White-bellied Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) noctivagus

  

  The white-bellied slender opossum has dull reddish-brown dorsal fur. In a lowland Peruvian rainforest study, it was recorded in both terrestrial and lower arboreal small-mammal communities.

• Macquarie Shag Leucocarbo purpurascens

  

  This seabird is endemic to Macquarie Island and the nearby Bishop and Clerk islets. It fishes in inshore water and breeds in colonies on rocky shores and stacks.

• Wagner’s Gerbil Dipodillus (Petteromys) dasyurus

  

  Wagner’s Gerbil is currently listed as Gerbillus dasyurus. A Saudi Arabian field guide describes it in rocky terrain and limestone escarpments, where it shelters among rocks or under bushes and feeds mainly on seeds and succulent plants.

• Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca

  

  Its long, downcurved bill and bare black head are distinctive. It forages in wetlands and floodplains, probing shallow water, mud and grassland.

• Large Tree Shrew Tupaia tana

  

  The large tree shrew lives in forests on Borneo. It searches mainly for invertebrates on the forest floor and digs into the soil with its claws.

• Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga

  An East African waxbill of grassland and scrub. The male has a grey head and red rump; it feeds on grass seeds and insects.

• Bonin flying fox Pteropus pselaphon

  A large fruit-eating bat native only to the Ogasawara Islands.

• Sichuan Treecreeper Certhia tianquanensis

  The Sichuan Treecreeper is associated with old fir forest in the mountains of Sichuan. It has a long tail and very short bill, and forages on fir trunks.

• Merriam's Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys merriami

  Merriam's pocket gopher is patchily distributed in the southern Valley of Mexico and nearby highlands.

• Least Bittern Botaurus exilis

  A small heron of freshwater and brackish marshes with tall aquatic plants. It may wait motionless among reeds and watch for small prey.

• Short-tailed Mongoose Urva brachyura

  The short-tailed mongoose occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. It searches the forest floor for prey by day and is generally solitary.

• Amethyst-throated Sunangel Heliangelus amethysticollis

  This hummingbird lives in forests along the eastern Andes. The male has a green body and an amethyst throat, while the female is duller with a rufous-brown throat. Nectar is its main food.

• North Andean Huemul Hippocamelus antisensis

  The North Andean huemul moves across steep Andean slopes on short, strong legs. The male’s branched antlers and dark Y-shaped facial mark are distinctive.

• Rufous-necked Snowfinch Pyrgilauda ruficollis

  The Rufous-necked Snowfinch lives in highlands such as the Tibetan Plateau and has a rufous patch on the side of the neck.

• Black Dwarf Porcupine Coendou nycthemera

  The black dwarf porcupine has records from the Amazon region. Its dorsal quill pattern helps distinguish it from similar species, but its range is still poorly defined.

• Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla

  This warbler occurs in scattered forests across southern and eastern Africa. It forages actively among leaves in the mid-stratum and canopy of mature evergreen forest. It is small and slender, with a narrow bill, a relatively long tail, and a dark line through the eye.

• Bearded Pig Sus barbatus

  A wild pig with bristles around the mouth and chin. Group movement varies with forest continuity.

• Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris

  A small bird of open country in North America that searches the ground for seeds and insects. Short feathers on the male’s head can rise like tiny horns.

• Herbert River Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus herbertensis

  This marsupial has a black body with white markings on its chest and belly. It is mainly arboreal, active at night, and eats leaves.

• Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot Loriculus aurantiifrons

  A small green parrot with red on the lower throat and rump. It lives in wooded lowlands and foothills on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Buffy-tufted Marmoset Callithrix aurita

  It has a black body, short tufts extending from the ears, and a white to light tan face. It occurs in montane rain forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Gray-collared Becard Pachyramphus major

  The Gray-collared Becard is described from semi-open forests in Mexico and Guatemala. Males have a black cap and back with a pale grey nape and underside; females have a brown crown and back.

• Nilgiri Marten Martes gwatkinsii

  A marten recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India.