Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sand cat Felis margarita

  

  A desert cat with pale sandy fur, large ears, and fur-covered foot pads.

• Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri

  

  This starling lives in wooded savanna and dry open thornveld in East Africa. It forages on the ground for insects and berries, in pairs or small flocks.

• Greater Slow Loris Nycticebus coucang

  

  This slow loris is notable for its large forward-facing eyes. It moves through trees at night and eats floral nectar, sap, fruit, and small insects.

• Yellow-breasted Bowerbird Chlamydera lauterbachi

  

  The Yellow-breasted Bowerbird lives in eastern and central New Guinea, where males build an avenue-shaped bower and decorate it with blue fruit and stones to court females.

• Angolan Slender Mongoose Galerella flavescens

  

  This mongoose is known from southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. Angolan animals are tan or yellowish, while Namibian animals are nearly black with a reddish tinge. In Namibia it lives among large granite boulders and the drainages and woodlands connecting them.

• Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti

  

  The Algerian Nuthatch is a small bird endemic to mountain forests in northeastern Algeria. Recent breeding research has monitored nests in several forests.

• Cape Fox Vulpes chama

  A small fox of southern Africa and the smallest member of the dog family.

• White-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis ruficeps

  This parrotbill ranges from northeast India east of Sikkim to Bhutan and adjacent Tibet. It uses bamboo near broadleaf evergreen forest and may be seen in small groups.

• Silvery Marmoset Mico argentatus

  The silvery marmoset varies from white to dark brown and has hairless face and ears. It eats fruit, animal prey, and gums, and sleeps in tree hollows and dense vegetation.

• Spotted Jewel-babbler Ptilorrhoa leucosticta

  The Spotted Jewel-babbler lives in montane forest on New Guinea. It walks on the forest floor in search of insects and other small animals.

• Long-tailed Colilargo Oligoryzomys longicaudatus

  A small rice rat found in Chile and Argentina. It has a long tail and is mostly nocturnal and terrestrial, though it climbs well.

• Western Corella Cacatua pastinator

  This white cockatoo is native only to Western Australia. Its subspecies occupy different areas within the state.

• Small-toothed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur microdon

  The small-toothed sportive lemur lives in rainforests of southeastern Madagascar. It mainly eats leaves, and also uses flowers and fruit when available.

• Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus

  The Hoary-headed Grebe is a diving bird of fresh and brackish waters in Australia. Breeding adults show fine pale streaks on the head.

• Angolan Genet Genetta angolensis

  The Angolan genet inhabits open miombo woodland interspersed with savanna. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night with camera traps and night transects.

• Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis

  The Bengal Florican lives in grasslands and has strongly different adult male and female plumage.

• Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur Cheirogaleus medius

  The fat-tailed dwarf lemur stores fat in its tail and uses those reserves during its season of torpor.

• Tawny-collared Nightjar Antrostomus salvini

  A nightjar of the lowlands of northeastern Mexico, inhabiting dry scrub and open areas with scattered bushes.

• Western Woolly Lemur Avahi occidentalis

  The western woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of western Madagascar's forests. It has thick grayish fur and lives in small family groups.

• Indian Grassbird Graminicola bengalensis

  The Indian Grassbird is a ground-dwelling bird of freshwater wetlands and tall grass. It has a reddish-brown back and rump and a long tail with a white tip.

• Isabelle's Serotine Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) isabellinus

  Eptesicus isabellinus is recorded from southern Iberia into northwestern Africa. Its account lists environments from Mediterranean woodland to semidesert.

• Yellow-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier

  The Yellow-vented Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a yellow vent. In Singapore it occurs from coastal scrub to parks and urban areas.

• Fawn Hopping Mouse Notomys cervinus

  The fawn hopping mouse is an Australian rodent with long hind legs for hopping. It shelters in a burrow by day and has been recorded in small family groups.

• Quail-plover Ortyxelos meiffrenii

  This small bird walks through dry grassland. Males have rufous and black-and-white markings, and only males incubate the eggs.