Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey-rumped Swiftlet Collocalia marginata

  

  A swiftlet of the Philippines, it has white-edged rump feathers, with the extent of white varying between birds and regions.

• Tres Marias Cottontail Sylvilagus graysoni

  The Tres Marias cottontail is restricted to the Tres Marias Islands off Mexico. It has a brown throat patch and is usually active on the ground at night.

• Loja Tapaculo Scytalopus androstictus

  The Loja Tapaculo occurs in the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru, in scrub near the tree line. A 2010 paper described this population under the subspecies name Scytalopus opacus androstictus.

• Agile Gracile Opossum Gracilinanus agilis

  The agile gracile opossum is a small marsupial with long digits and a grasping tail. It forages both in trees and on the ground.

• Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis

  This thick-knee has large yellow eyes and long legs. It uses dry, open ground in Africa, including places near water.

• Western Rock Elephant Shrew Elephantulus rupestris

  This sengi lives in arid parts of southern Africa. It is recorded around rocky ridges and outcrops, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, with a range extending into southwestern Angola and extreme southern Botswana.

• Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis

  It breeds only on a plateau on Amsterdam Island and normally breeds every other year.

• Fawn-colored Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cervinus

  The Queensland species profile places this bat in the north of the state and describes it hunting insects at night and roosting in caves or mines.

• Gray Pratincole Glareola cinerea

  The Gray Pratincole catches flying insects on the wing and lives around large rivers in West Africa, where it rests and nests on sandbanks.

• Wied's Black-tufted-ear Marmoset Callithrix kuhlii

  A small monkey of coastal forests in Brazil that feeds on tree sap, fruit, and insects.

• Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis

  Adults are pale gray with darker gray wings and a black tail, and fly on long, pointed wings. They breed in the United States and migrate to South America afterward.

• Peters' Mouse Lemur Microcebus myoxinus

  Peters's mouse lemur is a small primate of western Madagascar. At night it searches for fruit and insects in trees, usually foraging alone.

• Chestnut-capped Babbler Timalia pileata

  The Chestnut-capped Babbler is a small, skulking bird. A field study in southern West Bengal recorded it in grasslands along the Rupnarayan and Damodar rivers.

• Common Wallaroo Osphranter robustus

  The common wallaroo is a kangaroo relative that lives among rocky and mountainous areas and open woodlands on mainland Australia.

• Alor Myzomela Myzomela prawiradilagae

  This honeyeater is known only from Alor Island, Indonesia. Its original description reports that it is mainly recorded in montane eucalypt woodland, mostly above 900 m.

• Otter Civet Cynogale bennettii

  The Otter Civet is a Southeast Asian viverrid that lives near rivers and wetlands. It has long whiskers and webbed feet, and is nocturnal.

• Starry Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles tatei

  This owlet-nightjar inhabits New Guinea’s lowland rainforest, with records in southern Papua New Guinea and along the Muyu River on the Indonesian side.

• Northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris

  A seal of the eastern and central North Pacific. It dives to feed and comes ashore to breed and molt.

• Grey Tinamou Tinamus tao

  A large tinamou ranging from the eastern Andes to Brazil’s savanna woodland. It feeds mainly on fruit on the forest floor.

• Amazon Black Howler Alouatta nigerrima

  This howler monkey has mostly black fur and lives in the south-central Amazon of Brazil. It feeds on leaves and fruit in the trees and lives in groups.

• Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone affinis

  It launches from high branches to catch insects in the air. Females and first-winter birds have conspicuous chestnut backs and tails.

• Gray Monk Saki Pithecia irrorata

  The gray monk saki lives in South American forests. Its gray coat and white hands and feet stand out.

• White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea

  The White-throated Treecreeper forages along tree trunks in the moist forests of southeastern Australia.

• Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys microps

  A narrow face and small ears frame the gray-brown back and white underside of this kangaroo rat. It is semi-fossorial and nocturnal, with a range across dry country in the western United States.