Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-footed cat Felis nigripes

  

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

• Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca

  

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

• 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.

• Blue Mountain Vireo Vireo osburni

  

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Masked palm civet Paguma larvata

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

• 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.

• Mountain Tree Shrew Tupaia montana

  This treeshrew lives in the mountain forests of northern Borneo. It is an omnivore that uses the ground and climbs, and a mountain study reported body-weight variation with elevation.

• Golden-headed Quetzal Pharomachrus auriceps

  The Golden-headed Quetzal lives among trees in humid mountain forests. Its iridescent green plumage and red belly are striking.

• 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.

• Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus

  The Long-tailed Jaeger is a slender seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and hunts lemmings during the breeding season. Outside that season, it travels to oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Brant's Climbing Mouse Dendromus mesomelas

  Brant's Climbing Mouse moves through and climbs low vegetation. Near Cape Town, it was recorded building a ball-shaped grass nest inside old weaver nests.

• Clicking Shieldbill Peltops blainvillii

  The Clicking Shieldbill lives in lowland New Guinea forest and also uses clearings and gardens. It waits on a perch before sallying after flying insects.

• Pantropical spotted dolphin Stenella attenuata

  A warm-water dolphin whose spots increase as it grows.

• Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana

  The Bar-tailed Treecreeper lives in mountain forests and searches for small food items on trunks and branches.

• Black Capuchin Sapajus nigritus

  Its back ranges from brown to black and the underside from yellow to dark reddish brown. In one group studied at an urbanized park in Brazil, foraging was frequent and stone use to crack palm seeds was recorded.

• Arfak Astrapia Astrapia nigra

  The Arfak Astrapia is a bird-of-paradise of montane forest in western New Guinea. The male has iridescent plumage and a long tail; the female is smaller and darker.

• Fierce Bonneted Bat Eumops ferox

  This bat is recorded in Cuba. Its historical description gives pale-based brown back fur and blackish-brown cheeks and chin. A capture inside a house in Cárdenas has also been reported.

• Magpie Mannikin Lonchura fringilloides

  This small African bird occurs near water, bamboo, and village gardens. In the account’s northern form, the head and neck are glossy black, with a white belly and barred flanks. Oiseaux.net records its transfer from Lonchura to Spermestes.

• Saiga Saiga tatarica

  An antelope distinguished by a large nose that hangs over the mouth.

• Golden-breasted Starling Lamprotornis regius

  This starling lives in dry savanna from Ethiopia to northeastern Tanzania. Adults have blue-green upperparts and golden underparts; females have shorter tails than males.

• Marsh Rabbit Sylvilagus palustris

  The marsh rabbit is a wetland rabbit of the southeastern United States that eats grasses and other marsh plants.

• Sulawesi Cicadabird Coracina morio

  It occurs in forests on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. The male is dark slate-blue, with a darker head and black face, throat, and upper breast.