Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Right Whale Dolphin Lissodelphis peronii

  

  A slender dolphin without a dorsal fin, it has a black back and white underside and may travel in large groups in cool southern offshore waters.

• Cricket Warbler Spiloptila clamans

  The Cricket Warbler is a pale, long-tailed bird of the Sahel. It lives in dry acacia scrub and savanna, often in pairs or small family groups.

• Golden bamboo lemur Hapalemur aureus

  The golden bamboo lemur mainly eats young parts of bamboo. It occurs in southeastern Madagascar's forests.

• Pohnpei Broadbill Myiagra pluto

  Myiagra pluto is confined to Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. It also occurs at forest edges and village gardens, catching insects from low perches.

• Emilia's Marmoset Mico emiliae

  Emilia's Marmoset is a small monkey marked by a blackish crown, white brow, grayish-brown back, and black tail. A survey in the southern Brazilian Amazon recorded it in regenerating areas with many lianas.

• Ayacucho Antpitta Grallaria ayacuchensis

  This antpitta is known from the eastern Andean slope of Ayacucho, Peru. A 2020 taxonomic paper described dark reddish-brown upperparts, a paler lower belly, and a male collected in a Chusquea thicket in secondary forest.

• Nelson's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys nelsoni

  Nelson's spiny pocket mouse is known from cool, wet montane slopes. A comparison with another species describes its longer skull, larger ears, and soft dorsal fur.

• Hooded Tinamou Nothocercus nigrocapillus

  Its head and upper neck are dusky, its throat is white, and its brown body has whitish specks on the wings and back. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and usually walks alone on the forest floor.

• Long-tailed Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus

  A small bat of New Zealand. At dusk it flies along forest edges and catches insects.

• Sulawesi Masked Owl Tyto rosenbergii

  The Sulawesi Masked Owl is a nocturnal owl with a pale grey, heart-shaped facial disc edged in rufous. It is thought to hunt small animals over open farmland and forest edges.

• Golden-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis

  This is a small, golden-brown lemur. At study sites in northwestern Madagascar, it searched for food alone in trees at night and was recorded resting in tree holes and similar places.

• Jungle Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus

  The Jungle Nightjar is a nocturnal bird whose intricate gray-brown pattern blends into trees or the ground. It also occurs in grassy and scrubby places, not only in forest.

• Eastern Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) humulis

  This small mouse uses grassland and early-successional habitats, is mainly nocturnal, and builds grass-fiber nests.

• Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana

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

• Darwin's Fox Lycalopex fulvipes

  Darwin's fox is a small fox of southern Chilean forests. Its dark coat and reddish backs of the ears are distinctive; separate populations occur on Chiloé Island and the mainland.

• Banded Cotinga Cotinga maculata

  The Banded Cotinga has shimmering blue and purple plumage in males; females are much less conspicuous and brown. Records from Brazil's eastern coast place it high in forest canopies.

• Striped skunk Mephitis mephitis

  A North American skunk with a black coat, white markings and a bushy tail.

• Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima

  A large kingfisher of sub-Saharan African waters, hunting fish, crabs, and other prey.

• Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon plicatus

  The 2018 study describes a relatively narrow wing shape in bats reported as Chaerephon plicatus. In a 2018 study of two central Thailand roost caves, brown planthoppers were common in droppings during rice growing; other insects appeared during the fallow period.

• Golden-plumed Parakeet Leptosittaca branickii

  The Golden-plumed Parakeet lives in Andean forests from Colombia south to Peru. Adults are mostly green, with yellow plumes behind the eyes and orange tones on the belly.

• Lesser capybara Hydrochoerus isthmius

  The lesser capybara is a species in the capybara genus, ranging from eastern Panama into northwestern South America. It has coarse, dark reddish-brown fur and uses waterside habitat.

• Guianan Schiffornis Schiffornis olivacea

  This bird lives in humid forest from eastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil. It is olive brown and often perches low.

• Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina

  The common dunnart is a small marsupial of eastern and southern Australia. It searches for insects at night and rests in a nest or shallow burrow by day.

• Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis

  A raptor with a long crest and white wing markings. It hunts small mammals in open country with trees.