Meet the world’s animals.

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• Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew Rhynchocyon chrysopygus

  

  The golden-rumped elephant shrew searches the ground for small prey with its long snout and lives along Kenya’s coast.

• Craveri's Murrelet Synthliboramphus craveri

  Craveri's Murrelet is a small seabird that nests on islands off western Mexico; some wander north to California's offshore waters in late summer.

• White-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur albifrons

  The male's white face makes the sexes easy to distinguish. This lemur lives in forests of northeastern Madagascar and mainly eats fruit, young leaves, and flowers.

• Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus

  The Black-rumped Buttonquail occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and lives on the ground in grassland and grassy savanna. Females are larger and brighter than males, with a rufous face and throat, pale belly and dark rump.

• domestic ferret Mustela furo

  The domestic ferret is a slender member of the weasel family that lives with people. Ferrets in human care come in several coat-color forms.

• Chestnut-crowned Gnateater Conopophaga castaneiceps

  Males have a chestnut head and a white plume behind the eye; females also have a white postocular plume, with chestnut on the forehead and throat. It forages near the ground in humid montane forest.

• Baikal Seal Pusa sibirica

  A freshwater seal found only in Lake Baikal, with occasional records in rivers connected to the lake.

• Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata

  The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown crown, and a streaked pale underside. It searches branches for insects in southeastern Australian eucalypt woodland.

• Pyrenean Chamois Rupicapra pyrenaica

  The Pyrenean chamois is a bovid with a dark band across the eyes and hooked horns. The plants it eats change with the seasons.

• Black-headed Jay Garrulus lanceolatus

  A jay with blue wings and a gray head, it searches for a varied diet in trees and on the ground.

• Sulawesi Warty Pig Sus celebensis

  The Sulawesi warty pig is a wild pig native to Sulawesi. Its dark coat is mixed with yellowish or white hairs, and it is an omnivore that eats roots, fruit, and other foods.

• Buff-throated Purpletuft Iodopleura pipra

  This small bird inhabits Brazil’s eastern Atlantic Forest. Field observations report male flank tufts and feeding and nesting activity at forest edges.

• Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou mexicanus

  This porcupine ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to western Panama. Long quills hide beneath coarse black hairs, and its long tail can grip branches.

• Violet turaco Tauraco violaceus

  A deep-purple bird that moves through trees by hopping along branches.

• Brown Capuchin Cebus brunneus

  It has a long, thick coat, a pale yellowish-grey face and a V-shaped crown patch. It lives in forests in northern Venezuela.

• Andean Tinamou Nothoprocta pentlandii

  This bird forages in Andean scrub, grassland, and other open habitats. Its upperparts have intricate dark markings and pale streaks, with a fine dark line behind the eye.

• 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.

• Karamoja Apalis Apalis karamojae

  The Karamoja Apalis occurs in northern Uganda's mountains. A 2019 survey in northeastern Uganda recorded its gray-and-white plumage and insects taken from acacia.

• Palawan Tree Shrew Tupaia palawanensis

  This treeshrew occurs around Palawan. Its ochre back has a dark central stripe, and its species-specific diet has not been studied.

• Solomons Frogmouth Rigidipenna inexpectata

  The Solomons Frogmouth is a nocturnal forest bird of the Solomon Islands. It has fewer tail feathers than other frogmouths and conspicuous white spots on the breast and belly.

• Moluccan Flying Fox Pteropus chrysoproctus

  The Moluccan flying fox is reported from islands in the Moluccas. A survey on Seram reported a roost of about 300 animals in mangrove trees.

• Hooded Berryeater Carpornis cucullata

  The Hooded Berryeater lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Males have a black hood extending onto the chest and upper back, above vivid yellow underparts. A southern study recorded fruit feeding throughout the year.

• Moonrat Echinosorex gymnurus

  The moonrat is usually black except for its white head and tail tip. It is recorded from the southern Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra.

• Western Bowerbird Chlamydera guttata

  The Western Bowerbird is an inland Australian bird with reddish spots and a yellowish underside. Males build avenue-like bowers from sticks, decorate them with objects such as bones and shells, and display to attract females.