Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern gray squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) carolinensis

  

  A tree squirrel native to eastern North America. Gray coats are typical, though dark individuals also occur.

• Noisy Scrubbird Atrichornis clamosus

  The Noisy Scrub-bird has short wings and strong legs and moves along the ground and through low shrubs. It occurs on the mainland of southwestern Western Australia.

• Caribbean Least Funnel-eared Bat Chilonatalus micropus

  The Caribbean Least Funnel-eared Bat is a small bat with pale yellow-brown fur. It is recorded on Caribbean islands and Colombian islands, where it roosts in humid caves.

• Common Buzzard Buteo buteo

  In the UK, Common Buzzards circle on broad wings and search woods and open countryside for small prey.

• Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin

  The Hoatzin has a long tail and crest; young birds have claws on their wings that help them grip branches.

• Pacarana Dinomys branickii

  The pacarana is a large rodent of Andean rainforest slopes and valleys from Colombia to Bolivia, with conspicuous pale markings on its back and flanks.

• Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus

  A semiaquatic rodent that lives in wetlands and along waterways in North America.

• Black Butcherbird Cracticus quoyi

  A black bird with a strong bill hooked at the tip. James Cook University's page documents a campus-area occurrence in Cairns.

• Peleng Tarsier Tarsius pelengensis

  The Peleng tarsier is a primate found on Peleng Island, Indonesia. Field work from 2016 to 2018 recorded individuals traveling alone or in groups and using several trees as sleeping sites.

• Sand Martin Riparia riparia

  A small martin with a grey-brown back, pale underside, and dark chest band. In Britain it arrives from Africa in spring to breed, digging nest burrows in sandy banks near water.

• Noronha Vireo Vireo gracilirostris

  The Noronha Vireo is a small bird confined to the main island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil. A paper including field observations from 1973 recorded it in wooded and scrubby areas, but not in the cleared center.

• Pel's Anomalure Anomalurus pelii

  Pel's anomalure is a gliding squirrel with scaly structures on its tail. It occurs in high forest in West Africa.

• Gray whale Eschrichtius robustus

  A mottled gray whale of the North Pacific, with a low hump in place of a dorsal fin.

• Black-headed Brush Finch Arremon atricapillus

  The Black-headed Brush Finch occurs in eastern Panama and the Colombian Andes. A comparative study found a mostly solid black head, a larger bill and higher, faster song than in the related A. assimilis. It is recorded in evergreen, secondary and elfin forest.

• Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus

  A daytime termite hunter with pale bands across its back.

• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola

  A wader with mottled plumage that blends into woodland and feeds in nearby fields at night.

• Pygmy Bushtit Psaltria exilis

  This tiny bird occurs only in the mountains of western and central Java. It feeds on insects and moves actively through the lower forest in small flocks.

• Giant Atlantic Tree-rat Phyllomys thomasi

  A spiny rat known only from São Sebastião Island off southeastern Brazil. Its back bears reddish-brown spines, and much of the island is Atlantic rainforest.

• Spinner dolphin Stenella longirostris

  A long-beaked dolphin known for spinning as it leaps out of the water.

• Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus

  The Yellow-crowned Gonolek is about 23 cm long. It uses acacia thornbush savanna and woodland, searching branches and foliage for invertebrates.

• East African Spring Hare Pedetes surdaster

  The East African springhare's fur fluoresces orange to red under ultraviolet light. The examined specimens included animals from Kenya and Tanzania, but the ecological role of the glow remains unknown.

• Little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis

  A small waterbird of lakes, ponds and slow rivers. It dives for fish and other prey and raises young on nests that appear to float.

• Indian Spotted Creeper Salpornis spilonota

  This small bird searches tree trunks for insects. It has spotted and barred plumage and uses a slender curved bill to pick prey from bark.

• Greater Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) myotis

  The greater mouse-eared bat is a large bat found in western, central and southern Europe and Asia Minor.