Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wallace's Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles wallacii

  

  Wallace’s Owlet-nightjar is active at night. Its plumage is mottled with several colors, and it occurs on New Guinea and some surrounding islands.

• Great Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus luctus

  

  Its long, woolly fur is dark gray-brown to black with pale tips. The Sunda Island populations treated as R. luctus in the 2019 account are recorded in tropical forest.

• Pohnpei Fantail Rhipidura kubaryi

  

  This fantail lives on Pohnpei and nearby larger lagoon islands in Micronesia. It moves through forest while fanning or wagging its white-tipped tail.

• Tibetan fox Vulpes ferrilata

  

  A fox of high grasslands and rocky slopes that eats pikas and other small animals.

• American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus

  

  A large shorebird that searches tidal flats and beaches for shellfish with its long orange-red bill.

• Spix's Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea spixii

  

  Spix's yellow-toothed cavy is a cavy-family rodent whose response to heat was studied in Brazil's northeastern Caatinga. Researchers examined how it releases heat through areas around the eyes and ears.

• Guinea turaco Tauraco persa

  A green bird with a tall crest and a long tail.

• New England cottontail Sylvilagus transitionalis

  The New England cottontail uses shrubland and dense thickets in young forest. It is difficult to distinguish visually from the related eastern cottontail.

• Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa

  The Golden-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird recognized by its yellow crown and searches for small prey in conifers.

• Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros ater

  The Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat is a small bat that feeds on flying insects. It has a leaf-like nose structure and roosts in dark, warm caves or rock crevices.

• Archbold's Newtonia Newtonia archboldi

  Archbold's Newtonia is a small bird of dry spiny forest and shrubland in southern Madagascar. It searches for spiders and insects on low branches.

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• Shaft-tailed Whydah Vidua regia

  The breeding male is striking for its long black tail and buff-orange body. After breeding, the birds join other seedeaters and reproduce by laying eggs in a host's nest.

• Coquerel's Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza coquereli

  This nocturnal lemur has large eyes and a long rusty tail. It moves through trees to forage in western Madagascar’s dry forests.

• 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.

• Hinde's Pouched Rat Beamys hindei

  Hinde's pouched rat is a relatively large, burrowing rodent that eats a range of plant matter, including seeds and roots. It has been studied in a montane forest reserve in southern Tanzania.

• Rufous-tailed Plantcutter Phytotoma rara

  This plant-eating bird lives in southern South America. It eats leaves and fruit and also occurs in gardens and orchards. Records from southern Chile include spring and summer observations.

• Volcan de Toluca Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys planiceps

  This pocket gopher is known from Mexico's volcanic region. Its back is dark, with lighter brown mixed into the fur along its sides.

• Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura

  The Fanti Saw-wing flies around moist woodland and water, catching small invertebrates in the air.

• Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Stenella frontalis

  This dolphin lives in warm Atlantic waters. Its spots develop with age and become darker and more widespread, while groups usually number fewer than 50 but sometimes reach about 200.

• Yellow Oriole Icterus nigrogularis

  This oriole ranges across northern South America. Males are yellow with black wings and face markings; females are duller. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Chestnut Long-tongued Bat Lionycteris spurrelli

  The chestnut long-tongued bat is a small bat with chestnut to dark brown fur on its back. It roosts in caves and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens

  This small, round-bodied bird has a very short tail and a slightly curved, relatively long bill. Its back is grey-brown, while the belly and flanks are cinnamon-buff.

• Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius

  The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.