Meet the world’s animals.

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• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.

• Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides

  The slaty-legged crake hides near the ground in dense forest and gives its loud calls at night.

• Australian snubfin dolphin Orcaella heinsohni

  The Australian snubfin dolphin has a rounded head and no beak, and lives in shallow coastal waters of northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea.

• Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda

  The Eastern Cattle Egret is mostly white, but its head, neck, and breast turn orange during breeding. It uses open grassland, fields, and wetlands and moves seasonally.

• Red-tailed Phascogale Phascogale calura

  This marsupial has a gray back, cream underside and a black brush at the end of its tail. It mainly lives in trees.

• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• Karoo Rock Sengi Elephantulus pilicaudus

  This sengi is restricted to the Nama-Karoo of South Africa. It has a tuft at the end of its tail, and the species description reports it from rocky habitat.

• Black-banded Plover Charadrius thoracicus

  This plover is restricted to Madagascar. A bold black band crosses its breast, and it searches for food on coastal mud and around saline lagoons.

• Pallas' Free-tailed Bat Molossus molossus

  Pallas's free-tailed bat is a medium-sized bat recorded in several habitats in Argentina. It roosts in groups in tree hollows and buildings and eats insects.

• Greater Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa

  The Greater Sooty Owl is a nocturnal forest owl recorded in eastern Australia and New Guinea. It hunts vertebrate prey in dense forest.

• Masoala Woolly Lemur Avahi mooreorum

  The Masoala woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur known from northeastern Madagascar. Its mottled back and reddish-brown tail are distinctive.

• Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne

  This bird lives in moist grassland. The breeding male has a long tail, while females and males outside the breeding season are brown and streaked.

• Horsfield's Fruit Bat Cynopterus horsfieldii

  This fruit bat ranges from mainland Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula and islands including Sumatra and Java. It has been recorded in lowland and montane forest, orchards, and agricultural areas.

• Humboldt penguin Spheniscus humboldti

  A South American penguin recognized by a dark stripe across its white front.

• Southern Giant Pouched Rat Cricetomys ansorgei

  The Southern Giant Pouched Rat is a large rodent that carries food in its cheek pouches. It often lives alone in a burrow and may store food there.

• Colombian Mountain Grackle Macroagelaius subalaris

  This grackle inhabits Andean forests in eastern Colombia. Cooperative breeding has been reported, with several members of a group helping to build nests and care for young.

• Brazilian Guinea Pig Cavia aperea

  The Brazilian guinea pig is a wild guinea-pig relative of South American grasslands and savannas. It feeds mainly on plants and moves under cover in dense vegetation.

• Large Woodshrike Tephrodornis virgatus

  This forest bird has a heavy bill and a dark band across the face. It searches quietly for food in the upper forest layers.

• Least Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus pusillus

  This small horseshoe bat has a broad noseleaf and brown fur on its back. It roosts in caves and similar places.

• Henderson Petrel Pterodroma atrata

  This seabird breeds on Henderson Island in the South Pacific. It is grey-brown and paler below; a study placed nests on the island's interior plateau and tracked a breeding bird far out to sea.

• Red ruffed lemur Varecia rubra

  A rust-red lemur of Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula.

• Sao Tome Oriole Oriolus crassirostris

  The Sao Tome Oriole is endemic to São Tomé Island. Adults have a black head and throat and are seen alone or in pairs in the forest mid-storey.

• Russet Oryzomys Euryoryzomys russatus

  This rice rat lives in forests of eastern South America. It builds an egg-shaped nest from leaves and grass under or inside fallen logs and among palm roots.

• Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica

  The species breeds on subantarctic islands, and some birds move toward equatorial waters in winter.