Meet the world’s animals.

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• Vogelkop Bowerbird Amblyornis inornata

  

  The Vogelkop Bowerbird lives in the mountains of western New Guinea, where males build decorated structures.

• Thomas's Mountain Cavy Microcavia maenas

  

  This cavy occurs in the hills and dry lowlands of Argentina. Its back color varies among the sample groups described in a 2017 paper, from yellowish gray to brown. In a Mendoza study, shrubs were common in the plant material identified from droppings at both a protected reserve and a neighboring grazed field.

• Ringed Storm Petrel Hydrobates hornbyi

  

  Ringed Storm Petrels occur offshore along the Humboldt Current on the west coast of South America. A breeding site has also been recorded inland in Chile's Atacama Region, where birds were reported to enter the nesting site at night.

• Mesopotamian Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys citellus

  

  This mouse opossum is recorded in a habitat mosaic in northeastern Argentina. Its taxonomy has been debated.

• Hispaniolan Trogon Priotelus roseigaster

  

  The Hispaniolan Trogon is the only trogon on Hispaniola. It has metallic green upperparts, a gray breast, and a red belly.

• Hairy-footed Gerbil Gerbillurus (Progerbillurus) paeba

  

  This small gerbil has fur on the soles of its feet. It lives in dry parts of southern Africa and uses burrows beneath grass or shrubs.

• Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius

  The Blue-headed Vireo searches for insects among trees in North American forests. Its blue-grey head and white eye rings are distinctive.

• Black-bearded Flying Fox Pteropus melanopogon

  A colony of black-bearded flying foxes was recorded roosting in mangroves on Pulau Marsegu, off Seram Island, Indonesia.

• Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus

  A seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and may steal food from other seabirds. Adults vary from dark to pale color forms.

• Sierra Madre Occidental Pocket Gopher Megascapheus sheldoni

  The Sierra Madre Occidental pocket gopher is a rodent of the highlands of western Mexico. It inhabits high-elevation pine-oak forests and ranges from northwestern Chihuahua through Durango to western Zacatecas and northeastern Nayarit.

• Bounty Shag Leucocarbo ranfurlyi

  This seabird breeds only on New Zealand’s Bounty Islands. Adults are black with a blue sheen above and white below, and nest in colonies on cliff ledges.

• Stripe-necked Mongoose Urva vitticollis

  The stripe-necked mongoose is a large Asian mongoose. Cameras have also recorded it in forests in Odisha, eastern India.

• White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi

  The White-faced Ibis probes wet mud with its long bill for food. Its plumage can shine green and purple.

• Common Dwarf Brocket Mazama chunyi

  This small deer has records in Bolivia’s mountain region. A study reported it from high grasslands and Polylepis elfin forest down to lower sub-Andean forest.

• Yellow-winged Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica

  The Yellow-winged Pytilia is a small bird whose male has a red face and throat with a grey crown and back. It mainly eats grass seeds and also takes insects.

• Eastern Pygmy Marmoset Cebuella niveiventris

  A tiny monkey of gallery forests in the upper Amazon region. It feeds mainly on tree sap and gum, making small holes in trunks to reach them.

• Brown Creeper Certhia americana

  The Brown Creeper is a small forest bird whose bark-like plumage helps it blend in as it searches along tree trunks.

• Javan Ferret-badger Melogale orientalis

  The Javan ferret-badger is recorded in the hills and mountains of Java and Bali. It searches for food by digging through leaf litter at night.

• Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha

  This egret occurs in a range of South African wetlands. It catches fish, amphibians, and aquatic invertebrates by standing still or walking slowly through shallow water.

• Great Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) major

  This five-toed jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It digs burrows in open steppe and semi-desert and eats plants and insects.

• Sword-billed Hummingbird Ensifera ensifera

  The Sword-billed Hummingbird has a bill 8.1–12 cm long, nearly as long as its body. A study examined its Andean range and overlap with long-flowered plants.

• Atlantic Forest Rhipidomys Rhipidomys mastacalis

  This small rodent has a head-and-body length of 125–155 mm. It is arboreal and nocturnal, and has been recorded in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest.

• Yellow-spotted Bush-sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita

  A small sparrow of dry savannas and open woodland. Its white throat and hard-to-see yellow spot can help identify it.

• Groves' Titi Plecturocebus grovesi

  This titi monkey was described from Mato Grosso, Brazil. The paper notes a grayish back, red-brown underside, and black tail with a pale tip.