Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus

  

  A rabbit with brown upperparts and a fluffy white tail. Some individuals have a white spot on the forehead. It also lives near people in places such as yards.

• Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster

  The Black-headed Gonolek has a black head and back and an orange-red throat, breast and belly. It lives in pairs or family groups, and a male's whistled call may be followed by a female's harsher call.

• Gray-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus griseorufus

  The gray-brown mouse lemur is a small lemur of dry scrub in southwestern and southern Madagascar. Its diet changes with the seasons.

• Brown-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe poioicephala

  The Brown-cheeked Fulvetta is a small bird of the understory in moist forest and scrub. It eats insects and nectar, and has a grey crown and dark cheeks.

• Black Capuchin Sapajus nigritus

  Its back ranges from brown to black and the underside from yellow to dark reddish brown. In one group studied at an urbanized park in Brazil, foraging was frequent and stone use to crack palm seeds was recorded.

• Black Berrypecker Melanocharis nigra

  The Black Berrypecker lives in forests on New Guinea. Adult males are glossy blue-black, while females are olive-colored. It eats small berries as well as insects and spiders.

• Maule Tuco-tuco Ctenomys maulinus

  The Maule tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent of Andean grasslands. Its coat ranges from pale brown to olive or dark brown, with pale underparts and white hairs at the tail tip.

• White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni

  The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.

• Pampas cat Leopardus pajeros

  The Pampas cat is a felid found in South America. Reports describe regional differences in coat color and activity times.

• Orange-breasted Trogon Harpactes oreskios

  The Orange-breasted Trogon lives in forests in Southeast Asia and eats fruit, insects, and other small prey. Males have an orange breast and chestnut back, while females are more muted grey-brown.

• Least Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus exilis

  The least pygmy squirrel is a very small squirrel endemic to Borneo. It moves along tree trunks and lianas and feeds mainly on bark.

• Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca

  This Australian bird has bold black-and-white markings. Pairs search the ground for food and build mud nests.

• Little Brown Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) lucifugus

  The little brown bat is widespread across North America. It hibernates in caves and similar sites in winter, while females gather at summer maternity roosts to raise young.

• Whiskered Myiobius Myiobius barbatus

  The Whiskered Myiobius ranges across northern and western South America. In the nominate subspecies described by the source, the back is olive green and the rump is yellow.

• Central American Red Brocket Mazama temama

  The Central American red brocket is a small deer of Central America. This study examines regional variation in its form and environment.

• Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis

  The Arctic Warbler is a small bird with a pale eyebrow. It searches among leaves for insects, and the population breeding in Alaska migrates to Southeast Asia in autumn.

• Spiny Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus spinatus

  The spiny pocket mouse has stiff, spine-like hairs on its rump and sides. It lives in rocky desert scrub, is nocturnal, and stores seeds.

• Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus

  The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture is a vulture of the Americas recorded in wetlands along Guatemala's Pacific coast. It feeds mainly on carrion, but may also take live fish, reptiles, and insects.

• Andean White-eared Opossum Didelphis pernigra

  The Andean white-eared opossum is a marsupial with white ears and distinctive facial markings. It is associated mainly with mountain forests, but records also include riparian and human-modified habitats in parts of its range.

• Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

  The Common Reed Bunting is widespread in Britain and Ireland. Males have black heads, females have browner heads, and in winter they forage in farmland with other small birds.

• Brown Titi Plecturocebus brunneus

  An arboreal monkey from Brazil's Rondônia state. Its brown back, reddish limbs and belly, and black crown help distinguish it.

• Scaly-breasted Thrasher Allenia fusca

  The Scaly-breasted Thrasher occurs in the Lesser Antilles. It has dark gray-brown upperparts, a pale wingbar, a scaly underside, and white tail tips. It forages at different heights in trees.

• Greater Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris nivalis

  This cave-dwelling bat migrates seasonally to Mexico. In the United States, it is recorded in southwestern New Mexico and western Texas during summer.

• Grauer's Broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri

  This forest bird is bright green and has a broad bill. It occurs in montane forest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.