Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli

  

  The Grey Penduline Tit has a black-and-white face and head, with dark gray-brown upper wings and tail. In northeastern Namibia it occurs in broadleaf woodland and sometimes gardens, where it eats insects and probes flowers for nectar.

• Grant's gazelle Nanger granti

  A long-legged gazelle with a conspicuous pale rump patch.

• Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari

  The Maguari Stork lives in South American wetlands. It has contrasting black-and-white plumage and searches for prey while walking through shallow water.

• 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.

• Slaty-headed Longbill Toxorhamphus poliopterus

  The Slaty-headed Longbill has a dark head and a long, strongly curved bill. Records from New Guinea's mountain forests include feeding on nectar and arthropods.

• Hourglass Dolphin Lagenorhynchus cruciger

  A small dolphin of the cold offshore Southern Ocean, distributed around Antarctica. Its black-and-white flank pattern resembles an hourglass, though observations remain limited.

• Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotum

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in arid and semi-arid southern Australia. Males have a black face and breast with a white eyebrow; females have a gray throat and breast, and may show little chestnut on the rump.

• Forest Giant Pouched Rat Cricetomys emini

  Study animals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were slender and had short, soft gray fur. They used underground burrows and were active both by day and at night.

• Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus

  The Dusky Woodswallow is a grey-brown bird with a white patch on the outer wing. Flocks of about 10–30 birds gather to roost together.

• Emin’s Tateril Taterillus emini

  This is a gerbil species with a long tail. In Ethiopia it has been recorded in dry lowland savanna.

• Mascarene Petrel Pseudobulweria aterrima

  The Mascarene Petrel is an all-dark seabird. It breeds on Réunion and ranges widely across the Indian Ocean at different times of year.

• Acrobatic Cavy Kerodon acrobata

  This cavy lives in the Brazilian Cerrado and has been recorded in dry-forest patches with rocky outcrops. It mainly eats leaves, and activity has been recorded across both day and night.

• Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse Pterocles lichtensteinii

  A sandgrouse of dry country, with plumage that blends into rocks and gravel. It may shelter in shade during the day.

• Red-bellied Tamarin Tamarinus labiatus

  This tamarin has white moustache-like facial hairs and a rusty-red chest and belly. It is active by day in the middle canopy of Amazonian forests in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.

• Versicolored Barbet Eubucco versicolor

  A barbet of montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its facial and chest colors vary between sexes and among subspecies.

• Mauritian fruit bat Pteropus niger

  The Mauritian fruit bat is a large fruit-eating bat with golden fur, endemic to Mauritius.

• Karoo Prinia Prinia maculosa

  The Karoo Prinia is a small bird of scrub and tall dense growth in southern Africa. The atlas associates it with Karoo and fynbos scrub in the west and with grassland mixed with scrub in the Lesotho highlands.

• White-faced Spiny Tree-rat Echimys chrysurus

  This tree rat lives in lowland forests of the Guianas and eastern Amazonia and spends much of its time in trees.

• Palau Swiftlet Aerodramus pelewensis

  This swiftlet occurs on Palau. It is blackish brown above, grey below, and has a short, shallowly forked tail.

• Dusky Pademelon Thylogale brunii

  This is a small member of the kangaroo family, with large ears, strong hind legs, and a short, thick tail. It is mainly active at night and eats plants such as grasses and young shoots.

• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis

  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a shorebird with buff plumage and a short bill. It walks through dry grass to find insects, and males display with raised wings on the breeding grounds.

• Kolar Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros hypophyllus

  The Kolar Leaf-nosed Bat is known from southern India. It has broad ears and small supplementary noseleaf structures, and a cave in dry scrubland is its only reported roost.

• Coppery-chested Jacamar Galbula pastazae

  The Coppery-chested Jacamar is a 23–24 cm jacamar of humid mountain forest. Its account classifies it as an aerial hunter of invertebrates.

• Calamian Deer Axis calamianensis

  The Calamian deer occurs on the Calamian Islands of the Philippines. A specialist identification key describes it as lacking the distinct spotted pattern seen in the chital. It browses leaves by day and lives in small herds.