Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina

  

  The common dunnart is a small marsupial of eastern and southern Australia. It searches for insects at night and rests in a nest or shallow burrow by day.

• Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana

  

  A large waterbird with a white body, black flight feathers, and red legs; in Japan it lives around waters and wetlands.

• Crested Rat Lophiomys imhausi

  

  This East African rodent has fur with white stripes or spots. It is active at night and feeds on fruits and roots.

• Brown Jacamar Brachygalba lugubris

  

  The Brown Jacamar lives in South American woodland and savanna forest. It has a long pointed bill and a rufous breast.

• Sunda Clouded Leopard Neofelis diardi

  

  A forest-dwelling cat of Borneo and Sumatra, known for its cloud-shaped coat markings.

• White-breasted Wood-Swallow Artamus leucoryn

  

  This bird has dark bluish-gray head, back, wings, and tail with white underparts. It ranges from northern and eastern Australia to New Guinea, Fiji, and the Philippines, and mainly catches insects in flight.

• Yellow Mongoose Cynictis penicillata

  A mongoose of open, semi-arid habitats in southern Africa that forages for insects and other small prey.

• Eurasian magpie Pica pica

  A member of the crow family with a black-and-white body and a long tail. In Britain, its dark feathers show blue or green gloss at close range.

• Gould's Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus gouldi

  Gould's Long-eared Bat has long ears and short, broad wings. It roosts in tree hollows and catches insects close to the ground.

• Puerto Rican Owl Gymnasio nudipes

  The Puerto Rican Owl is endemic to Puerto Rico. It occurs from forest to urban settings and feeds on insects and other small prey.

• Large Indian civet Viverra zibetha

  A nocturnal civet of Asian forests and scrub.

• Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus

  It is a small plover recorded in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with an incomplete white hindneck collar and pale, long legs.

• 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.

• Andean Potoo Nyctibius maculosus

  Fine gray, brown, and black markings and yellow eyes stand out on this nocturnal bird of Andean cloud forest.

• Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus

  This small rodent lives in rocky dry country in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Adults have gray-brown fur, and rocky outcrops provide places to shelter.

• LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei

  LeConte's Thrasher is a pale, sand-colored bird of the dry deserts of southwestern North America. It stays near the ground in brush for much of the year, while males sing from high perches during the breeding season.

• Guiana dolphin Sotalia guianensis

  This small dolphin lives in shallow seas and estuaries. It has a triangular dorsal fin and gray coloring and feeds on fish, squid, and crustaceans.

• White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis

  The White-shouldered Black Tit is mostly black, with a white wing patch and pale eye. It ranges across parts of western and eastern Africa and uses dry woodland, savanna and open habitats.

• Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin Cebus aequatorialis

  The Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin uses mature forest, especially near streams, and also enters degraded forest. Coat color varies with age and among individuals.

• Chin Hills Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis oatesi

  This wren-babbler has a very restricted range in Mizoram, eastern India, and the Chin Hills of northern Myanmar. It forages near the ground in dense montane undergrowth.

• Florida Bonneted Bat Eumops floridanus

  A large bat of southern Florida, it catches insects in flight and roosts in tree cavities and some building spaces.

• Ethiopian Oriole Oriolus monacha

  It occurs in the western and southeastern Ethiopian highlands, the Rift Valley, and southern Ethiopia, at about 1,200–3,200 m.

• Lesser Kudu Ammelaphus imberbis

  It lives in dry scrub and woodland in northeastern Africa and feeds mainly at dawn and dusk. White stripes line its sides; males are grayish brown and females reddish brown.

• White-winged Flufftail Sarothrura ayresi

  The White-winged Flufftail breeds in seasonal high-altitude wetlands. White patches on both sexes' wings show clearly in flight.