Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata

  

  This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.

• Little Long-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis dolichura

  

  This small marsupial has a tail longer than its body. It lives in two separated parts of southwestern Australia, in dry woodland and shrubland.

• Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix

  

  The Long-billed Murrelet is an alcid that breeds along the Siberian coast and also spends time at sea. It is recorded only rarely as a vagrant in North America.

• Tayra Eira barbara

  

  A climbing mustelid with a dark body and a lighter-colored head.

• Salmon-crested cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis

  

  A cockatoo of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with a salmon-coloured crest raised when excited or threatened.

• Berg's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys bergi

  

  Berg’s tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of Argentina’s Dry Chaco. Besides northwestern Córdoba, one female was recorded in Salavina Department, Santiago del Estero, and identified as this species using genetic and morphological evidence.

• Shelley's Francolin Scleroptila shelleyi

  Shelley’s Francolin lives in grassy woodland and rocky areas of eastern and southern Africa. Its white throat, reddish-brown breast markings, and black-and-white barred belly help identify it.

• Banggai Cuscus Phalanger pelengensis

  The Banggai cuscus is a marsupial of the Banggai Islands, with an orange-brown back and a yellowish belly. Its behavior is described here at the genus level where the source groups two species together.

• Colasisi Loriculus philippensis

  The Colasisi is a small parrot of the Philippine islands that feeds on nectar, blossoms, and fruit. It may forage upside down in the canopy.

• Rock Vole Microtus chrotorrhinus

  The rock vole has a yellow-orange nose. It uses moist forests and rocky sites and feeds on herbs and leaves.

• White-throated Jay Cyanolyca mirabilis

  This small jay is dark blue with a striking black-and-white head pattern. It lives in mountain forests of southwestern Mexico and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• 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.

• Slaty Brush Finch Atlapetes schistaceus

  Its gray body, rufous crown, and black-and-white facial stripes are distinctive. It forages in humid scrub and forest-edge undergrowth on the eastern slope of the Central Andes, including Peru.

• Giant White-tailed Uromys Uromys (Uromys) caudimaculatus

  The Giant White-tailed Uromys is a large rat with a gray-brown back, pale underside, and long tail with a white tip. It is active at night, climbs well, and eats fruit, nuts, insects, and other foods.

• Chilean Mockingbird Mimus thenca

  This large mockingbird occurs in open woodland and scrub in Chile. Its long tail, white eyebrow, and dark facial stripe are conspicuous, and it eats insects and fruit. A breeding study in central Chile recorded cup nests built from thorny sticks.

• Northern Black Mastiff Bat Molossus nigricans

  A large bat found from Mexico through Central America to Panama. Adults occur in both black and red color forms, so the name does not describe every individual.

• Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus

  The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.

• Golden-mantled Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus tripartitus

  This small primate occurs in the western Amazon of Peru and Ecuador. It has golden-orange shoulders and back, a black head and a white face. It lives in lowland evergreen forest and eats fruit and insects.

• Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor

  The Lesser Honeyguide occurs in wooded habitats in southern Africa. It searches for insects around bark and tree holes and may lay its eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Ceram Flying Fox Pteropus ocularis

  The Ceram flying fox is known from only a small number of recorded individuals in the Moluccas. A 2015 study reported a new record from western Seram.

• Madagascan Buttonquail Turnix nigricollis

  This small ground bird resembles a quail, and females are more colorful than males. The male incubates the eggs and cares for the chicks.

• Pallid Bat Antrozous pallidus

  The pallid bat lives in dry areas of western North America and listens for ground-dwelling insects before swooping down to catch them.

• Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus

  The Spotted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird that searches for seeds in dry, open country.

• Townsend's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus townsendii

  A ground squirrel of grasslands and sagebrush in southeastern Washington. It is gray and unspotted, with reddish coloring beneath its short tail.