Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus

  

  A dolphin of Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters. It feeds mainly on fish in shallow waters.

• Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas

  

  The Common Scimitarbill has a slender, curved bill and uses dry open woodland in eastern and southern Africa. It moves through the canopy alone or in pairs.

• 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.

• Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris

  

  A black-and-white bird of Australia’s coast, the Pied Oystercatcher has a long red bill and legs and feeds on shellfish on beaches and mudflats.

• Guianan Weeper Capuchin Cebus olivaceus

  

  A troop-living capuchin with a pale buff body, dark markings on its head, and a dark tail tip. It can wrap its tail around branches.

• Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis

  

  The Black-naped Oriole is conspicuous for its yellow and black plumage. The account here describes its appearance and habits recorded in Singapore.

• Fennec fox Vulpes zerda

  A small fox of sandy areas such as the Sahara. It has strikingly large ears and a pale coat.

• Styan's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella pleskei

  The sexes look alike, with olive-brown upperparts, grayish-white underparts, and a rounded tail. It breeds on islands near Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East, then winters farther south.

• Sulawesi Flying Fox Acerodon celebensis

  The Sulawesi Flying Fox is a fruit bat found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. A small island off eastern Central Sulawesi serves as a daytime roost, and the bats fly to mainland forests at night.

• Black-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus falcularius

  Its dark body is set off by a long, slender, curved bill. It probes gaps in trees and plants and feeds mainly on small invertebrates.

• Hairy-nosed Otter Lutra sumatrana

  The hairy-nosed otter has short fur across the nose pad. Records come from wetlands and shallow coastal waters in Southeast Asia, and fish are a common food.

• Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis

  The Blue-throated Roller is a West and Central African roller that catches flying insects on the wing. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a reddish-brown back and a pale blue throat.

• Red-bellied Marsupial Shrew Phascolosorex doriae

  This marsupial occurs in western New Guinea. It has a dark line along the middle of its back and reddish fur on the underside.

• Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli

  This sandgrouse feeds on seeds in dry grassland around the Kalahari. Flocks gather at waterholes, and adults carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Thomas' Dwarf Lemur Cheirogaleus thomasi

  This lemur is known from littoral forests in southeastern Madagascar. The 2020 IUCN assessment lists forest fragments from the dry forest at Petriky to the wetter forest at Ste Luce.

• Grey-crowned Greenbul Xanthomixis cinereiceps

  It lives in eastern Madagascar's middle- and high-elevation rainforest. It forages along mossy branches in the mid-story and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus

  A small bat found across Europe and parts of Asia, hunting insects above towns and in natural habitats.

• Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa

  The Red-breasted Swallow is a sub-Saharan African swallow with rufous underparts and long tail streamers. Females and juveniles differ in their streamers or plumage, and seasonal movements vary by region.

• Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata

  The marbled cat is a wild cat of forests from South Asia to Southeast Asia. Its marble-like markings and unusually long tail are distinctive.

• Brown Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon mantchuricum

  The Brown-eared Pheasant is a large pheasant of mountain forests in northeastern China. It eats roots, bulbs and other plant matter.

• Thick-tailed Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Anguistodontus) crassicauda

  This small jerboa has a tail longer than its body and three-toed hind feet. It digs long burrows in sand dunes.

• Barred Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles bennettii

  The Barred Owlet-nightjar inhabits moist forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has fine pale lines on its dark back and broad bars on its pale underside.

• Zarudny's Rock Shrew Crocidura zarudnyi

  This shrew has been recorded in arid mountains and plateaus. Its back is pale gray, its belly and feet are white, and its tail is long-haired.

• Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans

  A long-billed tern that flies over the sea and catches fish.