Meet the world’s animals.

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• Karoo Lark Calendulauda albescens

  

  This lark inhabits dry shrublands in South Africa. It walks on the ground and searches around shrub bases for seeds, insects, and other food.

• Sechuran Fox Lycalopex sechurae

  This small fox lives in dry coastal areas from northwestern Ecuador to Peru. It is nocturnal; food records from northern Peru include fruit and small animals.

• Everett's Scops Owl Otus everetti

  This small scops owl inhabits lower montane forest in the Philippines. It has a dark brown crown and ear-tufts, pale forehead, and orange-red eye rims.

• Atlantic Humpback Dolphin Sousa teuszii

  The Atlantic humpback dolphin lives in shallow coastal waters of western Africa. Its grey body has a distinct hump beneath the dorsal fin and a short, rounded beak.

• Sri Lanka Bay Owl Phodilus assimilis

  The Sri Lanka Bay Owl is a small nocturnal owl found in forests of southwestern India and Sri Lanka.

• Plains Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavescens

  The plains pocket mouse is a small rodent of the North American Great Plains. It carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches and stores food in its burrow.

• Gray-bellied Cuckoo Cacomantis passerinus

  The Grey-bellied Cuckoo lives in woodlands, gardens, and plantations across the Indian subcontinent. It moves among trees and shrubs, taking flying insects and other small prey.

• Capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

  A large rodent of South American watersides. It lives in groups, grazes on land and uses water to rest or escape danger.

• Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus

  The Yellow-throated Tinkerbird is a small bird with a glossy bluish-black crown and a yellow throat and rump. The account lists three subspecies across coastal West and Central Africa, Uganda, and Bioko Island. It eats fruit.

• Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin Cebus malitiosus

  This capuchin lives around the Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia. Its dark coat contrasts with pale fur on the head and shoulders.

• Black-lored Cisticola Cisticola nigriloris

  The Black-lored Cisticola is a highland cisticola with a reddish-brown head and brown back. It searches for small invertebrates by day in grassland and scrub near forest.

• Capped Langur Trachypithecus pileatus

  The capped langur has a cap-like tuft of hair on its crown. In one group studied in northeastern India, leaves made up most of the observed feeding time.

• White-breasted Whistler Pachycephala lanioides

  The male has a black head and breast band, a rufous nape and white underparts. The female is grey-brown, with dark streaks below. The species occurs along northern Australia's coast and feeds in mangroves and nearby rainforest.

• Magellanic Tuco-tuco Ctenomys magellanicus

  The Magellanic tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent known from southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Historical accounts describe it digging underground burrows and eating grass.

• Least Bittern Botaurus exilis

  A small heron of freshwater and brackish marshes with tall aquatic plants. It may wait motionless among reeds and watch for small prey.

• Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin canescens

  This small opossum lives in Mexico. It is nocturnal and eats mainly insects, along with fruit and small animals.

• Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans

  The Buff-spotted Flufftail occurs in scattered parts of sub-Saharan Africa, in forests and dense cover. It walks slowly through leaf litter in search of invertebrates. Males have orange-chestnut heads and necks, while females have spotted backs and barred bellies.

• Red-crested Tree Rat Santamartamys rufodorsalis

  This arboreal rodent is known from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. In the 2017 species account, the known evidence comprised two museum specimens and one photographic record.

• Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus

  A wetland bird that walks on floating plants with long toes; its central tail feathers grow long in breeding plumage.

• Forrest's Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) forresti

  Forrest's pika is recorded at high elevations in Bhutan. A dark patch behind each ear meets across the nape.

• Rufous Babbler Argya subrufa

  This babbler has rich brown upperparts and rufous underparts. In forests and thickets of the Western Ghats, groups forage on the ground.

• Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius

  The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.

• Little Woodswallow Artamus minor

  The Little Woodswallow is a small woodswallow of mainland Australia’s open inland. It glides in smooth circles while taking flying insects.

• Cliff Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) dorsalis

  Neotamias dorsalis ranges across the western and southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its smoky-grey back has dark stripes, and the underside is creamy white.