Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker Dicaeum anthonyi

  

  The Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker of Luzon's mountain forests. Current checklists treat the Mindanao Flame-crowned Flowerpecker as a separate species.

• Hispid Pocket Gopher Heterogeomys (Heterogeomys) hispidus

  

  The Hispid Pocket Gopher lives underground from southern Mexico into northern Central America. Its coat is coarse, and some individuals have a white band around the lower back.

• Streak-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus striaticeps

  

  This antvireo ranges from southeastern Honduras to Costa Rica. It is recorded mainly in evergreen forest on the Caribbean slope of Central America; the AOS checklist does not accept records from western Panama.

• Southern Right Whale Dolphin Lissodelphis peronii

  

  A slender dolphin without a dorsal fin, it has a black back and white underside and may travel in large groups in cool southern offshore waters.

• Elliot's Storm Petrel Oceanites gracilis

  

  It is dark overall, with white on the rump and center of the belly and a small pale area under the wing. While feeding, it patters across the water with its wings held upright.

• Common Tent-making Bat Uroderma bilobatum

  

  The common tent-making bat chews leaf veins to create a resting place beneath a drooping leaf. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• Buff-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes fuscus

  A small bird recorded on Tierra del Fuego's Isla Grande, it has a brown body and a long white eyebrow. It walks along water edges searching for insects and small invertebrates.

• Severtzov's Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) severtzovi

  Severtzov's jerboa is a jerboa of Central Asia. It runs bipedally, and a speed of about 40 km/h is reported for this species.

• Garnet Pitta Erythropitta granatina

  The Garnet Pitta is a small pitta marked with red, blue, and black. It searches for small prey around leaf litter and damp soil.

• Crested Capuchin Sapajus robustus

  The crested capuchin is a monkey of forests in eastern Brazil. It has a tall, conical tuft of hair on its crown.

• Brubru Nilaus afer

  The Brubru is a bush-shrike found widely across sub-Saharan Africa. A southern African atlas account records it in savanna and acacia woodland, where it feeds in the canopy.

• Fea's Muntjac Muntiacus feae

  Fea’s muntjac is a small deer of forests in Thailand and southernmost Myanmar that is active alone at night.

• Bold-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis bornensis

  This small babbler forages in the understory of lowland forest in Southeast Asia. Bold dark streaks on the underside and active insect foraging are noted as characteristic.

• Laxmann's shrew Sorex caecutiens

  Laxmann's shrew (Sorex caecutiens) occurs from Europe to East Asia.

• Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum

  A pratincole with a tern-like flight that catches insects over open country near water.

• Brown Howler Monkey Alouatta guariba

  The brown howler is a large, tree-dwelling monkey with a grasping tail. It feeds on leaves, flowers and fruit, and makes loud calls like low grunts or barks.

• Rose Robin Petroica rosea

  This small bird occurs in southeastern Australia, in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest. It often stays in the canopy alone or in pairs, catching insects and spiders in flight.

• Selous's Mongoose Paracynictis selousi

  Selous’s mongoose lives in southern African savanna and woodland and is usually solitary and active at night.

• Guadalupe Murrelet Synthliboramphus hypoleucus

  This small seabird is dark above and white below. It nests on islands off western Baja California and differs from Scripps's Murrelet by having more white around the eye.

• Banded Palm Civet Hemigalus derbyanus

  The banded palm civet is a civet with dark bands across its back and stripes on its face. It is recorded in forests on Borneo and searches for food on the ground at night.

• Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea

  The Little Corella is a mostly white cockatoo with a blue ring around each eye and a pale rose-pink patch between the eye and bill. It is widespread in Australia and feeds on grass seeds and grains in large flocks.

• Chestnut Sac-winged Bat Cormura brevirostris

  This small bat lives in humid forests of Central and South America and has been recorded roosting in tree hollows.

• Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus

  The Dusky Grouse lives in western North American mountain forests. In spring, males display their neck sacs and red eye combs.

• Baja California Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus rudinoris

  It has a yellowish gray-brown back, a white underside, and a tail longer than its body. It is active at night and carries seeds in cheek pouches to store in its burrow.