Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-headed Tesia Cettia castaneocoronata

  

  The Chestnut-headed Tesia is a round, nearly tailless bird with a white eye-ring, chestnut head, and yellow throat. It searches for insects close to the ground.

• Egyptian rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus

  

  A large-eyed fruit bat that feeds on very ripe fruit.

• King Rail Rallus elegans

  

  A large rail of North American wetlands, it has a chestnut back, gray face, and black-and-white bars on its flanks. It walks through reeds and grasses to find food.

• Smoky Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fumosus

  

  The smoky pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent of the southern Mexican Plateau, where volcanic soils occur. Its large foreclaws help it dig underground.

• Ground Woodpecker Geocolaptes olivaceus

  

  This woodpecker forages on rocky hills and mountains, digging for ants. Males and females differ in their face markings.

• Collared Mongoose Urva semitorquata

  

  This mongoose is found in forests on Borneo and Sumatra. Much about its ecology, including its habitat preferences, remains poorly known.

• Chaco Puffbird Nystalus striatipectus

  The Chaco Puffbird lives in dry woodland and tree formations of the Chaco. Its brown head and back contrast with black streaks across the white lower breast and belly.

• Visayan spotted deer Rusa alfredi

  The Visayan spotted deer is a small deer with pale spots on a dark coat. It is native to a few islands in the central Philippines.

• White-lored Euphonia Euphonia chrysopasta

  This small finch is recorded in Bolivian forests. It is mostly found in pairs in the canopy and mainly eats fruit, especially mistletoe berries. Its bill is pale gray with a dark tip.

• Santarém Marmoset Mico humeralifer

  The Santarém marmoset is a small monkey from a limited area of northern Brazil. Pale ear tufts and alternating black and silvery rings on its tail are distinctive.

• African Black Duck Anas sparsa

  A duck strongly associated with rivers, especially fast-flowing rivers and streams. It eats aquatic plants and small animals.

• Smooth-coated Otter Lutrogale perspicillata

  The Smooth-coated Otter ranges across South and Southeast Asia. It has short, smooth brown fur and uses waterside habitats such as rivers, wetlands, and mangroves.

• Claret-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus viridis

  The Claret-breasted Fruit Dove eats fruit in tropical forest and gardens. The nominate subspecies has a red-purple patch from the throat onto the breast.

• Northern Three-toed Jerboa Dipus sagitta

  The northern three-toed jerboa changes coat color with the seasons. It lives in dry grasslands and deserts and mainly eats plants and seeds.

• Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen

  The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black-and-white bird found across Australia. Its back pattern varies by sex and region.

• Nearctic Brown Lemming Lemmus trimucronatus

  The Nearctic brown lemming is a small rodent of northern North American tundra. It feeds on plants and lives in a strongly seasonal environment.

• Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis subflava

  This small antbird ranges from Peru's eastern Andean foothills into adjacent western Bolivia and Brazil. Its throat and belly are yellow, and the eyebrow differs in color between the sexes.

• Black-fronted Titi Callicebus nigrifrons

  This small monkey has a black forehead and lives in forests of southeastern Brazil. In studied areas, it ate mainly fruit, along with leaves and flowers, and family groups of a pair and their young were reported.

• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus

  The Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat ranges from South and Southeast Asia through Australia to islands of the western Pacific. It is an insect-eating bat active at night that roosts in tree hollows and rock crevices.

• Slate-throated Gnatcatcher Polioptila schistaceigula

  This small bird occurs in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. Males and females have different white markings around the eyes, and the species lives in moist lowland forest.

• Bush dog Speothos venaticus

  A wild canid found from Panama into South America. Short legs and a short tail give it a low, stocky outline.

• Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni

  This bushshrike is recorded in a restricted area of northern Angola. Its documented habitat includes secondary forest and forest edges.

• Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus goodfellowi

  A climbing kangaroo of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.