Meet the world’s animals.

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• Painted Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys pictus

  

  The painted spiny pocket mouse ranges from Mexico to northwestern Guatemala. It has a reddish-brown back, white underside, and spiny coat, and stores seeds in caches.

• Chestnut Wattle-eye Platysteira castanea

  

  Males are black and white while females are brownish; the species lives in wet habitats and lowland forest in central and eastern Africa and eats insects.

• Pantropical spotted dolphin Stenella attenuata

  

  A warm-water dolphin whose spots increase as it grows.

• White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi

  

  The White-faced Ibis probes wet mud with its long bill for food. Its plumage can shine green and purple.

• Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin Cebus aequatorialis

  

  The Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin uses mature forest, especially near streams, and also enters degraded forest. Coat color varies with age and among individuals.

• Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles

  

  This open-country plover is notable for its yellow facial wattles and a spur on each wing.

• Cape Fox Vulpes chama

  A small fox of southern Africa and the smallest member of the dog family.

• Jamaican Becard Pachyramphus niger

  A becard found on Jamaica. It searches below the forest canopy and along forest edges for insects and fruit.

• Vanuatu Flying Fox Pteropus anetianus

  The Vanuatu flying fox lives on islands in Vanuatu. It roosts in small groups and eats fruit and flowers. The factsheet says it is seen flying by day more often than other flying foxes in Vanuatu.

• Ward's Flycatcher Pseudobias wardi

  Ward’s Flycatcher is a Madagascan bird with white and midnight-blue plumage. A study records it in dry forest at the southern tip of Nosy Hara, where it was seen perched in trees.

• African clawless otter Aonyx capensis

  An African otter that searches for crabs and handles prey with its clawless forepaws.

• Kadavu Fantail Rhipidura personata

  The Kadavu Fantail lives only on Kadavu Island in Fiji. A black crescent and inverted V across the chest, plus narrow white edges on the black outer tail feathers, help identify it. It moves actively along forest streams while catching insects.

• Black-tailed Dasyure Murexia melanurus

  The black-tailed dasyure is a small marsupial from New Guinea. A 2020 study found variation in coat color; one illustrated specimen had bright ear patches, grey shoulders, a red rump and a black tail.

• Sooty Ant Tanager Habia gutturalis

  This tanager lives in humid forests of northwestern Colombia. Males have a red throat and crest, and the birds forage for arthropods.

• Ashy Tube-nosed Bat Murina feae

  This small bat is distributed in Cambodia, southern China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its soft gray coat is a useful field mark.

• Spotted Buttonquail Turnix ocellatus

  It has been recorded in Philippine grasslands, scrub, ravine edges, bamboo-forest edges, and gardens. It is secretive and stays under ground cover.

• Bay Cat Catopuma badia

  The Bornean bay cat is a rarely detected wild cat of Borneo’s forests. Records exist, but much about its diet and way of life remains unknown.

• Campbell Albatross Thalassarche impavida

  The Campbell Albatross feeds on fish, squid, and crustaceans in southern New Zealand waters. It breeds only on Campbell Island and a nearby islet.

• Great Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) major

  This five-toed jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It digs burrows in open steppe and semi-desert and eats plants and insects.

• Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix griseus

  The male has a gray crown, a white patch on the nape, and a dark face and underside. The female is paler brown. This small lark searches for food on dry open ground.

• Arctic Shrew Sorex arcticus

  The Arctic shrew lives in moist grasslands and wetlands. Its winter coat has three distinct color zones.

• Togian Golden Bulbul Hypsipetes aureus

  The Togian Golden Bulbul is restricted to Indonesia’s Togian Islands off central Sulawesi. A study comparing museum plumage, measurements, and vocal samples separated it from the related Golden Bulbul complex.

• Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis

  The saola is a wild relative of cattle that lives in the forests of the Annamite Mountains in Laos and Viet Nam. Both sexes have long horns and white facial markings.

• Booted Warbler Iduna caligata

  The Booted Warbler breeds from central Russia to western China and moves to the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka for winter. It often uses low bushes and scrub.