Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-crowned Antpitta Grallaria ruficapilla

  

  The Chestnut-crowned Antpitta forages near the ground in Andean forest. Its chestnut-colored head and olive upperparts contrast with a white throat.

• Indochinese Ground Squirrel Menetes berdmorei

  This diurnal squirrel spends most of its time on the ground. It has a gray-brown back, a pale underside, and flank stripes that vary among subspecies.

• Great white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus

  An aquatic bird with a long bill and a stretchy pouch beneath it.

• Commerson's dolphin Cephalorhynchus commersonii

  A boldly patterned dolphin of shallow seas around southern South America and elsewhere.

• Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis

  This resident species is endemic to China. Around Mount Taishan it occurs from mountain areas to suburban tree cover and moves in flocks through shrubs and small trees.

• Five-toed Dwarf Jerboa Cardiocranius paradoxus

  The five-toed dwarf jerboa is a small jerboa with 5 toes on its hind feet. It moves through dry rocky areas at night and eats plant seeds.

• Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus

  It walks through shallow water on long pink legs and searches for food with a slender bill.

• Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed Rat Isothrix bistriata

  The yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat is an arboreal rodent of western Amazon lowland forest. It nests in flooded forest and river floodplains.

• Malaysian Honeyguide Indicator archipelagicus

  The Malaysian Honeyguide has dark olive-brown upperparts. A Thai account records it in evergreen forest and notes that females lack a yellow shoulder patch.

• Hausa Genet Genetta thierryi

  The Hausa genet is a small viverrid found in West African savannas and moist woodlands. A reddish line along its back and alternating light and dark rings on its tail help identify its coat pattern.

• Red-breasted Chat Granatellus venustus

  At Mexico’s Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve, researchers caught this species in both wet and dry seasons, but recorded fewer captures in the dry season and more in deciduous than semi-deciduous forest.

• Southern Luzon Phloeomys Phloeomys cumingi

  This rodent lives in forests on several Philippine islands. Its coarse, dark coat and long-haired tail stand out. Accounts also describe it using spaces near the forest floor and holes in trees.

• Dusky-brown Oriole Oriolus phaeochromus

  The Dusky-brown Oriole, also called the Halmahera Oriole, is a uniformly brown oriole from the North Moluccas. It uses upper forest and edges and gives a fluty call.

• Fringed Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) fimbriatus

  A study of eastern Paraguayan specimens found that females tend to have larger wings; this bat feeds on fruit.

• Mangrove Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia

  The Mangrove Yellow Warbler is a bright yellow songbird whose adult males have a chestnut hood. It searches for insects and spiders in American coastal mangroves and nearby scrub.

• Collins' Squirrel Monkey Saimiri collinsi

  Collins' squirrel monkey occurs in the eastern Brazilian Amazon and is omnivorous. It often uses the middle and lower forest strata and sometimes descends to the ground to feed on insects.

• Gray Vireo Vireo vicinior

  Gray Vireos breed in dry scrub of the southwestern United States. Many winter in Mexico and use similar scrub as well as desert stream areas.

• Long-tailed Colilargo Oligoryzomys longicaudatus

  A small rice rat found in Chile and Argentina. It has a long tail and is mostly nocturnal and terrestrial, though it climbs well.

• White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis

  The White-bellied Heron is a large waterbird with a long neck and legs. In Bhutan, it occurs in temperate and mixed broadleaf forests in three major river basins.

• Ethiopian Dwarf Mongoose Helogale hirtula

  A small mongoose of the Horn of Africa that is active in groups by day. At night it shelters in termite mounds, dens, or rock crevices.

• Broad-billed Warbler Tickellia hodgsoni

  This small warbler occurs from the Himalayas to Indochina, using damp montane forest and bamboo undergrowth to find insects.

• Attwater's Pocket Gopher Geomys attwateri

  Attwater's pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent that excavates tunnels with its forefeet. At a Texas study site, it was recorded eating many kinds of plants and making winding underground passageways.

• California Quail Callipepla californica

  A ground-foraging quail with a forward-drooping head plume, often seen in family groups.

• Striped polecat Ictonyx striatus

  A carnivore of Africa with striking white stripes on a black body. It is active alone at night and eats small animals and insects.