Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans

  

  A large albatross that ranges widely across the Southern Ocean and breeds on Antarctic and subantarctic islands. Young birds are mostly dark and gradually become whiter with age.

• Kit fox Vulpes macrotis

  A small fox of dry grasslands and deserts in the American Southwest. Its large ears are easy to recognize.

• Maroon-backed Accentor Prunella immaculata

  The Maroon-backed Accentor ranges from the eastern Himalayas to southern China. It has a dark gray head and chestnut wings and keeps to dense cover.

• Rüppell's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus fumigatus

  Rüppell's horseshoe bat is a nocturnal insect-eater. Caves and rock crevices are reported as roosts.

• European Roller Coracias garrulus

  A bird that breeds in parts of central Europe and migrates to central and southern Africa. It has a blue head and chest and a chestnut back.

• Mauritian Tomb Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) mauritianus

  Its underside is white and its back is mixed gray. It occurs in central and southern Africa and nearby islands, and flies out after dark.

• Western Parotia Parotia sefilata

  Males are black with a white forehead, an iridescent breast shield, and wire-like head plumes. They eat fruit and arthropods and perform courtship dances in mountain forest.

• Proserpine Rock Wallaby Petrogale persephone

  The Proserpine rock wallaby has a grey back, pale underside, and black feet. It shelters among rocky outcrops and also uses forest edges.

• Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus

  In good light, adults show maroon, green, and bronze colors. They forage in flocks in shallow wetlands, probing the mud with their bills.

• Nelson's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys nelsoni

  Nelson's spiny pocket mouse is known from cool, wet montane slopes. A comparison with another species describes its longer skull, larger ears, and soft dorsal fur.

• Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica

  This shorebird breeds along Arctic and subarctic coasts. Outside the breeding season, it probes coastal mud and sand with its long bill.

• Silvery Marmoset Mico argentatus

  The silvery marmoset varies from white to dark brown and has hairless face and ears. It eats fruit, animal prey, and gums, and sleeps in tree hollows and dense vegetation.

• Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca

  The male is black with a white marking, while the female has pale patches on the head. It breeds in northern Europe and uses coastal waters in winter.

• Central American Lowland Forest Cottontail Sylvilagus gabbi

  Sylvilagus gabbi is a cottontail of Central American lowland tropical forest. The nominate subspecies, S. g. gabbi, is described as brown with dark and pale bands and an orange nape.

• Nicaraguan Grackle Quiscalus nicaraguensis

  This grackle lives in marshes, lake edges, riverside areas, pastures, and flooded scrub. It travels and forages in groups ranging from small parties to large flocks. In Nicaragua, it also occurs along large-lake shores and nearby wetlands.

• Carruther's Mountain Squirrel Funisciurus carruthersi

  Carruther's mountain squirrel has an olive-green and black back, a pale belly, and a light ring around the eye. It occurs in central African mountain forests.

• Orange-footed Megapode Megapodius reinwardt

  The Orange-footed Megapode has dark gray plumage, orange legs, and a crest at the back of its head. It uses scrub, rainforest, shores, and city parks, feeding on fallen fruit and seeds and laying eggs in large mounds.

• Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Stenella frontalis

  This dolphin lives in warm Atlantic waters. Its spots develop with age and become darker and more widespread, while groups usually number fewer than 50 but sometimes reach about 200.

• Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua

  The Namaqua Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry southwestern Africa. It eats seeds, and males carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Caucasian Birch Mouse Sicista caucasica

  The Caucasian birch mouse is a small rodent recorded in grasslands of the western Great Caucasus. Its back lacks a dark stripe, and field records include places with tall, dense vegetation.

• Copperback Quail-thrush Cinclosoma clarum

  The Copperback Quail-thrush is a ground-dwelling bird of dry scrub in southern Australia. It was separated from the western population of a species once treated as a single Chestnut Quail-thrush.

• Cutch Cremnomys Cremnomys cutchicus

  This rat is endemic to India. It has a gray-brown back, a pale belly, and a tail longer than its body; it mainly eats plants and inhabits rocky hills with trees or scrub.

• Swamp Francolin Ortygornis gularis

  This ground-dwelling bird forages in wet grass and along wetland edges. It eats plants and seeds as well as invertebrates from the ground.

• Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus waterhousii

  Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat is a medium-to-large bat with large ears and a noseleaf. Bahamian records describe cave roosts and insect gleaning from surfaces such as the ground.