Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern Rock Nuthatch Sitta tephronota

  

  This diurnal nuthatch uses cliffs and rocky gorges and searches tree bark for invertebrates. Where it overlaps with the Western Rock Nuthatch, the black eye-stripe widening behind the eye is a useful clue.

• Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Ictidomys tridecemlineatus

  The thirteen-lined ground squirrel has alternating dark and light stripes, with spots in the dark stripes. In Texas it uses underground burrows in grassland and pasture, and its food changes with the season.

• Sulawesi Babbler Pellorneum celebense

  This babbler lives in forest and surrounding habitats on Sulawesi. Its plumage varies geographically, and it forages close to the ground with a running movement.

• Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus

  A dolphin of Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters. It feeds mainly on fish in shallow waters.

• Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni

  A pratincole that catches insects in flight. It breeds in Eurasia and migrates to Africa.

• Lesser Egyptian Gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) gerbillus

  The lesser Egyptian gerbil has sandy to pale orange fur and a long, two-colored tail ending in a tuft. It lives in dry sandy places, where it spends the day in burrows and is active at night.

• Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum

  At Gunung Merapi National Park on Java, a male was recorded visiting a nest and feeding two chicks. This was an observation of one nest and does not establish the species' general breeding behaviour.

• Striped Hairy-nosed Bat Gardnerycteris crenulatum

  The striped hairy-nosed bat uses tree cavities as daytime roosts in lowland rainforest. It mainly eats insects and spiders, although fruit has also been recorded in its diet.

• Chestnut-belted Gnateater Conopophaga aurita

  The Chestnut-belted Gnateater searches for food near the ground in tropical forest. Males have a black face and chestnut breast, while females are more subdued.

• Black Capuchin Sapajus nigritus

  Its back ranges from brown to black and the underside from yellow to dark reddish brown. In one group studied at an urbanized park in Brazil, foraging was frequent and stone use to crack palm seeds was recorded.

• Red-legged Cormorant Poikilocarbo gaimardi

  The Red-legged Cormorant is a coastal South American cormorant. A white neck patch, red legs, and yellow bill stand out. It occurs on the Pacific coast from Peru to Chile and along southernmost Argentina on the Atlantic.

• Bolivian Pericote Auliscomys boliviensis

  The Bolivian Pericote is a robust-bodied rodent of the Andean highlands. It is mainly active by day and feeds on plants.

• Yemen Warbler Curruca buryi

  The Yemen Warbler is a small warbler found in the highlands of Yemen. It feeds on insects and other invertebrates.

• Fulvous Pocket Gopher Megascapheus fulvus

  This pocket gopher ranges across the western and southwestern United States and Mexico. A specimen obtained by its describer near San Francisco Mountain had reddish-brown upperparts, a whitish underside, and long, flattened foreclaws.

• Great Thrush Turdus fuscater

  A large thrush common in Andean highlands, it is brown with an orange bill and legs. Males have a yellow eye-ring.

• Beech Marten Martes foina

  A marten found across much of Europe and Central Asia; many individuals have a pale streak on the chest.

• Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris

  The Ultramarine Flycatcher breeds in high country around the Himalayas and moves to lower southern regions for winter.

• White-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis leucopus

  The white-footed dunnart lives in southeastern Australia and Tasmania. It nests beneath leaf litter or fallen logs and mainly eats invertebrates.

• Grimwood's Longclaw Macronyx grimwoodi

  This African bird walks through wet, open grassland and searches the ground for small animals.

• Nyala Nyala angasii

  An African antelope whose males and females differ markedly in appearance.

• Tinkling Shieldbill Peltops montanus

  The Tinkling Shieldbill lives in the mountain forests of New Guinea. Its glossy blue-black body has striking white markings and a red rump, and it catches insects from high perches.

• Prince Bernhard's titi Plecturocebus bernhardi

  Prince Bernhard's titi is a small monkey studied in forest in Rondônia, Brazil. Groups of two to four were observed at one remnant, and sampled animals had continuous orange fur across the chest and limbs.

• Scarlet-crowned Barbet Capito aurovirens

  This barbet is about 18.5 cm long. Males have a red crown and females a pale one; both have an olive body with an orange throat and breast.

• 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.