Meet the world’s animals.

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• Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae

  

  A penguin that breeds along the Antarctic coast, recognised by a white ring around each eye.

• Geoffroy's Marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's marmoset is a small monkey with dark ear tufts and a white face. It lives in Brazil's lowland rainforests, where group members help care for young.

• Archbold's Bowerbird Archboldia papuensis

  Archbold's Bowerbird lives in highland forests of central New Guinea. Males have a yellow-orange crest and prepare a flower-decorated display site during breeding.

• Short-eared Dog Atelocynus microtis

  The short-eared dog is a wild canid of the Amazon lowlands, where fish is a common food.

• Sulphur White-eye Zosterops minutus

  This small white-eye lives on Lifou in New Caledonia. It has a white eye-ring, uses open places near settlements and cultivated land, and eats insects and fruit.

• Dusky Pademelon Thylogale brunii

  This is a small member of the kangaroo family, with large ears, strong hind legs, and a short, thick tail. It is mainly active at night and eats plants such as grasses and young shoots.

• Amazonian Inezia Inezia subflava

  This Amazonian Inezia occurs in waterside woodland and thickets. Its two currently recognized subspecies share two pale wingbars and pale tail tips, but differ in their underpart coloration.

• Black-shanked Douc Pygathrix nigripes

  The black-shanked douc is a douc langur found in forests of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It spends most of its time in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis

  The Big Free-tailed Bat roosts in rock crevices and eats large moths. It has vertical grooves on its upper lip.

• Arabian Wheatear Oenanthe lugentoides

  This wheatear has a white crown and a black facial mask that extends onto the wings. It is resident in the deserts and rocky hills of southern Arabia, where it feeds mainly on fruit and insects.

• Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin canescens

  This small opossum lives in Mexico. It is nocturnal and eats mainly insects, along with fruit and small animals.

• Coppery-chested Jacamar Galbula pastazae

  The Coppery-chested Jacamar is a 23–24 cm jacamar of humid mountain forest. Its account classifies it as an aerial hunter of invertebrates.

• Forest Shrew Myosorex varius

  The forest shrew is a small gray-to-brown shrew. It searches for insects and other small invertebrates in moist, densely vegetated places.

• Schneider's Pitta Hydrornis schneideri

  Males have orange heads and blue backs. In Sumatra's mountain forests, the bird searches near the forest floor for large cockroaches and snails.

• Bangs's Mountain Squirrel Syntheosciurus brochus

  Bangs's mountain squirrel is a tree squirrel reported from the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama. A study in Costa Rica observed it feeding on flowers, sap, and bromeliads.

• Alta Floresta Antpitta Hylopezus whittakeri

  This antpitta was described from population B around Alta Floresta in Brazil. Study specimens show pale streaks on the back, a white belly, and ochre spots across the breast and flanks.

• Mandarin Vole Lasiopodomys mandarinus

  The Mandarin vole is a vole that lives in underground tunnels and occurs in northeastern and central China and other parts of East Asia.

• Red-naped Bushshrike Laniarius ruficeps

  This bushshrike inhabits dry lowland scrub. Its underparts are whitish and its hindcrown and nape are chestnut; it searches for insects low in bushes and on the ground.

• Sambar Rusa unicolor

  Asia’s largest deer, it feeds near forests and wetlands.

• Spotted Puffbird Bucco tamatia

  Its face has fine rufous and dark markings, with long white bristles on the chin. It waits motionless on a shaded branch, then darts from the foliage to catch insects.

• Ocelot Leopardus pardalis

  A patterned cat of parts of the Americas, with black-bordered blotches arranged in chain-like rows along its body.

• Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon

  A crested kingfisher with a large bill that watches for fish from a perch beside the water.

• Long-tailed weasel Neogale frenata

  A long-bodied weasel found in forests, fields, and other habitats in North Carolina.