Meet the world’s animals.

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• Monteiro's Storm Petrel Hydrobates monteiroi

  

  This small seabird is endemic to the Azores. It nests on rocky islets and feeds at sea on crustaceans, small fish, and other marine prey.

• Macedonian Mouse Mus (Mus) macedonicus

  This small mouse resembles the house mouse but is mainly associated with natural grasslands and scrub. Identification from appearance alone can be difficult in some areas; chromosome and genetic evidence may be used to distinguish related mice.

• Taiwan Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus musicus

  The Taiwan Scimitar Babbler is endemic to Taiwan. It has a pale face marked with dark head stripes and uses its long, downcurved bill to search low vegetation and forest edges.

• Pygmy Round-eared Bat Lophostoma brasiliense

  This small bat has rounded ears and a short tail enclosed by the flight membrane. It is active after dusk, feeds on insects, and has been reported roosting in arboreal termite nests.

• Pale-mandibled Aracari Pteroglossus erythropygius

  This aracari is recorded from southwest Ecuador and northwest Peru. PeruAves describes it as rare in deciduous forest in extreme northwest Peru, where records extend to 800 m along the Andean foothills.

• Atlantic Titi Callicebus personatus

  This monkey lives in Brazil's Atlantic coastal forests. It has black fur on the forehead and beside the cheeks, while coat patterns vary among subspecies.

• Black-cheeked Gnateater Conopophaga melanops

  This small bird searches for insects near the ground in Brazil’s eastern Atlantic Forest. Males have a distinctive black face pattern.

• Common Tsessebe Damaliscus lunatus

  An antelope described in a Marakele National Park account from South Africa, living in open savanna woodland and nearby grassland.

• Band-tailed Manakin Pipra fasciicauda

  The Band-tailed Manakin forages in the forest understory of Amazonia. Males show black, red, and yellow plumage, while females are mainly olive green.

• Arcuate Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus arcuatus

  The Arcuate Horseshoe Bat has slightly reddish-brown to dark-brown upperparts and buff to gray-brown underparts. In the Philippines it occurs in varied forests, from lowland to montane habitats.

• Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum

  The Gang-gang Cockatoo is a cockatoo of southeastern Australian forests. Males have a red head and crest, females a gray head, and the birds move between uplands and lowlands seasonally.

• Rodrigues Flying Fox Pteropus rodricensis

  The Rodrigues flying fox is a fruit-eating bat found on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean. Golden-looking fur may cover its head, neck, and shoulders, and males and females differ in their reported roosting patterns.

• Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus

  The Yellow-billed Turaco lives in forests of western and central Africa. Its green and blue-violet plumage is striking; it moves along branches and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Marsh Rabbit Sylvilagus palustris

  The marsh rabbit is a wetland rabbit of the southeastern United States that eats grasses and other marsh plants.

• White-breasted Antbird Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Willis described the male with a white face, throat, and breast, a black crest, grey underparts, and greenish-brown upperparts; the female differs in crown and body pattern.

• Caroline Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura semicaudata

  This small brown bat has a tail that passes through the tail membrane. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile for the nominate subspecies describes daytime cave roosting and large roost aggregations reported in Fiji and American Samoa.

• Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus

  The Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike is a small black-and-white bird that sallies from a perch to catch insects. It lives in open forest and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups.

• Red-handed tamarin Saguinus midas

  A small forest monkey of northern South America with brightly coloured hands and feet.

• Moustached Turca Pteroptochos megapodius

  This terrestrial bird is endemic to central Chile. It walks with its tail raised and scratches or digs with one foot to find invertebrates. It prefers rocky ravines and scrub.

• Grizzled Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus inustus

  The grizzled tree kangaroo is a marsupial with powerful forelimbs and curved claws suited to climbing. In the wild it eats leaves, fruit, and soft bark, and most records come from primary forest.

• Red Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea rubra

  The male displays crimson plumes in courtship; the female is mainly brown. The species inhabits the Raja Ampat Islands.

• Gelada Theropithecus gelada

  A grass-eating monkey of the Ethiopian highlands.

• Whiskered Flowerpecker Dicaeum proprium

  The Whiskered Flowerpecker occurs in forest on Mindanao. The sexes are similar, with blue-black upperparts and moustachial stripes, white chin and malar stripes, and sepia-brown underparts.

• European Free-tailed Bat Tadarida teniotis

  The European free-tailed bat occurs around the Mediterranean and in parts of southern Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. It catches flying insects over mountains and urban areas and roosts in rock crevices, caves, and bridges in both summer and winter.