Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-necked Pademelon Thylogale thetis

  

  This short-tailed wallaby is marked by reddish fur on its neck and shoulders. It spends the day in forest and emerges near dusk to feed on plants.

• Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa

  The Maccoa Duck is a diving duck with disjunct populations in eastern and southern Africa. The breeding male has a blue bill and chestnut body; the female is brown with a pale eye stripe.

• Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus cornutus

  The subspecies recorded around Yasaka Dam roosts in mountain caves and catches flying insects at night near the river.

• Slaty Gnateater Conopophaga ardesiaca

  The Slaty Gnateater is a short-tailed bird of the eastern Andean slopes of Bolivia, living close to the forest floor.

• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys elegans

  Its tail stores fat and changes in thickness by season with food availability. The coat is tricolored: darker on the back, paler on the sides, and cream-colored underneath.

• Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris

  The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small bird of Southeast Asian forest and bamboo. Its yellow belly and white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew Blarina hylophaga

  This stocky shrew has small eyes and ears hidden in its fur. It stays active year-round and searches for food under leaf litter and in the soil.

• Gray Trembler Cinclocerthia gutturalis

  This trembler occurs on Martinique and Saint Lucia. The Martinique source describes it in humid forest and gives a length of about 23–26 cm.

• Pelzeln's gazelle Gazella pelzelni

  Pelzeln's gazelle was recorded on the northern Somaliland coastal plain. Late nineteenth-century descriptions report a fawn-colored coat and animals using dry stony or sandy ground with low shrubs.

• South African Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon spilodera

  The South African Cliff Swallow has a glossy blue-black back and a squared tail. The reddish-brown rump and chest vary with plumage condition. It migrates between southern African breeding areas and wintering grounds in the Congo Basin.

• Long-tailed weasel Neogale frenata

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

• Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus

  This drongo is recognized by its grey body and long, straight tail with no curled tips. It perches in forests and catches flying insects.

• Arabian Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura gallarum

  This small bat is recorded from northeastern Africa and southern Arabia. A museum specimen list records seven females from Ain Hamran Cave in Oman.

• Antarctic Shag Leucocarbo bransfieldensis

  This seabird breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, and Elephant Island. Its upperparts are glossy black and its throat and belly white; it feeds on fish and benthic animals near coasts and pack ice.

• Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus

  A hare of North America’s boreal forests, it changes coat color with the seasons. Its large hind feet help it stay atop the snow.

• Chaetornis striata

  This grassland bird often remains hidden in cover. A Kerala sighting describes a fulvous-brown back with bold streaks, while a study in Nepal recorded it in riverine grasslands.

• Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista alborufus

  The red and white giant flying squirrel is a large forest squirrel. It forages in trees at night and glides using the membrane between its limbs.

• Pacific Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes johnsoni

  The Pacific Tuftedcheek occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Its rufous back and flanks and white spots on a dark breast are distinctive.

• Bearded Emperor Tamarin Tamarinus subgrisescens

  The bearded emperor tamarin is a small monkey of the southwestern Amazon. Its tufted white facial hair and rufous rump and tail distinguish the subgrisescens form. The Mammal Diversity Database currently lists it as Saguinus subgrisescens.

• Yap Cicadabird Coracina nesiotis

  The Yap Cicadabird is recorded from Yap in Micronesia. A short 1976 survey saw a few birds in a forested valley and at a forest edge.

• Bailey's Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus baileyi

  Bailey's pocket mouse is a small rodent of the Sonoran Desert. It is active at night and carries seeds and other food in its cheek pouches.

• Australasian Gannet Morus serrator

  The Australasian Gannet is a seabird that eats fish and squid, plunging into the sea to catch prey. Juvenile plumage differs markedly from adult plumage.

• Blackish Red Bat Lasiurus ebenus

  The Blackish Red Bat has been recorded in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Its type specimen has a black face and wings, with black and dark-brown bands in the back fur.

• Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella

  The Beautiful Firetail has an olive-brown body, a white-barred breast, and a red bill and rump. It searches the ground for seeds and lives in pairs.