Meet the world’s animals.

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• Crete Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) minous

  

  This spiny mouse lives on Crete. It has a gray back, reddish-yellow flanks with fine spines, and uses dry scrub and rocky crevices.

• Shrike-like Tanager Neothraupis fasciata

  This tanager occurs in Brazil's Cerrado. A study of wild, DNA-sexed birds found that the male's black facial mask reaches the lores, while the female's is limited to the auriculars.

• Miller's Saki Pithecia milleri

  Miller’s saki lives in humid forests of southwestern Colombia and northeastern Ecuador and mainly eats seeds and fruit.

• Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis

  A dark greenish-blue bird with a red bill and pale patches on its wings in flight.

• Swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor

  A dark-coated wallaby that shelters in dense forest undergrowth.

• Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis

  The Savannah Sparrow lives in grasslands and is marked by a short tail and fine breast streaks. It eats more insects in the breeding season and more seeds in winter.

• Hill's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus hilli

  This horseshoe bat is known from a very small area in Nyungwe National Park, southwestern Rwanda. The species treatment lists two localities.

• Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis

  This seabird spends much of its time over the North Pacific and returns to remote island colonies to raise its chick.

• Massoia's Lutrine Opossum Lutreolina massoia

  This opossum lives in the South American Yungas montane forests. It is active at dusk and night, eats small mammals, fish, invertebrates, bird eggs, and fruit, and can climb and swim well.

• 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.

• Greater Dwarf Shrew Suncus lixa

  This shrew is recorded widely in Africa. Its pale underside is sharply separated from the darker back and flanks; South Africa's regional assessment records it in riverine woodland, sandveld, and moist grassland.

• Tenggara Swiftlet Collocalia sumbawae

  A swiftlet of the western Lesser Sunda Islands. It occurs in forest and dense habitats and feeds on invertebrates.

• Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia

  A wild sheep of the dry mountains of North Africa.

• Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Ptilotula flavescens

  A honeyeater found in northern Australia and New Guinea. It occurs in open tropical forests and woodlands, often near rivers or wetlands.

• Sable Martes zibellina

  A marten of northern Asian forests, with fur ranging from light to dark brown.

• Least Storm Petrel Hydrobates microsoma

  About sparrow-sized, this seabird is entirely black with a short wedge-shaped tail. It flutters low over the sea to pick food from the surface and nests in colonies on rocky islands off western Mexico.

• Tehuantepec Jackrabbit Lepus flavigularis

  The Tehuantepec jackrabbit is a hare with a restricted range around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico.

• Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus

  In breeding plumage it has a rusty-red neck and yellow-orange tufts behind the eyes; in winter it becomes gray and white.

• Woolly Flying Squirrel Eupetaurus cinereus

  The woolly flying squirrel has a dense coat and a gliding membrane between its limbs. In the northern Pakistan highlands, it remains active in winter and feeds on mosses and other foods.

• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis

  This small bird has yellow underparts and yellowish-green upperparts. Males have a black facial mask, which females lack; their facial markings also differ.

• Hershkovitz's Marmoset Mico intermedius

  Hershkovitz's marmoset is a small monkey from the Brazilian Amazon.

• Bennett's Woodpecker Campethera bennettii

  This woodpecker inhabits African woodland and savanna with tall trees. Males and females differ in head and throat markings, and it may forage for ants on the ground.

• Giant Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ingens

  This rodent has large hind feet and cheek pouches, with a long tail that helps it balance. It lives in dry grassland burrows and gathers seeds.

• Spotted Wren Campylorhynchus gularis

  The Spotted Wren is a brown wren marked with spots. It searches for animal and plant food in dry scrub and woodland in Mexico.