Meet the world’s animals.

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• Snow Goose Anser caerulescens

  

  A goose with white and blue color forms. North American flocks gather in fields and wetlands during migration and winter.

• Red-backed Bearded Saki Chiropotes chiropotes

  The red-backed bearded saki has a black body, a reddish back, and a dense beard. It moves through the high forest canopy by day and eats hard fruits and seeds.

• White-bellied Imperial Pigeon Ducula forsteni

  The White-bellied Imperial Pigeon is a large forest pigeon of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• Proserpine Rock Wallaby Petrogale persephone

  The Proserpine rock wallaby has a grey back, pale underside, and black feet. It shelters among rocky outcrops and also uses forest edges.

• Hooded Butcherbird Cracticus cassicus

  This butcherbird occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It searches for insects, fruit, and other food in the canopy of lowland forest and dense secondary growth.

• Jameson's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus randensis

  A hare of rocky outcrops, with a white patch at the neck and a black tail tip. It rests among rocks by day and feeds on nearby grass at night.

• Manicore Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis rondoni

  This antbird occurs in central Amazonian Brazil. Its description places the known range between the Aripuanã and Machado river systems.

• Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii

  The red bat is a medium-sized bat with reddish or grayish fur. In Argentina it roosts among foliage and catches insects while flying.

• Nicobar Megapode Megapodius nicobariensis

  The Nicobar Megapode is a ground-dwelling bird of the Nicobar Islands. It makes large mounds of leaves and sand, using the heat of decomposition to incubate its eggs.

• Eurasian Water Shrew Neomys fodiens

  A shrew that lives beside fresh water and dives to search for prey.

• Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher Polioptila lactea

  The Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher occurs in southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It moves its tail in the trees and fans it when excited, showing a strong black-and-white contrast.

• Sable antelope Hippotragus niger

  An antelope with backward-curving horns and a mane along the neck.

• Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis

  This bushshrike has a pale eyebrow and rufous wings. It searches for insects near the ground in scrub and open woodland.

• Dekeyser's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla dekeyseri

  Dekeyser's Nectar Bat is a small bat native to Brazil's Cerrado. It uses nectar and pollen, and a field study also recorded fruit and insect feeding.

• River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis

  The River Warbler is a small bird with fine streaks on its breast and flanks. It stays hidden in waterside vegetation and searches for insects and other small invertebrates.

• Merriam's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys merriami

  Merriam's kangaroo rat is a rodent that is active at night in dry country. Its strong hind legs and long, tufted tail help it move in hops.

• Spotted Nothura Nothura maculosa

  The Spotted Nothura lives in South American grasslands. It eats mostly plant matter and is also described as omnivorous.

• Narrow-nosed Planigale Planigale tenuirostris

  The Narrow-nosed Planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened, triangular head and a thin tail about as long as its body. It lives in grasslands, shrublands and other habitats in eastern Australia.

• White-faced Robin Tregellasia leucops

  The White-faced Robin was studied in tropical rainforest at Iron Range on Cape York, northern Australia. In the banding study, most recaptures were close to the release site, and some marked birds were encountered again as late as 18 years later.

• Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina

  The northern pig-tailed macaque is now treated as a species distinct from the southern pig-tailed macaque. A Thai comparison found differences between the northern and southern forms in crown hair, facial markings, coat, and tail.

• Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica

  An auk that breeds on North Atlantic islands and spends winter at sea.

• Finlayson's Squirrel Callosciurus finlaysonii

  Finlayson's squirrel has a wide range of coat colors, including white, red, and black. In its native range it lives in wooded places and spends most of its time in trees.

• Chabert Vanga Leptopterus chabert

  This bird is endemic to Madagascar and is marked by a blue eye-ring, black upperparts, and a white underside. It searches for food in flocks in the canopy.

• Gray Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) incanus

  Males are larger than females, and coat color varies with age and region. It lives along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil and searches for insects on both the ground and in trees.