Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-tailed Tityra Tityra cayana

  

  The Black-tailed Tityra is widespread in Amazonia; in Peru, the account records it up to about 700 m in the Andean foothills.

• Brush-tailed rock-wallaby Petrogale penicillata

  A wallaby with a brush-tipped tail that shelters among rocks.

• Rufous Sibia Heterophasia capistrata

  The Rufous Sibia is a rufous-colored bird of Himalayan forests. It forages mainly in the canopy and may move to different elevations with the seasons.

• Booted Macaque Macaca ochreata

  The booted macaque lives on southeastern Sulawesi. Its gray limbs stand out against its darker coat. It is active by day and eats mainly fruit.

• Painted Bunting Passerina ciris

  The Painted Bunting is a small bird that breeds in the south-central and coastal southeastern United States. It searches for seeds during migration and winter.

• Anderson's Four-eyed Opossum Philander andersoni

  This opossum occurs in northwestern South America. It uses lowland primary and secondary forests and riparian forest, and is mostly terrestrial.

• Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila

  The Chestnut-collared Swift catches flying insects above mountain forests and open areas. Males have a rufous collar; in females and young birds it may be incomplete or absent.

• Transcaucasian Water Shrew Neomys teres

  The Transcaucasian Water Shrew is a semiaquatic shrew found in the Black Sea highlands of Turkey. It usually favors the edges of small streams and creeks.

• White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis

  The White-shouldered Black Tit is mostly black, with a white wing patch and pale eye. It ranges across parts of western and eastern Africa and uses dry woodland, savanna and open habitats.

• Harris' antelope squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii

  A ground squirrel with a white side stripe, white belly, and bushy black tail. It gathers food during hot desert days.

• Frances's Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza francesiae

  Frances's Sparrowhawk is a small hawk endemic to Madagascar. Females are larger than males, and the birds dash from open perches to catch prey.

• Desert Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) lepida

  The back fur ranges from pale gray to dark or cinnamon to black; the belly and feet are white. It is mainly active at night and builds nests from sticks and cactus pieces.

• Mourning Sierra Finch Rhopospina fruticeti

  It occurs in Argentine Patagonia and along the Andes, in shrub steppe and woodland-edge habitats.

• Altai Mountain Weasel Mustela altaica

  The Altai mountain weasel lives in Asian mountain regions. Its coat changes with the seasons, with different back colors in winter and summer.

• Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata

  This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.

• Natterer's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) nattereri

  A bat found across much of the British Isles. It flies slowly among trees and can glean small insects from leaves and branches.

• Indian Roller Coracias benghalensis

  A striking blue bird of open habitats in India. It scans for insects from exposed branches or power lines.

• Little Long-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis dolichura

  This small marsupial has a tail longer than its body. It lives in two separated parts of southwestern Australia, in dry woodland and shrubland.

• Tropical Shearwater Puffinus bailloni

  The Tropical Shearwater dives for small fish and squid and breeds in burrows on islands. In Seychelles it has breeding sites on several islands.

• Baja California Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus rudinoris

  It has a yellowish gray-brown back, a white underside, and a tail longer than its body. It is active at night and carries seeds in cheek pouches to store in its burrow.

• Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi

  A cisticola of tropical African highlands. It occurs in grassy openings and forest edges, often in pairs or small groups, and gives a scratchy, rapidly changing song.

• Whitehead's Sundaic Maxomys Maxomys whiteheadi

  Whitehead's Sundaic Maxomys ranges from the Malay Peninsula through Sumatra to Borneo. It is mainly nocturnal and terrestrial, and has short spines mixed into the fur on its back.

• White-bellied Wren Uropsila leucogastra

  A resident wren of Mexico and Central America, it searches forest thickets for insects and spiders.

• Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira tildae

  Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat is a fruit-eating bat found from northern South America into Brazil and neighboring countries. Its coat varies, and it has ochre shoulder patches and dark fur around the eyes.