Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black Caracara Daptrius ater

  

  Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.

• 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.

• White-winged Cotinga Xipholena atropurpurea

  The White-winged Cotinga is a fruit-eating bird of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. The male stands out with a black body and white wings.

• Kaluta Dasykaluta rosamondae

  This small marsupial lives in arid northern Australia; one winter study found it active by day in the dry season.

• Blue-throated Macaw Ara glaucogularis

  The Blue-throated Macaw is a large parrot of Bolivia's Beni region, with a blue throat and golden-yellow underparts.

• Lowe's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus lowei

  This monkey lives in the trees of lowland forests in West Africa. It mainly eats fruit, along with leaves, seeds, flowers, bark, and insects.

• Heuglin's Bustard Neotis heuglinii

  This large bustard lives in dry open country and semi-arid savanna. The male has a dark face and pale crown.

• Yellow-pine Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus

  The yellow-pine chipmunk occurs in forests and shrublands of western North America. It gathers seeds and other foods on the ground and stores food.

• Rusty-bellied Brush Finch Atlapetes nationi

  This brush finch occurs in scrub on the western Peruvian Andes. The rusty belly varies among populations.

• Gray Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis (Monodelphis) domestica

  The gray short-tailed opossum is a small South American marsupial that lives on the ground or in low vegetation. Most have gray fur and a naked, rat-like tail.

• Red-crested Turaco Tauraco erythrolophus

  The Red-crested Turaco is an Angolan endemic with a striking red crest and green body. It eats fruit and lives in pairs or groups in gallery and riverine forests.

• Fea's Tree Rat Chiromyscus chiropus

  Fea’s Tree Rat is an arboreal murine with a broad orange pattern on its back and a bicolored or mottled tail. The 2014 study examined specimens from several forested localities in southern Vietnam.

• Buff-headed Coucal Centropus milo

  The Buff-headed Coucal is a large coucal of the Solomon Islands' humid forests. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black body with a buff head and chest.

• Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus pusillus

  This fruit bat ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa. Males have conspicuous white tufts of fur at the shoulders; females do not.

• Rock Pratincole Glareola nuchalis

  The Rock Pratincole is a small, dark bird with white rump and underwing markings. It breeds by fast, rocky rivers; the southern African population moves seasonally.

• Wied's Black-tufted-ear Marmoset Callithrix kuhlii

  A small monkey of coastal forests in Brazil that feeds on tree sap, fruit, and insects.

• African Blue Tit Cyanistes teneriffae

  A small tit with blue upperparts and a yellow underside. It inhabits woodland and scrub in the Canary Islands and North Africa, with some regional variation in wing markings.

• Japanese marten Martes melampus

  A mustelid of Japanese forests and other habitats, with yellowish-brown to dark-brown fur and a white to cream throat patch.

• Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus

  This sandgrouse lives in dry grassland and scrub in East Africa. Males have black markings across the face and throat, while females are plainer. It feeds on plant seeds on the ground.

• Brandt's Vole Lasiopodomys brandtii

  Brandt's vole lives in Mongolian grasslands and eats plant material both above and below ground. It digs extensive burrow systems and may store food there.

• Many-striped Canastero Asthenes flammulata

  A nesting study documented four nests of the nominate subspecies in the high Andes of northeastern Ecuador. Newly hatched chicks look different from adults.

• 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.

• Rufous-fronted Wood Quail Odontophorus erythrops

  The Rufous-fronted Wood Quail searches through leaf litter on the forest floor in the Andes.

• Mt. Claro Rock-wallaby Petrogale sharmani

  Sharman’s Rock-wallaby is a medium-sized wallaby from a restricted area of northern Queensland. It shelters among rocks and emerges around dusk to feed.