Meet the world’s animals.

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• Woolley's False Antechinus Pseudantechinus woolleyae

  

  A small carnivorous marsupial from rocky, arid areas of Western Australia. It has chestnut fur behind the ears and a flat tail.

• Tibetan Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes tibetanus

  A sandgrouse of dry highland plains. The male has a sandy back and white belly, while the female has more barred plumage.

• Sooty Mangabey Cercocebus atys

  The sooty mangabey is a monkey of West African forests. It has dark fur and uses both the ground and trees in groups.

• Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea

  The Chestnut-vented Warbler is gray, with a pale eye, streaked throat, rufous vent, and large white tail patches. In dense scrub it is often detected by voice.

• Godman's Long-tailed Bat Choeroniscus godmani

  Godman's long-tailed bat belongs to a nectar-feeding genus and is described as the smallest species in Choeroniscus.

• Dunnock Prunella modularis

  A small gray and brown bird that searches for food on the ground in gardens and shrubbery in the UK.

• Indian flying fox Pteropus medius

  A large bat that roosts in trees in India and elsewhere, and feeds on fruit at night.

• Souza's Shrike Lanius souzae

  Souza's Shrike is a small shrike of broad-leaved woodland in central and southern Africa. It often watches from a high perch and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys major

  The greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent recorded in northern Borneo rainforest. It is active mainly in the canopy at night and uses tree hollows and connections between trees.

• Sokoke Pipit Anthus sokokensis

  The Sokoke Pipit is a shy bird of coastal forests in Kenya and Tanzania, with Arabuko-Sokoke Forest as its stronghold.

• Guianan Bearded Saki Chiropotes sagulatus

  The Guianan Bearded Saki occurs in the Guianas and northern Brazil. It has reddish-brown body fur, dark head, tail and lower limbs, a beard, and rounded crown tufts. Species accounts describe a seed-heavy diet that shifts seasonally toward insects, flowers, and fruit.

• Diademed Plover Phegornis mitchellii

  The Diademed Plover is a small shorebird with a black head crossed by a white band, a chestnut neck, and a long slender bill. It lives along rivers and wetlands in the high Andes and is recorded along the Argentine Andes.

• Rufous-bellied Pademelon Thylogale billardierii

  The Rufous-bellied Pademelon is a small Tasmanian macropod with a short tail and legs and a reddish-brown belly. It shelters in dense cover by day and feeds near forest edges at night.

• Cream-colored Courser Cursorius cursor

  Its sandy plumage, long legs, and black-and-white eye stripe are distinctive. It runs over dry, open ground while searching for small invertebrates.

• Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin canescens

  This small opossum lives in Mexico. It is nocturnal and eats mainly insects, along with fruit and small animals.

• Victorin's Warbler Cryptillas victorini

  This small bird lives in the damp fynbos of South Africa's Cape mountains. The sexes look much alike, with a gray face, pale yellow eye, and cinnamon-buff underparts.

• 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.

• Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

  The Galapagos Penguin is a small penguin found only on the Galapagos Islands. It lives and breeds there year-round in the tropics.

• Grey Rhebok Pelea capreolus

  The rhebok is an antelope with long ears and a curly gray-brown coat. It browses in rocky uplands and grasslands.

• Boyd's Shearwater Puffinus boydi

  Boyd's Shearwater breeds on the Cape Verde Islands. Its back and wings are dark, its underside is white, and it takes small fish and cephalopods at sea.

• Siberian Weasel Mustela sibirica

  The Siberian weasel ranges across northern and eastern Eurasia and parts of South Asia. Its coat changes with the seasons, and it is most active at night or twilight.

• Sandy Gallito Teledromas fuscus

  The Sandy Gallito lives in the Monte Desert of western Argentina. It walks on the ground and among low vegetation while searching for food.

• Korean Hare Lepus coreanus

  The Korean hare has brown or grey-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. It uses vegetated areas from plains to mountains and is reported to feed in open places in the late afternoon or evening.

• Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus

  The Purple-crested Turaco is an African bird with a striking purple crest and greenish chin. It eats fruit in trees in forests and woodland.