Meet the world’s animals.

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• American badger Taxidea taxus

  

  A stocky badger of North America with a black-and-white face. Strong forelegs and long claws help it dig underground burrows.

• Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus

  A tern that ranges widely over tropical oceans. It breeds on small islands and catches fish near the water surface while flying.

• White-throated Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) albigula

  This woodrat has a pale throat and builds a large shelter from cactus pieces, sticks, and other materials. It ranges widely across dry areas and scrublands of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

• Grey-throated Sunbird Anthreptes griseigularis

  The Grey-throated Sunbird is a small Philippine endemic recorded in lowland woods, mangroves, coastal second growth, and coconut groves.

• Silver-tipped Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) albescens

  This small bat ranges from Mexico into South America and catches insects while flying over forests and water.

• Dusky-green Oropendola Psarocolius atrovirens

  Adults are dark olive overall, with paler throat and ear-coverts and darker lores and wings. The species occurs in the Andes of southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia, using both dry and wet mountain forest as well as canyons.

• Macedonian Mouse Mus (Mus) macedonicus

  This small mouse resembles the house mouse but is mainly associated with natural grasslands and scrub. Identification from appearance alone can be difficult in some areas; chromosome and genetic evidence may be used to distinguish related mice.

• Green-striped Brush Finch Arremon virenticeps

  A Mexico City bird guide describes this Mexican brushfinch among dense shrubs near the ground in mountain forest. Its white throat and olive back help identify it.

• Milne-Edwards's Macaque Macaca thibetana

  Milne-Edwards's macaque lives in mountainous areas of central-eastern China. It can carry food in its cheek pouches and eat later in a safer place.

• Red-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps

  The Red-billed Scimitar Babbler is a forest bird with a long, curved red bill and a prominent white eyebrow.

• Gaur Bos gaurus

  A large wild cattle species of forests and hills in India and Southeast Asia.

• Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

  A tiny bird with a long tail that searches for food on fine branches.

• Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin gaumeri

  The Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum is a small opossum of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its original description gives a muted grayish-brown back and pale cream belly and cheeks. Specimens have also been collected in sub-evergreen forest in Quintana Roo.

• Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides

  The slaty-legged crake hides near the ground in dense forest and gives its loud calls at night.

• Red Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista petaurista

  The red giant flying squirrel spreads a membrane between its limbs to glide from tree to tree. It is nocturnal and lives among forest trees.

• Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis

  A small plover endemic to New Zealand, with a bill that bends to the right and breeding grounds on South Island braided rivers.

• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.

• Moluccan Flycatcher Myiagra galeata

  The Moluccan Flycatcher is a small bird of wooded habitats and coastal scrub in the Moluccas. Males are grey and white; females have a pale rufous wash on the throat and breast.

• MacConnell's Bat Mesophylla macconnelli

  Among the smallest fruit-eating bats, it uses leaf tents as roosts. It has a broad range across humid forests of Central and South America.

• Grey-faced Petrel Pterodroma gouldi

  This large dark petrel breeds on islands and mainland headlands in northern New Zealand. It has long, narrow wings and raises its chick in a burrow.

• Egyptian rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus

  A large-eyed fruit bat that feeds on very ripe fruit.

• Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera

  The Black Saw-wing is a dark swallow with a long forked tail. It flies over forests and plantations and is native to wooded parts of Africa. The amount of pale color on the underwing varies geographically.

• Swamp Rabbit Sylvilagus aquaticus

  It lives in wetlands and low areas near water. When pursued, it may enter the water, swim, or dive.

• Gilbert's Whistler Pachycephala inornata

  This whistler is sparsely distributed through arid and semi-arid inland southern Australia. Males have a black patch between the red eye and bill, while females are more uniformly brown.