Meet the world’s animals.

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• South American Sea Lion Otaria byronia

  

  The South American sea lion lives along the continent's coasts. It feeds at sea and returns to shore to breed and rear its pups.

• Caquetá Titi Plecturocebus caquetensis

  

  This titi monkey occurs in lowland forests of southern Colombia. It feeds on fruits, seeds, and young leaves in remaining forest, with reddish fur around the face and throat like a beard.

• Malay Civet Viverra tangalunga

  

  The Malay civet has black spots on tawny-to-gray fur and a black-and-white banded tail. It hides in dense cover by day and is active at night.

• Red-cheeked Flying Squirrel Hylopetes spadiceus

  

  This Southeast Asian flying squirrel glides from tree to tree in forest.

• Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata

  

  The fat-tailed dunnart is a small marsupial that stores fat in its tail. It searches for arthropods and small vertebrates at night.

• Common silky anteater Cyclopes didactylus

  

  A small anteater that lives in trees and feeds mainly on ants.

• Long-tailed chinchilla Chinchilla lanigera

  A chinchilla of dry rocky habitats in Chile, with dense soft fur and large ears. Rock crevices provide shelter.

• Malayan tapir Acrocodia indica

  The Malayan tapir inhabits Southeast Asian tropical forests. Adults have large black-and-white areas on the body.

• Alpaca Vicugna pacos

  A domestic camelid raised for its fiber in the Andean highlands. It lives in herds and has many coat colors.

• Indian Spotted Chevrotain Moschiola meminna

  The Indian spotted chevrotain is a small hoofed mammal of Sri Lanka’s dry zone. It moves alone at night, with pale stripes or rows of spots across its brown back.

• Chinese pangolin Manis pentadactyla

  A pangolin covered in overlapping scales that digs burrows in the ground.

• Sundevall's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros caffer

  This bat has short, rounded wings, a large noseleaf, gray to gray-brown dorsal fur and a paler underside. It is recorded in southern African wooded savanna and riverine forest and feeds mainly on moths.

• Red ruffed lemur Varecia rubra

  A rust-red lemur of Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula.

• Felou Gundi Felovia vae

  The Felou gundi is a West African rodent associated with rocky places. A habitat model found suitable sites more often on steep, rocky ground near water.

• Durango Coarse-haired Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus durangae

  This pocket mouse occurs mainly in Durango, Mexico. The adult male holotype, collected in 2008, measured 20.3 cm from nose to tail tip.

• Blond Capuchin Sapajus flavius

  This capuchin lives in remaining Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. One group studied in a forest fragment in Paraíba ate fruit as well as sugarcane stalks and animal food.

• Roman Mole Talpa romana

  The Roman mole digs underground tunnels with broad forefeet shaped for moving soil. It occurs in central and southern Italy and eats earthworms and insect larvae.

• Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

  The pocketed free-tailed bat has a pouch-like fold of skin near the hind legs. It roosts in caves, rock crevices, and buildings in dry country.

• Northern Tamandua Tamandua mexicana

  The northern tamandua ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to northern Peru west of the Andes. It is partly arboreal and feeds mainly on ants and termites.

• Chestnut African Climbing Mouse Dendromus mystacalis

  The chestnut African climbing mouse lives in savannas south of the Sahara and climbs tall grasses with its tail.

• Thomas's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus thomasi

  Thomas's horseshoe bat has russet-tinged brown fur and a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It roosts in cave colonies and is recorded from southern China and mainland Southeast Asia.

• Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox

  A tree-climbing carnivorous mammal of Madagascar forests.

• Chapman's Rice Rat Oryzomys chapmani

  Its back ranges from brown to dark with black hairs; its ears are smallish and blackish, and the tail is uniformly colored. It lives in Mexican cloud forest and grassy areas in pine-oak forest, and is nocturnal and terrestrial.

• Little Chinese Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) meridianus

  The Little Chinese Jird lives in deserts and grasslands, and the color of its back varies.