Meet the world’s animals.

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• Darling's Mole-rat Fukomys darlingi

  

  Darling's mole-rat is a social, subterranean rodent centered on the Zimbabwean highlands and lowland Mozambique. Wild-caught animals from southern Malawi had white spots on the head.

• Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis

  The Lesser Jacana is a small jacana of shallow freshwater wetlands with grasses and sedges. It may move as water levels change.

• Plains Spotted Skunk Spilogale interrupta

  In Texas, this small, striped skunk is mostly nocturnal and may stand on its forelegs to warn a threat.

• Red Knot Calidris canutus

  A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and travels to distant coasts during migration. Its belly turns orange-red in breeding plumage.

• Somali Bushbaby Galago gallarum

  This small nocturnal primate has a pale face, dark eye rings, black ears and tail, and a light buff back.

• Tinkling Shieldbill Peltops montanus

  The Tinkling Shieldbill lives in the mountain forests of New Guinea. Its glossy blue-black body has striking white markings and a red rump, and it catches insects from high perches.

• Western long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bruijni

  The western long-beaked echidna is an egg-laying mammal with a long, downward-curving snout. It occurs on New Guinea.

• Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris

  This medium-sized owl lives in grassland and has long legs that project beyond the tail in flight.

• Spix's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera tricolor

  Spix's disk-winged bat clings head-up inside leaves with tiny suction discs. Small groups roost in leaves and change resting sites each day.

• Eurasian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus

  A small bird that weaves a pouch-shaped nest on branches near water. It ranges across Europe and Asia and forages among reeds and wetland plants.

• Cape Long-eared Bat Nycteris thebaica

  This bat ranges across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Its large ears, divided noseleaf and T-shaped tail are distinctive, and it hunts insects and other small invertebrates.

• Palmchat Dulus dominicus

  The Palmchat is a Caribbean island bird with a plain brown back and heavily streaked underparts. It also has a red iris and a strong, slightly decurved bill.

• Southern hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons

  A wombat that digs underground burrows in dry southern Australia.

• Rota bridled white-eye Zosterops rotensis

  The current wild population is known from Rota in the Mariana Islands. It forms small flocks in the forest canopy and searches leaves and branchlets for food.

• Southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina

  A seal of the seas around Antarctica that dives deep to find food.

• Grey-necked Picathartes Picathartes oreas

  Its blue forehead, red nape, and grey neck stand out. It occurs in separated patches of forest in Central Africa.

• Coke's Hartebeest Alcelaphus cokii

  Coke's Hartebeest occurs in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Its coat is pale tawny, the rump patch is only slightly paler, and only the tail tuft is black. It selects grasses in grassland with scattered acacia scrub.

• Noisy Scrubbird Atrichornis clamosus

  The Noisy Scrub-bird has short wings and strong legs and moves along the ground and through low shrubs. It occurs on the mainland of southwestern Western Australia.

• Alpine Musk Deer Moschus chrysogaster

  This deer relative lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males have long upper canine teeth that can show below the mouth.

• Olive Warbler Peucedramus taeniatus

  In the southwestern U.S. mountains, the male Olive Warbler is recognizable by its copper-colored head, gray back, and white wing bars. It searches high in trees for insects and gives a soft whistled call.

• Mexican Funnel-eared Bat Natalus mexicanus

  This small bat ranges from northern Mexico to Panama. It mainly inhabits tropical deciduous and semideciduous forests, roosts in caves, and eats insects.

• Andean Potoo Nyctibius maculosus

  Fine gray, brown, and black markings and yellow eyes stand out on this nocturnal bird of Andean cloud forest.

• East African Spring Hare Pedetes surdaster

  The East African springhare's fur fluoresces orange to red under ultraviolet light. The examined specimens included animals from Kenya and Tanzania, but the ecological role of the glow remains unknown.

• Pink-tailed Rosefinch Urocynchramus pylzowi

  This finch-like bird has a long graduated tail with bright pink. In field studies at Qinghai Nanshan it stayed among shrubs and foraged at or near the ground.