Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza zaza

  

  This large mouse lemur is active at night. It lives in northwestern Madagascar’s forests and has a dark tail and pale underside.

• White-necked Picathartes Picathartes gymnocephalus

  

  The White-necked Picathartes is a forest bird known for nesting at rocky sites. A Cornell Living Bird field account describes nest sites and ground foraging around Bonkro, Ghana.

• Plains Spotted Skunk Spilogale interrupta

  

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

• Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides

  

  The Southern Fulmar is a seabird with pale plumage and a pink bill tipped in black. It nests on cliffs on islands in the Southern Ocean and searches for food near the sea surface.

• Kivu African Climbing Mouse Dendromus nyasae

  

  The Kivu African Climbing Mouse is recorded in central and eastern Africa. Some taxonomic treatments recognize the Kivu population as a separate species.

• Warbling white-eye Zosterops japonicus

  

  A small yellow-green bird of Japanese woods and gardens. A white ring around the eye gives it its name.

• Mountain Degu Octodontomys gliroides

  The Mountain Degu lives in dry areas around the Andes. This burrowing rodent uses small holes among rocks or cactus roots and feeds on vegetation.

• Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus

  The Red-fronted Serin is a small finch of mountain slopes and meadows that feeds mainly on seeds. In winter it may descend to lower valleys.

• Southern Pocket Gopher Megascapheus umbrinus

  This pocket gopher occurs in Mexico and the southwestern United States. A 1993 New Mexico account describes the local form living mainly in burrow systems and eating plant roots found while digging.

• Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis gayi

  This plover-like bird lives in the high Andes. Its back is reddish brown, and the pale rufous underparts have fine, scalloped markings.

• Philippine Colugo Cynocephalus volans

  A nocturnal tree-dweller of the southern Philippine islands that glides between trees.

• Black-billed Sicklebill Drepanornis albertisi

  Male black-billed sicklebills court by displaying the purple sheen and ornamental feathers on the head. They live in New Guinea's mountain forests and eat mainly insects.

• Guiana dolphin Sotalia guianensis

  This small dolphin lives in shallow seas and estuaries. It has a triangular dorsal fin and gray coloring and feeds on fish, squid, and crustaceans.

• Eastern Bristlebird Dasyornis brachypterus

  It hides in dense coastal vegetation and sometimes runs across open clearings. Its loud song can reveal where it is.

• Leach's Single Leaf Bat Monophyllus redmani

  Leach's single leaf bat has a long muzzle and tongue. It roosts deep inside large, humid caves.

• Papuan Sittella Daphoenositta papuensis

  The Papuan Sittella occurs on New Guinea, where species accounts record it in forest and semi-open habitats. It feeds on invertebrates.

• Mountain Tapir Tapirus pinchaque

  The mountain tapir lives in the Andes of northern South America and has a thick coat suited to its cold mountain home.

• Andean Tinamou Nothoprocta pentlandii

  This bird forages in Andean scrub, grassland, and other open habitats. Its upperparts have intricate dark markings and pale streaks, with a fine dark line behind the eye.

• Williams's Jerboa Allactaga (Paralactaga) williamsi

  This West Asian rodent is reported from Turkey, the South Caucasus, Iran, and Lebanon. An Iranian study recorded it on sparsely vegetated, hard soils from 350 to 2,500 m.

• Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus

  This lapwing occurs in separated areas of the East African highlands and southern Africa, where it forages on open ground.

• 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.

• Lesser Green Leafbird Chloropsis cyanopogon

  The Lesser Green Leafbird blends with foliage, while the male has a black face and blue throat. It searches for food in the canopy of Southeast Asian lowland forest.

• Black Squirrel Monkey Saimiri vanzolinii

  The black squirrel monkey has a dark crown and colorful limbs. In flooded forests of northern Brazil, it moves through trees by day to find fruit and insects.

• Usambara Hyliota Hyliota usambara

  The Usambara Hyliota has a blue-black back and a white wing patch. A 1999 survey recorded it singly or in pairs, usually in the canopy of mature trees at forest edges in Tanzania’s East Usambaras. That paper used the older subspecies name Hyliota (australis) usambarae and said its status as a separate species was unresolved at the time.