Meet the world’s animals.

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• Venezuelan Tyrannulet Zimmerius petersi

  

  A small tyrant flycatcher of northern Venezuela’s wooded mountains. It has an olive back, gray crown, and contrasting black-and-white marks around the eye.

• Northern Sportive Lemur Lepilemur septentrionalis

  The northern sportive lemur lives at the northern tip of Madagascar. It is active at night and rests in trees.

• Spotted Jewel-babbler Ptilorrhoa leucosticta

  The Spotted Jewel-babbler lives in montane forest on New Guinea. It walks on the forest floor in search of insects and other small animals.

• Etendeka Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides micus

  This small sengi has been recorded near the Etendeka volcanic formation in northwestern Namibia. It has rust-colored fur and a hairless gland on the underside of the tail. It is nocturnal and uses the space beneath rocks as a daytime shelter.

• Violet Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus damarensis

  This bird searches trees along dry rivers for insects and small geckos. A Namibian subspecies has coppery and violet iridescence on its mantle feathers.

• domestic ferret Mustela furo

  The domestic ferret is a slender member of the weasel family that lives with people. Ferrets in human care come in several coat-color forms.

• Southern ground hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri

  A large black hornbill that walks over the ground searching for small animals.

• Schreibers's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus schreibersii

  Recent DNA studies split the former broad complex. Miniopterus schreibersii is now treated as a species of Europe, North Africa, and part of the Near East; former sub-Saharan African, East Asian, and Australian populations are separate species.

• Chad Firefinch Lagonosticta umbrinodorsalis

  The Chad Firefinch occupies a narrow area between northern Cameroon and southern Chad. Its identification account places it in dry, rocky habitat with grass and bushes, usually in pairs or small groups.

• Southern Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus

  The southern tree hyrax is a tree-dwelling mammal with soft grey-brown fur, found in forests across eastern and southern Africa.

• Mocking Cliff Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris

  The Mocking Cliff-chat lives in rocky areas from eastern into southern Africa. Males have black upperparts and a chestnut belly; females have dark grey upperparts and deep rufous underparts. It eats insects and fruit.

• Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma muscatellum

  The Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat is a small bat whose tail is longer than its forearm. It feeds over dry, open ground and rests in rocky crevices and caves.

• Dusky-backed Jacamar Brachygalba salmoni

  The male has greenish-black upperparts and chest that contrast with its cinnamon underside. The female has a buff-colored throat.

• Dobson's Lesser Mustached Bat Pteronotus (Chilonycteris) psilotis

  This small cave-roosting bat ranges from southern Mexico to Honduras. Species accounts describe dense whisker-like muzzle hairs, grey to dark-brown fur and forward-pointing ears.

• Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus

  The Yellow-billed Oxpecker occurs in savannas with large mammals. In the southern African accounts, hosts bearing ticks are described as essential to its presence.

• Arfak Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus schlegeli

  The Arfak ring-tailed possum is a rare possum known from the Arfak Mountains in northwestern New Guinea. Its coat is orange-brown, without dorsal stripes or facial markings.

• Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura

  The Indian Pitta is a colorful ground-dwelling bird of scrub and forest in the Indian subcontinent. It moves between regions seasonally.

• North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena japonica

  The North Pacific right whale is a baleen whale of the North Pacific, with most contemporary sightings in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.

• Rusty-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula ferrugineipectus

  This small antpitta occurs in separated mountain regions of northern Colombia and northern and western Venezuela. It lives in the understory of humid montane forest.

• White-bellied Nesomys Nesomys audeberti

  The white-bellied nesomys has ventral hairs that are white to their bases. In a Madagascar field study, the animals were also active during daylight.

• Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei

  Chlorophoneus bocagei inhabits lowland to mid-altitude forest in tropical Africa. Adults have grey upperparts, a white eyebrow, and white underparts with a buff wash on the breast. It gleans insects in the canopy.

• Philippine Colugo Cynocephalus volans

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

• White-faced Nunbird Hapaloptila castanea

  It is about 23.5 cm long, with a grey-brown back and tail and rufous underparts. White feathers surround the base of its black bill, and it sits still on branches for long periods in Andean forest.

• Javan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris javanica

  A 1993 study of Southeast Asian specimens recognized this bat as a distinct Nycteris species. It concluded that the species occurs mainly on Java and nearby islands.