Meet the world’s animals.

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• Narrow-toed feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus

  

  A tiny gliding marsupial with a feather-like tail.

• Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto multipunctata

  

  The lesser sooty owl is a nocturnal owl with a sooty face and silvery-white spots. It hides by day and catches small mammals and other prey at night.

• Collared Peccary Pecari tajacu

  

  A herd-living hoofed mammal of the Americas, recognized by the pale band around its neck.

• White-breasted Robin Eopsaltria georgiana

  

  The White-breasted Robin is endemic to south-western Australia. It often perches sideways on a trunk, then darts to catch prey from the ground or air.

• Rice's whale Balaenoptera ricei

  

  Rice's whale is a baleen whale that lives year-round in the Gulf of America. It is dark gray above and pale below; it is thought to dive deep by day to feed on fish.

• Snares Penguin Eudyptes robustus

  

  It has a black face and back, white underparts, and a thick orange bill. It breeds only on the Snares Islands; tracked adults moved west in winter.

• Cape Golden Mole Chrysochloris asiatica

  The Cape golden mole lives by digging underground tunnels. It has a pointed head and sturdy forefeet, and inhabits sandy areas of southwestern South Africa.

• Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis

  The Grey-crowned Babbler has a broad grey brow and rufous marks on the breast and wings. It forages in small groups, turning over leaves and stones with its bill.

• Rufous Elephant Shrew Galegeeska rufescens

  This sengi has a long snout and large ears. It is mainly active by day and eats ants and termites.

• Esmeraldas Antbird Sipia nigricauda

  An antbird of the Pacific slope from western Colombia to western Ecuador. It searches low in the dark understorey of humid foothill forest.

• Eurasian Water Shrew Neomys fodiens

  A shrew that lives beside fresh water and dives to search for prey.

• Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata

  A small diver with grey-brown plumage and a slightly upturned bill. The throat becomes red in summer breeding plumage.

• White-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur albifrons

  The male's white face makes the sexes easy to distinguish. This lemur lives in forests of northeastern Madagascar and mainly eats fruit, young leaves, and flowers.

• Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus

  A bird of South Africa's mountains, marked by a silver-grey head and reddish rump, that searches rocky Fynbos for insects.

• Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura monticola

  This bat has glossy brown fur and triangular ears. It hunts insects in tropical forests and roosts in caves or tree hollows.

• Broad-billed Tody Todus subulatus

  The Broad-billed Tody is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It hunts insects and also occurs in lowland woodland, thorn scrub, and coffee and cacao farms.

• Gursky's Spectral Tarsier Tarsius spectrumgurskyae

  This small nocturnal primate occurs on the northern peninsula of Sulawesi. It has a long black tail pencil and lives in forests, mangroves, and forest gardens. It is active at night and feeds on live prey, mainly insects.

• Golden-fronted Leafbird Chloropsis aurifrons

  The Golden-fronted Leafbird lives in forests and wooded areas of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, moving through foliage in the canopy.

• Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec Echinops telfairi

  The lesser hedgehog tenrec is a small mammal of dry areas in southern Madagascar. Its black-and-white spines stand out, and it searches for small animals at night.

• White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis

  The White-winged Snowfinch lives in cold mountain habitats and moves to lower elevations seasonally.

• 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.

• Philippine Tailorbird Orthotomus castaneiceps

  This tailorbird occurs in the Visayan Islands. A 1971 Philippine bird account treated castaneiceps as a subspecies and recorded a gray upper back and white underparts.

• Northern Pocket Gopher Thomomys talpoides

  A burrowing rodent widespread in western and midwestern North America. It lives in tunnels and uses grasslands, mountain meadows, and farmland.

• Streaked Berrypecker Melanocharis striativentris

  In the population studied on the southern slope of Mt. Dayman in Papua New Guinea, birds foraged for insects and small fruits in the forest understory.