Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla

  

  A tiny bird with a brown cap, blue-gray back, and whitish underparts. It lives year-round in mature pine forests of the southeastern United States.

• Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin Tursiops erebennus

  This is the proposed species name for the coastal bottlenose dolphin form of the western North Atlantic. The mature skulls examined had a relatively short, narrow rostrum.

• Grand Comoro Drongo Dicrurus fuscipennis

  The Grand Comoro Drongo is a black bird found only on Grand Comoro in the Comoros. It launches from high perches to catch large insects in the air.

• Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata

  The Striped Possum is a nocturnal marsupial of northern Queensland's tropical forests and lowland New Guinea. It is marked with black-and-white stripes and has an elongated finger used to probe for insects.

• Yellow-headed Warbler Teretistris fernandinae

  This warbler occurs in western Cuba and on the Isle of Pines and nearby islands. Its gray body and yellow hood are distinctive, and it searches for food in lower and middle forest layers.

• Antipodean fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri

  A fur seal breeding around New Zealand and nearby islands. It eats squid and small fish at sea.

• Tit Berrypecker Oreocharis arfaki

  The Tit Berrypecker is a fruit-eating bird of New Guinea’s montane forest. Males show bright yellow and orange, while females are mainly olive and gray.

• Veldkamp's Epauletted Fruit Bat Nanonycteris veldkampii

  This small fruit bat lives across West African forest and savanna zones. Records show seasonal movements north and south as the rains change.

• Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea

  The Apostlebird has a gray body and long black tail and occurs in eastern Australia. It forages for seeds and insects on the ground, often in groups.

• Argentine Plains Viscacha Lagostomus maximus

  This large rodent is marked by a striking black-and-white face. It builds extensive communal burrow systems in grasslands and dry scrub.

• Livingstone's Flycatcher Erythrocercus livingstonei

  This small flycatcher occurs in south-eastern Africa. It moves through the middle and upper canopy for insects, usually in pairs or small family groups.

• Llama Lama glama

  A domestic camelid long used to carry loads in the Andes. It has a long neck and legs but no hump.

• Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor

  A small flamingo with a long curved neck and slender pink legs, gathering on saline lakes and similar wetlands.

• Collared Peccary Pecari tajacu

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

• Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus

  A leaf warbler with a pale crown stripe that favors the upper parts of forests.

• Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus

  This small rat-kangaroo has a long, narrow muzzle and gray to chestnut fur on its back. It lives where forest-floor cover is dense.

• Brown-throated Barbet Psilopogon corvinus

  The Brown-throated Barbet has a brown head and throat with green upperparts. It is usually solitary in Java's mountain forests, but may feed with other birds at fruiting trees.

• Pampas Fox Lycalopex gymnocercus

  A medium-sized fox of grasslands and other habitats in southern South America, with regional variation in diet and coat color.

• White-breasted Wood-Swallow Artamus leucoryn

  This bird has dark bluish-gray head, back, wings, and tail with white underparts. It ranges from northern and eastern Australia to New Guinea, Fiji, and the Philippines, and mainly catches insects in flight.

• Crested Capuchin Sapajus robustus

  The crested capuchin is a monkey of forests in eastern Brazil. It has a tall, conical tuft of hair on its crown.

• Nepal Cupwing Pnoepyga immaculata

  The Nepal Cupwing is known from records in central Nepal. A 2010 field note reports hearing at least four birds in northern India and later observing one individual.

• Pygmy Hog Porcula salvania

  A small wild pig of the tall grasslands of Assam, India.

• MacGregor's Bowerbird Amblyornis macgregoriae

  The male MacGregor's Bowerbird has a conspicuous orange head plume. He builds and decorates a bower of sticks to court females. The species lives in mountain forests of central and eastern New Guinea.

• Coast Mole Scapanus orarius

  The coast mole lives in underground tunnels. It has large, spade-shaped forefeet for digging and velvety dark-gray fur.