Meet the world’s animals.

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• Madagascan Grebe Tachybaptus pelzelnii

  

  The Madagascar Grebe is a small diving bird endemic to Madagascar. In breeding plumage it has a black head and reddish-brown sides to the upper neck.

• Spotted seal Phoca largha

  

  A spotted seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic. It lives around seasonal sea ice.

• 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.

• Gervais' beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus

  

  Gervais' beaked whale is a member of the beaked-whale family that lives in deep Atlantic waters. It is rarely seen at sea and is usually alone or in small, closely associated groups.

• Long-tailed Broadbill Psarisomus dalhousiae

  

  The Long-tailed Broadbill is a forest bird with a black head, vivid green body, and long blue tail. It has a broad, flattened bill and searches for insects in groups.

• Long-tailed Spiny-rat Proechimys longicaudatus

  

  A spiny rat from inland South America, including dry forests. Its reddish or yellowish back is mixed with dark-brown hairs, its belly is white, and its tail is sparsely haired.

• Purple Roller Coracias naevius

  The Purple Roller scans for prey from high perches in open African savannas.

• Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri

  A possum of mountain eucalypt forests in Victoria that uses hollows in old trees for shelter and nesting.

• Snowy Sheathbill Chionis albus

  A Signy Island study from April 1961 to April 1962 described adults as white with pink skin below the eye. There, the birds fed on shore algae and limpets and also foraged near penguin colonies.

• Selayar Tarsier Tarsius tarsier

  The Selayar tarsier is marked by a black spot over the nose and a short, sparse tail tuft. It is active at night and lives in trees on Selayar Island.

• 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.

• Spix's Night Monkey Aotus vociferans

  Spix's night monkey is active at night. A feeding study in Peruvian river basins found fruit to be its main recorded food, with flowers and nectar also used.

• Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava

  The Black Cuckooshrike lives in woodland across eastern and southern Africa. Males occur in an all-black form and a form with yellow wing patches.

• Desert Pygmy Mouse Mus (Nannomys) indutus

  Mus indutus is a small mouse recorded in dry savanna in southern Africa. Some records have been difficult to distinguish from those of a close relative, so parts of its distribution remain uncertain.

• White-winged Flufftail Sarothrura ayresi

  The White-winged Flufftail breeds in seasonal high-altitude wetlands. White patches on both sexes' wings show clearly in flight.

• Red Acouchi Myoprocta acouchy

  The red acouchi is a diurnal rodent of forests from the Guianas to northern Brazil. Its reddish-orange flanks and legs and short, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• Olive-crowned Crescentchest Melanopareia maximiliani

  In Bolivia, this ground-dwelling bird is found along montane-forest edges and in tall scrub. It occurs alone or in pairs and skulks in dense vegetation near the ground.

• Bicolor-spined Porcupine Coendou bicolor

  The bicolor-spined porcupine has quills that are pale at the base and dark toward the tip, and is an able climber. It is mainly active at night in trees and eats leaves, fruit, and other plant parts.

• Philippine Fairy-bluebird Irena cyanogastra

  A fruit-eating forest bird endemic to the Philippines, it searches for figs and other fruit high in the canopy. Both sexes have glossy blue-and-black plumage.

• Przewalski’s horse Equus przewalskii

  Historically recorded in the Gobi of southwestern Mongolia and northwestern China, this horse has a stocky body, a large head and an erect mane. Tail-hair analysis of reintroduced horses in Great Gobi B indicated a mainly grass-based diet throughout the year.

• Carunculated Caracara Phalcoboenus carunculatus

  The Carunculated Caracara is a raptor of open Andean highlands, notable for its orange face and white streaks on a dark chest.

• Cape Blesmol Georychus capensis

  The Cape blesmol is a thick-furred underground mammal that feeds on roots, tubers and bulbs below ground.

• Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca

  The Black-bellied Starling is a slim, dark starling with a black belly and little gloss. It is common in coastal East African woodland; a male's eye can turn red briefly during the breeding season.

• Highland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes nigriceps

  The highland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with black-and-yellow spines along its back. It searches leaf litter for earthworms at night.