Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-faced Woodswallow Artamus cinereus

  

  The Black-faced Woodswallow occurs in Australian grasslands and open woodland. Its black face and grey body stand out, and it catches insects while flying.

• Atlas Gundi Ctenodactylus gundi

  The Atlas gundi is a rodent of rocky, dry places in North Africa. Its compact body, large eyes, and tiny tail are useful clues.

• Azure Kingfisher Ceyx azureus

  The Azure Kingfisher is a small kingfisher with blue to violet upperparts and orange sides to the neck. It dives from a waterside perch to catch prey.

• Bare-eared Squirrel Monkey Saimiri ustus

  A diurnal monkey from south of the Amazon River in Brazil that searches for fruit and insects in trees.

• Wattled Guan Aburria aburri

  The Wattled Guan is a large, all-black bird with a blue bill and a long red-and-yellow wattle hanging from its throat. It lives in humid Andean montane forest and eats fruit.

• Heart-nosed Bat Cardioderma cor

  The heart-nosed bat has a heart-shaped nose leaf and large eyes. It leaves its roost around dusk and catches insects from a low perch.

• Dwarf Cassowary Casuarius bennetti

  The Dwarf Cassowary is a flightless bird of New Guinea. In a field study in Papua New Guinea’s mountains, fruit made up most of its diet throughout the year.

• European Garden Dormouse Eliomys quercinus

  The European garden dormouse is marked by a dark mask and a black-and-white tail tip. In Spain, it occurs across the Iberian Peninsula, but its distribution is uneven.

• Rusty-capped Fulvetta Schoeniparus dubius

  The Rusty-capped Fulvetta occurs in Chinese forest and bamboo habitats. It has brown upperparts and flanks, a rusty cap, and a long white eyebrow edged in black.

• Dark Four-eyed Opossum Philander melanurus

  This opossum occurs in western Ecuador and nearby parts of northwestern South America. An older, broader classification described coastal populations as dark-coated, and a camera-trap study in one part of Ecuador suggested an association with permanent water.

• Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

  The Tufted Titmouse is a small gray bird with a crest and large dark eyes. It moves through deciduous branches and also eats seeds and nuts.

• Antipodean fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri

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

• White-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis malouinus

  This ground-dwelling bird has a white belly and fine barring above. It uses rocky slopes and wetlands above treeline and may descend in winter.

• Peale's Dolphin Lagenorhynchus australis

  Peale's dolphin occurs along the cold-temperate coast of southern South America. A study in the Strait of Magellan documented animals in a bay with kelp beds. The Mammal Diversity Database currently lists Cephalorhynchus australis and records Lagenorhynchus australis as an earlier name.

• Slaty-breasted Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi

  The Slaty-breasted Tinamou searches for fruits, seeds, and ants on the floor of wet forest. Its breast is dark gray, its throat is white, and females have bars on their wings.

• Crowned lemur Eulemur coronatus

  A lemur of northern Madagascar, recognized by its orange crown-like forehead marking. It is active mainly by day and lives in groups that travel through trees.

• Hose's Broadbill Calyptomena hosii

  Hose's Broadbill is a bird of mountain forests on Borneo. The male is bright green with a blue area on the belly.

• Coimbra Filho's Titi Callicebus coimbrai

  Black forehead, crown and ears set off the striped front half of this titi monkey's back. One group studied in a southern Sergipe forest fragment fed more during the wet season and rested more during the dry season. Its Atlantic Forest range includes Sergipe and northern coastal Bahia.

• Yellow-throated Scrubwren Neosericornis citreogularis

  The Yellow-throated Scrubwren is a ground-dwelling bird of rainforest and wet, densely vegetated gullies along Australia's east coast.

• Hawk's Sportive Lemur Lepilemur tymerlachsoni

  Hawk’s sportive lemur is confined to forest on Nosy Be. Gray fur frames its large eyes, and a dark stripe runs from its head down its back.

• Rockrunner Achaetops pycnopygius

  A small bird centered in west-central Namibia, with a marginal extension into Angola. It forages on the ground, and adults bring arthropods and caterpillars to nestlings.

• 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.

• Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha

  This bird occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and feeds on ticks and flies while clinging to large mammals such as giraffes and cattle. Southern African accounts also describe nesting in tree cavities and, in some cases, helpers that assist a pair with chick care.

• Fawn Hopping Mouse Notomys cervinus

  The fawn hopping mouse is an Australian rodent with long hind legs for hopping. It shelters in a burrow by day and has been recorded in small family groups.