Meet the world’s animals.

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• Shark Bay Bandicoot Perameles bougainville

  

  The Shark Bay bandicoot is a small marsupial native to islands off Western Australia. It makes a nest beneath shrubs for daytime shelter.

• Puno Antpitta Grallaria sinaensis

  

  The Puno Antpitta is recorded in the highlands of Peru’s Puno Department and at a few sites in western La Paz, Bolivia. It searches for insects close to the ground in dense vegetation.

• Grant's Golden Mole Eremitalpa granti

  

  This small golden mole has no visible tail, and its eyes are covered by skin. It moves through dunes and searches for food at night.

• Australian Logrunner Orthonyx temminckii

  

  Adult Australian Logrunners differ in throat color by sex. On the floor of moist eastern Australian forests, they use their stiff tails for support while scratching through leaf litter for food.

• Javan Porcupine Hystrix (Acanthion) javanica

  

  This porcupine lives on Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and nearby islands. Its back and sides look dark and speckled, while species-specific natural-history records remain limited.

• White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis

  

  The White-browed Treecreeper has a white eyebrow and barred belly. It is patchily distributed in southern mainland Australia and searches for insects in dry woodland and scrub.

• Red Silky Anteater Cyclopes rufus

  This red silky anteater is one of the distinct silky anteater species recognized in modern taxonomic work. The specialist account confirms records in Brazil's western Amazon and says the southern range limit is unknown.

• Austral Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nana

  This small owl is described in a regional account for northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. It is brown to reddish, with a pale underside marked by heavy brown streaks.

• Hooded skunk Mephitis macroura

  The hooded skunk ranges from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America.

• Rufous-headed Ground Roller Atelornis crossleyi

  The Rufous-headed Ground Roller searches for food on the damp forest floor of eastern Madagascar. Adults show a rufous head and underparts, a green back, and white streaks on the black throat.

• Woodland Jumping Mouse Napaeozapus insignis

  A small jumping mouse of northeastern North American forests. It is mostly active at night and spends a long part of winter hibernating.

• Antipodean Albatross Diomedea antipodensis

  This large albatross ranges over the Southern Ocean. Plumage varies with sex, age, and subspecies, and it breeds on islands south of New Zealand.

• Tail-less Tenrec Tenrec ecaudatus

  The tailless tenrec is an omnivorous mammal native to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. It searches for food around water and undergrowth.

• Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura

  This small bird is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. Breeding males grow long tails, and the species lays eggs in other birds' nests.

• Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus

  This vole lives in mountain meadows surrounded by pine-oak forest and changes its plant foods with the seasons.

• Wattled Broadbill Sarcophanops steerii

  The Wattled Broadbill is a resident bird of Mindanao and nearby Philippine islands. Males have a purplish back, rusty tail, pink underparts, and a pale blue wattle around the eye; females have white underparts.

• Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri

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

• Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps

  This small bird occurs in western and central Africa. It uses lowland and second-growth forest as well as village trees, and feeds on insects, berries, and seeds.

• Guianan Saki Pithecia pithecia

  The Guianan saki is a South American monkey whose males and females have different facial coloring; it spends nearly all its life in trees.

• Collared Myna Acridotheres albocinctus

  The Collared Myna has a conspicuous white collar. Adults of both sexes have glossy blue-black plumage, while young birds are brown.

• Vicuña Vicugna vicugna

  A slender wild camelid of high Andean grasslands. It has very fine, soft fleece.

• Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda

  A white seabird with a red bill and long red tail streamers, it breeds on tropical and subtropical islands.

• African Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura afra

  A 2014 first-country record found about 5,000 bats in a cave in lowland rainforest southeast of Edea, Cameroon. Two captured females had deep sepia-brown backs and paler undersides.

• Asian Blue Quail Synoicus chinensis

  This small quail shows a strong color contrast: males are blue-gray and chestnut, while females are brown. It walks through grass and scrub to find seeds and small insects on the ground.