Meet the world’s animals.

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• Central American Agouti Dasyprocta punctata

  

  The Central American agouti is a slender rodent with a short tail. A field study in Panama recorded it carrying fruit and seeds and burying them in scattered caches.

• North Island Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli

  

  This nocturnal kiwi probes leaf litter and rotten wood with its long bill. It lives in forests and scrub on New Zealand’s North Island and eats small invertebrates.

• Andean Porcupine Coendou quichua

  

  This porcupine has a generally brown-looking back with pale quill tips giving it a frosted appearance. In Ecuador, its records are mainly from Andean forests at high elevations.

• Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli

  

  This sandgrouse feeds on seeds in dry grassland around the Kalahari. Flocks gather at waterholes, and adults carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Grevy’s zebra Equus grevyi

  

  A Grevy’s zebra has large ears and a long, narrow head. It lives in dry parts of Ethiopia and northern Kenya.

• Rufous Scrubbird Atrichornis rufescens

  

  The Rufous Scrub-bird forages on the forest floor in damp forests of eastern Australia.

• Botswanan Mole-rat Fukomys damarensis

  The Damara mole-rat forms underground colonies. A breeding pair is at the center, while other members share tasks such as digging tunnels, gathering food, and caring for young.

• White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni

  The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.

• Hova rice tenrec Oryzorictes hova

  The Hova rice tenrec occurs in Madagascar. In the 1996 Marojejy survey, adults were collected in lowland forest and montane mossy forest.

• Highland Guan Penelopina nigra

  The Highland Guan lives in Central American mountain forests. Males are black with a red throat wattle and move through the trees while searching for fruit.

• West Amazonian Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus pastasae

  This armadillo occurs in the western Amazon. A 2021 Colombian study describes large knee scales and movable armor bands as identification clues and obtained almost all records in forest along rivers.

• Black-capped Screech Owl Megascops atricapilla

  A screech-owl with dark, grey, and rufous colour morphs; every morph has a dark crown. It inhabits forests in south-eastern Brazil and nearby regions.

• Llama Lama glama

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

• Pied Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus

  The Pied Stilt walks through shallows on long legs, probing with a fine bill. h. leucocephalus in New Zealand.

• Australian False Vampire Bat Macroderma gigas

  The ghost bat is a large bat with a scattered range across northern Australia. It has large ears and roosts in caves and deep rock crevices.

• Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi

  The Long-tailed Fiscal ranges from southern Somalia through Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. It perches in open country and dives to the ground for prey.

• Asian Long-tailed Porcupine Trichys fasciculata

  The Asian long-tailed porcupine is a small porcupine with short spines on its back. It is active at night in the moist forests of Southeast Asia, walking on the ground and climbing trees.

• Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minor

  Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant occurs in dense understory in the Amazon Basin. In Peru, the account reports only a few sight records along the Yavarí River.

• Common Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops bonariensis

  The common dwarf bonneted bat has a broad, flat muzzle and large rounded ears. It leaves its roost after sunset and catches insects in flight.

• Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel

  The Lesser Frigatebird is a seabird with long narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It ranges over tropical oceans and is recorded as a vagrant in New Zealand.

• Spectacled Porpoise Phocoena dioptrica

  The spectacled porpoise is found in cold seas of the Southern Hemisphere and is known for the dark rings around its eyes.

• Slaty-backed Forktail Enicurus schistaceus

  This forktail lives along rocky streams from the eastern Himalayas into Southeast Asia, where it searches among stones for aquatic insects.

• Geoffroy's Tamarin Oedipomidas geoffroyi

  This small monkey occurs from Colombia's Pacific coast into Panama. It uses primary and secondary forest, including secondary growth with large trees, and can be found near cultivated areas.

• North Island Kokako Callaeas wilsoni

  The North Island Kokako is endemic to New Zealand's North Island, where it lives in native forest. It has blue-gray plumage and blue wattles, and feeds in trees on fruit, leaves, and insects.