Meet the world’s animals.

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• Long-tailed chinchilla Chinchilla lanigera

  

  A chinchilla of dry rocky habitats in Chile, with dense soft fur and large ears. Rock crevices provide shelter.

• Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei

  

  The Western Violet-backed Sunbird is a small, short-billed bird. Males show violet on the head, back, and throat. It ranges across sub-Saharan Africa and uses woodland and savanna edges.

• Little Red Flying Fox Pteropus scapulatus

  

  The little red flying-fox occurs across varied forests and wetlands in northern and eastern Australia. It mainly eats flower nectar and moves in search of flowering trees. It is the Australian flying-fox species that regularly roosts in tight clusters.

• Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus

  

  This small bird is bright yellow with an olive back. It occupies a range of savanna settings, from moist savanna to dry thorn scrub.

• Lemur-like Ringtail Hemibelideus lemuroides

  

  The lemuroid ringtail possum is a marsupial of northeastern Queensland's rainforests. Its dark brown coat and pale rings around the eyes are easy to notice.

• Venezuelan Troupial Icterus icterus

  

  The Venezuelan Troupial is a large bird with black and bright orange plumage and a long wedge-shaped tail. It lives mainly in Venezuela and northern Colombia, in dry woodland and savanna.

• Brown fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus

  A fur seal with separate subspecies in southern Africa and southern Australia. It lives at sea and comes ashore to breed.

• Australian Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles cristatus

  The Australian Owlet-nightjar rests in tree hollows by day and searches for insects at night. Its back can be reddish brown or greyish brown.

• 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.

• Papuan Sittella Daphoenositta papuensis

  The Papuan Sittella occurs on New Guinea, where species accounts record it in forest and semi-open habitats. It feeds on invertebrates.

• Yunnan Hare Lepus comus

  The Yunnan hare lives in foothills near farmland and in hillside scrub or grassland. It forages at night on grasses and young shoots and leaves.

• Rusty Sparrow Aimophila rufescens

  This sparrow ranges from Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It is recorded in shrubby secondary woodland, forest edges, and pine or oak woodland.

• Sijin Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) sikimaria

  This small pika is recorded in the mountains of Sikkim. Its winter coat is brown, with mixed brown and grey underneath. Surveys in 2010–2014 sampled it in subalpine Rhododendron forest and farmland.

• Golden Babbler Cyanoderma chrysaeum

  The Golden Babbler is a small babbler with a yellow crown and underparts and olive-green upperparts. It ranges from the Himalayas into parts of Southeast Asia.

• Shamel's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus shameli

  This medium-sized horseshoe bat occurs in mainland Southeast Asia. Its coat varies in color, and records from Thailand and Cambodia include several forest types.

• Brown Booby Sula leucogaster

  A large seabird of tropical oceans around the world. Adults have a brown back and white belly; they dive for fish and squid and breed in colonies on islands.

• 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.

• Sooty Bushtit Aegithalos fuliginosus

  A small bird of the mountains of central China, it has grey cheeks, a dark breast band and a white collar. It searches among foliage for insects and berries.

• Yellow-bellied Weasel Mustela kathiah

  This weasel has dark brown fur on its back and tail and a yellowish belly. It lives in mountain forests and catches small animals such as rodents.

• Spotted Crake Porzana porzana

  The Spotted Crake is marked by dense white spots on its gray breast. It searches among plants in shallow freshwater wetlands for small aquatic animals and plants.

• Pygmy Three-toed Sloth Bradypus pygmaeus

  The pygmy three-toed sloth is a small sloth from an island off Panama. It lives in coastal red mangroves, and its long head and shoulder fur can look like a hood.

• Red-capped Plover Charadrius ruficapillus

  This small plover lives around Australian coasts and wetlands. An adult male has a reddish-brown head and neck, and the species searches for small shellfish and crustaceans on mudflats and beaches.

• Cape Porcupine Hystrix (Hystrix) africaeaustralis

  A porcupine covered in long, stiff quills, native to central and southern Africa.

• American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus

  The American Dipper is a gray bird of fast-flowing streams. It dives underwater to find aquatic insects and other prey.