Meet the world’s animals.

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• Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys

  

  This ground-dwelling partridge has a long tail and short crest. It walks through undergrowth in moist mountain forest and secondary growth in Costa Rica.

• Matthey's Mouse Mus (Nannomys) mattheyi

  This small mouse has a short tail and a clear contrast between its light-brown back and whitish belly. It lives in moist savanna and grassland in West Africa.

• Sao Tome Oriole Oriolus crassirostris

  The Sao Tome Oriole is endemic to São Tomé Island. Adults have a black head and throat and are seen alone or in pairs in the forest mid-storey.

• Wolffsohn's Mountain Viscacha Lagidium wolffsohni

  Wolffsohn's mountain viscacha lives among rocky slopes in southwestern Argentina. It shelters in crevices and feeds on plants during the day.

• Yellow-breasted Pipit Anthus chloris

  The Yellow-breasted Pipit inhabits highland grasslands in southern Africa. Breeding adults are yellow below, with females slightly duller than males.

• Rock Cavy Kerodon rupestris

  This cavy relative lives among rocky outcrops in the dry landscapes of northeastern Brazil. It has a very short tail and feeds on plants.

• Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel Hydrobates tethys

  The Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel has separate breeding populations in the Galápagos and off South America. It lives at sea, and the populations differ in some features.

• Ribbon Seal Histriophoca fasciata

  A seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic Ocean whose mature coat has pale bands around the neck, foreflippers and hips.

• Chiming Wedgebill Psophodes occidentalis

  The Chiming Wedgebill inhabits arid Australia. It uses mulga woodland and low shrubland in Shark Bay, picking insects from the ground and small trees.

• 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.

• White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata

  Its gray body contrasts with a black crest and wings and white on the belly and underside of the long tail. In eastern African montane evergreen forest and nearby scrub or bamboo, it feeds on flies, ants, and other small invertebrates.

• Hairy Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus pilosus

  A Peruvian armadillo with thick reddish hair over its shell, cheeks, and upper forelimbs.

• Tawny-breasted Myiobius Myiobius villosus

  This flycatcher ranges from Nicaragua and Panama south through the Andes to Bolivia. It lives in montane forest near streams and attends ant swarms.

• Pale-throated three-toed sloth Bradypus tridactylus

  A sloth from northern South America that lives in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata

  The Speckled Chachalaca has reddish-brown plumage with pale spots on the front of its neck and chest. It eats fruit and uses both trees and the ground.

• Black Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysopygus

  The black lion tamarin is a small monkey of forests in São Paulo state, Brazil. Its mostly black coat has golden fur on the rump and at the base of the tail.

• Sungrebe Heliornis fulica

  The Sungrebe is a small aquatic bird with a long, slender bill and yellow-and-black-banded lobed toes. It hides along quiet, heavily vegetated waterways and may dive when threatened.

• Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox

  A tree-climbing carnivorous mammal of Madagascar forests.

• Madagascar Pratincole Glareola ocularis

  With long, narrow wings, this bird has a shape between a tern and a shorebird. It catches insects in flight and nests along rocky rivers and coastlines.

• Cape Pangolin Smutsia temminckii

  A ground-dwelling pangolin of savannas and open woodland.

• Noisy Scrubbird Atrichornis clamosus

  The Noisy Scrub-bird has short wings and strong legs and moves along the ground and through low shrubs. It occurs on the mainland of southwestern Western Australia.

• Desert Gundi Ctenodactylus vali

  The desert gundi is a small herbivorous rodent found in a few rocky areas around the Sahara.

• Lilac-breasted roller Coracias caudatus

  A colourful bird of African savannas and open woodland, often seen surveying its surroundings from high branches.

• Kinkajou Potos flavus

  A raccoon relative that grips branches with its long tail and searches for fruit at night.