Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Indochinese Cuckooshrike Coracina polioptera

  This cuckooshrike uses semi-open habitats and lower mountains in the Indo-Malay region. Oiseaux.net lists the pool name Coracina polioptera as Lalage polioptera.

• Giant Blind Mole Rat Spalax giganteus

  This large mole rat lives in underground burrows. It has pale silvery-gray fur and feeds on roots, bulbs, and tubers.

• Peruvian Booby Sula variegata

  The Peruvian Booby hunts fish in cool waters off western South America. It breeds on coastal cliffs and slopes on small islands.

• Western Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis

  This hyrax has short ears and legs and thick fur ranging from gray-brown to black. It feeds at night on leaves, fruit, and other plant material and usually lives alone.

• Pin-tailed Parrot-Finch Erythrura prasina

  Males draw the eye with a green back, blue face, and red rump and tail. The species usually moves in small flocks, which can gather into larger groups when rice seeds ripen.

• Neotropical River Otter Lontra longicaudis

  An otter of South America and Trinidad, using rivers, lakes and their banks.

• White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra

  Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.

• Eastern Woolly Lemur Avahi laniger

  The eastern woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of eastern Madagascar, marked by woolly back fur and a white stripe on the thighs.

• Spix's Guan Penelope jacquacu

  This galliform lives in forest habitats. In Ecuador it occurs in Amazonian lowland and eastern montane forests, foraging mainly in the middle and upper tree layers.

• Central American Rufous Tree-rat Diplomys labilis

  An arboreal spiny rat recorded in Central America. It is active at night and uses tree cavities as resting places.

• Drakensberg Rockjumper Chaetops aurantius

  It lives in rocky mountain grassland and searches the ground for insects and other small invertebrates. The male has bold facial and chest markings.

• Lesser Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) macrotis

  The lesser dog-like bat is a small bat with long ears and a pouch-like structure on the wing. It flies at night and eats small beetles, flies, and other insects.

• African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense

  The African Barred Owlet is a small owl that hunts in woodlands of southern and eastern Africa.

• Maranhão Red-handed Howler Alouatta ululata

  The Maranhão red-handed howler lives in open, dry vegetation in northeastern Brazil. Museum specimens have been described as showing sex-related coat differences, but the original study called for further research to confirm them.

• Chestnut-backed Buttonquail Turnix castanotus

  It occurs in northern Australia. Several birds were confirmed in Queensland in 2020 outside its previously documented range. Much of its ecology remains poorly known.

• Riverine Rabbit Bunolagus monticularis

  The riverine rabbit lives in separate areas of South Africa. It is active around dawn and dusk; some populations live along seasonal rivers.

• Siberian crane Leucogeranus leucogeranus

  Adults are mainly white with a red face. Black outer wing feathers become conspicuous in flight.

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• Black Berrypecker Melanocharis nigra

  The Black Berrypecker lives in forests on New Guinea. Adult males are glossy blue-black, while females are olive-colored. It eats small berries as well as insects and spiders.

• Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma muscatellum

  The Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat is a small bat whose tail is longer than its forearm. It feeds over dry, open ground and rests in rocky crevices and caves.

• Wattled Ploughbill Eulacestoma nigropectus

  The Wattled Ploughbill is a small bird of New Guinea's mountain forests. Males have pink wattles on both sides of the throat, while females lack them.

• Northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris

  A seal of the eastern and central North Pacific. It dives to feed and comes ashore to breed and molt.

• Black-billed Flycatcher Aphanotriccus audax

  This small flycatcher occurs locally from eastern Panama to northern Colombia. The male has an olive-grey crown.