Meet the world’s animals.

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• Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia

  

  A wild sheep of the dry mountains of North Africa.

• Bannerman's Shearwater Puffinus bannermani

  

  Bannerman's Shearwater is endemic to the Ogasawara Islands. Breeding colonies have been confirmed in forests on Minamiiwoto and Higashijima.

• Paraguayan Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou spinosus

  

  This nocturnal porcupine moves among tree branches. Its fluffy fur can partly hide the spines, and it wraps its tail around branches as it moves.

• Long-tailed Ground Roller Uratelornis chimaera

  

  The Long-tailed Ground Roller is a ground-dwelling bird of dry forest in southwestern Madagascar. Its long tail and patterned head are distinctive.

• Burmeister’s Porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis

  

  Burmeister’s porpoise lives along the coasts of South America. Small, thorn-like bumps line the front edge of its dorsal fin.

• Goldcrest Regulus regulus

  

  A very small woodland bird with a yellow crown stripe.

• Chestnut Short-tailed Bat Carollia castanea

  The chestnut short-tailed bat is a nocturnal fruit-eating bat. In a study, it relied on the scent of ripe Piper fruit when foraging and used more echolocation when that scent was absent.

• Southern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome

  A penguin with yellow plumes extending backwards above the eyes. Its breeding range includes the Falkland Islands.

• Pendlebury's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros pendleburyi

  This bat is recorded in peninsular Thailand. Its noseleaf has three supplementary leaflets, and surveys recorded it at limestone outcrops, caves, and forest sites.

• Przevalski's Nuthatch Sitta przewalskii

  This nuthatch occurs in western China and northeastern Tibet. It uses spruce and fir forest, parkland, and places with scattered trees at roughly 2,200–4,000 m.

• Yellow Mongoose Cynictis penicillata

  A mongoose of open, semi-arid habitats in southern Africa that forages for insects and other small prey.

• African Finfoot Podica senegalensis

  This river bird differs by sex in size and facial pattern. It searches along the water's edge for fish and other small aquatic prey.

• Greater Glider Petauroides volans

  This nocturnal marsupial lives in forests of eastern Australia. It glides between trees using a membrane between its limbs and eats eucalyptus leaves.

• Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre

  The Curve-billed Thrasher lives in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico, including scrub with cacti and open woodland. It probes the ground with its long, downcurved bill for insects and fruit.

• Red Acouchi Myoprocta acouchy

  The red acouchi is a diurnal rodent of forests from the Guianas to northern Brazil. Its reddish-orange flanks and legs and short, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• White-throated Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias albigularis

  It has an olive-brown head, pale eyebrow, white throat, broad brown breast band, and white belly. It occurs in the shaded understory of lowland and montane forest.

• Grant's Bushbaby Paragalago granti

  Grant's bushbaby is a small nocturnal primate of southeastern African forests. It rests in tree holes by day and becomes active at night.

• Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum

  At Gunung Merapi National Park on Java, a male was recorded visiting a nest and feeding two chicks. This was an observation of one nest and does not establish the species' general breeding behaviour.

• Verreaux's White-footed Rat Myomyscus verreauxii

  This mouse lives in South Africa's Western Cape. It has a buff-brown back, pale underside, large naked ears, white feet, and a long scaly tail.

• Azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyanus

  A long-tailed bird seen mainly in eastern Honshu woods and residential areas in Japan. It lives in flocks throughout the year.

• Angolan Giant Mole-rat Fukomys mechowi

  Mechow's mole-rat is an African rodent that excavates underground tunnels. Family groups are known to cooperate in daily life.

• Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris

  Males combine dark grey and rufous plumage, while females are grey-brown and streaked; the birds often search for insects high in trees.

• Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata

  The Striped Possum is a nocturnal marsupial of northern Queensland's tropical forests and lowland New Guinea. It is marked with black-and-white stripes and has an elongated finger used to probe for insects.

• Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator

  The Pine Grosbeak is a large bird with a thick bill. Males are reddish, while females and young birds are mostly gray; it eats buds, seeds, and fruit.