Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pichi Zaedyus pichiy

  

  A small armadillo of dry southern South America that digs burrows and feeds mainly on insects.

• Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata

  

  This bird has buff-spotted plumage. The male courts by building an avenue-like structure and arranging decorations around it.

• Island Mouse Nesomys rufus

  

  Nesomys rufus is a ground-dwelling rodent reported across humid forests of Madagascar. Its reddish back, white-spotted underside, and white tail tip help distinguish it.

• Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui

  

  The Little Tinamou is a small bird of the ground in humid tropical lowland forest. It is rarely seen and usually runs for cover rather than flying when disturbed.

• Mantled Howler Alouatta palliata

  

  The mantled howler is a monkey with black fur and, in most individuals, long yellow or brown hairs hanging along the flanks. It feeds on leaves, fruit, and flowers in the forest canopy.

• White-collared Oliveback Nesocharis ansorgei

  

  The male has a white collar between its throat and breast, with olive upperparts and grey underparts. It takes small seeds in wet thickets and along streams.

• Smoky Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fumosus

  The smoky pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent of the southern Mexican Plateau, where volcanic soils occur. Its large foreclaws help it dig underground.

• White-winged Warbler Xenoligea montana

  A grey head, olive upperparts, white underparts, and white wing feathers are distinctive. It feeds on seeds and insects in the mountain forests of Hispaniola.

• Lesser Mouse-deer Tragulus kanchil

  It has no antlers; males have long canine teeth. This small ungulate lives alone or in pairs and eats leaves and fruit.

• Flightless Cormorant Nannopterum harrisi

  The flightless cormorant dives from the Galápagos coast to catch fish and octopus.

• Pantanal Punare Thrichomys pachyurus

  This spiny rat lives in central South America. Most animals have the usual coat, but some individuals with predominantly white fur have been reported; it uses densely vegetated places.

• White-backed Black Tit Melaniparus leuconotus

  The White-backed Black Tit has a black body and a white shoulder patch. It moves in pairs or small groups and searches tree trunks and branches for small invertebrates.

• Orange-sided Opossum Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) dimidiata

  This small opossum lives in grasslands of northern Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay. Its back is gray, its underside is yellowish, and males are larger than females.

• Jobi Manucode Manucodia jobiensis

  The Jobi Manucode is a bird-of-paradise with blue-violet iridescence and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and arthropods in lowland forest on northern New Guinea and Yapen Island.

• Rufous Bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens

  The rufous bettong is a marsupial with reddish-brown fur and a furred muzzle. It rests in a grass-built nest by day and looks for food at night.

• Green-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus zambesiae

  It is widespread across southern Africa, with isolated populations in Ethiopia and Kenya. Its back and wings are olive green, and it mainly eats insects found on twigs.

• Agile Gibbon Hylobates agilis

  This gibbon lives high in tropical forest and uses its long arms to move from branch to branch.

• Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta bruijnii

  The Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot is a small parrot ranging from eastern Indonesia through New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. The male of the nominate subspecies is mainly green, with red-orange and blue on the head.

• Pampas Deer Ozotoceros bezoarticus

  A slender, long-legged deer of South American grasslands. In Argentina, current populations remain in limited areas.

• Stephan's Emerald Dove Chalcophaps stephani

  This dove searches for food while walking across shaded, damp forest floors. When alarmed, it may pause, fly a short distance, and land close to the ground.

• Cape genet Genetta tigrina

  A southern African genet with dark spots on a pale coat and rings on its tail. It is active at night and climbs well.

• Gould's Frogmouth Batrachostomus stellatus

  Gould's Frogmouth is a small frogmouth of Southeast Asian evergreen broadleaf forest. It occurs in dark and chestnut morphs.

• White Bald Uacari Cacajao calvus

  The white bald uacari is a monkey of the upper Amazon region of Brazil. Sparse hair on its head and face makes its red face and pale body fur distinctive.

• Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus

  With a black head and broad white cheek patch, this bird searches near the ground for insects in wet habitats of eastern Australia.