Meet the world’s animals.

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• Marshall's Iora Aegithina nigrolutea

  

  Marshall's Iora shows conspicuous white edges on its tail and wings. It searches for insects in dry acacia scrub and may join mixed-species flocks after breeding.

• Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou mexicanus

  This porcupine ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to western Panama. Long quills hide beneath coarse black hairs, and its long tail can grip branches.

• Varied Sittella Daphoenositta chrysoptera

  This bird searches for insects by working down trunks and branches, often moving among trees in flocks. Adults are grey above and white below, while their wing pattern varies across Australia.

• Brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus rufus

  The brown mouse lemur is a small mouse lemur found in rainforest and swamp habitats in southeastern Madagascar.

• Black-eared Catbird Ailuroedus melanotis

  The Black-eared Catbird is a bowerbird with a green body, dark head markings, and cream-colored spots. It eats both animal and plant foods.

• Western Woolly Lemur Avahi occidentalis

  The western woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of western Madagascar's forests. It has thick grayish fur and lives in small family groups.

• Slaty-headed Longbill Toxorhamphus poliopterus

  The Slaty-headed Longbill has a dark head and a long, strongly curved bill. Records from New Guinea's mountain forests include feeding on nectar and arthropods.

• Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus roxellana

  A monkey of montane forests in central and western China; leaves are a major part of its diet, alongside seeds and fruit.

• Stripe-headed Tanager Spindalis zena

  The Stripe-headed Tanager occurs on Caribbean islands and nearby regions, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Long-eared hedgehog Hemiechinus auritus

  A large-eared hedgehog of dry deserts and steppes.

• Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus

  A wader with an upturned bill and orange legs. It breeds across northern Eurasia and moves to coastal areas of Africa and southern Asia outside the breeding season.

• Pileated Gibbon Hylobates pileatus

  The pileated gibbon occurs in forests of Thailand, Cambodia and southwestern Laos. Adult males and females have markedly different coat colors.

• Schlegel's Asity Philepitta schlegeli

  Schlegel’s Asity is a forest bird restricted to northwestern and western Madagascar. It eats more fruit in the rainy season and also takes nectar and insects toward the end of the dry season.

• Visayan Warty Pig Sus cebifrons

  It has mane-like hair that can fall across the face. The range entry is limited to the living population on Negros and Panay.

• Kea Nestor notabilis

  The Kea is a parrot of the mountains of New Zealand’s South Island. It has olive-green feathers edged in black and orange-red underwings. It eats both plants and animals, and the elevations it uses vary by season.

• Coppery Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops cupreus

  The coppery ring-tailed possum lives in forests and scrub of interior New Guinea. It climbs and is active at night, feeding on leaves and other plant parts.

• African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda

  This blue flycatcher occurs in wooded habitats of West and Central Africa. It perches among foliage and makes short flights to catch small arthropods.

• Attwater's Pocket Gopher Geomys attwateri

  Attwater's pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent that excavates tunnels with its forefeet. At a Texas study site, it was recorded eating many kinds of plants and making winding underground passageways.

• Black-crowned Palm-Tanager Phaenicophilus palmarum

  This Hispaniolan bird has a black head and gray, white, and yellow plumage. It lives across the island wherever there are trees.

• Five-toed Dwarf Jerboa Cardiocranius paradoxus

  The five-toed dwarf jerboa is a small jerboa with 5 toes on its hind feet. It moves through dry rocky areas at night and eats plant seeds.

• Giant Nuthatch Sitta magna

  The Giant Nuthatch is notable for a broad black eyestripe and rufous feathers under the tail. It occurs in southern China, Myanmar, and northwestern Thailand, using open hill forest with mature pines.

• Angolan Soft-furred Fruit Bat Lissonycteris angolensis

  Surveys around Mount Cameroon captured this fruit bat near fruiting trees, cultivated land and cave entrances. The current MDD species page uses the name Myonycteris angolensis.

• 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.

• Robert's Spiny-rat Proechimys roberti

  This spiny rat occurs in central Brazil. In a habitat analysis at Brasília National Park, all nine individuals used for the microhabitat analysis were captured in dry gallery forest.