Meet the world’s animals.

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• Checkered Elephant Shrew Rhynchocyon cirnei

  

  This large sengi has a checkered back and a long, mobile snout. It is active by day and searches on the ground for ants, termites and other invertebrates.

• Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus

  The Northern Red-billed Hornbill has a long, curved red bill. In sub-Saharan Africa it eats fruit, insects, and small animals in savanna and woodland.

• Golden bamboo lemur Hapalemur aureus

  The golden bamboo lemur mainly eats young parts of bamboo. It occurs in southeastern Madagascar's forests.

• Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris

  In Hong Kong it flies over wetlands and fishponds. In Hunan, China, it occupies caves and uses clicks in their dark interiors.

• Giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis

  A large otter of South American rivers and lakes. It lives in family groups and hunts fish mainly during the day.

• Cryptic Warbler Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi

  This small bird lives in Madagascar. A species account lists montane forest as its habitat and describes it searching for small invertebrates on branches. A separate field account records the appearance of recently fledged young.

• Silky Mole-rat Heliophobius argenteocinereus

  The silky mole-rat is a solitary rodent that digs underground burrows. In a Malawi study, its burrowing pattern changed as the soil hardened during the dry season.

• White-browed Tapaculo Scytalopus superciliaris

  It lives in moist montane forest in northwestern Argentina and favors dense understory on slopes and in ravines.

• Molina's Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus chinga

  A South American skunk with a black coat, white back stripes and a broad nose.

• Lesser Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus fuscus

  Lesser Woodcreeper is about 15–19 cm long. Oiseaux.net lists forest as its habitat and invertebrates as food. The account also includes song and call recordings from several Brazilian localities.

• 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.

• Galapagos Martin Progne modesta

  This martin is about 15 cm long. Males are almost entirely black with a blue sheen, while females are duller brown. It catches flying insects in the Galapagos and nests near cliffs and mangroves.

• Hairy Long-eared Bat Nycteris hispida

  The hairy long-eared bat occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa. Its ears are longer than its head, and the long tail has a T-shaped tip.

• Little Pratincole Glareola lactea

  The little pratincole is a small bird that catches insects while flying over water and farmland. It is also recorded along Thai rivers and lakeshores.

• Leopard seal Hydrurga leptonyx

  A seal of the pack ice around Antarctica. Usually solitary, it eats fish, penguins, krill and other prey.

• Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda

  The male has long tail feathers and is longer than the female. This small bird feeds on nectar, small insects, and spiders.

• Black-faced Impala Aepyceros petersi

  Aepyceros petersi, the black-faced impala, is recorded from southwestern Angola and northwestern Namibia. Bocage described the female collected at Humbe as rufous-fawn, with dark markings on the face.

• Long-tailed Paradigalla Paradigalla carunculata

  This bird-of-paradise lives in the mountains of western New Guinea. It has black plumage, colorful facial wattles, and a diet of fruit.

• Desert Warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus

  The desert warthog lives in dry savannas and is a separate species from the common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus.

• Flightless Cormorant Nannopterum harrisi

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

• Bicolor-spined Porcupine Coendou bicolor

  The bicolor-spined porcupine has quills that are pale at the base and dark toward the tip, and is an able climber. It is mainly active at night in trees and eats leaves, fruit, and other plant parts.

• Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala

  A large stork of wetlands on the Indian subcontinent. It has a white body with a pink tinge and searches shallow water for small fish.

• Olinguito Bassaricyon neblina

  A mammal of Andean cloud forests in Colombia and Ecuador, with long dense fur tinged with red and black. It lives in trees.

• Mountain Caracara Phalcoboenus megalopterus

  The Mountain Caracara lives in open grasslands of the Andes. It hunts small animals and also feeds on carrion.