Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yucatán Spotted Skunk Spilogale yucatanensis

  

  This skunk occurs in forests of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Camera traps in a small urban vegetation fragment in Mérida recorded it at night.

• Mountain Barbet Psilopogon monticola

  

  It is a stocky green bird with a bare orange-yellow patch around the eye and a heavy pale bill. In Borneo's montane forest canopy it feeds mainly on fruit and berries.

• Rock hyrax Procavia capensis

  

  A mammal of rocky habitats in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It shelters in crevices and eats grasses and leaves.

• Black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus

  

  A black-and-white bird that wades through shallow water on long legs.

• Southern Pygmy Loris Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus

  

  A small slow loris that is active in trees at night and eats tree sap, nectar, and insects. Its behavior in the wild is still not well understood.

• Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus

  

  The Whistling Kite is a medium-sized raptor with sandy-brown plumage, a narrow head, and a rounded tail. It circles over woodland, wetlands, and farms while giving a whistling call.

• Wild Camel Camelus ferus

  This wild camel lives in desert regions of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. Its humps are smaller than those of domestic Bactrian camels, and it browses salt-tolerant shrubs in the Gobi.

• Japanese waxwing Bombycilla japonica

  A winter visitor to Japan with a red tail tip.

• North-western Free-tailed Bat Ozimops cobourgianus

  This free-tailed bat occurs along the coast from Western Australia to the Northern Territory. Records associate it with mangroves in the west and woodland farther north.

• South Island Saddleback Philesturnus carunculatus

  Adult South Island Saddlebacks are black, with a chestnut saddle and orange-red wattles. Their original range is South Island and Stewart Island, while conservation translocations have established populations on other islands.

• Sanford's Brown Lemur Eulemur sanfordi

  Sanford's brown lemur inhabits forests in northern Madagascar. Males have conspicuous cheek fur, and females differ in coat color.

• Spotted Dikkop Burhinus capensis

  The Spotted Dikkop is a ground-dwelling bird with long legs and yellow eyes. It hunts insects by running, stopping, and jabbing at prey with its bill.

• Bare-bellied Hedgehog Paraechinus nudiventris

  The bare-bellied hedgehog is marked by short spines on its back and a white underside. A survey in southern India recorded it sheltering in shrubs by day and foraging from evening into night.

• Western Bristlebird Dasyornis longirostris

  A secretive small bird of heathland in southwestern Australia. It searches for small foods while moving on the ground.

• Asian Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus macrourus

  The Asian brush-tailed porcupine has a slender body with relatively short quills and a tuft of bristles at the end of its tail. It forages at night and rests with family members in holes during the day.

• Black Laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubris

  A dark-plumaged bird with blue-gray skin behind the eye and an orange-red bill. It uses foothill broadleaf forest and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Smith's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus cepapi

  Its back ranges from yellowish brown to gray, its underside is pale, and white lines surround the eyes. This is a diurnal squirrel that mainly uses trees.

• White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis

  The White-browed Treecreeper has a white eyebrow and barred belly. It is patchily distributed in southern mainland Australia and searches for insects in dry woodland and scrub.

• Rufous Hare Wallaby Lagorchestes hirsutus

  This small wallaby has soft, long fur with a reddish tinge. Its natural wild populations remain in dry scrub on islands off Western Australia.

• Cream-throated White-eye Zosterops atriceps

  The Cream-throated White-eye occurs in Indonesia's North Maluku islands. A 2010 survey recorded it on Obi, where the observers heard it often but saw it only occasionally.

• Fat dormouse Glis glis

  A dormouse native to Central Europe, it has gray fur, large eyes and ears, and long whiskers.

• Tody Motmot Hylomanes momotula

  The Tody Motmot is a small motmot found from Central America to northwestern Colombia. It lives in wet forest and often moves its tail from side to side.

• Helan Shan Pika Ochotona (Pika) argentata

  This pika lives in China's Helan Shan. Its coat changes with the seasons, appearing bright red in summer and silvery gray in winter.

• Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja

  The Crimson Sunbird is a small bird that takes nectar, spiders, and insects. Males are red, while females are olive-colored, so the sexes look different.