Meet the world’s animals.

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• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

  

  Adults have a bare red head and soar with raised wings in a teetering flight. They use their sense of smell to find carrion.

• Tapanuli Orangutan Pongo tapanuliensis

  An orangutan of the Tapanuli region in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where its forest habitat is fragmented; fruit is a major food.

• Olive Bushshrike Chlorophoneus olivaceus

  The Olive Bushshrike has more than one plumage form. In the common ruddy form, an olive back contrasts with a rufous chest. It searches dense vegetation for insects and small fruits.

• Altai Zokor Myospalax myospalax

  The Altai zokor is a rodent that digs tunnels and lives underground. It has tiny eyes and powerful forefeet for digging, and it feeds on plant roots and other plant parts.

• Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita

  A small yellow-olive warbler that eats insects. In Britain and Ireland it breeds in deciduous woodland, scrub, and similar habitats.

• Ringtail Bassariscus astutus

  A raccoon relative with a long ringed tail that climbs nimbly over rocks.

• Echo Parakeet Psittacula eques

  This green parrot lives on Mauritius. It eats flowers, leaves, and fruit, and nests in cavities in large trees.

• Dwarf Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys velutinus

  The velvety fat-tailed opossum has been recorded in Brazil’s Cerrado and has a tail whose thickness changes seasonally.

• Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis

  The yellow throat helps identify this bulbul. It eats fruit and insects in woodlands and thickets of western and central Africa.

• White-faced Spiny Tree-rat Echimys chrysurus

  This tree rat lives in lowland forests of the Guianas and eastern Amazonia and spends much of its time in trees.

• Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens

  The Purple Indigobird's breeding male is purplish, and the species lays its eggs in the nest of Jameson's Firefinch. It searches the ground for grass seeds.

• Manchurian Pika Ochotona (Pika) mantchurica

  This pika is found in northeastern China. Recent research models suitable habitat in nearby areas, but predicted areas are not the same as confirmed occupied sites.

• Western Fieldwren Calamanthus montanellus

  Western Fieldwren is recorded from the Stirling Range in Western Australia. Milligan's original account describes it running through stony ground and singing from the ground or low bushes.

• Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi

  This jerboa is recorded from deserts of southern and southeastern Mongolia and northern China. Mongolian samples show sex-related and geographic variation in skull size.

• 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.

• Spotted Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista elegans

  The spotted giant flying squirrel glides from tree to tree by spreading a membrane between its limbs. Coat color and spotting vary by region.

• Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina

  This sunbird occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses its long curved bill to drink nectar from flowers.

• Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa thyone

  This small bat has pale dorsal fur. Bolivian records include humid evergreen and young secondary forests, and the species specializes on wild figs.

• Rusty-bellied Fantail Rhipidura teysmanni

  This fantail lives on Sulawesi. An old specimen account describes one unsexed individual with a cinnamon-brown forehead, back, rump, and basal tail, and an olive-brown head and neck. It searches for invertebrates in forest and thickets.

• Small Indian civet Viverricula indica

  A civet that uses woodland, grassland and areas near people.

• Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii

  A bird that runs through dry grassland and open woodland and feeds on insects on the ground. It occurs across much of sub-Saharan Africa.

• Iberian Hare Lepus granatensis

  The Iberian hare has large eyes, long ears and powerful hind legs. It is native only to the Iberian Peninsula and prefers open, level ground.

• Kakapo Strigops habroptila

  The kākāpō is a large, nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. It cannot fly and has moss-green plumage mottled with yellow and black. It now occurs only on forested islands, where the population is intensively managed to protect it from introduced predators.

• Guianan Red Howler Alouatta macconnelli

  Its back is bright orange to golden, and its tail is dark red. This howler monkey is centered in forests north of the Amazon, including the Guianas.