Meet the world’s animals.

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• Green Acouchi Myoprocta pratti

  

  This rodent has an olive-colored back, a pale orange underside, and slender legs. It is active by day and uses trails through forest undergrowth.

• Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina

  This whydah lives in dry savanna and bushy habitats in eastern Africa. Breeding males grow extremely long central tail feathers and search the ground for grass seeds.

• Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin Sousa plumbea

  A dolphin of the western Indian Ocean coast, with a small dorsal fin set on a large hump and a gray body.

• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

  The Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large gull with a dark gray back and white body. It breeds from northern Europe to western Siberia and moves south for winter.

• 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.

• Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus

  This falcon is widespread in southern Africa. It hunts over open country and hilly terrain, often using rocks or roadside posts as perches.

• Spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus

  A quoll with white spots extending onto its tail.

• Pririt Batis Batis pririt

  This small bird lives in dry woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Its main range is split into northern and southern populations across Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa.

• Western Rock Elephant Shrew Elephantulus rupestris

  This sengi lives in arid parts of southern Africa. It is recorded around rocky ridges and outcrops, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, with a range extending into southwestern Angola and extreme southern Botswana.

• Southern cassowary Casuarius casuarius

  A rainforest bird with a black body, blue neck and a hard crest on top of its head.

• Egyptian Free-tailed Bat Tadarida aegyptiaca

  The Egyptian free-tailed bat ranges across Africa, except the Sahara, into southwest Asia, India, and Sri Lanka. It roosts in rocky places and buildings in warm, dry regions.

• Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum

  The Mistletoebird is widespread across Australia. Males have striking black, red, and white markings, and the birds use high tree canopies where mistletoe grows.

• Perrier's Sifaka Propithecus perrieri

  Perrier’s sifaka is an arboreal lemur with a black coat. It is active by day in small groups and eats mainly leaves, along with flowers and fruit.

• Common Merganser Mergus merganser

  A streamlined diving duck with a long, narrow bill that eats fish. It breeds widely across the north and moves south for winter.

• Southern Blossom Bat Syconycteris australis

  This small bat lives in forests of eastern and north-eastern Australia and feeds on flower nectar and pollen. It may land on blossoms or hover in front of them while feeding.

• Cauca Guan Penelope perspicax

  The Cauca Guan has dark brown to greenish plumage and a red throat patch. It is found in humid tropical forest remnants in Colombia's Cauca and Magdalena valleys.

• European Garden Dormouse Eliomys quercinus

  The European garden dormouse is marked by a dark mask and a black-and-white tail tip. In Spain, it occurs across the Iberian Peninsula, but its distribution is uneven.

• Blue-fronted Parrotlet Touit dilectissimus

  This small parrotlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. The ProAves article title says Blue-faced, but its text calls Touit dilectissimus the Blue-fronted Parakeet.

• Kivu African Climbing Mouse Dendromus nyasae

  The Kivu African Climbing Mouse is recorded in central and eastern Africa. Some taxonomic treatments recognize the Kivu population as a separate species.

• Fawn-breasted Whistler Pachycephala orpheus

  This whistler is recorded on Timor and Rote. On Timor it prefers lower elevations, although it was observed beside Pachycephala calliope on Mount Mutis up to 1,850 m. The Rote population was reported to be larger than the Timor population.

• Shiny Guinea Pig Cavia fulgida

  Its back is reddish brown mottled with black, and its belly is pale ochre-red. Its recorded range is southeastern Brazil, from Minas Gerais to Santa Catarina.

• Balearic Warbler Curruca balearica

  The Balearic Warbler is endemic to the Balearic Islands and has a long tail and red eye-ring. It feeds on small invertebrates in dense Mediterranean scrub.

• Great-tailed Striped Possum Dactylopsila megalura

  The great-tailed triok is a nocturnal, arboreal marsupial of interior New Guinea forests. Its thick fur has dark stripes over a white or gray base.

• Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea

  The Blue Chaffinch uses its short, strong bill to eat seeds. Around Teide it forages from Canary pine woods to high-elevation retama scrub.