Meet the world’s animals.

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• Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani

  

  It lives in East African savannas and dry forests and eats both plant matter and small invertebrates.

• Baird’s Beaked Whale Berardius bairdii

  Baird’s beaked whale inhabits the North Pacific and nearby seas. It mainly uses cold, deep offshore water, but can also occur near steep coastal slopes.

• Azure Dollarbird Eurystomus azureus

  The Azure Dollarbird has dark purple-blue plumage and pale azure wing patches. It lives in forests of Indonesia's northern Moluccas.

• Brewer's mole Parascalops breweri

  The hairy-tailed mole has eyes hidden by fur and a furry tail. It lives in underground tunnels and searches for worms and insects.

• 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.

• Island flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus

  The island flying fox is a flying fox occurring on islands from South Asia to the southwest Pacific.

• Crested ibis Nipponia nippon

  A wetland bird whose pink flight feathers show when it flies.

• Eurasian Water Shrew Neomys fodiens

  A shrew that lives beside fresh water and dives to search for prey.

• Red Knot Calidris canutus

  A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and travels to distant coasts during migration. Its belly turns orange-red in breeding plumage.

• Azara's Night Monkey Aotus azarae

  Azara's night monkey is a nocturnal primate found from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to northern Argentina. It has large white patches above its eyes.

• Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa

  The Maccoa Duck is a diving duck with disjunct populations in eastern and southern Africa. The breeding male has a blue bill and chestnut body; the female is brown with a pale eye stripe.

• Rufous Dog-faced Bat Molossops neglectus

  This bat has reddish dark-brown fur and feeds on flying insects. Its records are separated between northern and southeastern South America, and southern specimens have tended to be smaller than northern ones.

• Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis

  The Altamira Oriole has a bright orange body and a contrasting black face. It weaves a long, hanging bag-shaped nest from a tree branch.

• Channel Islands Gray Fox Urocyon littoralis

  This small fox lives only on six of the Channel Islands off California. Each island has its own distinct subspecies.

• Nicobar Megapode Megapodius nicobariensis

  The Nicobar Megapode is a ground-dwelling bird of the Nicobar Islands. It makes large mounds of leaves and sand, using the heat of decomposition to incubate its eggs.

• Lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros

  A small bat with a horseshoe-shaped fold of skin around its nose. In Ireland, records are concentrated in six western counties.

• Madagascar Sandgrouse Pterocles personatus

  The Madagascar Sandgrouse feeds on seeds on dry open ground. Groups may fly to water, and males carry water to chicks in their soaked belly feathers.

• Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops megalophylla

  The ghost-faced bat ranges from the southern United States through Central America to northern South America. It roosts in caves by day and emerges in the evening to hunt large moths and insects.

• Spotted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma punctatum

  The Spotted Quail-thrush blends into the ground of dry, open woodland. Males have a black face and throat with a white eyebrow, and birds are usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Philippine Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura alecto

  This insect-eating bat was recorded in a cave survey in the southern Philippines. Surveyed individuals averaged 76 mm in total length, with tails 31.5 mm long. They roosted in small hollows in partly lit caves.

• Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster

  A survey of reserves in the Republic of the Congo recorded the species frequently in wooded grassland, especially at Idzoua Inkou. Males and females differ in upperpart color.

• Yucatan Black Howler Monkey Alouatta pigra

  A monkey of forests in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. It feeds mainly on leaves in the trees, and groups use calls to signal their territories.

• Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus

  This forest grouse has a fan-shaped tail and red or gray color forms. In breeding season, males drum their wings to court females.

• Lesser Mouse-deer Tragulus kanchil

  It has no antlers; males have long canine teeth. This small ungulate lives alone or in pairs and eats leaves and fruit.