Meet the world’s animals.

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• Paraguayan Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou spinosus

  

  This nocturnal porcupine moves among tree branches. Its fluffy fur can partly hide the spines, and it wraps its tail around branches as it moves.

• Brown-cheeked Bulbul Alophoixus bres

  

  A bulbul found on Java and Bali. Its white beard-like throat feathers contrast with a mostly brown body and yellow lower belly.

• African crested porcupine Hystrix (Hystrix) cristata

  

  A rodent with defensive quills and a crest over the head and neck.

• Veracruz Wren Campylorhynchus rufinucha

  

  The Veracruz Wren is found locally in a small area on Mexico's Gulf Coast.

• Alvarez's Mastiff Bat Molossus alvarezi

  

  This bat has brown dorsal fur, paler underparts and rounded ears. It is recorded in forests and dry scrub and catches mostly moths in flight.

• Abyssinian Longclaw Macronyx flavicollis

  

  The Abyssinian Longclaw often stays on the ground in Ethiopia's highland grasslands. Its orange throat and black breast necklace stand out.

• Black-faced Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus caissara

  Black, mane-like fur frames its face, and much of its body is golden. This small monkey lives in coastal forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous

  The Hooded Pitohui lives in forests on New Guinea and Yapen Island. Its black head, wings, and tail contrast with its rufous-brown body.

• Angolan Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus angolensis

  This fruit bat has white shoulder tufts in males. It lives in riverine woodland and open woodland and is active at night.

• Arabian Warbler Curruca leucomelaena

  The Arabian Warbler is marked by its black hood and long black tail. It moves slowly through acacia canopies in dry scrub and along wadis.

• Silvery Gibbon Hylobates moloch

  The silvery gibbon lives in forests on Java. Its long arms help it swing from branch to branch.

• Buff-headed Coucal Centropus milo

  The Buff-headed Coucal is a large coucal of the Solomon Islands' humid forests. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black body with a buff head and chest.

• Eastern Cave Bat Vespadelus troughtoni

  This small bat is recorded across eastern Australia. It occurs in dry open forest and woodland and roosts in caves, rock crevices, and similar shelters.

• Black Noddy Anous minutus

  The Black Noddy is a seabird with sooty dark plumage and a white cap. It gathers on islands to breed, and courting pairs repeatedly nod to one another.

• Round-tailed Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus tereticaudus

  The round-tailed ground squirrel lives on sandy desert flats, dunes, and wash edges. It mainly eats green vegetation, with seeds and insects added seasonally.

• Black-headed Waxbill Estrilda atricapilla

  The Black-headed Waxbill is a 10–11 cm bird of forest clearings and lowland, partly open habitats in Central Africa.

• Pink Fairy Armadillo Chlamyphorus truncatus

  The lesser fairy armadillo is a small armadillo that lives in underground burrows. Its back is covered by pale pinkish-ochre armor, and it inhabits dry sandy areas of central Argentina.

• King Rail Rallus elegans

  A large rail of North American wetlands, it has a chestnut back, gray face, and black-and-white bars on its flanks. It walks through reeds and grasses to find food.

• Long-nosed Echymipera Echymipera rufescens

  This bandicoot has a long snout and a reddish rump. It occurs around New Guinea and on Australia's northeastern Cape York Peninsula.

• Orange-breasted Trogon Harpactes oreskios

  The Orange-breasted Trogon lives in forests in Southeast Asia and eats fruit, insects, and other small prey. Males have an orange breast and chestnut back, while females are more muted grey-brown.

• Black lemur Eulemur macaco

  A northwestern Madagascar lemur whose males and females have different coat colours.

• Western Bowerbird Chlamydera guttata

  The Western Bowerbird is an inland Australian bird with reddish spots and a yellowish underside. Males build avenue-like bowers from sticks, decorate them with objects such as bones and shells, and display to attract females.

• Weyns's Duiker Cephalophus weynsi

  This small antelope is recorded in forest areas of Central and East Africa. It is brown, with grayish shoulders and no dark back stripe. A small reddish tuft sits on its head.

• White-throated Bushtit Aegithalos niveogularis

  This small Himalayan bird is marked by its white throat. It searches for insects in birch and pine woods and moves in flocks.