Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax

  

  The Little Bustard lives in dry grassland and pasture. During the breeding season, a male courts a female with stamping and leaps.

• Southern Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys australis

  This pocket mouse ranges from eastern Panama through Colombia and western Venezuela to extreme northwestern Ecuador. It has dark-gray dorsal fur and lives in very wet evergreen forests.

• Olive-green Tanager Orthogonys chloricterus

  This tanager inhabits the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its back, wings, and tail are uniformly olive, while its belly is dull yellow.

• Short-tailed Porcupine Coendou rufescens

  The short-tailed porcupine lives in Andean forests and has a relatively short tail. Colombian observations document it searching Cecropia trees and eating their fruit during the day.

• Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis

  The Grey-crowned Babbler has a broad grey brow and rufous marks on the breast and wings. It forages in small groups, turning over leaves and stones with its bill.

• Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata

  The Indian Pangolin has an elongated body covered with scales. It feeds on ants and termites, and the studbook describes it as mainly nocturnal and ground-dwelling.

• Southern Bald Ibis Geronticus calvus

  The Southern Bald Ibis has a bare red crown and whitish bare face. It searches grasslands and fields in southern Africa for insects and nests on cliff ledges.

• 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.

• Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus

  The Pheasant Coucal is a large cuckoo relative with a long tail. It lives in grassland and scrub across northern and eastern Australia.

• Australian Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus nudicaudatus

  This cuscus occurs in Cape York, Australia. It spends time in the canopy and has been seen wrapping palm fronds around its body to hide its fur.

• Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus

  The Palm Cockatoo is a large black parrot of forests in New Guinea and northern Australia; it eats nuts and fruit.

• Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus

  The rock squirrel lives among rocky sites and burrows, eating plant foods and small animals that vary with the season.

• Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides

  This African shrike has a black facial band and a long tail. It searches for insects and other small prey in open, shrubby savanna.

• Townsend's Vole Microtus (Mynomes) townsendii

  Townsend's vole lives in wet meadows and wetlands along the Pacific coast of North America. It eats mostly grasses, with seasonal changes in its diet.

• 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.

• Naked-rumped Tomb Bat Taphozous (Liponycteris) nudiventris

  This insect-eating bat also lives in dry regions. It has a hairless area on the rear underside and catches insects while flying at night.

• New Zealand Grebe Poliocephalus rufopectus

  The New Zealand Grebe is an endemic diving bird. In breeding plumage, the neck and breast become rich rufous red.

• 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.

• Hoary-throated Barwing Actinodura nipalensis

  This barwing occurs in the Eastern Himalaya, including Nepal. A pale throat and faint arcs around the eye are distinctive; winter records may occur at lower elevations.

• Brown fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus

  A fur seal with separate subspecies in southern Africa and southern Australia. It lives at sea and comes ashore to breed.

• Southern Brown Kiwi (Tokoeka) Apteryx australis

  Tokoeka cannot fly and probes leaf litter with its long bill to find small animals.

• Harpy Fruit Bat Harpyionycteris whiteheadi

  The harpy fruit bat lives in forests on islands including the Philippines. The account describes dark brown upper fur and group roosts in fruiting plants.

• Brandt's Cormorant Urile penicillatus

  This skilled diver pursues fish in the Pacific waters of North America. In breeding plumage it shows a blue throat patch and wispy white head feathers.

• Swift Fox Vulpes velox

  A small fox of the North American grasslands, marked by black patches beside the muzzle and a black tail tip.