Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Cinnamon Quail-thrush Cinclosoma cinnamomeum

  This ground-dwelling bird of central Australia has different breast and wing patterns in males and females. Family groups hold territories in dry scrub and stony plains.

• Red-tailed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur ruficaudatus

  The red-tailed sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with a gray-brown body and reddish tail. It rests in tree holes by day and feeds on leaves.

• Gray-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyianus

  The Gray-breasted Seedsnipe lives on the ground in the high Andes. Males are gray, while females have mottled brown plumage.

• Chinese zokor Eospalax fontanierii

  The Chinese zokor is a subterranean rodent. In the studied subspecies, E. f. baileyi, researchers describe a rounded body, short snout, eyes and tail, and gray-brown fur.

• Ochre-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula flavirostris

  This small antpitta lives in the undergrowth of humid montane forest. Its ochre breast and dark-edged feather pattern help identify it.

• Greater Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) kappleri

  The greater dog-like bat has light and dark brown color phases, with paler fur underneath. It uses wet forests and wetlands, eats insects, and roosts in groups in caves and tree hollows.

• Paradise Riflebird Ptiloris paradiseus

  The Paradise Riflebird lives in forests of eastern Australia. Males court by displaying glossy black plumage, while females are brown and patterned.

• Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus

  A large sea lion of the cold North Pacific. It catches fish and other prey at sea and rests ashore.

• James's Flamingo Phoenicoparrus jamesi

  James's Flamingo has pale pink plumage, black flight feathers, red legs, and a short yellow bill with a black tip. It feeds in shallow high-Andean salt lakes and moves lower when wetlands freeze.

• Pousargues' mongoose Dologale dybowskii

  This small mongoose has a brown body, a gray face, and a bushy tail. It has been recorded in Central Africa, but little is known about its life in the wild.

• White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster

  A large grey bird about 50 cm long, with a white belly and wing patch and a white band across the tail. It lives in East African woodland and savanna, often in small groups, and eats fruit and acacia buds and seeds.

• Eastern Pygmy Marmoset Cebuella niveiventris

  A tiny monkey of gallery forests in the upper Amazon region. It feeds mainly on tree sap and gum, making small holes in trunks to reach them.

• Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus

  A wetland bird that walks on floating plants with long toes; its central tail feathers grow long in breeding plumage.

• Lesser Marmoset Rat Hapalomys delacouri

  The lesser marmoset rat has a tail longer than its body, ending in a tuft. A Vietnam guide reports it using bamboo internodes.

• Seychelles Swiftlet Aerodramus elaphrus

  A small brown swiftlet of the Seychelles that catches insects in flight and nests in colonies in caves.

• Grand Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros grandis

  Surveys in central Vietnam recorded this bat in forests and orchards near limestone areas. The paper says that its taxonomy and distribution still need clarification.

• Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides

  The Asian Barred Owlet is a small owl with white bars across a brown to olive body. It is also active by day.

• African Civet Civettictis civetta

  A member of the civet family found in central and southern Africa.

• Sumatran Treepie Dendrocitta occipitalis

  The Sumatran Treepie lives in forests on Sumatra. A white nape and long tail make it distinctive, and it is usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• American Pika Ochotona (Pika) princeps

  The American pika is a small mammal of the mountains of western North America. It does not hibernate and gathers plants for winter food.

• Screaming Piha Lipaugus vociferans

  The Screaming Piha inhabits humid Amazonian forest and searches the canopy for fruit and small prey. In eastern Ecuador it is recorded in lowlands and locally into the foothills.

• Black Spider Monkey Ateles paniscus

  The black spider monkey moves through the canopy with its long arms and tail. Fruit is its main food, with other plant foods added when fruit is scarce.

• Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator

  The Greater Honeyguide is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It can lead people, honey badgers, or baboons to a hive, then eat wax and larvae after the hive is opened.