Meet the world’s animals.

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• Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus percivali

  

  The Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak lives in the southwestern Saudi highlands and has a very thick black bill. White cheeks and yellow wing patches make it distinctive.

• Long-tailed Spiny-rat Proechimys longicaudatus

  

  A spiny rat from inland South America, including dry forests. Its reddish or yellowish back is mixed with dark-brown hairs, its belly is white, and its tail is sparsely haired.

• Hairy-backed Bulbul Tricholestes criniger

  

  This bulbul occurs in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. Fine, hair-like feather shafts on its back give it its name. It eats fruit and insects.

• Novaes' Bald Uakari Cacajao novaesi

  

  This uakari is restricted to western Amazonas, Brazil. Its back is white to yellow, while the belly and limbs are reddish orange. It has been recorded in both seasonally flooded and non-flooded forest.

• American Avocet Recurvirostra americana

  

  The American Avocet has long legs and a slender, upturned bill that it sweeps through shallow water for food.

• Fisher Pekania pennanti

  

  A mustelid carnivore of North American forests, with a tail about one third of its total length.

• Flame Bowerbird Sericulus ardens

  The Flame Bowerbird lives in forests of southern New Guinea. Males are brightly coloured and build a narrow avenue of sticks as a courtship display site.

• Lowland Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea leucoblephara

  This cavy occurs in southern South America. Argentina's National Parks biodiversity profile describes its dark, black-speckled back and pale eye rings, as well as a diurnal, ground-dwelling, group-living life in shallow burrows.

• Black-headed Penduline Tit Remiz macronyx

  The Black-headed Penduline Tit is a Central Asian migrant.

• Masoala Sportive Lemur Lepilemur scottorum

  Scott's sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with reddish-brown fur and a black tail tip. The 2020 assessment knew it only from Masoala National Park in northeastern Madagascar.

• Baudo Guan Penelope ortoni

  The Baudó Guan is a large bird of the humid forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. Its dark brown body has small white patches, and a red wattle hangs from its throat.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

  This striped grass mouse was common at a savanna study site in Ethiopia. Broken pale stripes run along its flanks.

• Sharp-tailed Ibis Cercibis oxycerca

  This large ibis has glossy black plumage and a long tail. In the Venezuelan Llanos, its food changes between dry and wet seasons.

• Andean Tuco-tuco Ctenomys opimus

  The Andean tuco-tuco occurs in dry highland areas of the Andes. It has long, soft, pale-yellow fur and uses underground burrows.

• Citrine Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa helianthea

  This small flycatcher is active by day; adults have olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts and rump.

• Grivet Chlorocebus aethiops

  The grivet is a monkey of northeastern Africa. A forest study in northern Ethiopia recorded a diet that changed with the season.

• Variable Oystercatcher Haematopus unicolor

  The Variable Oystercatcher is a coastal bird endemic to New Zealand. Its plumage ranges from all black to pied, but these forms are variation within one species.

• Guianan Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus latifolius

  This small-to-medium spear-nosed bat occurs in the Guianas and northern Amazonia. It has dark smoky-brown fur, large rounded ears, and a short, broad noseleaf.

• Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus

  This small cormorant has a long tail and short crest, and breeds mainly around African fresh waters.

• Big hairy armadillo Chaetophractus villosus

  The big hairy armadillo lives in grasslands, forests and other habitats in South America. Flexible bony plates cover its back, with hair beneath the plates and along the sides of the body.

• Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus

  The Dead Sea Sparrow is a small bird with a gray head and brown body. It is found around waterside vegetation, and at some breeding sites it nests in loose colonies.

• Thomas's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus thomasi

  Thomas's horseshoe bat has russet-tinged brown fur and a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It roosts in cave colonies and is recorded from southern China and mainland Southeast Asia.

• Mountain Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron inopinatum

  The Mountain Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of montane forests in the Indomalayan region. It spends time on the forest floor and eats small animals such as insects.

• Crab-eating Raccoon Procyon cancrivorus

  A raccoon of southern Central and South America, living in forests and grasslands near water. It is active from dusk through the night and into the early morning.