Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Rufous Hornbill Buceros hydrocorax

  

  The Northern Rufous Hornbill is a large hornbill with a red bill and casque. It searches the forest canopy for fruit and seeds.

• Fat dormouse Glis glis

  

  A dormouse native to Central Europe, it has gray fur, large eyes and ears, and long whiskers.

• Cuban Tody Todus multicolor

  

  IWEco describes this tody as endemic to Cuba. It has vivid plumage and a long bill, and digs tunnel nests in rotten wood or soil banks.

• Panamanian White-faced Capuchin Cebus imitator

  

  A capuchin monkey of Central American forests. Its dark body contrasts with a pale face, and its hands and tail help it search for varied foods.

• Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotum

  

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in arid and semi-arid southern Australia. Males have a black face and breast with a white eyebrow; females have a gray throat and breast, and may show little chestnut on the rump.

• Fierce Bonneted Bat Eumops ferox

  

  This bat is recorded in Cuba. Its historical description gives pale-based brown back fur and blackish-brown cheeks and chin. A capture inside a house in Cárdenas has also been reported.

• Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii

  The Red-faced Crombec is a small bird with a very short tail. In Zimbabwean miombo woodland, it moves quickly among branches and leaves while searching for insects.

• Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus

  The desert hedgehog is a hedgehog of dry country, including northwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Yellow-crested cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea

  A white cockatoo from Indonesia, with a yellow crest that can be raised.

• Greater Japanese Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus nippon

  Rhinolophus nippon is a large horseshoe bat recorded in Japan. In a 2003 study, adult females in Yamaguchi Prefecture foraged in open forest areas and along woodland paths.

• Hooded Antpitta Grallaricula cucullata

  The Hooded Antpitta is a small bird with a reddish-brown head and orange bill. It occurs in scattered, limited mountain forest areas of Colombia and Venezuela.

• Durango Coarse-haired Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus durangae

  This pocket mouse occurs mainly in Durango, Mexico. The adult male holotype, collected in 2008, measured 20.3 cm from nose to tail tip.

• Red-browed Treecreeper Climacteris erythrops

  A small treecreeper that searches bark for invertebrates in rainforest and dense eucalypt woodland.

• Chacoan Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous chacoensis

  A small armadillo of the dry Chaco that spends much of its time underground and mainly eats ants and termites.

• Northern boobook Ninox japonica

  An owl of woodland with large trees that hunts insects at night.

• Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Lagothrix flavicauda

  The Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey is a primate endemic to Peru. It lives in trees and eats fruit, leaves, and other plant foods. Its long reddish-brown coat and yellow patch beneath the tail are distinctive.

• Scaly Ground Roller Geobiastes squamiger

  The Scaly Ground Roller is a terrestrial bird of Madagascar’s moist lowland forests.

• Giles's Planigale Planigale gilesi

  Giles's planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened triangular head. It shelters in cracks in clay soil and eats arthropods.

• Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata

  An albatross of Antarctic and subantarctic seas; about 1,000 pairs breed each year on Macquarie Island. It has a dark gray head, lighter gray body, and white crescent around most of the eye.

• Rough-toothed Dolphin Steno bredanensis

  The rough-toothed dolphin lives widely in deep ocean waters from tropical to warmer temperate regions. Its long rostrum and large fins stand out, and it feeds on fish and squid.

• Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa

  This whydah inhabits woodland and grassland in eastern and southern Africa. It eats grass seeds on the ground; breeding males have a conspicuously long tail.

• Haig's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys haigi

  Haig's tuco-tuco is a small burrowing rodent with soft gray-brown fur. It lives in burrows and gives short calls both day and night.

• Dusky Broadbill Corydon sumatranus

  The Dusky Broadbill is a forest bird of Southeast Asia, with a heavy bill, dark plumage, and a pale throat. It gathers in small groups in the canopy.

• Tufted Gray Langur Semnopithecus priam

  The tufted gray langur lives in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is active by day and often uses trees, while also travelling on the ground.