Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Zanda funerea

  

  This large cockatoo has a black body set off by yellow cheek and tail markings. It feeds in flocks in eucalypt woodlands and pine plantations.

• Central American squirrel monkey Saimiri oerstedii

  

  The Central American squirrel monkey is a small primate restricted to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama. It lives in humid forest.

• Siamese Partridge Arborophila diversa

  

  The Thai diversa form has a pale-brown forehead and throat and a rich chestnut breast. It has been recorded in hill and montane evergreen forest at Khao Soi Dao.

• Ecuador Red Brocket Mazama rufina

  

  This small deer lives in the Andes. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a black head and legs.

• Azure-rumped Parrot Tanygnathus sumatranus

  

  A parrot of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. It has a green body and blue rump; males have a red bill, while females have a pale bill.

• Ussuri Shrew Crocidura lasiura

  

  The Ussuri shrew is a small shrew of Northeast Asia. A study in the Russian Far East found it using a broad range of habitats within forest-steppe, including forest vegetation.

• Collared Treepie Dendrocitta frontalis

  The Collared Treepie stands out for its black face, long tail, chestnut body, and silvery-grey chest and neck. It searches for food in humid hill forests with bamboo.

• Ursine Red Howler Alouatta arctoidea

  The ursine red howler has reddish-brown fur and a long, grasping tail. It spends its days in trees and feeds mainly on leaves, with fruits and flowers also in its diet.

• Zapata Sparrow Torreornis inexpectata

  This sparrow has separated populations in Cuba. The nominate form at Zapata Swamp lives in sawgrass marsh; adults have a chestnut crown and white throat, and its diet changes with the seasons.

• Crab-eating Mongoose Urva urva

  The crab-eating mongoose has a white stripe from its cheeks to its chest. A camera survey in Nepal's Bardia National Park recorded it near rivers and photographed it during the day.

• Chalk-browed Mockingbird Mimus saturninus

  The Chalk-browed Mockingbird ranges across eastern and southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. It has a grey body, pale eyebrow, and white tail tips, and forages on the ground or in low bushes.

• Large Tree Shrew Tupaia tana

  The large tree shrew lives in forests on Borneo. It searches mainly for invertebrates on the forest floor and digs into the soil with its claws.

• Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis

  The Rufous-sided Broadbill is a small bird of western and central African forests. Males show broken white wing-bars and a bright orange patch on the side of the breast.

• African Linsang Poiana richardsonii

  The African linsang is a small carnivore with a slender, spotted body and a long ringed tail. It is active at night in trees and eats insects, fruit and other foods.

• Cinnamon Woodpecker Celeus loricatus

  The Cinnamon Woodpecker has cinnamon-colored upperparts and wavy black barring. Plumage and barring vary among subspecies and individuals; males have a red throat, while females have a uniformly rufous head.

• Peters's Sheath-tailed Bat Paremballonura atrata

  This sheath-tailed bat occurs in Madagascar. It has long, shaggy, brownish-black fur and rounded ears, and a Marojejy survey also recorded it in open habitats.

• Thick-billed Honeyguide Indicator conirostris

  This honeyguide is associated with forest in West Africa. A Cameroon tour report recorded one individual each on Mount Cameroon and Mount Kupe.

• Nelson's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys nelsoni

  Records from northern Mexico include juniper woodland and places with salt-tolerant plants.

• Red-backed Buttonquail Turnix maculosus

  The Red-backed Buttonquail is a small ground bird marked by a rufous collar and a pale wing panel. Females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• Brown-eared Woolly Opossum Caluromys lanatus

  The brown-eared woolly opossum is an arboreal marsupial with a dense coat and a long, grasping tail. It lives in South American forests.

• Southern Brown Kiwi (Tokoeka) Apteryx australis

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

• Dryad Monkey Chlorocebus dryas

  The Dryas monkey is a forest-dwelling primate known only from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Surveys in the Lomami region recorded it in areas that included dense understory and forest edges.

• Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse Pterocles lichtensteinii

  A sandgrouse of dry country, with plumage that blends into rocks and gravel. It may shelter in shade during the day.

• Daurian Hedgehog Mesechinus dauuricus

  Daurian hedgehogs studied at Ikh Nart Nature Reserve in Mongolia often used rocky areas and sparse shrubland. In samples compared at the same reserve, they tended to have greater girth and weight than long-eared hedgehogs.