Meet the world’s animals.

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• Growling Riflebird Ptiloris intercedens

  

  The male has black plumage with blue-green iridescence, while the female is brown. This bird-of-paradise eats fruit and small animals in forests of eastern New Guinea.

• Northern California Pocket Gopher Megascapheus laticeps

  

  Megascapheus laticeps, the Northern California Pocket Gopher, occurs in California and Oregon. Its original description records a broad head and large feet, reddish-yellow-brown fur with dark tips along the back, and a grayish-white tail that is darker above.

• Grey-headed Batis Batis orientalis

  

  The Grey-headed Batis has a pale grey crown through much of its range. It lives in semi-arid savanna and gleans ants and other insects from leaves.

• Indian Gray Mongoose Urva edwardsii

  

  A mongoose of South Asia and Arabia, recognized by its silver-gray speckled coat and white-tipped tail.

• White-crowned Penduline Tit Remiz coronatus

  

  This small bird is marked by a white crown and a dark facial band. It breeds in Central Asia and moves south for winter.

• Northern Pudu Pudu mephistophiles

  

  This very small deer lives in the northern Andes. It has a dark brown face, lives alone, and is found in high-altitude páramo near humid montane forest.

• Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus

  The Common Buttonquail is a small bird that runs beneath grass and scrub. Adult females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• Andean Porcupine Coendou quichua

  This porcupine has a generally brown-looking back with pale quill tips giving it a frosted appearance. In Ecuador, its records are mainly from Andean forests at high elevations.

• Horus Swift Apus horus

  The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.

• Domestic Pig Sus domesticus

  People keep domestic pigs as livestock. In the Kunekune breed, coat colors vary, and the pigs can graze on pasture.

• Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus

  A social bird that probes tree trunks with a long, curved red bill.

• Arfak Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus schlegeli

  The Arfak ring-tailed possum is a rare possum known from the Arfak Mountains in northwestern New Guinea. Its coat is orange-brown, without dorsal stripes or facial markings.

• Orange-breasted Myzomela Myzomela jugularis

  The Orange-breasted Myzomela is a small, common nectar-feeding bird in Fiji. It also eats spiders and insects and is usually alone or in small groups. Larger gatherings form at flowering trees. On Lakeba in the Lau Group, a field study recorded relatively high nectarivore abundance in coastal coconut plantations.

• Geoffroy's Marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's marmoset is a small monkey with dark ear tufts and a white face. It lives in Brazil's lowland rainforests, where group members help care for young.

• Striolated Bunting Emberiza striolata

  The Striolated Bunting is a small bunting of dry rocky ground and wadis. Its reddish wings and fine markings across the face and chest help distinguish it.

• Yellow-bellied Weasel Mustela kathiah

  This weasel has dark brown fur on its back and tail and a yellowish belly. It lives in mountain forests and catches small animals such as rodents.

• Common Tetraka Bernieria madagascariensis

  The Common Tetraka is a forest bird of Madagascar. It has dark brownish-green upperparts, a yellow throat, and a long bill. It gleans arthropods from branches and leaves, also eats seeds, and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk Conepatus humboldtii

  Conepatus humboldtii is a Patagonian skunk from Argentina and Chile. It has a broad projecting face and one or two side stripes, and searches mainly for insects in grassland at night.

• Burmese Bushtit Aegithalos sharpei

  This relatively long-tailed bushtit occurs in Myanmar’s Chin Hills. A 2014 Natmataung survey recorded it in pine and evergreen oak forest.

• Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa Allactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica

  This jerboa is recorded in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and other parts of Asia. A specialist mammal account places it in dry steppe, semi-desert, and desert habitats. Coat colors and tail markings vary across its range, and genetic evidence may indicate that the broad current taxon includes more than one unnamed species.

• Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis

  A thrush that visits mountain forests north of Kyushu; females have browner flanks.

• Vivo's Cerradomys Cerradomys vivoi

  This rodent is recorded in eastern Brazil. The original description reports an orange-brown back, with grayish tones on the head and underside. The authors summarize records from the Caatinga and coastal forest in southern Bahia.

• Oustalet's White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris oustaleti

  This sunbird occurs in Angola and Namibia. It uses semi-open miombo woodland and shrubland, taking nectar and small insects. Males have brightly colored pectoral tufts.

• White-eared Titi Plecturocebus donacophilus

  The Bolivian titi lives in forests in Bolivia and Brazil. Its long hind legs and tail help it balance as it moves.