Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus

  

  The Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu is a small African bird notable for blue plumage and a red cheek patch. It searches for seeds on the ground and also uses open scrub and places near people.

• Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin Tursiops erebennus

  This is the proposed species name for the coastal bottlenose dolphin form of the western North Atlantic. The mature skulls examined had a relatively short, narrow rostrum.

• Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita

  The Chatham Albatross breeds on rocky islands in the Chatham Islands. Adults have a dark grey head and a white body.

• Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi

  This jerboa is recorded from deserts of southern and southeastern Mongolia and northern China. Mongolian samples show sex-related and geographic variation in skull size.

• Rufous-breasted Accentor Prunella strophiata

  Its bright orange breast and eyebrow contrast with a white throat and streaked brown back. It breeds in high-altitude forest and descends to lower scrub in winter.

• Atlantic Bamboo Rat Kannabateomys amblyonyx

  The Atlantic bamboo rat is an arboreal rodent of bamboo patches in the Atlantic Forest. It grips bamboo with broad digits and feeds on bamboo leaves and stems.

• Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis

  The Blue-throated Roller is a West and Central African roller that catches flying insects on the wing. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a reddish-brown back and a pale blue throat.

• Servaline Genet Genetta servalina

  The servaline genet occurs in forests across Central and East Africa, from lowlands to mountains. In Tanzania, records also come from separate mountain ranges.

• Queen Carola's Parotia Parotia carolae

  Queen Carola's Parotia lives in mountain forests of central New Guinea. The male has a dark body with iridescent green-blue tones and white flank plumes; the brown female has a finely patterned underside.

• Banggai Cuscus Phalanger pelengensis

  The Banggai cuscus is a marsupial of the Banggai Islands, with an orange-brown back and a yellowish belly. Its behavior is described here at the genus level where the source groups two species together.

• Wattled Ibis Bostrychia carunculata

  The Wattled Ibis is a large, dark ibis with a white patch on the upper wing and a throat wattle. It occurs mainly across the Ethiopian Plateau.

• Common Metad Millardia meltada

  The common metad has a finely grizzled gray back and a tail that is dark above and pale below. Nepal's account describes life in lowland fields and grasslands.

• Little Stint Calidris minuta

  A tiny wader that passes through the UK on migration. Many pass in autumn, and most migrate to Africa for winter.

• Rock Ring-tailed Possum Petropseudes dahli

  This marsupial lives among rocky outcrops in northern Australia. It shelters in sandstone crevices by day and goes to nearby trees to feed at night.

• Rosy-billed Pochard Netta peposaca

  The male has a conspicuous red bill, while the female is brown. Rosy-billed Pochards feed on plants and seeds in shallow water and may gather in flocks of thousands.

• Daurian Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) dauurica

  The Daurian Pika is a small herbivore with short legs and rounded ears. It digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert habitats and feeds on vegetation.

• Mountain Cacique Cacicus chrysonotus

  The Peru account describes this cacique in montane forest on the eastern Andes. It reports a yellow wing patch north of Junín and a yellow rump in southern populations.

• Philippine Slow Loris Nycticebus menagensis

  The Philippine Slow Loris has a white muzzle and small dark rings around the eyes. It is nocturnal and spends almost all of its time in trees.

• Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami

  The Australian Brush-turkey is a large bird with dark plumage, a bare red head, and a yellow wattle. It rakes leaf litter for food, and males use mounds of vegetation to warm the eggs.

• Peyrieras's Woolly Lemur Avahi peyrierasi

  Peyrieras’s woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of southeastern Madagascar’s forests. Its back is gray-brown, its underside is white, and its tail is reddish brown. It is arboreal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Pallas's Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes paradoxus

  Pallas's Sandgrouse lives in dry grasslands of Central Asia. Males and females have different plumage, and flocks fly to water and feed on seeds.

• Mesoamerican Round-eared Bat Lophostoma nicaraguae

  This bat has dark brown fur on its back and dark brown ears, paler brown fur on the belly, and a bare V-shaped area on the lower lip divided into wart-like projections. In Colombia, it is recorded in dry and moist tropical forests of the Caribbean and Pacific regions.

• Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castaneothorax

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in Australian grassland and shrubland. Males have a pale stripe above the eye and a conspicuous chestnut band across the breast.

• Hooded Capuchin Sapajus cay

  The hooded capuchin has short, dark hair on its head that looks like a cap. It is active by day in small groups and eats fruits, insects, and other foods.