Meet the world’s animals.

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• Malabar Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros coronatus

  

  The Malabar Pied Hornbill has a black body, white belly, and white wing edges. The male's large pale bill and casque stand out.

• Turuchan Pika Ochotona (Pika) turuchanensis

  

  The Turuchan Pika eats plants and gathers them into stores. Research describes its coat and feeding choices, while taxonomists continue to debate whether it should be treated as a separate species.

• Western Quail-thrush Cinclosoma marginatum

  

  The Western Quail-thrush lives on stony hills and low acacia ridges in western Australia, walking on the ground to forage. Males and females differ in breast pattern.

• Borneo Gibbon Hylobates muelleri

  

  The Borneo Gibbon is an arboreal primate of Borneo's forests. It has no tail, gray-brown fur, and long arms used to travel among trees.

• Rockrunner Achaetops pycnopygius

  

  A small bird centered in west-central Namibia, with a marginal extension into Angola. It forages on the ground, and adults bring arthropods and caterpillars to nestlings.

• Bare-eared Squirrel Monkey Saimiri ustus

  

  A diurnal monkey from south of the Amazon River in Brazil that searches for fruit and insects in trees.

• Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum

  The Gang-gang Cockatoo is a cockatoo of southeastern Australian forests. Males have a red head and crest, females a gray head, and the birds move between uplands and lowlands seasonally.

• Underwood's Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi

  Underwood's bonneted bat ranges from the southwestern United States through western Mexico to Central America. Confirmed information about its roosts is limited.

• Pale-billed Antpitta Grallaria carrikeri

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern Andean slope of northern Peru. It uses the understory of high-elevation cloud forest, especially places with abundant bamboo.

• Eastern Mindanao Gymnure Podogymnura intermedia

  Podogymnura intermedia is a gymnure known from mountain sites in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Long black hairs and golden-tipped hairs give its back golden streaks or speckles.

• Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus

  The Brown Treecreeper has a pale brown back and black-and-buff barring across the breast and belly. It lives in dry forests of eastern Australia and searches for insects on trunks and on the ground.

• Big-eared Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus macrotis

  The big-eared horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat with relatively large ears. In a summer study in southwestern China, most detected insect food belonged to Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies.

• Andean Pygmy Owl Glaucidium jardinii

  The Andean Pygmy Owl is a small owl. A Bogotá bird guide notes that it may also be seen by day; it has brown plumage with bars and spots and perches in shaded trees.

• Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys spectabilis

  This North American rodent moves in long bounds on its hind legs. It carries grass seeds in its cheek pouches and stores them underground.

• Southern Royal Albatross Diomedea epomophora

  The Southern Royal Albatross is a large seabird with a white body and broad wings. It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere and travels over the open ocean.

• Bolivian Red Howler Alouatta sara

  The Bolivian red howler is a large howler monkey of lowland tropical and subtropical forests in South America. It mainly eats leaves, fruit, and flowers, and gives loud calls.

• Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea

  This whydah occurs in Africa. Breeding males grow long tails and lay eggs in the nests of small finches.

• Mainland Dusky Antechinus Antechinus mimetes

  This small marsupial occurs in southeastern Australia. It is usually regarded as terrestrial, but camera traps at Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, Victoria, recorded it visiting tree baits about 3.5 m high on 29 occasions.

• Visayan Broadbill Sarcophanops samarensis

  The Visayan Broadbill stands out for the blue fleshy skin around its eyes and its purple crown. It lives in lowland forest in the central Philippines and is reported to eat insects.

• Pygmy Killer Whale Feresa attenuata

  A small dolphin that lives in deep offshore waters of tropical and subtropical seas.

• Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica

  This apalis ranges from eastern to southern Africa and is recorded in evergreen forest, valley woodland, and scrub.

• Pearson's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys pearsoni

  Pearson's Tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent. Its reddish-brown coat has a white collar below the throat and white patches on the sides of the neck.

• Rosy Starling Pastor roseus

  Adults have a pale pink body with a glossy black head, wings, and tail. They breed in grasslands and winter in India.

• Hamlyn's Monkey Cercopithecus hamlyni

  A white T-shaped stripe across the face makes this monkey distinctive. It lives in bamboo-rich forests and forms small groups.