Meet the world’s animals.

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• African Spoonbill Platalea alba

  

  A long-legged wader that sweeps its spoon-shaped bill through shallow water for small fish and other aquatic prey.

• Common brown lemur Eulemur fulvus

  

  A lemur of northwestern and eastern Madagascan forests. It is active by day and night and mainly eats fruit.

• Gray-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps

  

  The Gray-headed Chachalaca has a gray head and neck and a brown body. It lives in groups in secondary woodland and along forest edges in Central America.

• Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii

  

  An animal of the high Tibetan Plateau with a fine, soft undercoat.

• Eurasian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum

  

  A small owl of northern Eurasian coniferous forests. It hunts small birds and mammals around dusk and before sunrise.

• Northern Tigrina Leopardus tigrinus

  

  The northern tiger cat is a small, slender wild cat with rosette-like spots. It lives alone and is active mainly at night.

• Black Stilt Himantopus novaezelandiae

  The Black Stilt is a wader found only in New Zealand. Adults are marked by all-black plumage, long red legs and a thin black bill.

• Large-eared Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) macrotis

  The large-eared pika lives among rocky high mountains in Central Asia. Its large ears and thick fur stand out, and it is active during the day.

• Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator

  The male Woodchat Shrike has a reddish-orange head and striking black-and-white markings. During breeding it hunts insects in open, sparsely wooded places, then winters in Africa.

• Guianan Saki Pithecia pithecia

  The Guianan saki is a South American monkey whose males and females have different facial coloring; it spends nearly all its life in trees.

• Cassin's Kingbird Tyrannus vociferans

  Cassin's Kingbird has a gray head and breast, a white throat, and a yellow belly. It catches flying insects from perches in open country.

• Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus blasii

  Blasius’s horseshoe bat roosts in caves and similar shelters and has a distinctive nose shape.

• Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros

  A small bird that also lives in British cities and industrial centres. Males have grey-black plumage and a red tail.

• Eastern Wolf Canis lycaon

  The COSEWIC report describes the Eastern Wolf as an intermediate-sized canid whose coat varies from reddish brown to tawny. It identifies this population using genetic evidence as well as appearance.

• Przevalski's Parrotbill Suthora przewalskii

  Suthora przewalskii is a parrotbill of the mountains of central China. It has an ash-grey crown, chestnut throat and upper breast, and pale grey-buffy belly, and searches for insects in open coniferous forest with bamboo.

• Chacoan Mara Pediolagus salinicola

  A large rodent of the Chaco, it occurs in Paraguay, southern Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina, in dry scrub and woodland.

• Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi

  This is a small, dark swift with narrow wings. It catches small insects and spiders while flying above mature coniferous forests.

• Alaska Hare Lepus othus

  This hare lives in western Alaska's tundra and changes coat color with the seasons.

• Chestnut Wattle-eye Platysteira castanea

  Males are black and white while females are brownish; the species lives in wet habitats and lowland forest in central and eastern Africa and eats insects.

• Ashy Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cineraceus

  A small leaf-nosed bat. In records from southern China its back is buff-brown to grey, with a paler underside.

• Barred Puffbird Nystalus radiatus

  This puffbird occurs from central Panama through western Colombia to western Ecuador, in wet forest and its edges. Its reddish-brown body is barred with black, and it waits quietly on a perch for prey. Its diet includes large insects and small lizards.

• Gray-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus griseorufus

  The gray-brown mouse lemur is a small lemur of dry scrub in southwestern and southern Madagascar. Its diet changes with the seasons.

• Striated Grassbird Megalurus palustris

  A large brown warbler marked with black streaks, it shows a long trailing tail and flushes from fields, scrubby edges, and dense thickets.

• Bastard big-footed mouse Macrotarsomys bastardi

  The bastard big-footed mouse is a small rodent of southern and western Madagascar's dry habitats. It rests in a burrow by day and searches for plant foods at night.