Meet the world’s animals.

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• Huon Bowerbird Amblyornis germanus

  

  This bird lives in montane forest on the Huon Peninsula. Males have an orange crest and decorate stick bowers with colored objects; females lack the orange crest.

• Corsican Hare Lepus corsicanus

  

  The Corsican hare is native to central and southern Italy and Sicily. The population on Corsica is considered introduced.

• Black-tailed Cisticola Cisticola melanurus

  

  The Black-tailed Cisticola is recorded at scattered sites from eastern Angola to western Democratic Republic of Congo. An Angolan survey found it foraging in mature miombo woodland from near the ground to the canopy.

• Turkestan Red Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rutila

  

  The Turkestan red pika is a pika of Central Asian mountains. Its coat is reddish brown in summer and gray in winter, and it stores grass among rocky slopes.

• Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura

  

  This small hummingbird lives in mountains and valleys from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The male has a very long forked tail; the female’s is shorter.

• Greater Guinea Pig Cavia magna

  

  The greater guinea pig is a wild relative of the domestic guinea pig. It has webbed toes and lives in wetlands, with long fur forming a crest on its neck.

• Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata

  An albatross of Antarctic and subantarctic seas; about 1,000 pairs breed each year on Macquarie Island. It has a dark gray head, lighter gray body, and white crescent around most of the eye.

• Gobi Jerboa Allactaga (Orientallactaga) bullata

  This jerboa ranges across northern China and Mongolia. It lives in open sandy desert, uses burrows alone, and has a tail tuft with white and black markings.

• Ayeyarwady Bulbul Pycnonotus blanfordi

  The Ayeyarwady Bulbul is 17–20 cm long. It uses shrubland and other semi-open places, and is classified as an omnivore.

• White-striped dorcopsis Dorcopsis hageni

  The white-striped dorcopsis is a macropod marsupial of lowland forests in northern New Guinea. A pale stripe on the back is a distinguishing feature.

• Long-tailed Potoo Nyctibius aethereus

  This nocturnal bird has a long tail and mottled plumage. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Santarém Marmoset Mico humeralifer

  The Santarém marmoset is a small monkey from a limited area of northern Brazil. Pale ear tufts and alternating black and silvery rings on its tail are distinctive.

• Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor

  This bushshrike lives in forests of western and central Africa. It has several plumage forms, including birds with orange or red underparts.

• Groves' Titi Plecturocebus grovesi

  This titi monkey was described from Mato Grosso, Brazil. The paper notes a grayish back, red-brown underside, and black tail with a pale tip.

• Rufous-crested Tanager Creurgops verticalis

  This tanager inhabits the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. It joins mixed-species flocks high in the canopy and mainly forages for insects.

• Hausa Genet Genetta thierryi

  The Hausa genet is a small viverrid found in West African savannas and moist woodlands. A reddish line along its back and alternating light and dark rings on its tail help identify its coat pattern.

• Mayan Antthrush Formicarius moniliger

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in humid forests from southern Mexico to central Honduras. The sexes have similar plumage: olive-brown above, black on the throat, and gray on the breast and belly. It walks on the forest floor while searching for insects and land snails.

• Cliff Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) dorsalis

  Neotamias dorsalis ranges across the western and southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its smoky-grey back has dark stripes, and the underside is creamy white.

• Yellow-thighed Brushfinch Atlapetes tibialis

  This brushfinch occurs in Panama. The sexes have nearly identical plumage. It is often found at forest or scrub edges and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Western Quoll Dasyurus geoffroii

  The western quoll is a carnivorous marsupial of forests and woodlands in south-west Western Australia. It has white spots and is active at night.

• Choco Warbler Myiothlypis chlorophrys

  The Choco Warbler inhabits forest and scrub in western Colombia and western Ecuador. This population responds differently to songs from the eastern Peru population and is treated as a separate species.

• Grand Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros grandis

  Surveys in central Vietnam recorded this bat in forests and orchards near limestone areas. The paper says that its taxonomy and distribution still need clarification.

• Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum

  The Yellow-vented Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker found from the Indian subcontinent through Southeast Asia. It has yellowish-green upperparts, streaked white underparts, and orange-yellow undertail coverts.

• Black lemur Eulemur macaco

  A northwestern Madagascar lemur whose males and females have different coat colours.