Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded crane Grus monacha

  

  A gray crane with a white head and neck that also winters in Japan.

• Eastern Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus

  The Eastern Horseshoe Bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf and roosts in caves and mines. The museum account notes that northern and southern populations may be different species.

• Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla

  The Short-toed Treecreeper is a small bird of mature European woodlands. It searches bark crevices for tiny invertebrates with its curved bill.

• White-striped Free-tailed Bat Austronomus australis

  It has a brown back, a paler underside, and broad white stripes along its sides. This Australian bat is nocturnal and uses echolocation to find insects.

• Tufted puffin Fratercula cirrhata

  A seabird that grows long, pale-yellow head plumes for the breeding season.

• Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Lagothrix flavicauda

  The Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey is a primate endemic to Peru. It lives in trees and eats fruit, leaves, and other plant foods. Its long reddish-brown coat and yellow patch beneath the tail are distinctive.

• White cockatoo Cacatua alba

  A cockatoo of Indonesia’s northern Moluccan islands, with white plumage and a broad crest that opens like a fan.

• Angolan Slender Mongoose Galerella flavescens

  This mongoose is known from southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. Angolan animals are tan or yellowish, while Namibian animals are nearly black with a reddish tinge. In Namibia it lives among large granite boulders and the drainages and woodlands connecting them.

• Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus

  Gartered Trogons use forest edges, lighter woodland, and clearings with large trees in lowlands and foothills. Males are green and violet-blue, while females are mostly grey above and on the throat and chest; both have orange-yellow lower underparts. They eat insects and fruit.

• Common Genet Genetta genetta

  The common genet is a small African mammal with dark spots and a banded tail; it is active at night.

• Yellow-ringed White-eye Zosterops wallacei

  This white-eye is recorded on Sumba Island, Indonesia, in forest, forest edge, scrub, and cultivated land.

• Mexican Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma scopaeum

  This Mexican bat has records along the Pacific side of the country and as far east as Veracruz. It uses dry forest and riparian forest.

• Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus

  This raptor ambushes prey from cover in forest. Its dark head and back contrast with a pale belly and black-and-white tail.

• São Tomé Shrew Crocidura thomensis

  The São Tomé shrew is known only from São Tomé Island. It has a long snout and large ears, and field observers have seen it feeding in wet places.

• Black-crowned Pitta Erythropitta ussheri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. It has a black crown and richly coloured body plumage, and searches for invertebrates on the forest floor.

• Arctic hare Lepus arcticus

  An Arctic hare whose seasonal coat changes vary by region.

• Pygmy Bushtit Psaltria exilis

  This tiny bird occurs only in the mountains of western and central Java. It feeds on insects and moves actively through the lower forest in small flocks.

• Blanford's Fox Vulpes cana

  Blanford's fox is a small fox with large ears and a bushy tail. It can also climb among rocky slopes.

• Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus

  The lark sparrow walks through open grassland and scrub, searching on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Lechwe Kobus leche

  A wetland antelope that grazes while standing in shallow water.

• Santarem Parakeet Pyrrhura amazonum

  The bird described as the Santarém Conure is a small, mostly green parakeet with a blue band before the eye and reddish patches on the belly and tail.

• Bearded Capuchin Sapajus libidinosus

  The bearded capuchin is a capuchin monkey native to Brazil. Its coat is yellowish to beige, with dark limbs and a thick cap of hair.

• Blue-capped Motmot Momotus coeruliceps

  Its blue crown, black mask around the red eyes, and chestnut chest are conspicuous. It swings its long tail from side to side and digs underground nest tunnels.

• Fraser's Dolphin Lagenodelphis hosei

  A stocky, short-beaked dolphin that lives in deep offshore waters.