Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ethiopian Dwarf Mongoose Helogale hirtula

  

  A small mongoose of the Horn of Africa that is active in groups by day. At night it shelters in termite mounds, dens, or rock crevices.

• Black-fronted Flowerpecker Dicaeum igniferum

  The Black-fronted Flowerpecker occurs in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. A male of the nominate subspecies has scarlet upperparts, dark wings and tail, and a white chin.

• Horsfield's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros larvatus

  Horsfield's leaf-nosed bat is a medium-sized bat with relatively large ears and a complex noseleaf. It flies through forest understory and roosts in caves and buildings.

• Yellow-billed Jacamar Galbula albirostris

  The male has a white throat, rich rufous underparts, and an iridescent green head and back. It waits on a forest perch and catches passing insects in flight.

• Northern Pudu Pudu mephistophiles

  This very small deer lives in the northern Andes. It has a dark brown face, lives alone, and is found in high-altitude páramo near humid montane forest.

• Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri

  The male Straw-tailed Whydah grows a very long tail in breeding plumage and shows bold black-and-pale markings. It feeds on seeds on the ground in dry savanna.

• Maule Tuco-tuco Ctenomys maulinus

  The Maule tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent of Andean grasslands. Its coat ranges from pale brown to olive or dark brown, with pale underparts and white hairs at the tail tip.

• Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus

  This small bird is bright yellow with an olive back. It occupies a range of savanna settings, from moist savanna to dry thorn scrub.

• Common Genet Genetta genetta

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

• Collared Gnatwren Microbates collaris

  The Collared Gnatwren is a small forest bird with a long bill and a black breast band. It moves quickly through low growth in northern Amazonian forest while searching for insects and other arthropods.

• Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum

  This small fruit-eating bat occurs in South America. It has no tail, brown tricolored fur, a short nose, and white patches on its shoulders. Local migration records are kept to the populations where they were documented.

• Pinnated Bittern Botaurus pinnatus

  This bittern has finely patterned buff-and-brown plumage on its crown and body. It hides in dense freshwater marshes and usually forages at night.

• Queensland Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene robinsoni

  A fruit-eating bat of eastern Australian forests, with tubular nostrils and pale spots scattered across its wings.

• Swahili Sparrow Passer suahelicus

  Adults are grayish brown, with a chestnut-red shoulder and a small white wing-bar. In grassland with some trees and light woodland, they feed mainly on seeds.

• Cutch Cremnomys Cremnomys cutchicus

  This rat is endemic to India. It has a gray-brown back, a pale belly, and a tail longer than its body; it mainly eats plants and inhabits rocky hills with trees or scrub.

• Three-banded Rosefinch Carpodacus trifasciatus

  The Three-banded Rosefinch is a long-tailed finch with white wing markings. The male is dark pink, while the female is mainly brown.

• Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus

  The desert hedgehog is a hedgehog of dry country, including northwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Sira Barbet Capito fitzpatricki

  This small barbet is known only from the eastern slope of Peru’s Cerros del Sira. Its description paper reported three localities at 950–1,250 m and mainly describes paired birds foraging in the canopy.

• Black-fronted Titi Callicebus nigrifrons

  This small monkey has a black forehead and lives in forests of southeastern Brazil. In studied areas, it ate mainly fruit, along with leaves and flowers, and family groups of a pair and their young were reported.

• Lovely Sunbird Aethopyga shelleyi

  This sunbird lives in forests on Palawan and nearby islands. Males show iridescent purple and crimson, while females have more subdued olive coloring.

• Quokka Setonix brachyurus

  A small wallaby from southwestern Australia.

• Sulu Hornbill Anthracoceros montani

  A hornbill with a black body and white tail, living in forests of the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines.

• Bornean Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus borneensis

  This Bornean bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It roosts in caves and other sheltered places by day and hunts flying insects 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.