Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus

  

  A bird with sandy, patterned plumage and large eyes. In Britain, it breeds in places with sparse vegetation.

• Long-nosed Short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis (Microdelphys) scalops

  A small marsupial with a red head and a short tail. It is thought to live on the ground and be active at night.

• Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus

  The Pygmy Cormorant is a small cormorant that uses freshwater wetlands and river deltas.

• Milne-Edwards's Macaque Macaca thibetana

  Milne-Edwards's macaque lives in mountainous areas of central-eastern China. It can carry food in its cheek pouches and eat later in a safer place.

• Rufescent Antshrike Thamnistes rufescens

  A scarce, difficult-to-see antshrike of cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It is brown and buff, with a stout hooked bill.

• Wyoming Pocket Gopher Thomomys clusius

  This small pocket gopher occurs in southern Wyoming. It has pale yellow-gray fur and is recorded on fine-soil flats, including areas with Gardner saltbush.

• Emerald Starling Lamprotornis iris

  The Emerald Starling is a West African starling with a restricted range in savanna woodland and open woodland.

• Giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis

  A large otter of South American rivers and lakes. It lives in family groups and hunts fish mainly during the day.

• Luzon Hornbill Penelopides manillae

  The Luzon Hornbill is a small hornbill of the northern Philippines. The male has a cream-colored head and underside with dark cheeks and throat; the female is mostly dark brown to black. It lives in tropical moist lowland forest and eats figs and other fruit.

• Bavarian Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) bavaricus

  This vole has tiny eyes and short ears hidden by its fur. It was rediscovered near Mittenwald, Germany, in 2023.

• Mandarin duck Aix galericulata

  A duck of wooded ponds and streams. Males in breeding plumage have ornamental feathers raised like sails above the back.

• Hawaiian Hoary Bat Aeorestes semotus

  This bat is naturally found only in the Hawaiian Islands, on the main islands except Niihau.

• Rufous-fronted Babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons

  The Rufous-fronted Babbler is a small babbler of Asian forests. It searches among vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata

  The fat-tailed dunnart is a small marsupial that stores fat in its tail. It searches for arthropods and small vertebrates at night.

• Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus

  This laughingthrush is marked by long legs and tail and a black pattern around the eyes. In Hong Kong, small flocks live among vegetation in parks and villages.

• Narrow-skulled Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus artus

  This pocket mouse is smaller than the Sonoran pocket mouse. Its rump spines vary, and the paper's records are from Sonora and Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico.

• Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena

  In North America, it breeds on shallow lakes in Canada and Alaska and winters mainly along the coast. It dives for fish and crustaceans.

• Sand cat Felis margarita

  A desert cat with pale sandy fur, large ears, and fur-covered foot pads.

• Scarlet-headed Blackbird Amblyramphus holosericeus

  The Scarlet-headed Blackbird ranges from Bolivia and Paraguay through Brazil and Uruguay to Argentina. It is associated with wetlands, lakes and riverbanks bordered by marsh vegetation.

• Yellow-handed Titi Cheracebus lucifer

  This titi monkey lives in forests of the western Amazon. By day it moves through the trees in small family groups and feeds mainly on fruit. Hand color varies.

• Gould's Frogmouth Batrachostomus stellatus

  Gould's Frogmouth is a small frogmouth of Southeast Asian evergreen broadleaf forest. It occurs in dark and chestnut morphs.

• Acuminate Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus acuminatus

  The Acuminate Horseshoe Bat is a nocturnal bat described in grayish and reddish color forms. It rests by day in caves, hollow trees, and other sites.

• White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus

  A kite with a white body and tail and gray wings. It hovers over grassland while searching for small mammals.

• Greater Bonneted Bat Eumops perotis

  The greater bonneted bat is the largest molossid bat in North America. Its long ears meet above the head, and it launches from cliffs before hunting insects at night.