Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black Butcherbird Cracticus quoyi

  

  A black bird with a strong bill hooked at the tip. James Cook University's page documents a campus-area occurrence in Cairns.

• King Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus rex

  The king horseshoe bat is recorded from southern China. It has very large ears and darker fur above than below.

• Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes

  This white waterbird has a yellow face, spatulate bill, and yellow legs. In shallow water it sweeps its bill from side to side, searching mainly for aquatic insects.

• Mottle-faced Tamarin Tamarinus inustus

  This tamarin was recorded in flooded forest during fieldwork in Brazil’s Amanã Reserve. The survey reported 11 new localities.

• Scarlet Myzomela Myzomela sanguinolenta

  This small honeyeater occurs in eastern Australia. Males are red and black, while females and immature birds are mainly brown. It often visits flowers for nectar.

• Thomas's Mastiff Bat Molossus currentium

  This molossid bat lives in central and southern South America.

• Black-backed Oriole Icterus abeillei

  The Black-backed Oriole is a striking orange-yellow and black bird of woodlands and towns in central Mexico.

• Urial Ovis vignei

  Urials are wild sheep of Asian grasslands and hills; males carry large spiraling horns.

• Blue-throated Piping Guan Pipile cumanensis

  The Blue-throated Piping Guan is a large galliform bird of northern South American forests. It has a long crest and a blue-violet wattle on the throat.

• Southern Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa io

  The southern little yellow bat is a small aerial insectivore. It has been recorded hunting flying insects along forest trails, in clearings, and over water, but the boundaries of this broadly defined taxon remain under review.

• Little Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura typica

  Birds Colombia describes the Little Long-tailed Woodcreeper in humid lowland and foothill forest, with a disjunct range from Central America to northern Colombia. It notes that some classifications treat D. typica as a species and others as a group within D. longicauda.

• Pale fox Vulpes pallida

  An African fox with sandy upper fur and a bushy, black-tipped tail.

• Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus

  It walks through shallow water on long pink legs and searches for food with a slender bill.

• Rough-toothed Dolphin Steno bredanensis

  The rough-toothed dolphin lives widely in deep ocean waters from tropical to warmer temperate regions. Its long rostrum and large fins stand out, and it feeds on fish and squid.

• Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus

  The Hoary-headed Grebe is a diving bird of fresh and brackish waters in Australia. Breeding adults show fine pale streaks on the head.

• Bailey's Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus baileyi

  Bailey's pocket mouse is a small rodent of the Sonoran Desert. It is active at night and carries seeds and other food in its cheek pouches.

• Streaked Wren-Babbler Gypsophila brevicaudata

  A small bird of evergreen forests from mainland Southeast Asia to southern China and nearby regions. It stays near the forest floor and has fine streaks on its brown body.

• Varied White-fronted Capuchin Cebus versicolor

  The varied white-fronted capuchin has conspicuous white fur on the head and bright red fur on the chest and belly. It is restricted to Colombia's middle Magdalena Valley. An induced observation with one wild group recorded food sharing of eggs.

• Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi

  The Long-tailed Fiscal ranges from southern Somalia through Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. It perches in open country and dives to the ground for prey.

• East Javan Langur Trachypithecus auratus

  The East Javan langur moves through trees with its long tail and mainly eats young leaves. Its coat occurs in black and reddish forms.

• American Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus

  The American Bushtit is a small social bird of western North America. Flocks search the undersides of leaves for insects and spiders and weave a pouch-like hanging nest.

• Orange-sided Opossum Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) dimidiata

  This small opossum lives in grasslands of northern Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay. Its back is gray, its underside is yellowish, and males are larger than females.

• Rufous-breasted Accentor Prunella strophiata

  Its bright orange breast and eyebrow contrast with a white throat and streaked brown back. It breeds in high-altitude forest and descends to lower scrub in winter.

• 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.