Meet the world’s animals.

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• Razor-billed Curassow Mitu tuberosum

  

  It has a bluish-black body, a chestnut lower belly, white tail tips, a red bill and legs, and a crest. It searches for fallen fruit on the forest floor.

• New Guinea Quoll Dasyurus albopunctatus

  

  The New Guinea quoll is a medium-sized carnivorous marsupial from New Guinea's forests. It can climb, and one field account reports a body mass of about 500–1,000 g.

• Ochre-bellied Boobook Ninox ochracea

  

  The Ochre-bellied Boobook lives around Sulawesi in Indonesia. It roosts in dense vegetation by day and hunts insects from the middle levels of trees.

• Siberian Weasel Mustela sibirica

  

  The Siberian weasel ranges across northern and eastern Eurasia and parts of South Asia. Its coat changes with the seasons, and it is most active at night or twilight.

• American Avocet Recurvirostra americana

  

  The American Avocet has long legs and a slender, upturned bill that it sweeps through shallow water for food.

• Korean Red-backed Vole Myodes regulus

  

  Craseomys regulus occurs south of the Gaema Plateau on the Korean Peninsula. A National Institute of Biological Resources account describes a reddish-brown back, brown sides, and dark-grey underside.

• Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio

  The male has a chestnut back and black eye mask, and watches for prey from exposed perches.

• Desert Pseudomys Pseudomys desertor

  The Desert Pseudomys is a medium-sized rodent. Its chestnut fur is overlaid by long, dark guard hairs, and pale orange rings surround its eyes. The tail is brown above and lighter along the sides and below.

• Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii

  It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.

• Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis

  The Big Free-tailed Bat roosts in rock crevices and eats large moths. It has vertical grooves on its upper lip.

• Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata

  The Pied Bush Chat is a small bird; males are dark with a white wing patch.

• Black Tamarin Saguinus niger

  The black tamarin is a small monkey with golden-brown streaks in its black coat. It moves through the canopy by day, feeding mainly on fruit in family groups.

• Short-tailed Parrotbill Suthora davidiana

  The Short-tailed Parrotbill has a very short tail and a deep-based bill. It moves quickly through bamboo and forest edges, feeding on small larvae and plant matter.

• Pallas's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene cephalotes

  Pallas's tube-nosed fruit bat is widespread in Indonesia, less common in Papua New Guinea, and known in Australia only from Moa Island. It roosts in rainforest and mangrove trees.

• Pallid Swift Apus pallidus

  This brown swift has a white throat, breeds from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and winters in the Sahel.

• Yuma Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) yumanensis

  The Yuma myotis is a small bat of the western United States. Its golden-brown fur is distinctive, and it catches flying insects near water.

• Malawi Batis Batis dimorpha

  A small bird recorded in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Males and females have different patterns on the chest and wings.

• Long-eared Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) quadrimaculatus

  This chipmunk occurs in the northern Sierra Nevada of California and around Lake Tahoe in Nevada, often in brush and forest-edge habitat.

• Rufous-capped Nunlet Nonnula ruficapilla

  This nunlet is recognized by its rufous cap and grey sides of the head. It occurs in humid lowland forest and may remain motionless on a branch for long periods.

• Black Wildebeest Connochaetes gnou

  A bovid of open grasslands and the Karoo in southern Africa. It mainly grazes short grass and uses open country.

• Buff-banded Bushbird Buettikoferella bivittata

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs on Timor Island. Its appearance is documented in an 1862 Timor account, while its habitat is listed in a 2008 regional checklist.

• Pallas's cat Otocolobus manul

  A Central Asian cat with long, dense fur. Its rounded head and low-set ears give the face a flattened appearance.

• Black-throated Toucanet Aulacorhynchus atrogularis

  This toucanet occurs along the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A study of the former broad Emerald Toucanet complex describes black throat and cheek markings and a two-colored band at the bill base for the atrogularis form.

• 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.