Meet the world’s animals.

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• Japanese marten Martes melampus

  

  A mustelid of Japanese forests and other habitats, with yellowish-brown to dark-brown fur and a white to cream throat patch.

• Variable Goshawk Tachyspiza hiogaster

  The Variable Goshawk occurs across Wallacea, New Guinea, and nearby island groups. It hunts from perches, diving on prey such as lizards; plumage and diet vary by region.

• Greater spot-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus nictitans

  The greater spot-nosed monkey is a West and Central African guenon with a conspicuous white spot on its nose and dark fur. It eats fruit and seeds and spends much of its time in trees.

• Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Myioparus griseigularis

  This flycatcher occurs in forests from western and central Africa to Uganda and Tanzania. Its species account uses Fraseria and lists Myioparus as a former genus placement.

• Walia Ibex Capra walie

  A wild goat of the Simien Mountains in northern Ethiopia.

• Victorin's Warbler Cryptillas victorini

  This small bird lives in the damp fynbos of South Africa's Cape mountains. The sexes look much alike, with a gray face, pale yellow eye, and cinnamon-buff underparts.

• Northern Ghost Bat Diclidurus (Diclidurus) albus

  The northern ghost bat has white fur and pale pink wing membranes. It feeds on flying insects at night and ranges from Mexico into northeastern South America.

• Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris

  Males have a striking blue head and throat. This hummingbird laps nectar with its tongue and also eats 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.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Small Japanese Field Mouse Apodemus argenteus

  The Small Japanese Field Mouse uses its long tail to move along branches and stores acorns in the soil in autumn for later food.

• Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti

  This small gnateater lives in dark, humid forest. Its range is restricted to scattered populations from northeastern to eastern Brazil.

• North American Least Shrew Cryptotis parvus

  A small shrew of North America, recorded in tall grass, brush and fallen logs, and soft soils around wetlands.

• Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus

  The Black-rumped Buttonquail occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and lives on the ground in grassland and grassy savanna. Females are larger and brighter than males, with a rufous face and throat, pale belly and dark rump.

• Bennett’s tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus bennettianus

  A tree-dwelling kangaroo of northeastern Australia’s rainforests.

• Flores Hanging-parrot Loriculus flosculus

  The Flores Hanging Parrot is a small green parrot. Males have a red mark on the throat, and the species eats fruit and nectar.

• Crest-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus cristicauda

  The crest-tailed mulgara is a small marsupial of arid central Australia. A black tuft marks its tail.

• Horsfield's Babbler Malacocincla sepiaria

  Horsfield's Babbler is a brown babbler that lives low in evergreen forests of Southeast Asia.

• Egyptian rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus

  A large-eyed fruit bat that feeds on very ripe fruit.

• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• Francis's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus francisi

  Francis's horseshoe bat is a rarely recorded species known from Sabah and Kalimantan on Borneo. The 2015 paper listed six records available at that time.

• Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus

  The Superb Fairy-wren lives in southeastern Australia. Breeding males show vivid blue plumage, and the species is known for living in small groups.

• Taiga Vole Microtus xanthognathus

  This vole has yellowish cheeks and a two-colored tail. It eats grasses and berries in summer and stores rhizomes for winter.

• White cockatoo Cacatua alba

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