Meet the world’s animals.

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• Woodchuck Marmota (Marmota) monax

  

  A North American squirrel relative that eats plants near fields and woodland edges and digs an underground burrow.

• Ocellated Turkey Meleagris ocellata

  A brightly colored turkey with blue-green iridescent feathers and eye-like spots on its tail. It lives in forests around the Yucatan Peninsula.

• Common marmoset Callithrix jacchus

  A small monkey with conspicuous white ear tufts that feeds on tree sap and raises young with help from family members.

• Red-shouldered Vanga Calicalicus rufocarpalis

  The Red-shouldered Vanga is a small bird of dry, thorny scrub in southwestern Madagascar. Its reddish shoulder feathers help distinguish the sexes.

• San Joaquin Pocket Mouse Perognathus inornatus

  The San Joaquin pocket mouse carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches. It searches for food on the ground at night and stays in a burrow by day.

• Black-fronted Tern Chlidonias albostriatus

  The Black-fronted Tern breeds along rivers on New Zealand's South Island. In breeding plumage it has a black cap and orange bill, then disperses to coastal areas after breeding.

• Large Pied Bat Chalinolobus dwyeri

  The Large Pied Bat is an eastern Australian bat associated with cliffs and caves. It has glossy black fur, long ears, and a white V-shaped fringe beneath the wings and tail membrane.

• Roseate spoonbill Platalea ajaja

  A pink waterbird with a large spoon-shaped bill.

• Little Laucha Calomys laucha

  The Little Laucha is a small South American rodent weighing under 20 g. A study in central Argentine farmland reported a diet mainly of green plant material and seeds.

• Green-billed Toucan Ramphastos dicolorus

  This toucan has a green bill, eats mostly fruit, and also takes insects and small birds.

• Kultarr Antechinomys laniger

  The kultarr is a nocturnal marsupial of Australia's arid and semi-arid regions. It bounds on long hind feet and feeds mainly on insects and spiders.

• Yemen Thrush Turdus menachensis

  The Yemen Thrush is marked by an olive-toned back, a stout orange-yellow bill, and a bright orange patch under the wing in flight. It also lives in the highlands of Saudi Arabia.

• Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina

  The northern pig-tailed macaque is now treated as a species distinct from the southern pig-tailed macaque. A Thai comparison found differences between the northern and southern forms in crown hair, facial markings, coat, and tail.

• Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides

  The Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo is about 25 cm long and resembles a drongo. It occurs on the Indian Subcontinent, including Sri Lanka.

• Lesser Brocket Mazama nanus

  The lesser brocket is a small deer of dense subtropical vegetation in southeastern South America. Its coat is reddish brown, darker along the back; an Argentine account says it eats leaves, shoots, and fruit.

• Rio de Janeiro Antbird Cercomacra brasiliana

  This antbird account is based on records from Rio de Janeiro state and nearby areas. Males are grey, females olive-brown, and the birds forage low in humid forest.

• Guadeloupe Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma improvisum

  The Guadeloupe big-eyed bat is a large big-eyed bat recorded on islands of the Lesser Antilles. It has white facial and dorsal markings, while detailed natural-history records remain sparse.

• Fire-tufted Barbet Psilopogon pyrolophus

  The Fire-tufted Barbet is a green forest bird with red bristles beside its bill, feeding on fruit and insects on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.

• Black-capped Fruit Bat Chironax melanocephalus

  This small bat has a dark head and yellow-to-orange hair on the sides of the neck and shoulders. It is recorded in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Chatham Islands Parakeet Cyanoramphus forbesi

  Forbes' parakeet is a green parrot with a bright yellow forecrown and a red frontal band that stops before the eye. It is currently restricted to dense vegetation on Mangere and Little Mangere Islands.

• Black rat Rattus rattus

  An agile climbing rat that uses trees and high parts of buildings.

• Grey-cheeked Tit-Babbler Mixornis flavicollis

  This small babbler occurs in Java's lowlands. It searches through foliage in small groups and eats insects, including beetle eggs.

• Ucayali Bald Uacari Cacajao ucayalii

  This saki occurs in Amazonian forests of northeastern Peru. A taxonomic study described specimens from Peru's Río Javari-Mirim as reddish chestnut, while specimens from another area differed in color. At the Quebrada Blanco study site, sightings were more frequent in drier periods than during the rainy season.

• Asian Openbill Anastomus oscitans

  A stork of Asian wetlands whose bill has a gap between the mandibles except near the tip.