Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lesser Grison Galictis cuja

  

  The lesser grison is a slender mustelid found in parts of South America. It has a yellowish-brown back, a darker underside and a pale facial band whose pattern varies among individuals.

• Green-eared Barbet Psilopogon faiostrictus

  The Green-eared Barbet has green upperparts and paler underparts. In the source's male description, brown streaks mark the crown and nape, with green ear coverts. Its main food is fruit.

• Olive baboon Papio anubis

  A baboon with an olive-grey coat that lives across African grasslands and forests.

• Least Auklet Aethia pusilla

  The Least Auklet is a very small seabird that breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and Alaska. It nests in rock crevices and eats small animals from the sea.

• Marco Polo Argali Ovis polii

  Ovis polii is a wild sheep described from the dry Pamir steppe. Males have long, winding horns, and the sheep use rolling hills, broad valleys, and gradual mountain sides.

• Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius

  It is reddish in breeding plumage and gray and white in winter. It breeds in the Arctic and spends winter on the open ocean.

• Fawn Hopping Mouse Notomys cervinus

  The fawn hopping mouse is an Australian rodent with long hind legs for hopping. It shelters in a burrow by day and has been recorded in small family groups.

• Altai Accentor Prunella himalayana

  The Altai Accentor breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and moves into the Himalayas outside the breeding season. It feeds on rocky slopes, often in flocks.

• Day's Shrew Suncus dayi

  Day’s shrew is a small shrew from humid montane forests in southern India. Its back is dark brown and its underside has a silvery sheen.

• Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres

  A large vulture with a pale body and bare bluish-grey head and neck. It feeds on carrion in southern Africa and nests on cliffs.

• Agile Wallaby Notamacropus agilis

  A common wallaby of northern Australia, with sandy fur and distinctive facial and thigh stripes.

• White-gorgeted Flycatcher Anthipes monileger

  A forest flycatcher with a bright white throat, it searches for small invertebrates low in the undergrowth.

• Kai Flying Fox Pteropus keyensis

  This flying fox occurs on Indonesia’s Kai Islands. Its coat is nearly all yellow. It is active at night and roosts in forested areas with little disturbance.

• White-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis castaneoventris

  The White-throated Mountain-gem lives in Costa Rican mountain forest. The adult description notes a white throat, pale green breast, and grayish tail.

• Atlantic Forest Oecomys Oecomys catherinae

  Oecomys catherinae is an arboreal rodent. Specimens from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and Cerrado showed differences in skull form between the two biomes.

• Amazonian Inezia Inezia subflava

  This Amazonian Inezia occurs in waterside woodland and thickets. Its two currently recognized subspecies share two pale wingbars and pale tail tips, but differ in their underpart coloration.

• Dice's Cottontail Sylvilagus dicei

  This rabbit has a dark brown to black back and a pale underside. It occurs in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama; evening activity has been studied only in a preliminary survey at one reserve.

• Slaty Gnateater Conopophaga ardesiaca

  The Slaty Gnateater is a short-tailed bird of the eastern Andean slopes of Bolivia, living close to the forest floor.

• Caucasian Mountain Ground Squirrel Spermophilus musicus

  The Caucasian mountain ground squirrel lives in high meadows and mountain steppe of the central Caucasus and spends winter in burrows.

• Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus

  The Common Buttonquail is a small bird that runs beneath grass and scrub. Adult females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens orion

  This broad-nosed bat occurs in eastern Australia. Its back is dark brown and the underside is duller and paler. Records come from wet forests and more open woodland.

• Sunset Lorikeet Trichoglossus forsteni

  This large parrot inhabits Indonesian islands. It has a purple head and underparts, red chest, and green collar, and moves in groups through forest edges, woodland, and plantations. BirdLife’s assessment page uses Scarlet-breasted Lorikeet for the same scientific name.

• Painted Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys pictus

  The painted spiny pocket mouse ranges from Mexico to northwestern Guatemala. It has a reddish-brown back, white underside, and spiny coat, and stores seeds in caches.

• White-chested Babbler Pellorneum rostratum

  A babbler of the peninsula and islands’ wet forests. It searches the forest floor for small invertebrates.