Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sulphur-crested cockatoo Cacatua galerita

  

  A large white cockatoo recognized by its yellow crest.

• Mexican Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) mexicanus

  Its dorsal fur ranges from brown to cinnamon orange, and its tail is longer than its head and body. It uses forests and other vegetated areas, is mainly nocturnal, and eats seeds and plant material.

• Gray Peacock-Pheasant Polyplectron bicalcaratum

  A pheasant whose male has rows of eye-like spots on its tail and wings. It lives in evergreen forests of South and Southeast Asia.

• Hog-nosed Shrew Rat Hyorhinomys stuempkei

  This rodent was recorded on a mountain in northern Sulawesi. Its nose ends in a flat pink pad with nostrils that face forward. In the 2015 description, all five known specimens were captured on the forest floor at night; stomachs of three contained earthworm remains and other prey.

• Orange-bellied Parakeet Neophema chrysogaster

  The Orange-bellied Parakeet has a green back, wings, and flanks, a yellow chest, blue wing and brow markings, and a vivid orange belly patch. It breeds in southwestern Tasmania in summer and moves to mainland coasts for the rest of the year.

• African Yellow Bat Scotophilus dinganii

  The African Yellow Bat has a yellowish underside and eats insects. It roosts in hollow trees and buildings, alone or in small groups.

• Stresemann's Bush Crow Zavattariornis stresemanni

  Stresemann's Bush Crow is a crow found in a restricted area of southern Ethiopia. It has a gray body with black wings and tail, and searches the ground for insects.

• Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica

  A large squirrel endemic to India that lives in forest canopies.

• Black-faced Brush Finch Atlapetes melanolaemus

  This brush-finch lives in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The account describes dark sides of the head, back, and tail, a rufous crown and nape, a dark throat, and dull yellow underparts. It forages in low shrubs at forest edges.

• Steenbok Raphicerus campestris

  The steenbok is a small antelope. In SANParks’ Marakele National Park account, it feeds on grasses, browse and fruits.

• Socorro Mockingbird Mimus graysoni

  A mockingbird of Socorro Island, Mexico, that searches for fruit and small animals in the island highlands.

• Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga commissarisi

  This bat ranges from southern Mexico to Panama. It uses flower nectar as a major food source and also eats soft fruit and insects.

• Japanese pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki

  A small woodpecker with black-and-white markings, seen throughout the year in Japan from lowlands to low mountains.

• Arunachal macaque Macaca munzala

  This macaque is recorded in the mountains of northeastern India. A yellow forehead patch and fur that lightens over the upper body and forelimbs help identify it.

• Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis

  This sandgrouse feeds on seeds in dry, open country. The black belly belongs to the male; females have fine barred and speckled plumage.

• West Siberian Brown Lemming Lemmus sibiricus

  The West Siberian brown lemming is a compact rodent with a short tail. It feeds on tundra plants and makes burrows in the ground or snow.

• African sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus

  A mainly white bird with a black head and neck and a long down-curved bill. The head and neck are bare in adults.

• Cape Spiny Mouse Acomys (Subacomys) subspinosus

  The Cape spiny mouse is a small spiny mouse of rocky areas and fynbos in southwestern South Africa. Seeds make up most of its recorded diet.

• Blue-billed Curassow Crax alberti

  The Blue-billed Curassow is a large forest bird of Colombia. It feeds mainly on the ground, and its remaining wild habitat is limited to a few small forest remnants.

• Gray Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) grisescens

  The gray bat inhabits limestone regions of the Midwestern and southeastern United States. It uses caves as seasonal roosts and catches insects over water.

• Dusky Eagle-Owl Ketupa coromanda

  The Dusky Eagle-Owl has grayish plumage, rounded ear tufts, and a pale facial disc. It is nocturnal and uses open woodland near water, where it nests in trees.

• Variegated Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) variegatoides

  The variegated squirrel is a long-tailed tree squirrel whose coat color and pattern vary greatly among subspecies. It lives in forests and open woodland in Central America.

• Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus

  This shrike has a grey back and white underparts and searches for prey in dry grassland.

• Mountain goat Oreamnos americanus

  A white-coated ungulate that lives on steep North American mountains.