Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded Mountain Toucan Andigena cucullata

  

  The Hooded Mountain Toucan is a large toucan about half a metre long. It eats fruit in humid Andean forest.

• Sand Gazelle Gazella marica

  This gazelle lives in deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. It uses sand dunes and coastal flats and avoids steep, rocky ground. Its coat is pale fawn, and the facial markings are faint.

• Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus percussus

  The Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. Males have conspicuous red patches on the head and breast, and the species feeds mainly on fruit.

• Brandt's Hamster Mesocricetus brandti

  Brandt's hamster lives in dry steppe from Turkey through the Caucasus to northwestern Iran. It stores plant foods in underground burrows before hibernating.

• Red-kneed Dotterel Erythrogonys cinctus

  The Red-kneed Dotterel is a small plover with a black head and breast band and reddish legs. After heavy rain it may move inland to breed, returning toward the coast as wetlands dry.

• Neotropical Pygmy Squirrel Sciurillus pusillus

  The Neotropical pygmy squirrel is a very small tree squirrel. It uses the upper canopy of lowland rainforest, with a patchy range.

• Lineated Barbet Psilopogon lineatus

  The Lineated Barbet eats fruit and excavates nesting holes in dead trees. In Singapore, an introduced population occurs in parks and along woodland edges.

• Sooty Mangabey Cercocebus atys

  The sooty mangabey is a monkey of West African forests. It has dark fur and uses both the ground and trees in groups.

• Guianan Puffbird Notharchus macrorhynchos

  The Guianan Puffbird is a forest bird with a white forehead and throat and a broad black breast band. It ranges through the Guianas, eastern Venezuela, and northeastern Brazil.

• Striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius

  A small mouse marked by a dark stripe down its back. It lives in places ranging from grassy fields and farms to woodland.

• Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris

  This sunbird lives in the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania. The entry follows current Cinnyris mediocris after the related Forest Sunbird and Usambara Double-collared Sunbird were separated.

• Daubenton's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) daubentonii

  Myotis daubentonii is described as widespread in British mammal accounts. It has brown upper fur, a whitish-grey underside, and large feet used while catching insects close to the water surface.

• Western Subalpine Warbler Curruca iberiae

  The Western Subalpine Warbler breeds on the Iberian Peninsula and winters in the Sahel south of the Sahara. A 2023 study examined both sexes at a Moroccan oasis used by the Iberian population as a spring stopover.

• Fraternal Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) fraterculus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs in western Ecuador and north-central and western Peru. It is especially abundant in dry forests and arid areas, and it also helps disperse seeds.

• African Houbara Chlamydotis undulata

  A bustard of dry North African landscapes. It uses sandy or stony semi-desert with scattered plants and shrubs.

• Common Tsessebe Damaliscus lunatus

  An antelope described in a Marakele National Park account from South Africa, living in open savanna woodland and nearby grassland.

• Blue-grey Robin Peneothello cyanus

  A blue-grey robin of New Guinea's mountains, it searches for insects low in forest and secondary growth.

• Michoacán Deer Mouse Osgoodomys banderanus

  The Michoacán deer mouse occurs in lowlands and mountains along Mexico's Pacific side. It has been recorded mainly in forest, as well as in scrub, grassland, and riparian sites.

• Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea

  The Blue Grosbeak is a bunting with a large, silvery bill. The breeding male is vivid blue, and the species uses scrubby habitats and old fields in the southern United States.

• Black Giant Squirrel Ratufa bicolor

  The black giant squirrel is a large, tree-dwelling squirrel of forests in South and Southeast Asia. Its dark coat, pale chest marking and long tail are distinctive.

• Mountain Masked Apalis Apalis personata

  This small apalis lives in Central African mountain forests and nearby openings. It has a dark head, a white spot on the side of the neck, a short tail, and a mostly insect diet.

• Proboscis monkey Nasalis larvatus

  A monkey of riverine and coastal forests on Borneo. Males have conspicuously large noses.

• Brünnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia

  An Arctic seabird. In Svalbard, it breeds on narrow cliff ledges; chicks head to sea with a parent before they can fly.

• Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat Rhabdomys pumilio

  The Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat has stripes along its back. In South Africa's Succulent Karoo, it was studied foraging alone while living in groups that share a nest.