Meet the world’s animals.

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• California sea lion Zalophus californianus

  

  It has small external ears and broad front flippers and lives along the Pacific coast of North America.

• Sharpbill Oxyruncus cristatus

  

  A sharpbill of mid-elevation rainforest. Males have a bright vermilion crest, sing high in the canopy, and feed on fruit and animal prey.

• Western long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bruijni

  

  The western long-beaked echidna is an egg-laying mammal with a long, downward-curving snout. It occurs on New Guinea.

• Puerto Rican Spindalis Spindalis portoricensis

  

  Endemic to Puerto Rico, this bird occurs from lowlands to higher elevations. It is found in forests and plantations and may visit gardens where fruit grows.

• Highlands Punaré Thrichomys inermis

  

  This spiny rat is recorded from Bahia north to Tocantins in Brazil. In the semiarid Caatinga, it uses rock crevices as shelter and nesting places.

• Gurney's Sugarbird Promerops gurneyi

  

  A sugarbird with a long, curved bill and long tail. It feeds on protea nectar and insects and also pollinates flowers.

• Blue-eyed Black Lemur Eulemur flavifrons

  Blue-eyed black lemurs show a strong difference in coat color between the sexes: males are black and females range from reddish brown to orange. In the dry season, they eat leaves and flowers as fruit becomes scarce.

• Ibisbill Ibidorhyncha struthersii

  The Ibisbill searches for food along stony rivers with its long, down-curved red bill. It may feed alone beside highland rivers and streams.

• White-nosed coati Nasua narica

  A long-tailed coati that searches for insects with its snout close to the ground.

• Bearded Reedling Panurus biarmicus

  A long-tailed brown bird of reedbeds. Males have a black facial marking that looks like a moustache.

• Javan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris javanica

  A 1993 study of Southeast Asian specimens recognized this bat as a distinct Nycteris species. It concluded that the species occurs mainly on Java and nearby islands.

• Great Potoo Nyctibius grandis

  A nocturnal nightbird with large eyes and a very wide gape. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying prey at night.

• Small-toothed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur microdon

  The small-toothed sportive lemur lives in rainforests of southeastern Madagascar. It mainly eats leaves, and also uses flowers and fruit when available.

• Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius

  The Sulphur-rumped Myiobius lives in the lower and middle levels of humid forest. Males have a dark olive back and pale yellow rump; the yellow crown patch is often hidden.

• Otter Civet Cynogale bennettii

  The Otter Civet is a Southeast Asian viverrid that lives near rivers and wetlands. It has long whiskers and webbed feet, and is nocturnal.

• Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus

  A bird of South Africa's mountains, marked by a silver-grey head and reddish rump, that searches rocky Fynbos for insects.

• Brown Tent-making Bat Uroderma magnirostrum

  The brown tent-making bat eats fruit and roosts in tents made from leaves. It ranges from western Mexico to southeastern Brazil.

• Limpkin Aramus guarauna

  A wetland bird with long legs and a curved bill. It searches freshwater marshes for aquatic snails and ranges from southern North America into South America.

• Brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus rufus

  The brown mouse lemur is a small mouse lemur found in rainforest and swamp habitats in southeastern Madagascar.

• Dusky Piha Lipaugus fuscocinereus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid Andean montane forest. A Peru account describes a localized record on the eastern slope, and a paper reports a study site in central Colombia.

• Manchurian Pika Ochotona (Pika) mantchurica

  This pika is found in northeastern China. Recent research models suitable habitat in nearby areas, but predicted areas are not the same as confirmed occupied sites.

• Cordilleran Parakeet Psittacara frontatus

  This medium-sized parakeet ranges through the Andes of southern Ecuador and Peru. Red on the forehead and thighs and bare white eye-rings are conspicuous. It can also be found in fields and orchards as well as forest habitats.

• Sunda Colugo Galeopterus variegatus

  A mammal of Southeast Asian forests that glides between trees using skin stretched between its limbs.

• Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana

  The Buff-crested Bustard lives in dry scrub and open woodland. Males have a reddish buff crest and a black throat stripe.