Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus

  

  With a black head and broad white cheek patch, this bird searches near the ground for insects in wet habitats of eastern Australia.

• African crested porcupine Hystrix (Hystrix) cristata

  

  A rodent with defensive quills and a crest over the head and neck.

• Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi

  

  The Subdesert Mesite is restricted to the dry spiny forests of southwestern Madagascar. It walks on the ground by day and searches beneath leaf litter for food.

• Hooded Leaf Monkey Semnopithecus johnii

  

  The Nilgiri langur lives in the Western Ghats of southern India and mainly eats leaves. Its coat is usually glossy black, with a yellowish-brown head.

• Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata

  

  The Magpie Goose is a large waterbird with a black head and neck, a white belly, and a diet of aquatic plants in northern Australian wetlands.

• Eastern Roe Deer Capreolus pygargus

  

  The eastern roe deer lives across northern Asia and parts of central Asia. It was once treated as a subspecies of the western roe deer, but the account treats it as a distinct species.

• Chestnut-belted Gnateater Conopophaga aurita

  The Chestnut-belted Gnateater searches for food near the ground in tropical forest. Males have a black face and chestnut breast, while females are more subdued.

• Atlantic Bamboo Rat Kannabateomys amblyonyx

  The Atlantic bamboo rat is an arboreal rodent of bamboo patches in the Atlantic Forest. It grips bamboo with broad digits and feeds on bamboo leaves and stems.

• Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

  A very small duck that uses plant-rich freshwater areas in eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Troughton's Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) troughtoni

  This bat is recorded in open woodland and spinifex hills in northern Australia. Its fur is olive-brown with pale gray guard hairs.

• Javan Frogmouth Batrachostomus javensis

  The Javan Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird endemic to Java, Indonesia. It has brown mottled plumage and rests on branches by day.

• Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena

  A hyena with a mane-like ridge along its back and dark stripes across its coat.

• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

  The Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large gull with a dark gray back and white body. It breeds from northern Europe to western Siberia and moves south for winter.

• Przewalski’s horse Equus przewalskii

  Historically recorded in the Gobi of southwestern Mongolia and northwestern China, this horse has a stocky body, a large head and an erect mane. Tail-hair analysis of reintroduced horses in Great Gobi B indicated a mainly grass-based diet throughout the year.

• White-whiskered Spinetail Synallaxis candei

  The White-whiskered Spinetail has a black face marked by a white moustache stripe. A Colombia field page documents the nominate form in dry scrub at Los Flamencos, La Guajira, and notes that nearby forms differ in face and throat color.

• Striped skunk Mephitis mephitis

  A North American skunk with a black coat, white markings and a bushy tail.

• Black-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus nigripectus

  The Black-breasted Boatbill is a small bird of New Guinea's mountains. It is active by day along forest edges and within forest, and is about 13–15 cm long.

• Common Red-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta leporina

  A rodent native to northern South America that sometimes buries seeds for later.

• South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki

  The South Polar Skua is a large seabird that breeds in Antarctica and makes a shallow nest on the ground among rocks or moss.

• Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum

  This small fruit-eating bat occurs in South America. It has no tail, brown tricolored fur, a short nose, and white patches on its shoulders. Local migration records are kept to the populations where they were documented.

• Yellow-legged Thrush Turdus flavipes

  This thrush occurs widely in South America. An island study by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro reports it in lowlands during the coldest months and conspicuous near mountaintops in spring and summer on Bom Jesus Island.

• Linné’s two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus

  A sloth that hangs from high branches in tropical forests, feeding and resting in the trees.

• New Zealand Rockwren Xenicus gilviventris

  The New Zealand Rockwren is a small ground-feeding bird of the South Island mountains, living above the bush line throughout its life.

• Sulawesi babirusa Babyrousa celebensis

  A pig from Sulawesi and nearby islands whose males have upper tusks that grow through the snout.