Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei

  

  The amount of white on its head varies, and its red bill and feet stand out. By day it searches tree trunks and branches for invertebrates.

• Broad-toed Feather-tailed Glider Acrobates frontalis

  This small marsupial occurs in eastern Australia. A 2023 paper describes long hairs projecting from both sides of the tail in living Acrobates, including A. frontalis, giving it a feather-like edge.

• Wattled crane Grus carunculata

  An African crane with feathered wattles hanging beneath its chin.

• Steppe Polecat Mustela eversmanii

  The Steppe Polecat is a mustelid of dry open habitats across parts of Europe and Central Asia. Its pale coat contrasts with a dark facial mask, legs, and part of the tail.

• White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus

  A seabird of tropical and subtropical oceans that nests in rocky crevices on remote islands.

• South African springhare Pedetes capensis

  A nocturnal animal of southern Africa that makes long leaps and hides in burrows it digs itself.

• Sapayoa Sapayoa aenigma

  A greenish bird of lowland forest from Panama to northwestern Ecuador. It has a broad, subtly hooked bill and lives in the forest understory.

• North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena japonica

  The North Pacific right whale is a baleen whale of the North Pacific, with most contemporary sightings in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.

• Livingstone's Flycatcher Erythrocercus livingstonei

  This small flycatcher occurs in south-eastern Africa. It moves through the middle and upper canopy for insects, usually in pairs or small family groups.

• Southern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat Tonatia maresi

  Tonatia maresi is a bat distributed in South America. The adult female used as the holotype reference in the paper had dark gray-brown fur above and a grayer, paler underside. The species roosts in hollow trees.

• Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea

  The Violet-backed Hyliota searches leaf undersides for small prey. A Rwanda survey recorded it in canopy foliage below 2,000 m.

• Black Tamarin Saguinus niger

  The black tamarin is a small monkey with golden-brown streaks in its black coat. It moves through the canopy by day, feeding mainly on fruit in family groups.

• Javan Myna Acridotheres javanicus

  The Javan Myna is native to Java and Bali. In Singapore, an introduced urban population is established.

• Ground Cuscus Phalanger gymnotis

  This cuscus has a dark stripe down its back and a tail suited for gripping branches. It searches for fruit at night and can climb.

• White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra

  Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.

• Salt's Dik-dik Madoqua saltiana

  This small antelope occurs in dry areas of Ethiopia, Somalia, and northeastern Sudan. Coat color varies among subspecies, and it browses mainly on acacia.

• Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus

  The Hooded Vulture is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It feeds mainly on animal carcasses and also occurs near human settlements.

• Wolffsohn's Mountain Viscacha Lagidium wolffsohni

  Wolffsohn's mountain viscacha lives among rocky slopes in southwestern Argentina. It shelters in crevices and feeds on plants during the day.

• Uganda Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus budongoensis

  The Uganda Woodland Warbler is recorded in Uganda's Budongo Forest and Kenya's Kakamega Forest. It is olive green above and pale below and searches dense undergrowth for invertebrates.

• Degu Octodon degus

  A rodent of dry shrublands in central Chile. Groups dig shared burrow systems and are mainly active during daylight.

• Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris

  A black-and-white bird of Australia’s coast, the Pied Oystercatcher has a long red bill and legs and feeds on shellfish on beaches and mudflats.

• Reticulated giraffe Giraffa reticulata

  The reticulated giraffe has a network of white lines and occurs mainly in northern and northeastern Kenya.

• Rufous Potoo Phyllaemulor bracteatus

  The Rufous Potoo is a nocturnal bird with deep rufous plumage and conspicuous white spots. By day it can look like a dead leaf while perched on a branch.

• Sloth bear Melursus ursinus

  A South Asian bear with a shaggy coat, a sparsely furred muzzle and a pale chest marking.