Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pavonine Quetzal Pharomachrus pavoninus

  

  The Pavonine Quetzal lives in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest. Adult males have a bill with an orange-red base and yellow tip, while much of the species' ecology remains poorly known.

• Five-toed Dwarf Jerboa Cardiocranius paradoxus

  

  The five-toed dwarf jerboa is a small jerboa with 5 toes on its hind feet. It moves through dry rocky areas at night and eats plant seeds.

• African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus

  

  This parasitic cuckoo occurs in Africa and is characteristically associated with the canopy of evergreen forest.

• Sa Pa White-toothed Shrew Crocidura sapaensis

  

  A shrew from northern Vietnam with dark gray-brown fur and a tail that is paler underneath.

• Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris

  

  A sandpiper that breeds in northeastern Siberia and winters along coasts in Southeast Asia and Australia. Adults in breeding plumage have a breast band and orange-brown shoulder feathers.

• Antarctic Minke Whale Balaenoptera bonaerensis

  

  The Antarctic minke whale is a baleen whale with a circumpolar Southern Hemisphere range. It feeds in Antarctic waters in summer and is described as moving north to warmer waters in winter.

• Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster

  A survey of reserves in the Republic of the Congo recorded the species frequently in wooded grassland, especially at Idzoua Inkou. Males and females differ in upperpart color.

• Kuban Tur Capra caucasica

  The Kuban tur is a wild goat of the western Caucasus. Above the forest belt, it uses alpine meadows and rocky slopes.

• Black-and-yellow Phainoptila Phainoptila melanoxantha

  The Black-and-yellow Phainoptila eats fruit in mountain forests, and males and females differ markedly in plumage.

• Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou vestitus

  A small porcupine recorded in Colombia's Eastern Cordillera. Observations describe it using its tail for support while moving.

• Golden Bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana

  This bowerbird lives in upland tropical rainforest of northeastern Queensland. A Paluma Range study recorded females building nests, incubating eggs, and feeding young.

• Vaquita Phocoena sinus

  The vaquita is a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Its rounded head and dark eye and lip patches help identify it.

• Chilean Tinamou Nothoprocta perdicaria

  Its streaked grey-brown plumage blends into the ground; it feeds on plant material and small animals in grassland and fields.

• Dwarf Little Fruit Bat Rhinophylla pumilio

  A small fruit-eating bat widespread in northern South America. It lacks a tail and uses folded leaves as daytime roost tents.

• Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella

  The Beautiful Firetail has an olive-brown body, a white-barred breast, and a red bill and rump. It searches the ground for seeds and lives in pairs.

• Durga Das's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros durgadasi

  It is a small bat with rounded ears and a simple noseleaf without supplementary leaflets. In Karnataka, it roosts in subterranean caves.

• Green-tailed Warbler Microligea palustris

  The Green-tailed Warbler is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It has a gray head and body, olive-green back and wings, and mainly eats insects.

• Marsh Mongoose Atilax paludinosus

  The marsh mongoose has dark brown fur and favours wetlands beside rivers and lakes.

• Cape Cormorant Phalacrocorax capensis

  The Cape Cormorant catches fish along the coast and offshore in southern Africa. Breeding adults have glossy blue-black plumage and nest in colonies on islands and islets.

• Lowland Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus canescens

  The Lowland Ring-tailed Possum occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Yellow-cheeked Tit Machlolophus spilonotus

  The yellow-cheeked tit is a small tit with yellow cheeks and a black crest. In Hong Kong, a population thought to derive from ex-captive birds has become established in mature woodland.

• Azara’s agouti Dasyprocta azarae

  A daytime forest-floor rodent that eats fruit and seeds.

• Queen Carola's Parotia Parotia carolae

  Queen Carola's Parotia lives in mountain forests of central New Guinea. The male has a dark body with iridescent green-blue tones and white flank plumes; the brown female has a finely patterned underside.

• Brown Greater Galago Otolemur crassicaudatus

  A primate with large eyes and ears and a long tail. It is active at night and eats gum, fruit, seeds, insects, and other foods.