Meet the world’s animals.

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• Goodman’s mouse lemur Microcebus lehilahytsara

  

  Goodman’s mouse lemur is a small lemur that looks very similar to another mouse lemur species.

• Atlantic Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus swainsoni

  The Atlantic Royal Flycatcher occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It usually keeps its crest flat, but the crest has different colors in males and females when raised.

• Pygmy Tree Shrew Tupaia minor

  The pygmy tree shrew is a small, squirrel-like animal with a long, pointed snout. It is active by day and spends much of its time in the forest canopy.

• Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus

  Breeding males show a black face and chestnut nape. In winter, the birds may gather in flocks in North American fields.

• Bush Hyrax Heterohyrax brucei

  A hyrax found in sub-Saharan Africa. It lives in rocky savannas and bush steppe and is active by day.

• Scaly Ground Roller Geobiastes squamiger

  The Scaly Ground Roller is a terrestrial bird of Madagascar’s moist lowland forests.

• Black Squirrel Monkey Saimiri vanzolinii

  The black squirrel monkey has a dark crown and colorful limbs. In flooded forests of northern Brazil, it moves through trees by day to find fruit and insects.

• Bianchi's Warbler Seicercus valentini

  Bianchi’s Warbler appears as Seicercus valentini or Phylloscopus valentini in different sources. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society describes a small leaf warbler that searches for insects in the understory and notes that its full range is still poorly understood.

• Rice's whale Balaenoptera ricei

  Rice's whale is a baleen whale that lives year-round in the Gulf of America. It is dark gray above and pale below; it is thought to dive deep by day to feed on fish.

• Andean condor Vultur gryphus

  A large soaring bird that searches for carrion in the Andes and nearby open country.

• Osvaldo Reig's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys osvaldoreigi

  A burrowing rodent of the Argentine central highlands. Its back is ochre-brown, and the tail is darker above and paler below.

• Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola

  The Yellow-breasted Bunting is a bunting whose plumage changes with the season. A breeding-plumaged male has a striking black head and yellow breast; the species is recorded in Hong Kong during migration and winter.

• Northern Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus

  The northern maned three-toed sloth occurs in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe. A field study confirmed that it eats leaves, especially young leaves.

• Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus

  The Long-tailed Mockingbird is notable for its long tail and the way it raises it while walking. It occurs in open dry country and also in town parks.

• Argentine Plains Viscacha Lagostomus maximus

  This large rodent is marked by a striking black-and-white face. It builds extensive communal burrow systems in grasslands and dry scrub.

• Black-and-red Broadbill Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos

  With striking red-and-black plumage and a large colorful bill, it lives in waterside forests of Southeast Asia.

• Southern Tigrina Leopardus guttulus

  The Southern Tigrina is a small cat with thick-edged markings on yellow-brown fur. It ranges from Brazil to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, and hunts small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

• Sichuan Treecreeper Certhia tianquanensis

  The Sichuan Treecreeper is associated with old fir forest in the mountains of Sichuan. It has a long tail and very short bill, and forages on fir trunks.

• Southern Aardwolf Proteles cristata

  It can raise the long hairs along its back and feeds mainly on termites. It occurs in southern Africa, where records include karroid country, grassland and scrub, open savanna woodland, and inland gravel plains.

• Chestnut-headed Tesia Cettia castaneocoronata

  The Chestnut-headed Tesia is a round, nearly tailless bird with a white eye-ring, chestnut head, and yellow throat. It searches for insects close to the ground.

• Indochinese Flying Squirrel Hylopetes phayrei

  The Indochinese flying squirrel is an arboreal squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. It glides between trees using a membrane stretched between its fore and hind limbs.

• Feline Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles insignis

  The Feline Owlet-nightjar lives in New Guinea’s montane evergreen rainforests and eats beetles and other insects. Its fluffy rufous-to-brown plumage has two white head stripes and white bars on the tail.

• Seminole Bat Lasiurus seminolus

  This bat has rich chestnut-brown fur with pale tips. It catches insects in flight at dusk and occurs mainly in the southeastern United States.

• 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.