Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Green Oriole Oriolus flavocinctus

  

  The Green Oriole has yellow-green plumage and reddish-brown eyes. It occurs across northern Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, and builds a cup-shaped nest high in the canopy.

• Nubra Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) nubrica

  

  The Nubra pika lives at high elevations in the Himalayas. It has a gray back, a pale underside, and uses rocky alpine scrub.

• African Desert Warbler Curruca deserti

  

  The African Desert Warbler is a small warbler of North African deserts. It is treated as distinct from the Asian Desert Warbler.

• Cape Long-eared Bat Nycteris thebaica

  

  This bat ranges across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Its large ears, divided noseleaf and T-shaped tail are distinctive, and it hunts insects and other small invertebrates.

• Puerto Rican Lizard Cuckoo Coccyzus vieilloti

  

  The Puerto Rican Lizard Cuckoo is endemic to Puerto Rico. It has a long tail and red eye-ring, and searches forests for lizards and insects.

• Malenge Babirusa Babyrousa togeanensis

  The Malenge babirusa is a pig relative from Indonesia’s Togian Islands. It has sparse, short body hair, a tufted tail, and forward-pointing upper tusks in males.

• Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

  The Mediterranean Gull is also recorded around the UK’s coasts and waters. Adults in breeding plumage stand out by their black heads and red bills.

• Black Bearded Saki Chiropotes satanas

  The black bearded saki lives in forests of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Its dark coat and beard are distinctive, and it often eats fruit and seeds.

• Black-faced Quail-Finch Ortygospiza atricollis

  This small bird searches grasslands for seeds, and males have a noticeable black facial mask

• Natal Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus natalensis

  An insect-eating bat that roosts in caves. Seasonal movements between caves have been studied in populations in northeastern South Africa.

• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica

  A brightly colored wetland bird with long legs and toes, it walks on floating plants while feeding in freshwater marshes from the southeastern United States southward.

• Pel's Anomalure Anomalurus pelii

  Pel's anomalure is a gliding squirrel with scaly structures on its tail. It occurs in high forest in West Africa.

• 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.

• Greater Mouse-deer Tragulus napu

  A small forest-dwelling animal with slender legs and reddish-brown fur, it is active at night and feeds on fallen fruit and young leaves.

• Western Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus tertius

  This long-tailed, ground-feeding bird lives in wet broadleaf forest on Hispaniola. It searches through leaf litter and stays among dense undergrowth, especially near streams.

• Pale-throated three-toed sloth Bradypus tridactylus

  A sloth from northern South America that lives in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Archbold's Bowerbird Archboldia papuensis

  Archbold's Bowerbird lives in highland forests of central New Guinea. Males have a yellow-orange crest and prepare a flower-decorated display site during breeding.

• California sea lion Zalophus californianus

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

• White-cheeked Bushtit Aegithalos leucogenys

  The White-cheeked Tit is a small bird, about 11 cm long. Its white cheek patch and black bib stand out; it lives in dry scrub and open woodland in northeastern Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• Lesser Bamboo Rat Cannomys badius

  The Lesser Bamboo Rat is a rodent of bamboo forests, thickets, and hilly ground. It leaves its burrow in the evening to feed on plants and has short, powerful legs with digging claws.

• Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis

  The Australian Painted-Snipe lives in shallow wetlands and searches for food from dusk into the night. Females are more brightly colored than males.

• Antillean Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops blainvillei

  This nocturnal, insect-eating bat roosts in caves. Its face has conspicuous folds of skin, and the species occurs on Caribbean islands.

• Red-faced Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus laetus

  This small leaf-warbler inhabits montane forests of the Albertine Rift. It is recorded in high forest and bamboo, and is described as sedentary.