Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pichi Zaedyus pichiy

  

  A small armadillo of dry southern South America that digs burrows and feeds mainly on insects.

• Starry Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles tatei

  

  This owlet-nightjar inhabits New Guinea’s lowland rainforest, with records in southern Papua New Guinea and along the Muyu River on the Indonesian side.

• Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox

  

  A tree-climbing carnivorous mammal of Madagascar forests.

• Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis

  

  This fiscal has gray and black plumage edged with white. It searches for invertebrates by day in dry scrub in eastern Africa.

• 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.

• Brown-flanked Tanager Thlypopsis pectoralis

  

  This tanager is locally distributed in central Peru. It forages in Andean scrub and humid shrubbery.

• Hispaniolan Greater Funnel-eared Bat Natalus major

  This bat has yellowish or grayish fur and pointed-looking ear tips. It roosts in humid caves on Hispaniola and catches insects at night.

• Storm's Stork Ciconia stormi

  A large stork of lowland freshwater swamp forest. Adults are black and white with a red bill; immature birds have brown where adults are black.

• Black Spider Monkey Ateles paniscus

  The black spider monkey moves through the canopy with its long arms and tail. Fruit is its main food, with other plant foods added when fruit is scarce.

• American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

  A swallow that builds gourd-shaped mud nests in colonies on cliffs and beneath bridges.

• Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena

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

• Bornean Frogmouth Batrachostomus mixtus

  The Bornean Frogmouth is a Borneo endemic usually associated with lower montane and montane forest. Lowland records have also been reported at Kubah National Park; one observed male had yellow eyes and long facial bristles.

• Lord Derby's Anomalure Anomalurus derbianus

  This squirrel-shaped rodent glides from tree to tree. It is active around dusk and at night in forests of western and central Africa.

• Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus

  The Australian Pelican has a long bill with a large pouch beneath it. Fish are its main food, and groups sometimes herd fish into shallow water.

• Feather-tailed Possum Distoechurus pennatus

  The feathertail possum lives in New Guinea's forests. It has a feather-like fringe on its tail but no membrane for gliding.

• Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae

  This small bird lives in moist lowland forest in West and Central Africa. It is also recorded at forest edges and clearings, in gardens, and on plantations.

• Brown Agouti Dasyprocta variegata

  This agouti is listed from Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. An Argentine biodiversity profile describes reddish-brown fur flecked with black and records in forest, savanna and cultivated areas near water.

• Ochre-breasted Pipit Anthus nattereri

  This small bird is recorded in scattered grasslands of southeastern South America. Its ochre chest is streaked, and it searches for insects on the ground.

• White-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis leucopus

  The white-footed dunnart lives in southeastern Australia and Tasmania. It nests beneath leaf litter or fallen logs and mainly eats invertebrates.

• White-necked Picathartes Picathartes gymnocephalus

  The White-necked Picathartes is a forest bird known for nesting at rocky sites. A Cornell Living Bird field account describes nest sites and ground foraging around Bonkro, Ghana.

• Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis

  The tucuxi is a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon basin, separate from the marine Guiana dolphin.

• Island Whistler Pachycephala phaionota

  This bird ranges from the Moluccas to western New Guinea. Its white throat and grey-brown back are useful field marks, and it eats insects in coastal scrub and similar habitats.

• Flamarion's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys flamarioni

  Flamarion's Tuco-tuco is a rodent with sandy fur and long, stiff hairs on its digging fingers. It lives alone in burrows in coastal dunes of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.

• Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

  The Australasian Grebe is a small waterbird whose breeding plumage has a glossy black head and chestnut facial stripe. It dives for small fish and aquatic insects.