Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei

  

  This social barbet feeds on fruit in groups; adult males have a grey throat and brown plumage.

• White-faced Spiny Tree-rat Echimys chrysurus

  This tree rat lives in lowland forests of the Guianas and eastern Amazonia and spends much of its time in trees.

• Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta

  The Shy Albatross is a large seabird that glides over the ocean on long wings and breeds on islands off Tasmania.

• Guianan Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus guianensis

  Dasypus guianensis is an armadillo described after populations on the Guiana Shield were separated from a close relative. The original paper combined genetic data and museum-specimen morphology and places the range from northern Brazil through the Guianas to eastern Venezuela.

• Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata

  A small bird that searches for insects in the understory of eastern South American forest. A 2015 study used the older treatment that grouped three traditionally recognized subspecies within one species.

• Indian Crested Porcupine Hystrix (Hystrix) indica

  A porcupine from the Middle East to South and Central Asia, protected by long quills.

• Von Schrenck's Bittern Botaurus eurhythmus

  Von Schrenck’s Bittern is a small heron of reed beds, broad marshes, and rice fields. Males and females have different plumage.

• Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus

  An Iberian lynx with a short black-tipped tail, tufted ears, and facial ruffs.

• Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae

  The Montezuma Quail lives in grasslands and oak woodland in the Mexican highlands and the southwestern United States. It digs in the ground for underground foods and nuts.

• São Tomé Shrew Crocidura thomensis

  The São Tomé shrew is known only from São Tomé Island. It has a long snout and large ears, and field observers have seen it feeding in wet places.

• 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.

• Bicolored Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros bicolor

  This leaf-nosed bat was recorded in Thai forests, farmland, and a cave. It has large ears and a broad noseleaf.

• Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator

  A large hornbill of forests from Kenya and Angola to eastern southern Africa. It feeds mainly on fruit and nests in tree cavities, which the female seals during breeding.

• Wagner's Common Mustached Bat Pteronotus (Phyllodia) rubiginosus

  A bat of the Amazon region that roosts in caves. The INPA species account reports coat colors ranging from black to reddish brown.

• Fire-tailed Myzornis Myzornis pyrrhoura

  The Fire-tailed Myzornis has green-and-gold plumage, a dark face mask, and a red tail. It searches flowering shrubs for food in the Himalayas.

• Northern Bettong Bettongia tropica

  The northern bettong is a nocturnal marsupial of northeastern Queensland forests. It feeds heavily on underground fungi in the wet season and also uses grass tubers in drier periods.

• Paradise Jacamar Galbula dea

  The Paradise Jacamar has dark upperparts and underparts and elongated central tail feathers. In Bolivia's Amazonian forest, pairs perch high in the canopy and may associate with mixed-species flocks.

• Bennett’s tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus bennettianus

  A tree-dwelling kangaroo of northeastern Australia’s rainforests.

• New Caledonian Storm Petrel Fregetta lineata

  The New Caledonian Storm Petrel has blackish-brown upperparts, a white rump and a white belly streaked with black. Breeding has been confirmed in New Caledonia.

• Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuscus

  The Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat has narrow, elongated wings. An Okinawa Prefecture account describes it roosting on the islands and feeding on insects at night.

• Little Pied Flycatcher Ficedula westermanni

  Males have bold black-and-white plumage, while females are subdued gray-brown. The flycatcher sallies from forest perches to catch insects; some Himalayan populations descend to lower foothills in winter.

• Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys irroratus

  The Mexican spiny pocket mouse is currently placed in Heteromys. It has coarse grey-brown fur and cheek pouches, and searches for seeds at night, carrying them to burrows.

• Nilgiri Pipit Anthus nilghiriensis

  The Nilgiri Pipit is a grassland bird restricted to the southern Western Ghats of India. It has warm buff-brown plumage, a white eyebrow, and dense dark streaks on the back.

• Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

  An ape of northern Sumatra that moves through trees using its long arms.