Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum

  

  A North American bird with a black facial mask and yellow tail tip that gathers in flocks at fruiting trees.

• Australian Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus nudicaudatus

  

  This cuscus occurs in Cape York, Australia. It spends time in the canopy and has been seen wrapping palm fronds around its body to hide its fur.

• Sickle-winged Nightjar Eleothreptus anomalus

  

  The Sickle-winged Nightjar is a small nightjar found from central and southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to northern Argentina. A Cotinga paper records regional differences in movement and reports that a male observed in southeastern Argentina could not be identified by wing shape in flight.

• Collared Tuco-tuco Ctenomys torquatus

  

  The Collared Tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of lowlands from central Uruguay to southern Brazil. Coat colors vary by locality, including brown, gray, white-marked, and melanistic forms.

• Mayotte Sunbird Cinnyris coquerellii

  

  This sunbird is endemic to Mayotte. It feeds on flower nectar and small insects, and the sexes differ markedly in color.

• Hector's dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori

  

  A small coastal dolphin found around New Zealand, with a rounded dorsal fin.

• Grey-necked Picathartes Picathartes oreas

  Its blue forehead, red nape, and grey neck stand out. It occurs in separated patches of forest in Central Africa.

• Common Opossum Didelphis marsupialis

  This marsupial lives across much of Central and South America and has a long tail and claws for climbing.

• Matsudaira's Storm Petrel Hydrobates matsudairae

  A large storm petrel with white feather shafts on the wings and a long forked tail; it feeds on small fish and crustaceans at the sea surface.

• Asian Long-tailed Porcupine Trichys fasciculata

  The Asian long-tailed porcupine is a small porcupine with short spines on its back. It is active at night in the moist forests of Southeast Asia, walking on the ground and climbing trees.

• Appert's Greenbul Xanthomixis apperti

  This small bird is restricted to forests in southwestern Madagascar. Species accounts describe it searching for arthropods on the ground and low branches, sometimes in small family groups.

• Tonkean Macaque Macaca tonkeana

  The Tonkean macaque is native to central Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands in Indonesia. It uses several kinds of tropical forest.

• Velvet Asity Philepitta castanea

  The Velvet Asity lives in Madagascar's forests, and breeding males look very different from females. Males raise the structures above their eyes during courtship.

• Common Dwarf Brocket Mazama chunyi

  This small deer has records in Bolivia’s mountain region. A study reported it from high grasslands and Polylepis elfin forest down to lower sub-Andean forest.

• Green-rumped Parrotlet Forpus passerinus

  This small parrot occurs widely across northern South America. Wing colors differ by sex and subspecies, and birds feed in flocks outside the breeding season.

• Boyacá Spiny-rat Proechimys chrysaeolus

  Field records for this spiny rat are scarce. One reported juvenile from Colombia was found as prey at an elevation of 810 m.

• Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot Loriculus aurantiifrons

  A small green parrot with red on the lower throat and rump. It lives in wooded lowlands and foothills on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Common Shaggy Bat Centronycteris maximiliani

  This bat is recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guianas. In Pará, Brazil, a female was captured at a tree cavity used as a day roost.

• Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa

  The Blue Ground Dove is a small pigeon whose male's blue-gray plumage contrasts with the female's reddish brown. By day it searches the ground for seeds and small insects, using forest edges and grasslands.

• Brown Hyena Parahyaena brunnea

  A hyena of southern Africa's dry regions that is mostly active at night.

• Spotted Jewel-babbler Ptilorrhoa leucosticta

  The Spotted Jewel-babbler lives in montane forest on New Guinea. It walks on the forest floor in search of insects and other small animals.

• Kiang Equus kiang

  A wild ass that lives on the Tibetan Plateau.

• South Island Saddleback Philesturnus carunculatus

  Adult South Island Saddlebacks are black, with a chestnut saddle and orange-red wattles. Their original range is South Island and Stewart Island, while conservation translocations have established populations on other islands.

• Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk Conepatus humboldtii

  Conepatus humboldtii is a Patagonian skunk from Argentina and Chile. It has a broad projecting face and one or two side stripes, and searches mainly for insects in grassland at night.