Meet the world’s animals.

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• Highland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes nigriceps

  

  The highland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with black-and-yellow spines along its back. It searches leaf litter for earthworms at night.

• Western Nicator Nicator chloris

  The Western Nicator has golden spots on its wings and moves through dense forest cover. This account focuses on records from Upper Guinea rather than presenting a complete range for the species.

• Southern Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes matacus

  The southern three-banded armadillo is an armadillo that tucks its head and legs beneath its hard shell and curls up for defense.

• Junin Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii

  The Junin Grebe is a flightless grebe found only at Lake Junín in central Peru. It changes the parts of the lake it uses between the breeding season and the rest of the year.

• Shipton's Mountain Cavy Microcavia shiptoni

  Shipton's mountain cavy is a small rodent of the highlands of northwestern Argentina. It lives among grassland, scrub, and rocky slopes, using both the surface and shallow burrows.

• Elfin Woods Warbler Setophaga angelae

  This warbler is restricted to Puerto Rico's mountain forests. Adults are black and white above and white with black streaks below, and they glean insects from leaves and branches.

• 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.

• Western Shriketit Falcunculus leucogaster

  This bird occurs in Western Australia. It runs along trunks and branches, tearing at bark to search for insects.

• Gray-bellied Dunnart Sminthopsis griseoventer

  This small marsupial occurs on the coastal plain and nearby lateritic ranges of south-western Western Australia. Its back is light gray-olive, and its feet are white. Records include open eucalypt and jarrah woodland and seasonal swamps.

• Gila Woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis

  The Gila Woodpecker lives in arid parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has a barred back and excavates nest cavities in saguaro cacti, which other birds may later use.

• Masai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi

  The Masai giraffe occurs in Kenya, Tanzania and part of Zambia.

• Marshall's Iora Aegithina nigrolutea

  Marshall's Iora shows conspicuous white edges on its tail and wings. It searches for insects in dry acacia scrub and may join mixed-species flocks after breeding.

• Humboldt's Night Monkey Aotus trivirgatus

  Humboldt's night monkey occurs in Venezuela and northern Brazil. It uses humid forests, including seasonally flooded forest, and eats fruits, nectar, and other foods.

• Bar-winged Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucoptera

  The Bar-winged Wood-Wren is a small bird with rufous upperparts and two white wing bars. It forages alone or in pairs in scrub on mountain ridges and is often heard before it is seen.

• Southern Birch Mouse Sicista subtilis

  The Southern Birch Mouse is a small rodent recorded in dry steppe and small river valleys during a study in the South Urals.

• Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles affinis

  It lives in lower montane forest on the Bird’s Head Peninsula of western New Guinea, with brownish plumage and a pale collar.

• Selayar Tarsier Tarsius tarsier

  The Selayar tarsier is marked by a black spot over the nose and a short, sparse tail tuft. It is active at night and lives in trees on Selayar Island.

• Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus

  The Pilotbird forages among leaf litter in wet forests of southeastern Australia. It is reddish brown overall, with scaled-looking breast and belly feathers and a red eye. The source describes two subspecies whose back color and belly scalloping differ in brightness.

• Banded Langur Presbytis femoralis

  The banded langur is a monkey that lives in trees. In Singapore's population, the black coat contrasts with a white chest-and-belly band and pale fur around the eyes and inside the limbs.

• Mindanao Pygmy Babbler Dasycrotapha plateni

  A small bird distributed on Mindanao in the Philippines. It has fine white streaks on a brown body and is described moving through forest in mixed flocks.

• Long-footed Tree Shrew Tupaia longipes

  The long-footed tree shrew is a small mammal of Borneo's forests. It moves quickly over leaf litter while searching for small prey.

• Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis

  The Black-winged Oriole lives in forests of western and central Africa. Adults are conspicuous in black, yellow, and olive tones, with differences in color and size among the western subspecies.

• Kiang Equus kiang

  A wild ass that lives on the Tibetan Plateau.

• 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.