Meet the world’s animals.

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• Salmon-crested cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis

  

  A cockatoo of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with a salmon-coloured crest raised when excited or threatened.

• Humboldt's White-fronted Capuchin Cebus albifrons

  The white-fronted capuchin occurs in northern South America. Its pale facial fur and brown crown stand out, while its species boundary remains debated.

• Eastern Bristlebird Dasyornis brachypterus

  It hides in dense coastal vegetation and sometimes runs across open clearings. Its loud song can reveal where it is.

• Bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus

  A wild pig that forages in groups in forests and wetlands of eastern and southern Africa.

• Yellow-billed Shrike Lanius corvinus

  The Yellow-billed Shrike lives in shrubby habitats across tropical Africa. It has a long tail and yellow bill, and members of a group may help raise the young.

• Brewer's mole Parascalops breweri

  The hairy-tailed mole has eyes hidden by fur and a furry tail. It lives in underground tunnels and searches for worms and insects.

• Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis

  This small batis lives in open savannah woodland in West Africa. Males and females have different head and breast markings.

• Pileated Gibbon Hylobates pileatus

  The pileated gibbon occurs in forests of Thailand, Cambodia and southwestern Laos. Adult males and females have markedly different coat colors.

• Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis

  On lakes and coasts of western North America, it dives for fish; during courtship, pairs run together across the water.

• Malayan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris tragata

  A bat recorded in Southeast Asian forests. It has long ears and facial grooves, and roosts in small groups in caves or hollow trees.

• Bugun Liocichla Liocichla bugunorum

  This liocichla was documented around Eaglenest in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Observations included sites from roadside scrub to primary forest.

• Maghrebian Bent-wing Bat Miniopterus maghrebensis

  The back is chestnut to dark grayish brown, and the underside is pale brown. The species account lists Mediterranean scrub, dry forest, and other habitats. The 2019 HMW account confirms Morocco and Tunisia in its range; Algeria is only a possible occurrence.

• North Island Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli

  This nocturnal kiwi probes leaf litter and rotten wood with its long bill. It lives in forests and scrub on New Zealand’s North Island and eats small invertebrates.

• Peyrieras's Woolly Lemur Avahi peyrierasi

  Peyrieras’s woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of southeastern Madagascar’s forests. Its back is gray-brown, its underside is white, and its tail is reddish brown. It is arboreal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Cape Cormorant Phalacrocorax capensis

  The Cape Cormorant catches fish along the coast and offshore in southern Africa. Breeding adults have glossy blue-black plumage and nest in colonies on islands and islets.

• Marbled Polecat Vormela peregusna

  A mustelid found from southeastern Europe through parts of the Middle East and Asia, including grassland and semidesert.

• Northern Cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus

  The Northern Cassowary is a large flightless bird with a casque and neck wattles that lives in lowland New Guinea.

• Lowland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes semispinosus

  The lowland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with striking yellow-and-black quills and stripes. It lives in eastern Madagascar’s lowland rainforests.

• Snowy Cotinga Carpodectes nitidus

  Males have mostly white plumage and a blue-gray bill, while females are brown-gray. Details of its life in Panama are limited; altitudinal movements known from Costa Rica have not been confirmed there.

• Red-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur rufifrons

  The red-fronted brown lemur is a tree-dwelling lemur from Madagascar that mainly eats fruit and leaves.

• Yellowhead Mohoua ochrocephala

  A small songbird endemic to New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands that now remains mainly in beech forest.

• Kod-kod Leopardus guigna

  The kod-kod is a small wild cat of forests in central and southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. It climbs well and is mostly solitary.

• Southern ground hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri

  A large black hornbill that walks over the ground searching for small animals.

• Vaquita Phocoena sinus

  The vaquita is a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Its rounded head and dark eye and lip patches help identify it.