Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus swimming in a foggy river.

Darwin’s Fox or Zorro Chilote (Lycalopex fulvipes), family Canidae, endemic to Chile

ENDANGERED.

fewer than 1,000 individuals thought to remain in the wild.

The First Animals. Written by B. Goodreid. Illustrated by L. Field Marchant. 1970.

Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), family Tapiridae, order Perissodactyla

ENDANGERED.

Smallest species of tapir.

The only species of tapir found outside of tropical rainforest.

Found in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Also called the Woolly Tapir or the Andean Tapir.

Rock Docile Scorpion (Opisthacanthus validus)

Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), black morph, family Dasyuridae, ACT, Australia

ENDANGERED.

The population of Eastern Quolls in the ACT was reintroduced.

Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii), male, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, New Guinea

These tiny parrots are only 8 cm (3 in) in length. (This measurement does not include the tail feathers).