Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fire-fronted Bishop Euplectes diadematus

  

  The Fire-fronted Bishop moves in response to rainfall in eastern Africa. A breeding male is black and yellow with a red forehead patch, and the species feeds mainly on grass seeds.

• Rufous Dog-faced Bat Molossops neglectus

  This bat has reddish dark-brown fur and feeds on flying insects. Its records are separated between northern and southeastern South America, and southern specimens have tended to be smaller than northern ones.

• Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens

  A small eagle-owl with dark brown eyes, it lives in dry open country and semi-desert with scattered trees and shrubs. It feeds on insects and small animals from dusk into the night.

• Vicuña Vicugna vicugna

  A slender wild camelid of high Andean grasslands. It has very fine, soft fleece.

• Mountain Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles albertisi

  The Mountain Owlet-nightjar lives in New Guinea's mountain forests and is active at night. It has rufous and brown plumage forms and roosts in hollows by day.

• East African Potto Perodicticus ibeanus

  This primate moves slowly through trees at night. It has large round eyes and an arrow-shaped head, and eats fruit, insects, and other foods.

• Eastern Crested Berrypecker Paramythia montium

  The Eastern Crested Berrypecker lives in moist montane forest in the eastern New Guinea highlands. It has a black crest and face, a blue-gray tail, and yellowish areas on the lower belly.

• Chinese pangolin Manis pentadactyla

  A pangolin covered in overlapping scales that digs burrows in the ground.

• Mouse-colored Tapaculo Scytalopus speluncae

  This small tapaculo lives in dense understory of mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Its dark gray plumage is paler below, with a lighter center to the throat and breast.

• Beddome's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus beddomei

  Beddome's woolly horseshoe bat is known from South Asia, and a 2010 paper added a specimen from Thailand. The Thai record is a single animal and may not represent the usual population there.

• American robin Turdus migratorius

  A North American thrush found in parks, lawns and forests. It searches the ground for earthworms and often eats fruit in autumn and winter.

• Red-legged Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus rufobrachium

  The red-legged sun squirrel lives in forests of western and central Africa. Its reddish limbs contrast with a gray to brown body.

• Blue Mountain Vireo Vireo osburni

  This vireo lives in humid montane forests of north-western Jamaica and feeds within dense leaf cover.

• 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.

• Foothill Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla spodionota

  It forages in the upper understory of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, often with mixed-species flocks. Records are from 700–1,500 m.

• Gursky's Spectral Tarsier Tarsius spectrumgurskyae

  This small nocturnal primate occurs on the northern peninsula of Sulawesi. It has a long black tail pencil and lives in forests, mangroves, and forest gardens. It is active at night and feeds on live prey, mainly insects.

• Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura

  A bulbul of western and central African forests. It eats fruit and other plant food and occurs in raffia-palm stands and damp forest near water.

• Sambar Rusa unicolor

  Asia’s largest deer, it feeds near forests and wetlands.

• Northern Shriketit Falcunculus whitei

  An arboreal bird of northern Australia, with a striking black-and-white head and a deep hooked bill.

• Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides

  The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise is a distinct species from the narrow-ridged finless porpoise. It has a bumpy back ridge instead of a dorsal fin and feeds in shallow coastal waters.

• Toucan Barbet Semnornis ramphastinus

  The Toucan Barbet is stout and medium-sized. Males have a glossy black nuchal tuft that females lack. It occurs in the mountains of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador and mainly eats fruit. At the study site, territorial groups bred in tree cavities.

• 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.

• Yellow-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus flaviventer

  The male has a bright yellow breast and a broad, flattened bill. The species searches for insects in forest foliage.

• Eastern Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax validus

  An arboreal hyrax of East Africa. A survey on the Kenyan coast recorded animals identified as Dendrohyrax validus using trees as well as caves and rocky places.