Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fawn Antechinus Antechinus bellus

  

  The Fawn Antechinus is a small marsupial with pale fur, a white chin, and white feet. It is active mainly at dusk and dawn and shelters in tree hollows and fallen logs.

• Pavonine Cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus

  

  The Pavonine Cuckoo is a forest cuckoo with a rufous head and neck and a long tail. On the ground it spreads its wings and tail to flush insects, then chases and catches them.

• Rio Negro Silky Anteater Cyclopes ida

  

  Cyclopes ida is a silky anteater of the Amazon basin. Its specialist-group account says it is common in seasonally flooded blackwater forest and along small tributaries, and that ants make up almost all of its diet.

• Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis

  

  The Australian Painted-Snipe lives in shallow wetlands and searches for food from dusk into the night. Females are more brightly colored than males.

• Southern mountain viscacha Lagidium viscacia

  

  A member of the chinchilla family that lives among rocks, it has a tuft at the end of its long tail. It is most active in the morning and late afternoon and eats plants such as grasses and shrubs.

• Atlantic Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus swainsoni

  

  The Atlantic Royal Flycatcher occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It usually keeps its crest flat, but the crest has different colors in males and females when raised.

• Guanaco Lama guanicoe

  A wild camelid of open habitats across western and southern South America, from dry grasslands to cold southern regions.

• Southern cassowary Casuarius casuarius

  A rainforest bird with a black body, blue neck and a hard crest on top of its head.

• Greater Mouse-deer Tragulus napu

  A small forest-dwelling animal with slender legs and reddish-brown fur, it is active at night and feeds on fallen fruit and young leaves.

• 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.

• Giant Ground Pangolin Smutsia gigantea

  The giant pangolin is the largest pangolin in Africa. It is nocturnal, terrestrial and associated with moist areas near water.

• Red-billed Pied Tanager Lamprospiza melanoleuca

  This tanager is usually seen in groups of three to eight in the canopy of Amazonian forest.

• Schneider's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros speoris

  A leaf-nosed bat found in India and Sri Lanka. A study in dry-zone Sri Lanka recorded bats foraging at dusk and dawn.

• Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

  A large heron with a typical blue-gray plumage and long legs. It waits for prey near water and strikes quickly with its neck.

• Red-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur rufifrons

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

• Rufous-vented Yuhina Yuhina occipitalis

  A field guide describes a small bird with grey and rufous in its crest. It lives in eastern Himalayan evergreen forest and forages in the canopy and among mossy trunks and branches.

• Atlas Gundi Ctenodactylus gundi

  The Atlas gundi is a rodent of rocky, dry places in North Africa. Its compact body, large eyes, and tiny tail are useful clues.

• Long-tailed Broadbill Psarisomus dalhousiae

  The Long-tailed Broadbill is a forest bird with a black head, vivid green body, and long blue tail. It has a broad, flattened bill and searches for insects in groups.

• Columbia Plateau Pocket Mouse Perognathus parvus

  The Columbia Plateau pocket mouse is a small North American rodent that carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches. Its back is pinkish buff with a dark overlay, and its tail is long and bicolored.

• Green-tailed Warbler Microligea palustris

  The Green-tailed Warbler is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It has a gray head and body, olive-green back and wings, and mainly eats insects.

• Shock-headed Capuchin Cebus cuscinus

  This capuchin has a conspicuous dark cap of hair. It lives in forest groups and ranges farther to find food when fruit is scarce.

• Black-girdled Barbet Capito dayi

  A small barbet of lowland forest in central Amazonian Brazil and eastern Bolivia. The male’s red crown and black band across the white underside are distinctive.

• Russian Desman Desmana moschata

  The Russian desman is a mole relative that lives by water. It has a flexible snout and fully webbed hind feet.

• Green Broadbill Calyptomena viridis

  This vivid green bird feeds on fruit in the lower levels of dense forest. It is resident, though it may move with seasonal fruiting.