Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spangled Cotinga Cotinga cayana

  

  The Spangled Cotinga is a forest bird of northern South America. Males are brilliant blue, while females are brownish.

• 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.

• White-browed Robin Poecilodryas superciliosa

  This robin occurs in north-eastern Australia. It has a long white eyebrow and bold white wing-bars, and nests in forest along creeks.

• Lesser Bamboo Rat Cannomys badius

  The Lesser Bamboo Rat is a rodent of bamboo forests, thickets, and hilly ground. It leaves its burrow in the evening to feed on plants and has short, powerful legs with digging claws.

• Fatu Hiva Monarch Pomarea whitneyi

  This monarch is endemic to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas. Adults are glossy purplish-black and forage for insects and spiders in stream-centred valley forest.

• Guianan Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus guianensis

  Dasypus guianensis is an armadillo described after populations on the Guiana Shield were separated from a close relative. The original paper combined genetic data and museum-specimen morphology and places the range from northern Brazil through the Guianas to eastern Venezuela.

• Brown Mesite Mesitornis unicolor

  A ground-dwelling bird of eastern Madagascar's evergreen rainforests, it walks through leaf litter as it searches for food.

• Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta

  The long-nosed bandicoot lives in forests and scrubland in eastern Australia. It probes the ground with its long snout and digs for insects and other small invertebrates at night.

• Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana

  The Ortolan Bunting is a bunting whose breeding male has a grayish-olive head and yellow throat. It feeds on seeds on the ground, but mainly on invertebrates during breeding.

• Pygmy Killer Whale Feresa attenuata

  A small dolphin that lives in deep offshore waters of tropical and subtropical seas.

• Mascarene Swiftlet Aerodramus francicus

  A swiftlet of Réunion and Mauritius, it has brown upperparts, a pale rump and a shallowly forked tail. It roosts in caves and lava tubes.

• Red Viscacha Rat Tympanoctomys barrerae

  The red viscacha rat burrows in dune belts around saline lakes and feeds on salt-tolerant plants. It has a yellow-brown back, white underside, and long, bicolored tail.

• Chestnut Wattle-eye Platysteira castanea

  Males are black and white while females are brownish; the species lives in wet habitats and lowland forest in central and eastern Africa and eats insects.

• Greater Egyptian jerboa Jaculus orientalis

  This North African jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night and spends the day in burrows dug in sand or clay.

• Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus

  This small bird is bright yellow with an olive back. It occupies a range of savanna settings, from moist savanna to dry thorn scrub.

• Brown-throated Sloth Bradypus variegatus

  This sloth lives in forests from Central America to South America and spends much of its time in trees.

• White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea

  The White-throated Treecreeper forages along tree trunks in the moist forests of southeastern Australia.

• Central American Rufous Tree-rat Diplomys labilis

  An arboreal spiny rat recorded in Central America. It is active at night and uses tree cavities as resting places.

• Northern Shriketit Falcunculus whitei

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

• Brown Palm Civet Paradoxurus jerdoni

  Jerdon's palm civet is a nocturnal civet of the Western Ghats rainforests in India. It lacks distinct facial markings and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps

  This small bird occurs in western and central Africa. It uses lowland and second-growth forest as well as village trees, and feeds on insects, berries, and seeds.

• Common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula

  A tree-dwelling nocturnal marsupial with large eyes and rounded ears.

• Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

  The Indian Nightjar is a night bird with a complex mottled pattern.

• Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys major

  The greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent recorded in northern Borneo rainforest. It is active mainly in the canopy at night and uses tree hollows and connections between trees.