Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pygmy Hog Porcula salvania

  

  A small wild pig of the tall grasslands of Assam, India.

• Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis

  

  This small honeybird is about 10 cm long. It lives in the Afrotropical region and searches for invertebrates in trees.

• Painted Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus forbesi

  

  Animals studied on Mt Dayman were described as having striking facial and head markings and a dark line down the back.

• Maroon-backed Accentor Prunella immaculata

  

  The Maroon-backed Accentor ranges from the eastern Himalayas to southern China. It has a dark gray head and chestnut wings and keeps to dense cover.

• Pygmy Three-toed Sloth Bradypus pygmaeus

  

  The pygmy three-toed sloth is a small sloth from an island off Panama. It lives in coastal red mangroves, and its long head and shoulder fur can look like a hood.

• Glossy-mantled Manucode Manucodia ater

  

  A bird-of-paradise of New Guinea's lowlands and nearby islands. It feeds mainly on fruit, especially figs, and the sexes have similar plumage.

• Illiger's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus illigeri

  This saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forests of Peru. Its mottled back, black crown, and reddish-orange rump help describe its appearance.

• Malawi Batis Batis dimorpha

  A small bird recorded in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Males and females have different patterns on the chest and wings.

• Bonobo Pan paniscus

  An ape living in forests south of the Congo River whose groups gather or split as food availability changes.

• Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli

  The Grey Penduline Tit has a black-and-white face and head, with dark gray-brown upper wings and tail. In northeastern Namibia it occurs in broadleaf woodland and sometimes gardens, where it eats insects and probes flowers for nectar.

• Southern River Otter Lontra provocax

  A South American otter found in southern Chile and parts of Argentina.

• Quail-plover Ortyxelos meiffrenii

  This small bird walks through dry grassland. Males have rufous and black-and-white markings, and only males incubate the eggs.

• Western Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis

  This hyrax has short ears and legs and thick fur ranging from gray-brown to black. It feeds at night on leaves, fruit, and other plant material and usually lives alone.

• Satin Swiftlet Collocalia uropygialis

  A swiftlet of South Pacific islands including Vanuatu, it has satiny blue-black upperparts and a broad white rump band.

• 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.

• Eastern Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus frugivorus

  A chocolate-brown back and bright yellow skin around the eye help identify this bird. In Hispaniola's mountain forests, it searches leaf litter for small animals and seeds.

• De Winton's Golden Mole Cryptochloris wintoni

  An underground golden mole from sandy ground on South Africa's west coast. It was confirmed alive in 2023 after decades without a record.

• Red-billed Pied Tanager Lamprospiza melanoleuca

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

• African Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus africanus

  The African brush-tailed porcupine is a nocturnal rodent of West and Central African forests. It uses burrows during the day.

• Northern Screamer Chauna chavaria

  A large wetland bird of northern Colombia and eastern Venezuela. Its gray body, black neck and white band around the head stand out.

• Xingu Silky Anteater Cyclopes xinguensis

  The Xingu Silky Anteater is known from dense Amazonian forests in Brazil. Its coat is predominantly gray, with a yellow patch near the base of the tail and a pale yellow underside. Brazil’s species assessment says its species-specific diet and natural history are not known.

• Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas

  The Common Scimitarbill has a slender, curved bill and uses dry open woodland in eastern and southern Africa. It moves through the canopy alone or in pairs.

• Desert Spotted Skunk Spilogale leucoparia

  This skunk has black and white back stripes of nearly equal width in the Texas account. Most Texas capture records are from rocky bluffs, cliffs, or brush-lined canyon streams.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.