Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dark-winged Trumpeter Psophia viridis

  

  A large bird that walks on long legs along the forest floor, it lives in vocal groups and has regionally variable wing color.

• Stoliczka's Asian Trident Bat Aselliscus stoliczkanus

  Stoliczka's trident bat has a three-pointed noseleaf and has been recorded roosting in caves in Yunnan.

• Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens

  This bird lives in dry habitats and woodlands of the southwestern United States and nearby areas. Males are glossy black and females gray; it perches high and eats berries and flying insects.

• Borneo Gibbon Hylobates muelleri

  The Borneo Gibbon is an arboreal primate of Borneo's forests. It has no tail, gray-brown fur, and long arms used to travel among trees.

• Speckled Warbler Pyrrholaemus sagittatus

  This small ground-dwelling bird lives in grassy eucalypt communities of south-eastern Australia. Its grey-brown plumage is finely streaked, and it searches for seeds and insects around tussocks.

• Annamese Langur Trachypithecus margarita

  The Annamese langur occurs in Indochina. Its coat is generally silvery gray, with black hands and feet; the head hair forms a cap-like hood rather than a central crest. A study of one group on Takou Mountain recorded a diet dominated by young leaves, with fruit also important.

• Bronzy Jacamar Galbula leucogastra

  This jacamar has a long bill and metallic green-blue and bronze plumage. It waits on branches and catches flying insects.

• Silver-tipped Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) albescens

  This small bat ranges from Mexico into South America and catches insects while flying over forests and water.

• Crested Treeswift Hemiprocne coronata

  This swift is marked by a forehead crest and long wing tips that cross over its back when it perches.

• Pearson's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys pearsoni

  Pearson's Tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent. Its reddish-brown coat has a white collar below the throat and white patches on the sides of the neck.

• Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps

  The Great Indian Bustard is a large bird that walks through grassland while foraging. Its pale neck and black crown stand out, and breeding males display to females in grassland.

• Flat-headed cat Prionailurus planiceps

  A small water-associated cat with a narrow head and a flattened forehead.

• White-throated Caracara Phalcoboenus albogularis

  This caracara lives in Andean-Patagonian forests. Its white throat and belly contrast with a dark brown body; it may search for food while soaring alone.

• Olinguito Bassaricyon neblina

  A mammal of Andean cloud forests in Colombia and Ecuador, with long dense fur tinged with red and black. It lives in trees.

• Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor

  The Lesser Grey Shrike hunts large beetles and other insects in open farmland and grassland. It migrates from European breeding areas to southern Africa.

• Southern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon planifrons

  The southern bottlenose whale lives offshore in the Southern Hemisphere and is marked by a swollen forehead and short beak.

• Grey Shrikethrush Colluricincla harmonica

  The Grey Shrikethrush varies in color across its range, from gray to brown. It searches for food on the ground and on tree trunks and branches in Australian forests and woodlands.

• Australian False Vampire Bat Macroderma gigas

  The ghost bat is a large bat with a scattered range across northern Australia. It has large ears and roosts in caves and deep rock crevices.

• Micronesian Starling Aplonis opaca

  The Micronesian Starling occurs on islands of the Mariana and Caroline archipelagos. The Guam subspecies is a cavity-nesting bird that feeds mainly on fruit.

• Mzab Gundi Massoutiera mzabi

  This stocky rodent has dense fur and uses rocky crevices in the central Sahara.

• Schlegel's Asity Philepitta schlegeli

  Schlegel’s Asity is a forest bird restricted to northwestern and western Madagascar. It eats more fruit in the rainy season and also takes nectar and insects toward the end of the dry season.

• Small Japanese Mole Mogera imaizumii

  The Small Japanese Mole is found mainly in eastern Japan. It uses habitats from lowland grasslands and farmland to mountain forest, with regional differences in size and coat color.

• Narrow-billed Tody Todus angustirostris

  This small tody has a clear white streak behind the eye, a gray breast, and pale irises. It lives in Hispaniola's mountain forests and catches flying insects.

• Queensland Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene robinsoni

  A fruit-eating bat of eastern Australian forests, with tubular nostrils and pale spots scattered across its wings.