Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-and-red Broadbill Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos

  

  With striking red-and-black plumage and a large colorful bill, it lives in waterside forests of Southeast Asia.

• Grant's gazelle Nanger granti

  

  A long-legged gazelle with a conspicuous pale rump patch.

• White-tufted Grebe Rollandia rolland

  

  This small grebe dives for food. Breeding adults have a bold white fan of feathers on each side of the dark head.

• Amami Rabbit Pentalagus furnessi

  

  The Amami rabbit is a short-eared, short-legged rabbit found in the forests of Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima. It eats grasses, young shoots and fruit, and usually lives alone.

• European Greenfinch Chloris chloris

  

  This finch flashes yellow and green in flight. In the UK it visits gardens and eats seeds and insects.

• Buff-cheeked Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae

  

  A tree-dwelling gibbon with pale fur on its cheeks.

• Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus

  This greenbul lives in forests from West to Central Africa. It moves in small groups and mixed flocks, gleaning arthropods from branches and thickets.

• Gray-legged Night Monkey Aotus griseimembra

  This nocturnal monkey has large eyes and gray-brown fur. In the wild it lives in rainforest from northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela and eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta

  A shallow-water bird that forages with a slender upcurved bill.

• Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Lagothrix flavicauda

  The Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey is a primate endemic to Peru. It lives in trees and eats fruit, leaves, and other plant foods. Its long reddish-brown coat and yellow patch beneath the tail are distinctive.

• Chirruping Wedgebill Psophodes cristatus

  This bird lives in inland Australia. Its head is pale brownish-gray with fine streaks, the back is gray-brown, and the pale cream underparts have diffuse gray streaking. Tracked pairs stayed close during and after breeding.

• Harpy Fruit Bat Harpyionycteris whiteheadi

  The harpy fruit bat lives in forests on islands including the Philippines. The account describes dark brown upper fur and group roosts in fruiting plants.

• Spotted Catbird Ailuroedus maculosus

  This bird is recorded in tropical rainforest in northern Queensland. A 2020 field note reported one bird feeding on Calliandra flowers in a garden at Lake Barrine; this is a single local feeding record.

• Père David's deer Elaphurus davidianus

  A deer native to China. After it disappeared from the wild there, reintroduction has reestablished wild populations in China.

• 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.

• Side-striped Jackal Lupulella adustus

  A slender jackal of western, central and southern Africa that also eats fruit and insects.

• Western Bristlebird Dasyornis longirostris

  A secretive small bird of heathland in southwestern Australia. It searches for small foods while moving on the ground.

• Red Silky Anteater Cyclopes rufus

  This red silky anteater is one of the distinct silky anteater species recognized in modern taxonomic work. The specialist account confirms records in Brazil's western Amazon and says the southern range limit is unknown.

• White-crowned Penduline Tit Remiz coronatus

  This small bird is marked by a white crown and a dark facial band. It breeds in Central Asia and moves south for winter.

• Gilbert's Potoroo Potorous gilbertii

  Gilbert’s Potoroo is a nocturnal marsupial that digs with long claws and feeds mainly on fungi growing underground. By day it rests in a nest beneath sedges or bushes.

• Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula

  The Plain Chachalaca is a large brown bird with white-tipped tail feathers. It searches for berries and buds in small family groups.

• Eastern gorilla Gorilla beringei

  A large ape with black fur that travels through forests in groups.

• White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni

  The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.

• 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.