Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pallid Honeyguide Indicator meliphilus

  

  The Pallid Honeyguide is a small bird about 13 cm long. It is active by day in woodland and forest edges, where it feeds on invertebrates such as insects.

• Volcan de Toluca Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys planiceps

  This pocket gopher is known from Mexico's volcanic region. Its back is dark, with lighter brown mixed into the fur along its sides.

• Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus

  The Long-tailed Mockingbird is notable for its long tail and the way it raises it while walking. It occurs in open dry country and also in town parks.

• Chinese Ferret-badger Melogale moschata

  The Chinese ferret-badger is a small badger with a white forehead, black face, and long bushy tail. It is active at night and eats insects, earthworms, and small animals.

• Dartford Warbler Curruca undata

  A long-tailed warbler that moves through low shrubs and feeds on small insects. In Britain it is found on heathland.

• Bornean orangutan Pongo pygmaeus

  An ape of Borneo’s tropical forests. It moves through trees using long arms and grasping hands and feet.

• Kandt's Waxbill Estrilda kandti

  A small estrildid finch of a restricted part of Central and East Africa. It uses both dry tropical grassland and humid forest, searching for seeds on the ground or among trees.

• Striped Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus barabensis

  A small hamster with a dark stripe down the centre of its back. Its range includes steppe from southern Siberia through Mongolia and northeastern China to the Korean Peninsula.

• White-eyed Thrush Turdus jamaicensis

  The White-eyed Thrush inhabits Jamaican forests and is marked by a white ring around the eye.

• Pale Fork-crowned Lemur Phaner pallescens

  The pale fork-crowned lemur is a nocturnal lemur of western Madagascar’s dry forests. It feeds mainly on tree gum and sap.

• Crested Satinbird Cnemophilus macgregorii

  The Crested Satinbird lives in high mountain forest. Male plumage varies by region, while females are mainly olive green.

• Waigeo Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus papuensis

  The Waigeo spotted cuscus is an arboreal cuscus from islands west of New Guinea. It lives in forest and eats fruit, leaves, and insects.

• Ethiopian Bee-eater Merops lafresnayii

  Its back is green and its underparts are pale cinnamon, with a yellow throat bordered behind by blackish blue. A 2015 field report lists at least five birds of the lafresnayii form at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

• Red Acouchi Myoprocta acouchy

  The red acouchi is a diurnal rodent of forests from the Guianas to northern Brazil. Its reddish-orange flanks and legs and short, white-tipped tail are distinctive.

• 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.

• Slender Yellow Bat Rhogeessa gracilis

  The Slender Yellow Bat is a small bat recorded in Mexico. Current taxonomic references use Baeodon gracilis for the taxon previously called Rhogeessa gracilis.

• Sulawesi Masked Owl Tyto rosenbergii

  The Sulawesi Masked Owl is a nocturnal owl with a pale grey, heart-shaped facial disc edged in rufous. It is thought to hunt small animals over open farmland and forest edges.

• Müller's Three-striped Dasyure Myoictis melas

  Müller's three-striped dasyure is a dasyurid marsupial from New Guinea's forests. Specimens assigned to the species vary in color, from nearly black to reddish brown.

• Great Skua Stercorarius skua

  The Great Skua is a stout, dark seabird with white flashes on its wings. It sometimes steals food from other birds.

• Rufous Elephant Shrew Galegeeska rufescens

  This sengi has a long snout and large ears. It is mainly active by day and eats ants and termites.

• New Zealand Rockwren Xenicus gilviventris

  The New Zealand Rockwren is a small ground-feeding bird of the South Island mountains, living above the bush line throughout its life.

• Javan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris javanica

  A 1993 study of Southeast Asian specimens recognized this bat as a distinct Nycteris species. It concluded that the species occurs mainly on Java and nearby islands.

• Common Iora Aegithina tiphia

  A small woodland bird with bright yellow underparts. It ranges from South to Southeast Asia and searches among leaves and branches for insects.

• Plains Spotted Skunk Spilogale interrupta

  In Texas, this small, striped skunk is mostly nocturnal and may stand on its forelegs to warn a threat.