Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus

  

  In India's Great Himalayan National Park, this fantail is found in mid-elevation forests. It has a yellow belly, olive upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It flicks its tail while moving through the understory and mid-canopy in pursuit of small insects.

• Gambian Rat Cricetomys gambianus

  

  A rat with large cheek pouches for carrying food, it rests in burrows or hollow trees by day and searches for food at night.

• Black-and-yellow Phainoptila Phainoptila melanoxantha

  

  The Black-and-yellow Phainoptila eats fruit in mountain forests, and males and females differ markedly in plumage.

• Azara's Night Monkey Aotus azarae

  

  Azara's night monkey is a nocturnal primate found from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to northern Argentina. It has large white patches above its eyes.

• Wattled Guan Aburria aburri

  

  The Wattled Guan is a large, all-black bird with a blue bill and a long red-and-yellow wattle hanging from its throat. It lives in humid Andean montane forest and eats fruit.

• Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii

  A seal of Antarctic coasts. It swims beneath sea ice and breathes through holes and cracks in the ice.

• Leaden Flycatcher Myiagra rubecula

  The male is leaden blue-gray, while the female has a rusty throat and breast. The species occurs in woodland and along waterways in eastern Australia.

• 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.

• Green Aracari Pteroglossus viridis

  The Green Aracari lives in humid lowland forests of South America. Its large-looking bill is light, and the bird helps spread seeds when it eats fruit.

• Northern fur seal Callorhinus ursinus

  A North Pacific fur seal that spends much of its time in the open ocean. It comes ashore on island beaches to breed and rest.

• Philippine Leafbird Chloropsis flavipennis

  A bright green bird of lowland forest canopy and edges, the Philippine Leafbird is endemic to the Philippines. BirdLife reports recent confirmed records from Mindanao and Samar, while older records include two other islands.

• 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.

• Red-necked Avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

  A tall wader of Australian wetlands. It searches beneath the water for small animals with its chestnut head and neck above a long, upturned bill.

• Common brown lemur Eulemur fulvus

  A lemur of northwestern and eastern Madagascan forests. It is active by day and night and mainly eats fruit.

• Kilombero Weaver Ploceus burnieri

  The Kilombero Weaver lives in Tanzania's Kilombero River floodplain. Breeding males are bright yellow with a black face pattern, and the birds nest on reeds.

• Crab-eating Raccoon Procyon cancrivorus

  A raccoon of southern Central and South America, living in forests and grasslands near water. It is active from dusk through the night and into the early morning.

• Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla

  The Pygmy Cupwing is a small bird with a very short tail and scaled-looking brown plumage. It forages in dense understory and near the forest floor.

• Malayan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris tragata

  A bat recorded in Southeast Asian forests. It has long ears and facial grooves, and roosts in small groups in caves or hollow trees.

• Chestnut-banded Plover Charadrius pallidus

  This small shorebird is adapted to salty lakes and mudflats. It has separate eastern and southern African populations; southern birds use coastal lagoons and inland saline pans.

• Masoala Sportive Lemur Lepilemur scottorum

  Scott's sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with reddish-brown fur and a black tail tip. The 2020 assessment knew it only from Masoala National Park in northeastern Madagascar.

• Pipipi Mohoua novaeseelandiae

  This small bird lives in forest and shrubland on New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands. A chattering flock moving high through the trees is often the first sign of its presence.

• African Civet Civettictis civetta

  A member of the civet family found in central and southern Africa.

• Velvet Asity Philepitta castanea

  The Velvet Asity lives in Madagascar's forests, and breeding males look very different from females. Males raise the structures above their eyes during courtship.