Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sulawesi Flying Fox Acerodon celebensis

  

  The Sulawesi Flying Fox is a fruit bat found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. A small island off eastern Central Sulawesi serves as a daytime roost, and the bats fly to mainland forests at night.

• Cincloramphus macrurus Megalurus macrurus

  

  A large grassbird of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. It has a long tail and searches dense grass for small invertebrates.

• Kinkajou Potos flavus

  

  A raccoon relative that grips branches with its long tail and searches for fruit at night.

• Blackish Tapaculo Scytalopus latrans

  

  This small tapaculo lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. It is about 11.5 cm long and searches for food in bamboo, alone or in pairs.

• Buff-cheeked Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae

  

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

• White-browed Purpletuft Iodopleura isabellae

  

  A small cotinga of the upper canopy in northern Amazonian and Andean foothill forests. The male's purple breast tufts may be hidden at rest.

• Ground Cuscus Phalanger gymnotis

  This cuscus has a dark stripe down its back and a tail suited for gripping branches. It searches for fruit at night and can climb.

• Yucatan Jay Cyanocorax yucatanicus

  A conspicuous jay of woodland and forest edges on the Yucatan Peninsula, usually seen in groups of about 5–25. Young birds pass through a brief pale plumage before acquiring adult colors.

• Silky Tuco-tuco Ctenomys sericeus

  This is a subterranean tuco-tuco from Patagonia, with a short, glossy coat mixing olive and brown tones with black. Much of its field natural history remains unknown.

• Pygmy Longbill Oedistoma pygmaeum

  The Pygmy Longbill is a very small bird of New Guinea’s forests. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant matter.

• Australian snubfin dolphin Orcaella heinsohni

  The Australian snubfin dolphin has a rounded head and no beak, and lives in shallow coastal waters of northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea.

• Lavender Waxbill Estrilda caerulescens

  The Lavender Waxbill is a small finch native to West Africa. It has also been introduced to the Hawaiian Islands. Cornell's current page uses the genus Glaucestrilda; this entry retains the pool's name.

• Dark Four-eyed Opossum Philander melanurus

  This opossum occurs in western Ecuador and nearby parts of northwestern South America. An older, broader classification described coastal populations as dark-coated, and a camera-trap study in one part of Ecuador suggested an association with permanent water.

• American Black Swift Cypseloides niger

  The American Black Swift is a large swift that breeds in mountains of western North America. It moves south for winter, but its winter range is poorly known.

• Cape Porcupine Hystrix (Hystrix) africaeaustralis

  A porcupine covered in long, stiff quills, native to central and southern Africa.

• Arctic Loon Gavia arctica

  A waterbird that breeds on large lakes in northern Europe and Asia. Its breeding plumage is boldly patterned, and outside the breeding season it also uses sheltered coastal waters.

• King Colobus Colobus polykomos

  The king colobus is a West African forest monkey with a black body and conspicuous white chest, whiskers, and tail.

• Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea

  The Violet-backed Hyliota searches leaf undersides for small prey. A Rwanda survey recorded it in canopy foliage below 2,000 m.

• Sambar Rusa unicolor

  Asia’s largest deer, it feeds near forests and wetlands.

• MacGregor's Honeyeater Macgregoria pulchra

  MacGregor's Honeyeater is a large honeyeater of New Guinea's high mountains. Its black plumage is accented by yellow-orange on the wings and around the eyes, and it feeds mainly on podocarp fruit.

• Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed Rat Isothrix bistriata

  The yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat is an arboreal rodent of western Amazon lowland forest. It nests in flooded forest and river floodplains.

• Eastern Bristlebird Dasyornis brachypterus

  It hides in dense coastal vegetation and sometimes runs across open clearings. Its loud song can reveal where it is.

• Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura seychellensis

  The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat is a rare bat endemic to the Seychelles. A study on Silhouette Island found it roosting in small caves among boulders in lowland woodland.

• White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus

  A seabird of tropical and subtropical oceans that nests in rocky crevices on remote islands.