Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern gorilla Gorilla beringei

  

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

• White-naped crane Antigone vipio

  A crane with a gray-and-white neck and pinkish legs.

• Broad-footed Mole Scapanus latimanus

  The broad-footed mole is a burrowing mole of the western United States and northern Mexico. Its coat ranges from dark brown to silvery gray.

• Yellow-bibbed Lory Lorius chlorocercus

  The Yellow-bibbed Lory is a parrot with a red body, black crown, yellow chest band, and green wings. In the wild it lives in forests of the eastern Solomon Islands and eats flowers, fruit, and other foods.

• Greater Blind Mole Rat Spalax microphthalmus

  This subterranean rodent has small eyes covered by a skin membrane and digs with its front teeth. It makes underground passages and food stores, and eats plant parts from below the ground.

• 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.

• Greater Northern Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon jobensis

  This large free-tailed bat is recorded in tropical Australia. It has large joined ears and a wrinkled face. Its back is dark and its underside is paler.

• Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa

  The Golden-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird recognized by its yellow crown and searches for small prey in conifers.

• Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus

  A small wild cat recorded in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

• Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca

  This gray pigeon has a white V-shaped marking from the nape onto the back. It often forages on the ground for food beneath leaf litter.

• Yellow-striped Chevrotain Moschiola kathygre

  This small chevrotain is endemic to Sri Lanka. It has warm ochre-brown fur with yellow spots and stripes, and is recorded from wet-zone forests as well as paddies, plantations, and gardens.

• Masked Finfoot Heliopais personatus

  This grey-brown waterbird has a black mask from face to throat in males. A Bangladesh study documented nests in trees beside narrow waterways in the Sundarbans.

• White-chested Titi Cheracebus lugens

  This titi has a dark head and limbs contrasted with white hands and chest. At one Colombian study site, its diet centered on fruit and immature seeds.

• Brown Mesite Mesitornis unicolor

  A ground-dwelling bird of eastern Madagascar's evergreen rainforests, it walks through leaf litter as it searches for food.

• Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros ater

  The Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat is a small bat that feeds on flying insects. It has a leaf-like nose structure and roosts in dark, warm caves or rock crevices.

• Sulphury Flycatcher Tyrannopsis sulphurea

  This flycatcher uses palm stands in the Amazon region of South America. Its olive-brown upperparts contrast with bright yellow underparts.

• Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta

  The long-nosed bandicoot lives in forests and scrubland in eastern Australia. It probes the ground with its long snout and digs for insects and other small invertebrates at night.

• Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotum

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in arid and semi-arid southern Australia. Males have a black face and breast with a white eyebrow; females have a gray throat and breast, and may show little chestnut on the rump.

• Southern muriqui Brachyteles arachnoides

  The southern muriqui is a large monkey that lives in remaining Atlantic Forest areas of southeastern Brazil and spends much of its time in trees.

• Southern Screamer Chauna torquata

  The Southern Screamer is a large South American wetland bird with a black-and-white neck band and long red legs. It feeds on grasses and aquatic plants near shallow water.

• Red-mantled Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus lagonotus

  This tamarin occurs in the Ecuadorian Amazon and eastern Andean foothills. The university species account describes it in lower and middle forest layers, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma

  The Grey-headed Albatross has a bluish-gray head and neck and a white body. It breeds on subantarctic islands and forages in surrounding waters.

• Japanese Dormouse Glirulus japonicus

  The Japanese dormouse lives in forests on Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. A dark stripe down its back and a bushy, flattened tail help identify it.

• New Zealand Kaka Nestor meridionalis

  The New Zealand Kaka is a forest parrot that searches for food in trees.