Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus

  

  Large ears and a black-tipped tail help identify this deer.

• Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava

  

  A wagtail with a yellow underside and greenish back. It visits Britain in spring and summer and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Darwin's Fox Lycalopex fulvipes

  

  Darwin's fox is a small fox of southern Chilean forests. Its dark coat and reddish backs of the ears are distinctive; separate populations occur on Chiloé Island and the mainland.

• Bananaquit Coereba flaveola

  

  This small nectar-feeding bird has a white eyebrow and yellow rump. It perches while feeding from flowers.

• Rio Negro Silky Anteater Cyclopes ida

  

  Cyclopes ida is a silky anteater of the Amazon basin. Its specialist-group account says it is common in seasonally flooded blackwater forest and along small tributaries, and that ants make up almost all of its diet.

• Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira

  This seabird has a grey back and white underparts. It breeds in Madeira’s central mountains and feeds at sea on squid, small fish and other prey.

• Boodie Bettongia lesueur

  The boodie is a burrowing member of the kangaroo family that searches for plants and underground fungi.

• White-capped Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

  This streamside flycatcher breeds in Central Asia, the Himalayas and much of China. Its white crown and nape, black chest and reddish-brown belly and tail are distinctive. In winter it moves to lower elevations.

• Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes

  An ape of African forests and landscapes where forest and savanna meet. It climbs using long arms and fingers.

• Cinnamon-breasted Whistler Pachycephala johni

  This whistler is recorded on Obi Island. Its taxonomic treatment differs among sources, which may rank it as a species or as a subspecies.

• Greater Slow Loris Nycticebus coucang

  This slow loris is notable for its large forward-facing eyes. It moves through trees at night and eats floral nectar, sap, fruit, and small insects.

• Green-breasted Pitta Pitta reichenowi

  This large pitta has a green breast. It searches for invertebrates on the ground and lives in tropical forests and related habitats.

• Ferreira’s Spiny Tree-rat Mesomys hispidus

  This arboreal rodent has stiff spines on its back and a long tail ending in a tuft. It is reported throughout the Amazon Basin and was commonly captured in mature forest in a Peruvian study.

• Olive-crowned Crescentchest Melanopareia maximiliani

  In Bolivia, this ground-dwelling bird is found along montane-forest edges and in tall scrub. It occurs alone or in pairs and skulks in dense vegetation near the ground.

• Ucayali Bald Uacari Cacajao ucayalii

  This saki occurs in Amazonian forests of northeastern Peru. A taxonomic study described specimens from Peru's Río Javari-Mirim as reddish chestnut, while specimens from another area differed in color. At the Quebrada Blanco study site, sightings were more frequent in drier periods than during the rainy season.

• Bornean Leafbird Chloropsis kinabaluensis

  This leafbird inhabits mountain forests of Borneo. A 2003 taxonomic review treated Chloropsis kinabaluensis as a distinct species after it had long been included as a subspecies of C. cochinchinensis.

• Japanese weasel Mustela itatsi

  A weasel native to Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and nearby islands, with an elongated body, short legs and a dark mark from forehead to nose.

• Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis

  This bushshrike has a pale eyebrow and rufous wings. It searches for insects near the ground in scrub and open woodland.

• Spix's Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea spixii

  Spix's yellow-toothed cavy is a cavy-family rodent whose response to heat was studied in Brazil's northeastern Caatinga. Researchers examined how it releases heat through areas around the eyes and ears.

• Lemon-spectacled Tanager Chlorothraupis olivacea

  The Lemon-spectacled Tanager is a tanager of humid tropical forest. Its yellow lores and eye ring are reported as useful distinctions from close relatives.

• Weasel Lemur Lepilemur mustelinus

  The weasel sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur of eastern Madagascar's rainforests. Most have chestnut-brown fur, though bright orange individuals have also been observed.

• Blue-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus viridirostris

  A long-tailed cuckoo of southern India and Sri Lanka, found from lowlands to foothills and often in thorn scrub or second growth.

• Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata

  The Indian Pangolin has an elongated body covered with scales. It feeds on ants and termites, and the studbook describes it as mainly nocturnal and ground-dwelling.