Meet the world’s animals.

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• Slaty Gnateater Conopophaga ardesiaca

  

  The Slaty Gnateater is a short-tailed bird of the eastern Andean slopes of Bolivia, living close to the forest floor.

• Common Sword-nosed Bat Lonchorhina aurita

  The common sword-nosed bat ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into South America. It is found mainly in forests and eats insects.

• Olive Manakin Xenopipo uniformis

  It occurs in Venezuela’s tepui highlands and nearby uplands at the Brazil–Guyana border. Its plumage is uniformly olive, with slightly paler, greyer underparts.

• Simon's Spiny-rat Proechimys simonsi

  Simon’s spiny-rat is a large rodent with an elongated body, long face and ears, long hind feet, and a long tail. A Peruvian reserve study found only two individuals, both in undisturbed forest.

• White cockatoo Cacatua alba

  A cockatoo of Indonesia’s northern Moluccan islands, with white plumage and a broad crest that opens like a fan.

• Yucatán Spotted Skunk Spilogale yucatanensis

  This skunk occurs in forests of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Camera traps in a small urban vegetation fragment in Mérida recorded it at night.

• Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus

  It moves through branches and brush like a mouse. It eats fruit, seeds, nectar, ants, and termites.

• Caquetá Titi Plecturocebus caquetensis

  This titi monkey occurs in lowland forests of southern Colombia. It feeds on fruits, seeds, and young leaves in remaining forest, with reddish fur around the face and throat like a beard.

• Hose's Broadbill Calyptomena hosii

  Hose's Broadbill is a bird of mountain forests on Borneo. The male is bright green with a blue area on the belly.

• Indian Spotted Chevrotain Moschiola meminna

  The Indian spotted chevrotain is a small hoofed mammal of Sri Lanka’s dry zone. It moves alone at night, with pale stripes or rows of spots across its brown back.

• White-crested turaco Tauraco leucolophus

  A bird with an upright white crest that hops through the trees.

• Soemmerring's gazelle Nanger soemmerringii

  Soemmerring's gazelle is a gazelle of the dry grasslands and scrub of the Horn of Africa.

• Ash-breasted Antbird Myrmoborus lugubris

  The Peru Aves account for subspecies berlepschi associates it with wooded river islands on major Amazonian rivers.

• Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis

  The squirrel glider is a marsupial of eastern Australian forests. It travels between trees using its gliding membrane and is active at night.

• Tylas Vanga Tylas eduardi

  This vanga is endemic to Madagascar. The widely distributed eastern form has a black hood; a western form with a black crown and white chin and throat has also been reported. Western records are sparse, and the forms' geographic status and possible seasonal movement remain unresolved.

• Red-handed Howler Alouatta belzebul

  This howler monkey occurs in Brazil. Its mostly black coat contrasts with red hands, feet, and tail tip; an Atlantic Forest study also documented how one group moved through its range.

• White-winged Potoo Nyctibius leucopterus

  The White-winged Potoo is marked by large white shoulder patches and a small build.

• Silky Mole-rat Heliophobius argenteocinereus

  The silky mole-rat is a solitary rodent that digs underground burrows. In a Malawi study, its burrowing pattern changed as the soil hardened during the dry season.

• Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles affinis

  It lives in lower montane forest on the Bird’s Head Peninsula of western New Guinea, with brownish plumage and a pale collar.

• Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

  A bat with a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf; British accounts describe roosts in caves and buildings.

• Pale-bellied Tapaculo Scytalopus griseicollis

  A 2019 Bogotá bird guide describes an 11 cm bird with mostly gray plumage, a lighter throat and belly, soft rufous color at the rear, a black bill, and grayish legs. Most of its range is in Colombia, with a small part in Venezuela.

• Fischer's Pygmy Fruit Bat Haplonycteris fischeri

  This small, tailless bat has a darker head and cinnamon-brown fur. It lives in Philippine forests and eats fruit, including figs.

• Paradise Riflebird Ptiloris paradiseus

  The Paradise Riflebird lives in forests of eastern Australia. Males court by displaying glossy black plumage, while females are brown and patterned.

• Raffray's Bandicoot Peroryctes raffrayana

  A medium-sized bandicoot of New Guinea forests, with a long, narrow snout and a long tail.