Meet the world’s animals.

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• Golden Palm Civet Paradoxurus zeylonensis

  

  The golden palm civet is an arboreal civet native to Sri Lanka. Its coat occurs in golden-brown and dark-brown forms.

• 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.

• Black Crested Gibbon Nomascus concolor

  A gibbon of mountain forests in southwestern China and nearby areas. Adult males and females have very different coat colors.

• Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri

  This starling lives in wooded savanna and dry open thornveld in East Africa. It forages on the ground for insects and berries, in pairs or small flocks.

• Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae

  The lesser long-nosed bat ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States and farther south in Central America. It feeds at flowers such as cacti and agaves.

• White-bellied Seedeater Sporophila leucoptera

  A small bird of grassland with scattered bushes; males and females have different plumage.

• 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.

• Purple Roller Coracias naevius

  The Purple Roller scans for prey from high perches in open African savannas.

• Rodrigues Flying Fox Pteropus rodricensis

  The Rodrigues flying fox is a fruit-eating bat found on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean. Golden-looking fur may cover its head, neck, and shoulders, and males and females differ in their reported roosting patterns.

• Rufous-throated Dipper Cinclus schulzii

  Its dark-gray body is marked by a rusty throat and breast. In fast mountain streams in northwestern Argentina, it wades and searches among stones for larvae and insects.

• Dusky Hopping Mouse Notomys fuscus

  This hopping mouse lives in Australian dunes and other dry places. It has large ears, a long tail and hind feet, and a white underside. At night it forages on dunes.

• Harris' Sparrow Zonotrichia querula

  A sparrow that breeds in northern Canada and winters in the central United States, it has a pink bill and seasonally changing head markings.

• Moonrat Echinosorex gymnurus

  The moonrat is usually black except for its white head and tail tip. It is recorded from the southern Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra.

• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

  Adults have a bare red head and soar with raised wings in a teetering flight. They use their sense of smell to find carrion.

• Tapanuli Orangutan Pongo tapanuliensis

  An orangutan of the Tapanuli region in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where its forest habitat is fragmented; fruit is a major food.

• Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor

  A small flamingo with a long curved neck and slender pink legs, gathering on saline lakes and similar wetlands.

• Brazilian Porcupine Coendou prehensilis

  The Brazilian porcupine occurs in the northern Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Adults have three-banded quills along the back, giving a pale yellowish appearance with dark brown markings. In Pernambuco, a specimen was collected in lowland evergreen rainforest surrounded by sugar-cane fields.

• Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta

  The Shy Albatross is a large seabird that glides over the ocean on long wings and breeds on islands off Tasmania.

• Boodie Bettongia lesueur

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

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Daraina Sportive Lemur Lepilemur milanoii

  The Daraina sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur of northern Madagascar. It rests in tree holes by day.

• Band-rumped Swift Chaetura spinicaudus

  The Band-rumped Swift occurs from Central America to northern South America. In Guyana’s Iwokrama it flies over forest, open areas and water.

• Chestnut-bellied Titi Plecturocebus caligatus

  The Chestnut-bellied Titi is a small Amazon lowland monkey with reddish chestnut fur across its chest and belly.

• Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata

  This honeyeater lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia, often near rivers. Bold black head stripes stand out against its grey-brown plumage, and it feeds among lower canopy foliage.