Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Western Tarsier Cephalopachus bancanus

  The western tarsier is a small primate that spends the night in trees. It has large eyes and leaps between branches to catch insects and other small animals.

• Wattled Ploughbill Eulacestoma nigropectus

  The Wattled Ploughbill is a small bird of New Guinea's mountain forests. Males have pink wattles on both sides of the throat, while females lack them.

• Pied Tamarin Saguinus bicolor

  The pied tamarin is an arboreal monkey from around Manaus in Amazonas, Brazil. It is active by day and has conspicuous white shoulders and chest.

• Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus

  A small bird of dry, rocky places, with a cinnamon-colored body and a conspicuous white throat.

• Ring-tailed Mongoose Galidia elegans

  The ring-tailed mongoose is a carnivorous mammal from Madagascar, notable for the red and black rings on its tail. It is active by day, moving mainly on the ground but also climbing trees.

• Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata

  A small bird that searches for insects in the understory of eastern South American forest. A 2015 study used the older treatment that grouped three traditionally recognized subspecies within one species.

• Black-bellied Pangolin Phataginus tetradactyla

  An arboreal pangolin of West and Central Africa with a tail longer than its body.

• Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli

  This small warbler has a pale head and underparts. It breeds around the western Mediterranean and winters south of the Sahara.

• White-nosed coati Nasua narica

  A long-tailed coati that searches for insects with its snout close to the ground.

• Chaplin's Barbet Lybius chaplini

  This Zambian barbet has a mostly white body, yellow-edged wings, and red skin around the eyes.

• Northern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus leucogenys

  The northern white-cheeked gibbon is a tailless Southeast Asian ape that moves from branch to branch using its long arms.

• Tinkling Shieldbill Peltops montanus

  The Tinkling Shieldbill lives in the mountain forests of New Guinea. Its glossy blue-black body has striking white markings and a red rump, and it catches insects from high perches.

• Black Flying-fox Pteropus alecto

  The black flying-fox is a large fruit bat found in northern and eastern Australia. Its Japanese name also appears in the Japanese Mammalogical Society’s standard mammal-name list.

• Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus

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

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• Magellanic Oystercatcher Haematopus leucopodus

  The Magellanic Oystercatcher is a large wader found mainly along the coasts of southern South America. During the breeding season it also moves inland to wet grasslands.

• Common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius

  A small dormouse with large eyes, small rounded ears, and a furry tail.

• Fiji Shrikebill Clytorhynchus vitiensis

  The Fiji Shrikebill lives in Fiji's forests. White edges on both mandibles are diagnostic, while underpart color varies among island forms from ochre to pale gray. Field notes place it in dark forest understory, gleaning insects from vines and branches.

• Gorgona spiny rat Proechimys semispinosus

  The Gorgona spiny rat has stiff fur and fine spines, with a chestnut to gray-brown back. It forages at night, eating fruit and other foods, and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• Brown dipper Cinclus pallasii

  A mountain-stream bird that dives underwater for insects and small fish.

• Huon tree kangaroo Dendrolagus matschiei

  The Huon tree kangaroo is a marsupial of the mountain forests of Papua New Guinea's Huon Peninsula. Its claws and long tail help it climb.

• Greater Green Leafbird Chloropsis sonnerati

  The male is green, with a black throat patch and blue moustachial stripe that can blend into the leaves. In the canopy it eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Stoliczka's Asian Trident Bat Aselliscus stoliczkanus

  Stoliczka's trident bat has a three-pointed noseleaf and has been recorded roosting in caves in Yunnan.