Meet the world’s animals.

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• African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda

  

  This blue flycatcher occurs in wooded habitats of West and Central Africa. It perches among foliage and makes short flights to catch small arthropods.

• 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.

• Gray-crowned Palm-Tanager Phaenicophilus poliocephalus

  The Gray-crowned Palm-Tanager has been recorded on Haiti's southern peninsula and nearby islands. Its flocking and plumage are described in a study of Haitian populations.

• Desert Spotted Skunk Spilogale leucoparia

  This skunk has black and white back stripes of nearly equal width in the Texas account. Most Texas capture records are from rocky bluffs, cliffs, or brush-lined canyon streams.

• Pale-bellied Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma pallescens

  This manakin occurs in Brazil and reaches northeastern Bolivia. It has a yellow patch at the center of the crown and feeds mainly on insects, with some fruit.

• Red-tailed Phascogale Phascogale calura

  This marsupial has a gray back, cream underside and a black brush at the end of its tail. It mainly lives in trees.

• Black-tipped Cotinga Carpodectes hopkei

  The Black-tipped Cotinga occurs from southeastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador, mainly in humid forest canopy. Males are almost white and females mostly gray above. It eats fruit, but details are sparse and seasonal movement is only suspected.

• Short-snouted Sengi Elephantulus brachyrhynchus

  The short-snouted sengi has a long, narrow snout and a faint white eye ring. In southern Africa it uses grassland with trees or shrubs.

• White-winged Robin Peneothello sigillata

  The White-winged Robin has velvety black plumage and white patches in the wings. In New Guinea's mountains it forages in the lower forest levels for insects and also takes fruit and seeds.

• Greater kudu Strepsiceros strepsiceros

  A striped antelope of African thickets and woodland.

• Biak Black Flycatcher Myiagra atra

  This island flycatcher has glossy black males and gray females. Its range includes islands off northwestern New Guinea.

• Aquino's Titi Monkey Cheracebus aquinoi

  This titi monkey was described from Loreto, Peru. The study reports observations in several Amazonian forest types, including sandy-soil forest and flooded forest.

• Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi

  The Subdesert Mesite is restricted to the dry spiny forests of southwestern Madagascar. It walks on the ground by day and searches beneath leaf litter for food.

• Père David's deer Elaphurus davidianus

  A deer native to China. After it disappeared from the wild there, reintroduction has reestablished wild populations in China.

• Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea

  The Cinereous Bunting uses rocky, scrub-covered slopes and nests on the ground. Its underparts range from whitish gray to yellowish between the western and eastern subspecies.

• Red-tailed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur ruficaudatus

  The red-tailed sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with a gray-brown body and reddish tail. It rests in tree holes by day and feeds on leaves.

• Bates's Swift Apus batesi

  Bates's Swift is a dark swift with a deeply forked tail. It occurs in humid forests from western Cameroon toward northern Gabon and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Bonobo Pan paniscus

  An ape living in forests south of the Congo River whose groups gather or split as food availability changes.

• Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis

  This small batis lives in open savannah woodland in West Africa. Males and females have different head and breast markings.

• Gilbert's Potoroo Potorous gilbertii

  Gilbert’s Potoroo is a nocturnal marsupial that digs with long claws and feeds mainly on fungi growing underground. By day it rests in a nest beneath sedges or bushes.

• Eurasian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus

  A small bird that weaves a pouch-shaped nest on branches near water. It ranges across Europe and Asia and forages among reeds and wetland plants.

• Vaquita Phocoena sinus

  The vaquita is a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Its rounded head and dark eye and lip patches help identify it.

• Black-tailed Treecreeper Climacteris melanurus

  The Black-tailed Treecreeper hops up tree trunks while searching bark for invertebrates. It occurs in northern Australia, and the throat and chest pattern differs between the sexes.

• Ribbon Seal Histriophoca fasciata

  A seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic Ocean whose mature coat has pale bands around the neck, foreflippers and hips.