Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-throated Canary Crithagra albogularis

  

  The White-throated Canary is a pale canary with little streaking, a white throat, and a greenish-yellow rump. It feeds on seeds and other foods in shrubland, semi-desert, and related habitats of southwestern Africa.

• Agile Gibbon Hylobates agilis

  This gibbon lives high in tropical forest and uses its long arms to move from branch to branch.

• Black-and-yellow Phainoptila Phainoptila melanoxantha

  The Black-and-yellow Phainoptila eats fruit in mountain forests, and males and females differ markedly in plumage.

• Malay Civet Viverra tangalunga

  The Malay civet has black spots on tawny-to-gray fur and a black-and-white banded tail. It hides in dense cover by day and is active at night.

• Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda

  A white seabird with a red bill and long red tail streamers, it breeds on tropical and subtropical islands.

• Chestnut Rat Niviventer fulvescens

  The chestnut rat uses both the ground and trees. It occurs in forests as well as secondary growth and gardens, and its coat color varies across its range.

• Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster

  A survey of reserves in the Republic of the Congo recorded the species frequently in wooded grassland, especially at Idzoua Inkou. Males and females differ in upperpart color.

• Guadeloupe Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma improvisum

  The Guadeloupe big-eyed bat is a large big-eyed bat recorded on islands of the Lesser Antilles. It has white facial and dorsal markings, while detailed natural-history records remain sparse.

• Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis

  The Australian Painted-Snipe lives in shallow wetlands and searches for food from dusk into the night. Females are more brightly colored than males.

• Prehensile-tailed Hutia Mysateles prehensilis

  This large rodent lives in Cuba and is an accomplished climber. Its tail can curl around branches to help it grip.

• Short-tailed Antthrush Chamaeza campanisona

  A Short-tailed Antthrush of Bolivia’s humid montane forests. It searches for food on the forest floor by turning leaves with its bill.

• Striped skunk Mephitis mephitis

  A North American skunk with a black coat, white markings and a bushy tail.

• Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella

  The Australian Pratincole uses dry, open grasslands and other bare-ground habitats, and some populations move seasonally.

• Ornate Titi Plecturocebus ornatus

  The ornate titi is a small monkey of forests in eastern Colombia. Its reddish-orange chest and belly, white forehead stripe, and bushy tail stand out.

• Tody Motmot Hylomanes momotula

  The Tody Motmot is a small motmot found from Central America to northwestern Colombia. It lives in wet forest and often moves its tail from side to side.

• Lesser Mouse-deer Tragulus kanchil

  It has no antlers; males have long canine teeth. This small ungulate lives alone or in pairs and eats leaves and fruit.

• Great Spotted Kiwi Apteryx maxima

  A flightless, nocturnal kiwi that probes the soil and leaf litter with its long bill to find small prey.

• Burmese Goral Naemorhedus evansi

  This goral has long ears and coarse gray to gray-brown fur. Both males and females have horns. In northern Thailand it occurs on steep rocky slopes, in cliff grassland, and in mountain forest.

• Christmas Frigatebird Fregata andrewsi

  The Christmas Frigatebird is a large seabird that breeds on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. During the breeding season, the male inflates a red throat pouch.

• Great-tailed Striped Possum Dactylopsila megalura

  The great-tailed triok is a nocturnal, arboreal marsupial of interior New Guinea forests. Its thick fur has dark stripes over a white or gray base.

• American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus

  A large shorebird that searches tidal flats and beaches for shellfish with its long orange-red bill.

• Humboldt's Woolly Monkey Lagothrix lagothricha

  This large monkey lives in the canopy of humid forests, where it eats mainly fruit and travels in groups.

• Miombo Pied Barbet Tricholaema frontata

  This barbet is normally almost restricted to mature miombo woodland in south-central Africa. A paper reports a pair at an isolated site in Republic of the Congo and one captured bird there with more yellow underparts than southern specimens.

• Angolan Giant Mole-rat Fukomys mechowi

  Mechow's mole-rat is an African rodent that excavates underground tunnels. Family groups are known to cooperate in daily life.