Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Screamer Chauna chavaria

  

  A large wetland bird of northern Colombia and eastern Venezuela. Its gray body, black neck and white band around the head stand out.

• Masoala Woolly Lemur Avahi mooreorum

  The Masoala woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur known from northeastern Madagascar. Its mottled back and reddish-brown tail are distinctive.

• White-winged Lark Alauda leucoptera

  The White-winged Lark is a lark whose white wing patches stand out in flight. It uses dry steppe and fields, and may gather in flocks outside the breeding season.

• Javan Ferret-badger Melogale orientalis

  The Javan ferret-badger is recorded in the hills and mountains of Java and Bali. It searches for food by digging through leaf litter at night.

• Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii

  Livingstone's Turaco is green, with a white-tipped crest and red on the inner wings. It eats fruit and berries.

• Greater Hedgehog Tenrec Setifer setosus

  The greater hedgehog tenrec is a small mammal from Madagascar with short spines on its back. It is active at night and searches for invertebrates on the ground and in trees.

• Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu

  The Alagoas Curassow is historically known from Alagoas in northeastern Brazil. It is classified as extinct in the wild (EW), but it is not globally extinct (EX): individuals survive in captivity. In September 2019, three pairs were released in Alagoas; follow-up monitoring reported the deaths of two males and one female.

• Red-collared Brown Lemur Eulemur collaris

  This lemur is notable for reddish-brown fur around its neck and orange-red eyes. Its tail is longer than its body and helps it balance as it moves through trees.

• Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix

  In spring, male Black Grouse gather at traditional display grounds to court. Females are smaller and brownish.

• Brazilian Pampas Cat Leopardus braccatus

  The Brazilian pampas cat is a small wild cat with dark spots and stripes on a tawny coat. It hunts small prey in grasslands and scrub.

• Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni

  The Blue-bearded Bee-eater has a green body, long blue throat feathers and a large curved bill. It uses openings in forests, and the species account reports spring-to-summer breeding in India.

• Grey Rhebok Pelea capreolus

  The rhebok is an antelope with long ears and a curly gray-brown coat. It browses in rocky uplands and grasslands.

• Southern Scrub Robin Drymodes brunneopygia

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in scrub in southern Australia. It searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Gray Slender Loris Loris lydekkerianus

  The gray slender loris is a nocturnal primate with large forward-facing eyes and long, slender limbs.

• Spectacled Tyrannulet Zimmerius improbus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses mid-elevation forest and edges and searches for food in the middle to upper canopy.

• Long-footed Tree Shrew Tupaia longipes

  The long-footed tree shrew is a small mammal of Borneo's forests. It moves quickly over leaf litter while searching for small prey.

• Green Crombec Sylvietta virens

  The Green Crombec inhabits African forest and woodland edge. The source places the nominate subspecies in a range that includes Cameroon and Gabon.

• Painted Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus forbesi

  Animals studied on Mt Dayman were described as having striking facial and head markings and a dark line down the back.

• Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator

  A large white swan of North America. It feeds on aquatic plants in shallow water and breeds along wetlands and lakes.

• Humboldt's Night Monkey Aotus trivirgatus

  Humboldt's night monkey occurs in Venezuela and northern Brazil. It uses humid forests, including seasonally flooded forest, and eats fruits, nectar, and other foods.

• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus

  The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is a small barbet, marked by a yellow rump and white facial stripes.

• Brow-antlered Deer Panolia eldii

  Its coat ranges from reddish brown to gray, and male antlers sweep in a long curve. It is associated with seasonally flooded indaing forest and monsoon forest; in the hot dry season it moves closer to waterholes.

• Masked Trogon Trogon personatus

  Several subspecies occur in Central and South American mountains. Plumage varies by sex and region; the adult male is used as an example.

• Short-tailed Mongoose Urva brachyura

  The short-tailed mongoose occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. It searches the forest floor for prey by day and is generally solitary.