Meet the world’s animals.

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• Forty-spotted Pardalote Pardalotus quadragintus

  

  A small bird found only in Tasmania and closely tied to forests containing white gum (Eucalyptus viminalis).

• African White-bellied Pangolin Phataginus tricuspis

  

  The African white-bellied pangolin is a tree-climbing pangolin of Central African rainforests. It feeds on ants and termites.

• Bar-winged Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucoptera

  

  The Bar-winged Wood-Wren is a small bird with rufous upperparts and two white wing bars. It forages alone or in pairs in scrub on mountain ridges and is often heard before it is seen.

• Macedonian Mouse Mus (Mus) macedonicus

  

  This small mouse resembles the house mouse but is mainly associated with natural grasslands and scrub. Identification from appearance alone can be difficult in some areas; chromosome and genetic evidence may be used to distinguish related mice.

• Grey-crowned Prinia Prinia cinereocapilla

  

  The Grey-crowned Prinia is a small bird marked by its grey crown. A study in western Nepal reported it in grassland and scrub habitats.

• Pearson's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys pearsoni

  

  Pearson's Tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent. Its reddish-brown coat has a white collar below the throat and white patches on the sides of the neck.

• Gray-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyianus

  The Gray-breasted Seedsnipe lives on the ground in the high Andes. Males are gray, while females have mottled brown plumage.

• Angolan Talapoin Miopithecus talapoin

  The southern talapoin occurs in southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Angola, south of the Congo River. It spends much of its time in riverside trees but also comes down to search for food. Its face is black, and its greenish-yellow coat is speckled with gray.

• Mayotte Sunbird Cinnyris coquerellii

  This sunbird is endemic to Mayotte. It feeds on flower nectar and small insects, and the sexes differ markedly in color.

• Malagasy Civet Fossa fossana

  The Malagasy civet is a small carnivore with rows of spots along its back. At night it searches for small animals on the ground and in low trees.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• White-throated Round-eared Bat Lophostoma silvicola

  This leaf-nosed bat ranges through Central America and northern and eastern South America. On Barro Colorado Island in Panama, researchers recorded insect gleaning and males excavating roost cavities in active termite nests.

• Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor

  The Abyssinian Scimitarbill is marked by glossy dark plumage and a long, strongly downcurved orange bill. It lives in dry scrub and open woodland in eastern Africa.

• Screaming hairy armadillo Chaetophractus vellerosus

  A hairy armadillo of dry regions, with fur showing between the plates of its armor. In hot summer weather it stays in burrows and is active at night.

• Masked Booby Sula dactylatra

  A large seabird with a white body, black wings and tail, and dark skin at the base of the bill; it catches fish and squid over tropical seas.

• Malayan Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus malayanus

  The Malayan horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat. Its back ranges from brown to reddish brown, and studies report geographic variation in the frequency of its echolocation calls.

• Varied Sittella Daphoenositta chrysoptera

  This bird searches for insects by working down trunks and branches, often moving among trees in flocks. Adults are grey above and white below, while their wing pattern varies across Australia.

• South American coati Nasua nasua

  A coati of South American forests, with an elongated flexible snout and a long ringed tail.

• Mindanao Blue Fantail Rhipidura superciliaris

  This blue fantail lives in lowland forest on Basilan and Mindanao. It has a blue head and long tail and feeds mostly on insects.

• Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou vestitus

  A small porcupine recorded in Colombia's Eastern Cordillera. Observations describe it using its tail for support while moving.

• Balicassiao Dicrurus balicassius

  A Philippine drongo. The white underparts and mimicry described here apply specifically to subspecies mirabilis.

• Schreibers's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus schreibersii

  Recent DNA studies split the former broad complex. Miniopterus schreibersii is now treated as a species of Europe, North Africa, and part of the Near East; former sub-Saharan African, East Asian, and Australian populations are separate species.

• Two-banded Warbler Myiothlypis bivittata

  This small warbler inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slopes. It has olive and yellow plumage, a rufous-olive crown and narrow dark crown stripes. The Peru account places it at 750–1,500 m.

• Raffray's Bandicoot Peroryctes raffrayana

  A medium-sized bandicoot of New Guinea forests, with a long, narrow snout and a long tail.