Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens

  The Magnificent Frigatebird is a large seabird with long wings and a deeply forked tail. It soars over tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the Americas.

• Common tree shrew Tupaia glis

  This small mammal has a long, tapering muzzle and a bushy tail. During the day it searches for fruit and insects on the ground and among low shrubs.

• Titicaca Grebe Rollandia microptera

  The Titicaca Grebe is a flightless grebe of high-altitude lakes around Lake Titicaca. In breeding plumage, its yellow-orange bill and white cheeks stand out; it dives for fish in shallow, vegetated water.

• Palawan Pangolin Manis culionensis

  The Palawan pangolin has pale yellowish-white scales across its back. A Palawan study found greater use of primary forest among the habitats assessed and reported foraging searches at termite and ant mounds.

• Scaly-breasted Cupwing Pnoepyga albiventer

  This small mountain bird has an almost absent tail and rounded wings. Nest observations in Sikkim found globular nests made mainly of moss and rootlets.

• Southern Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous unicinctus

  This armadillo is marked by a gray, banded shell and an unarmored tail. It lives mostly alone underground and feeds on ants and termites.

• Guira Cuckoo Guira guira

  A cuckoo of open South American habitats that forages on the ground with others and may share a communal nest.

• Great Flying Fox Pteropus neohibernicus

  The great flying fox is a large fruit bat found on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is nocturnal and roosts in large groups high in trees.

• Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus

  The Eurasian Reed Warbler is a small bird that sings from reedbeds. It eats insects in summer and berries in autumn; many birds that breed in Britain migrate to Africa.

• Shepherd's Beaked Whale Tasmacetus shepherdi

  Shepherd's beaked whale is a beaked whale with functional teeth in both upper and lower jaws in both sexes. It lives in deep, cool offshore waters of the Southern Hemisphere, but is rarely seen at sea and much about its biology remains unknown.

• Mayan Antthrush Formicarius moniliger

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in humid forests from southern Mexico to central Honduras. The sexes have similar plumage: olive-brown above, black on the throat, and gray on the breast and belly. It walks on the forest floor while searching for insects and land snails.

• Southern African hedgehog Atelerix frontalis

  The southern African hedgehog has a white band across its forehead and a range of separated populations in southern Africa.

• Bicolored Flowerpecker Dicaeum bicolor

  The Bicolored Flowerpecker is a small species endemic to the Philippines. The male has a black head and back with silvery-white underparts, and the species is found in forest canopy.

• Aztec Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) aztecus

  This fruit-eating bat includes a population in Mexico's mountains. It eats fruit and carries seeds to other parts of the forest.

• Russet-crowned Warbler Myiothlypis coronata

  In the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia, this warbler is reported at elevations of 1,500–3,000 metres.

• Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox

  A tree-climbing carnivorous mammal of Madagascar forests.

• Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae

  The male is a small hummingbird with a blue-violet throat and bronzy-golden tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and also takes small arthropods.

• Small Japanese Mole Mogera imaizumii

  The Small Japanese Mole is found mainly in eastern Japan. It uses habitats from lowland grasslands and farmland to mountain forest, with regional differences in size and coat color.

• Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui

  The Yellow-spotted Barbet is a small forest barbet in Africa. It has yellow spots on a black body and eats small fruits.

• Altai Zokor Myospalax myospalax

  The Altai zokor is a rodent that digs tunnels and lives underground. It has tiny eyes and powerful forefeet for digging, and it feeds on plant roots and other plant parts.

• McKay's Bunting Plectrophenax hyperboreus

  McKay's Bunting breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and moves to the west coast of Alaska for winter.

• Cinnamon Dog-faced Bat Cynomops abrasus

  This dog-faced bat is recorded in Bolivia. It has chestnut fur on its back, a broad muzzle and chin, and feeds on insects near water or in clearings.

• Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus

  A mousebird with a red face and long tail. Flocks use trees in dry regions and feed on leaves and fruit.