Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Grauer's Broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri

  

  This forest bird is bright green and has a broad bill. It occurs in montane forest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

• Golden Palm Civet Paradoxurus zeylonensis

  

  The golden palm civet is an arboreal civet native to Sri Lanka. Its coat occurs in golden-brown and dark-brown forms.

• Racket-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus

  

  The Racket-tailed Roller has spatula-shaped tips on its outer tail feathers. It perches among the middle branches of trees and searches for insects and small animals.

• Short-eared Bat Cyttarops alecto

  

  The short-eared bat has dark, fluffy fur. It lives in tropical lowland forest and catches insects on the wing at night.

• Mid-mountain Berrypecker Melanocharis longicauda

  

  The Mid-mountain Berrypecker lives in mountain forests of New Guinea. Males and females have different upperparts, and the bird feeds on small berries and spiders in the forest understorey.

• Desert Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus penicillatus

  The desert pocket mouse lives in arid areas of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is nocturnal and carries seeds in its cheek pouches for storage.

• Golden Cuckooshrike Campochaera sloetii

  This cuckooshrike is described from the canopy of tall forest in New Guinea. It has an orange-yellow body and black wings with white bars.

• Agricola’s Opossum Cryptonanus agricolai

  This is a small opossum. Ventral fur is unbanded white in most examined specimens, and little is known about its field ecology.

• Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa

  The male has chestnut on the head, nape, and upper breast; the female is darker overall, with a paler chest and throat. It hides in dense wetland vegetation and searches for small prey on the ground.

• Stump-tailed Macaque Macaca arctoides

  A macaque with a very short tail and dark red facial skin. A zoo profile records it from Southeast Asia and northeastern India.

• Collared Crescentchest Melanopareia torquata

  This ground-dwelling bird has been studied in the Cerrado of southeastern Brazil. Individuals vary, including in the size of a white patch on the back.

• Senegal galago Galago senegalensis

  A small nocturnal primate of sub-Saharan Africa. It has large ears and searches for food in trees.

• Collared Falconet Microhierax caerulescens

  The Collared Falconet is a small falcon of South and parts of Southeast Asia. It is active by day and catches insects and other small prey in flight, using open woodland, forest edges and farmland near water.

• Northern White-breasted Hedgehog Erinaceus roumanicus

  A European hedgehog with spines across its back.

• Rosy Starling Pastor roseus

  Adults have a pale pink body with a glossy black head, wings, and tail. They breed in grasslands and winter in India.

• Grizzled Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus inustus

  The grizzled tree kangaroo is a marsupial with powerful forelimbs and curved claws suited to climbing. In the wild it eats leaves, fruit, and soft bark, and most records come from primary forest.

• Choco Vireo Vireo masteri

  It is recorded in humid montane primary cloud forest in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It searches the upper forest for small invertebrates.

• Bemaraha Woolly Lemur Avahi cleesei

  The Bemaraha woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur recorded in the Bemaraha region of west-central Madagascar. Its published description of appearance is based on one adult male observed in the study.

• Urrao Antpitta Grallaria urraoensis

  This antpitta is known from the northern Western Andes of Colombia. It stays close to the ground in mountain forest, moving through dense bamboo and moss while searching the leaf litter for prey.

• 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.

• Crimson-fronted Barbet Psilopogon rubricapillus

  The Crimson-fronted Barbet is a small forest barbet in Sri Lanka. A male of the nominate subspecies has a red forehead and orange-golden throat, and visits fruiting trees.

• Etendeka Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides micus

  This small sengi has been recorded near the Etendeka volcanic formation in northwestern Namibia. It has rust-colored fur and a hairless gland on the underside of the tail. It is nocturnal and uses the space beneath rocks as a daytime shelter.

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea

  The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a tiny, long-tailed bird with blue-gray plumage. It moves through the outer foliage of broadleaf forests and scrublands while searching for insects and spiders.