Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black Agouti Dasyprocta fuliginosa

  

  The black agouti is a slim rodent whose back fur ranges from orange to almost black. It is mainly active by day, feeding on fruit and plants in forests, brush, and places near water.

• Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus

  This small flycatcher ranges from tropical Mexico through Central America and northern South America to central Bolivia. The account describes it as often still in the lower levels of humid forest.

• Layard's Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) layardi

  This squirrel occurs in forests of southern and central Sri Lanka. Three stripes along its back and a deep-red underside are distinctive.

• Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor

  A small flamingo with a long curved neck and slender pink legs, gathering on saline lakes and similar wetlands.

• Pearson's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus pearsonii

  This horseshoe bat ranges across parts of South and Southeast Asia. Its back is brown and underside paler.

• White-browed Antpitta Hylopezus ochroleucus

  This antpitta occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has a white eyebrow and a second pale line below it, with rufous flanks, and searches for small invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata

  The Striped Possum is a nocturnal marsupial of northern Queensland's tropical forests and lowland New Guinea. It is marked with black-and-white stripes and has an elongated finger used to probe for insects.

• Bare-headed Laughingthrush Melanocichla calva

  This laughingthrush occurs in the hills of northeastern Borneo. Its dark body, bare head, pale blue areas around the eyes, and red bill are distinctive.

• Andean Cottontail Sylvilagus andinus

  The Andean cottontail is known from Ecuador's highlands, and a 2022 study confirmed records at several sites in Peru. It has long, soft fur, a reddish rump, and a pale underside.

• Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis

  The Rufous-sided Broadbill is a small bird of western and central African forests. Males show broken white wing-bars and a bright orange patch on the side of the breast.

• Zarudny's Rock Shrew Crocidura zarudnyi

  This shrew has been recorded in arid mountains and plateaus. Its back is pale gray, its belly and feet are white, and its tail is long-haired.

• Brolga Antigone rubicunda

  A large crane found in Australia, recognised by its red head and black throat pouch. Males and females may dance during courtship.

• Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops megalophylla

  The ghost-faced bat ranges from the southern United States through Central America to northern South America. It roosts in caves by day and emerges in the evening to hunt large moths and insects.

• Emerald Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta finschii

  This tiny parrot feeds upside down on lichens and fungi on tree trunks. Plumage and colour patterns vary among subspecies and between sexes.

• Plains Pseudomys Pseudomys australis

  A mouse of Australia’s arid zone. Recent records are concentrated on stony plains in South Australia, with scattered records in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

• Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity Neodrepanis hypoxantha

  The Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity is a small bird of eastern Madagascar's mountain forests. In breeding plumage, the male has a glossy blue-black back, yellow underparts, and bright eye wattles.

• Kreb's African Fat Mouse Steatomys krebsii

  Krebs's fat mouse is a small, long-tailed rodent with a patchy range in southern Africa. It is described as nocturnal and ground-dwelling, favoring dry sandy places.

• Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula

  A tiny, active North American bird that searches for insects among leaves and branches and flicks its wings often.

• Long-tailed Spiny-rat Proechimys longicaudatus

  A spiny rat from inland South America, including dry forests. Its reddish or yellowish back is mixed with dark-brown hairs, its belly is white, and its tail is sparsely haired.

• Silvery Pigeon Columba argentina

  The Silvery Pigeon has silvery blue-grey plumage and a green sheen on the nape. In 2008, one bird was photographed flying between islands in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands.

• Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis

  The tucuxi is a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon basin, separate from the marine Guiana dolphin.

• White-throated Pewee Contopus albogularis

  A French Guiana field report describes a small flycatcher with a dark-gray body and white throat. At Nouragues, one bird was observed chasing insects from a branch and returning to it.

• Waigeo Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus papuensis

  The Waigeo spotted cuscus is an arboreal cuscus from islands west of New Guinea. It lives in forest and eats fruit, leaves, and insects.

• Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler Ptilorrhoa castanonota

  The Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler has a chestnut back with blue eyebrows and underparts and forages on the forest floor in New Guinea's hills and mountains.