Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Robust Tuco-tuco Ctenomys tuconax

  

  The robust tuco-tuco lives in highland grassland in Tucumán Province, northwestern Argentina. It digs underground tunnels and feeds mainly on grasses.

• Zimmer's Tapaculo Scytalopus zimmeri

  

  Zimmer's Tapaculo is a small ground-level bird of humid ravines and open woodland on the eastern Andes. A white throat and pale eyebrow stand out; it is usually alone or in pairs and is often heard before it is seen. This account is limited to southern Andean records in Bolivia and neighboring northwestern Argentina.

• Booted Macaque Macaca ochreata

  

  The booted macaque lives on southeastern Sulawesi. Its gray limbs stand out against its darker coat. It is active by day and eats mainly fruit.

• Wattled Brush-turkey Aepypodius arfakianus

  

  The Wattled Brush-turkey is a large megapode of New Guinea’s mountain forests. Its reddish-brown body bears a red comb and wattle, and it incubates eggs using heat from a mound of leaves and twigs.

• Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa pusilla

  

  The little yellow-eared bat is small, with yellow-edged ears and no tail. It roosts in leaf tents and mainly eats small fruits.

• Orange-breasted Trogon Harpactes oreskios

  The Orange-breasted Trogon lives in forests in Southeast Asia and eats fruit, insects, and other small prey. Males have an orange breast and chestnut back, while females are more muted grey-brown.

• 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.

• Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus

  The Brown Skua is a large seabird that breeds on islands south of New Zealand and may pursue other seabirds at sea.

• Insular Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus keyensis

  This horseshoe bat varies in color among islands and subspecies. On Timor, subspecies parvus has a cinnamon-brown back and fawn underside. Four subspecies are recorded across the Moluccas and Lesser Sundas.

• Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor

  The Grey Currawong is a large bird of southern Australia. It searches on the ground and among vegetation for animals and fruit.

• White-nosed coati Nasua narica

  A long-tailed coati that searches for insects with its snout close to the ground.

• Hodgson's Treecreeper Certhia hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Treecreeper is a small bird of mountain regions from Pakistan east to China. It has a brown back and pale underside, and searches tree bark for insects and spiders.

• Bahia Porcupine Coendou insidiosus

  The Bahia porcupine has sharp quills and a long tail that can grasp branches. It is active in trees at night and eats fruits, bark, and other plant matter.

• Crinkle-collared Manucode Manucodia chalybatus

  This bird-of-paradise lives in forests on New Guinea and Misool. Its blue-black plumage has a blue-green sheen, and the feathers on the throat and upper breast look crinkled.

• Long-nosed Echymipera Echymipera rufescens

  This bandicoot has a long snout and a reddish rump. It occurs around New Guinea and on Australia's northeastern Cape York Peninsula.

• Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata

  The Cut-throat Finch is a small finch occurring in separate areas along the Sahel and in southern Africa. It forages on the ground for seeds and termites. Males have a red throat band.

• Philippine Tarsier Carlito syrichta

  The Philippine tarsier is a small primate with very large eyes and ears and long hind limbs. It moves through trees at night and catches insects and other prey.

• Javan Myna Acridotheres javanicus

  The Javan Myna is native to Java and Bali. In Singapore, an introduced urban population is established.

• Bearded Pig Sus barbatus

  A wild pig with bristles around the mouth and chin. Group movement varies with forest continuity.

• Pygmy Cuckooshrike Coracina abbotti

  This small cuckooshrike is restricted to Sulawesi, where it inhabits montane forest. Current accounts place it in Celebesica.

• Indian Spotted Chevrotain Moschiola meminna

  The Indian spotted chevrotain is a small hoofed mammal of Sri Lanka’s dry zone. It moves alone at night, with pale stripes or rows of spots across its brown back.

• Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana

  The Wattled Jacana is a small wading bird that walks over floating vegetation on long, thin toes.

• Black-and-white ruffed lemur Varecia variegata

  A mainly fruit-eating lemur of eastern Madagascar’s rainforests.