Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Red Flying Fox Pteropus scapulatus

  

  The little red flying-fox occurs across varied forests and wetlands in northern and eastern Australia. It mainly eats flower nectar and moves in search of flowering trees. It is the Australian flying-fox species that regularly roosts in tight clusters.

• Grey-sided Bush Warbler Cettia brunnifrons

  This small bird has a long pale stripe above the eye and a small bill. It lives in thick vegetation and searches near the ground for spiders and larvae.

• Common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius

  A small dormouse with large eyes, small rounded ears, and a furry tail.

• Barred Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles bennettii

  The Barred Owlet-nightjar inhabits moist forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has fine pale lines on its dark back and broad bars on its pale underside.

• Pouched Mouse Saccostomus campestris

  The pouched mouse is a burrowing rodent that carries seeds and similar foods in its cheek pouches. It occurs in grassland, sandy country, and cultivated areas.

• Andaman Coucal Centropus andamanensis

  Its head and underside are gray-brown, while the back, wings, and tail show reddish-violet to bronze tones. It uses forest edges and farmland, and the species account notes it searching for food while walking through mangrove mud.

• Spix's Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea spixii

  Spix's yellow-toothed cavy is a cavy-family rodent whose response to heat was studied in Brazil's northeastern Caatinga. Researchers examined how it releases heat through areas around the eyes and ears.

• Caspian Tit Poecile hyrcanus

  The Caspian Tit is a small tit of the mountains southwest of the Caspian Sea, with a distinctive chestnut-colored cap.

• Sugar glider Petaurus breviceps

  A marsupial that glides between trees in eastern Australian forests.

• Great white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus

  An aquatic bird with a long bill and a stretchy pouch beneath it.

• Bornean Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus borneensis

  This Bornean bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It roosts in caves and other sheltered places by day and hunts flying insects at night.

• Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana

  A large waterbird with a white body, black flight feathers, and red legs; in Japan it lives around waters and wetlands.

• Red slender loris Loris tardigradus

  The red slender loris is a small primate endemic to Sri Lanka. A 2017 study places the species across the island's wet zone and montane areas.

• Cocos Booby Sula brewsteri

  A booby of rocky islands in the eastern Pacific. Males have a whiter face and gray bill; females have a paler brown head than female Brown Boobies.

• Leopard seal Hydrurga leptonyx

  A seal of the pack ice around Antarctica. Usually solitary, it eats fish, penguins, krill and other prey.

• Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus

  This dark bird has a long forked tail and red eyes. It catches flying insects in the high canopy and may hunt at dusk.

• Southern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur meridionalis

  This small lemur was observed eating ground-level grasses in the bamboo-poor littoral forest of Mandena.

• Acacia Pied Barbet Tricholaema leucomelas

  The Acacia Pied Barbet is a stocky bird with striking red, white, black, and yellow facial markings. It occurs in southern African savanna and woodland habitats, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Black-bellied Pangolin Phataginus tetradactyla

  An arboreal pangolin of West and Central Africa with a tail longer than its body.

• Little Woodswallow Artamus minor

  The Little Woodswallow is a small woodswallow of mainland Australia’s open inland. It glides in smooth circles while taking flying insects.

• Buff-cheeked Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae

  A tree-dwelling gibbon with pale fur on its cheeks.

• Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis

  This nocturnal bird has a rusty band across the throat and chest. It catches flying insects at dusk and during the night.

• Lagoa Santa Akodont Bibimys labiosus

  The Lagoa Santa Akodont is a small rodent with a prominent, pinkish area around its lips. Specimen records include southern Brazil and nearby Misiones in Argentina.

• Jamaican Spindalis Spindalis nigricephala

  This endemic tanager inhabits lowland and mountain forests in Jamaica. Males and females differ in head and breast color.