Meet the world’s animals.

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• Leschenault's Rousette Rousettus leschenaultii

  

  Rousettus leschenaultii is a fruit-eating flying fox ranging across South and Southeast Asia. Its dorsal fur is fulvous brown and the underside grey to brown-grey; it roosts by day in caves and some buildings.

• Blue-lored Antbird Hafferia immaculata

  

  This antbird occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, and western Venezuela. It uses the undergrowth of humid forest on the western slopes of the Andes.

• Asian small-clawed otter Aonyx cinereus

  

  A small otter of South and Southeast Asian wetlands. It probes mud and beneath rocks with its forepaws to find crabs and shellfish.

• Olive-green Tanager Orthogonys chloricterus

  

  This tanager inhabits the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its back, wings, and tail are uniformly olive, while its belly is dull yellow.

• Gervais' beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus

  

  Gervais' beaked whale is a member of the beaked-whale family that lives in deep Atlantic waters. It is rarely seen at sea and is usually alone or in small, closely associated groups.

• Brown Jacamar Brachygalba lugubris

  

  The Brown Jacamar lives in South American woodland and savanna forest. It has a long pointed bill and a rufous breast.

• Eastern Mole Scalopus aquaticus

  The eastern mole digs underground tunnels and feeds on earthworms and beetle larvae. Its broad front feet are adapted for digging.

• Radde's Accentor Prunella ocularis

  Radde's Accentor is a small mountain bird with a white eyebrow and a dark-streaked back. It searches for insects and seeds on the ground.

• Giles's Planigale Planigale gilesi

  Giles's planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened triangular head. It shelters in cracks in clay soil and eats arthropods.

• Andean Potoo Nyctibius maculosus

  Fine gray, brown, and black markings and yellow eyes stand out on this nocturnal bird of Andean cloud forest.

• Northern Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza zaza

  This large mouse lemur is active at night. It lives in northwestern Madagascar’s forests and has a dark tail and pale underside.

• 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.

• Spix's Night Monkey Aotus vociferans

  Spix's night monkey is active at night. A feeding study in Peruvian river basins found fruit to be its main recorded food, with flowers and nectar also used.

• Hooded Butcherbird Cracticus cassicus

  This butcherbird occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It searches for insects, fruit, and other food in the canopy of lowland forest and dense secondary growth.

• Northern Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) septentrionalis

  The Northern Bat is a North American bat with long ears. It forages in forests during the warmer months and hibernates in caves or mines in winter.

• Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta

  The Hairy-breasted Barbet lives in African lowland forest. Males have yellow spots on the black upperparts and yellow edges to the wing feathers.

• Ringtail Bassariscus astutus

  A raccoon relative with a long ringed tail that climbs nimbly over rocks.

• Common Loon Gavia immer

  A large waterbird that chases fish underwater and changes its plumage noticeably between summer and winter.

• Fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus

  A waterside cat of South and Southeast Asia, with a stocky body, short tail and dark spots and lines on grey-brown fur.

• Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis

  This resident species is endemic to China. Around Mount Taishan it occurs from mountain areas to suburban tree cover and moves in flocks through shrubs and small trees.

• Peyrieras's Woolly Lemur Avahi peyrierasi

  Peyrieras’s woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of southeastern Madagascar’s forests. Its back is gray-brown, its underside is white, and its tail is reddish brown. It is arboreal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Philippine Megapode Megapodius cumingii

  This megapode has brown-to-grey plumage and bare red facial skin. In Borneo it searches on the ground and buries eggs in a mound of plant material, where heat from decomposition incubates them.

• Gobi Jerboa Allactaga (Orientallactaga) bullata

  This jerboa ranges across northern China and Mongolia. It lives in open sandy desert, uses burrows alone, and has a tail tuft with white and black markings.

• Black-and-yellow Broadbill Eurylaimus ochromalus

  The Black-and-yellow Broadbill is a small bird with a bright blue bill and bold black, white, yellow, and pink plumage. It catches insects by sallying from a perch in forest midlevels and canopy.