Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris

  

  The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small bird of Southeast Asian forest and bamboo. Its yellow belly and white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Fea's Tree Rat Chiromyscus chiropus

  Fea’s Tree Rat is an arboreal murine with a broad orange pattern on its back and a bicolored or mottled tail. The 2014 study examined specimens from several forested localities in southern Vietnam.

• Cape Gannet Morus capensis

  The Cape Gannet is a large seabird that breeds off Namibia and South Africa. It has a white body, black wings and tail, and a pale yellow-orange head.

• Cuban Evening Bat Nycticeius cubanus

  This Cuban bat is described with a short muzzle and thick brown fur. Records include roosts in buildings and wooden streetlight poles.

• Red-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps

  The Red-billed Scimitar Babbler is a forest bird with a long, curved red bill and a prominent white eyebrow.

• Fawn Antechinus Antechinus bellus

  The Fawn Antechinus is a small marsupial with pale fur, a white chin, and white feet. It is active mainly at dusk and dawn and shelters in tree hollows and fallen logs.

• Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata

  The Great Blue Turaco is a large bird with blue feathers and a red-and-yellow bill. It moves deftly through rainforest canopy and occurs in Central and West Africa.

• 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.

• 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.

• Podolsk Blind Mole Rat Spalax zemni

  It has a cylindrical body, eyes and ears that are difficult to see, and strong front teeth for digging. It burrows beneath grasslands and similar habitats in Ukraine and eats underground plant parts.

• North Island Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli

  This nocturnal kiwi probes leaf litter and rotten wood with its long bill. It lives in forests and scrub on New Zealand’s North Island and eats small invertebrates.

• Formosan Ferret-badger Melogale subaurantiaca

  The Formosan ferret-badger of Taiwan has a white stripe along its back. It is usually solitary and nocturnal, eating small animals, insects, earthworms, and fruit.

• Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus

  A very long tail and heavy barring mark this cuckoo. It hides in dense woodland and is often located by its voice.

• Common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

  A bat from Mexico through much of South America that feeds on animal blood.

• Mauritius Kestrel Falco punctatus

  A small falcon found only in the forests of Mauritius.

• Silvery Marmoset Mico argentatus

  The silvery marmoset varies from white to dark brown and has hairless face and ears. It eats fruit, animal prey, and gums, and sleeps in tree hollows and dense vegetation.

• Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus

  This drongo is recognized by its grey body and long, straight tail with no curled tips. It perches in forests and catches flying insects.

• Common Bear Cuscus Ailurops ursinus

  The common bear cuscus is an arboreal marsupial that moves slowly through trees with its grasping tail and forefeet and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Jamaican Tody Todus todus

  The Jamaican Tody is a small island endemic with a green back, red throat, and concealed pink flank tufts. It catches insects below the canopy and excavates nesting burrows.

• Scimitar-horned Oryx Oryx dammah

  The scimitar-horned oryx is an antelope of arid lands, with a pale coat and long, backward-curving horns.

• Scaly-breasted Cupwing Pnoepyga albiventer

  This small mountain bird has an almost absent tail and rounded wings. Nest observations in Sikkim found globular nests made mainly of moss and rootlets.

• White-winged Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peronymus) leucoptera

  The white-winged dog-like bat has white wings beyond the forearm and ears joined above the forehead. Its biology is still poorly known.

• Whiskered Treeswift Hemiprocne comata

  The Whiskered Treeswift is a forest-dwelling treeswift with long, whisker-like white feathers and a long tail. Males and females differ in ear-patch color.

• Brumback's Night Monkey Aotus brumbacki

  Brumback’s night monkey is a nocturnal primate described as endemic to Colombia’s Llanos. It sleeps in cavities in both living and dead trees.