Meet the world’s animals.
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- Grey-faced Tit-Babbler Mixornis kelleyi
Photo: Nathan Ruser · (c) Nathan Ruser, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 This small babbler lives in broadleaf evergreen forest and some secondary forest in Vietnam, Laos, and eastern Cambodia. The account records it up to 1,165 m.
- Brown Greater Galago Otolemur crassicaudatus
Photo: Hans Hillewaert · © Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0 A primate with large eyes and ears and a long tail. It is active at night and eats gum, fruit, seeds, insects, and other foods.
- Silver Oriole Oriolus mellianus
Photo: 黄秦 · CC BY 4.0 Silver Oriole has silvery plumage that contrasts with the black head, throat, and wings of the adult male. It breeds in southern China and winters in southern Thailand and western Cambodia.
- Black Wildebeest Connochaetes gnou
Photo: Vassil · Public domain A bovid of open grasslands and the Karoo in southern Africa. It mainly grazes short grass and uses open country.
- Chestnut Forest Crake Rallicula rubra
Photo: Jonathan M · CC BY 4.0 This rail searches the forest floor for invertebrates in the highlands of New Guinea.
- Yunnan Hare Lepus comus
Photo: Wang.QG · CC BY 4.0 The Yunnan hare lives in foothills near farmland and in hillside scrub or grassland. It forages at night on grasses and young shoots and leaves.
- Green Manakin Cryptopipo holochlora
It occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, in moist lowland and foothill forest and at forest edges. Ecuadorian records extend to about 1,500 m.
- Kloss's Gibbon Hylobates klossii
Kloss's gibbon has black fur and long arms. It lives in the canopy of the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra.
- Hose's Broadbill Calyptomena hosii
Hose's Broadbill is a bird of mountain forests on Borneo. The male is bright green with a blue area on the belly.
- Humboldt's Night Monkey Aotus trivirgatus
Humboldt's night monkey occurs in Venezuela and northern Brazil. It uses humid forests, including seasonally flooded forest, and eats fruits, nectar, and other foods.
- Black-winged Monarch Monarcha frater
This monarch uses forests in New Guinea and far northeastern Australia. In the nominate New Guinea subspecies, the area around the eye is gray. Migration is reported only for the Australian subspecies.
- Amazon Black Howler Alouatta nigerrima
This howler monkey has mostly black fur and lives in the south-central Amazon of Brazil. It feeds on leaves and fruit in the trees and lives in groups.
- Dulit Frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti
The Dulit Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird of a few Bornean mountain areas. Its cryptic colors blend with branches, and it nests on branches in Sarawak.
- Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomops franqueti
Franquet's epauletted fruit bat is an African fruit bat that eats fruit and flowers. White shoulder patches and the absence of a tail are distinctive.
- Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon
The Moustached Warbler is a small brown bird with a long pale eyebrow stripe. It lives in Mediterranean wetlands.
- Bornean Yellow Muntjac Muntiacus atherodes
The Bornean yellow muntjac is a small deer with yellow-orange fur that lives in the forests and low hills of Borneo.
- Yellow-eyed Penguin Megadyptes antipodes
A penguin recognized by its yellow eyes and head band, it catches fish and squid near the seafloor.
- Hoary Fox Lycalopex vetulus
The hoary fox is a small fox of open landscapes in central and eastern Brazil, with gray fur and a dark stripe along its back and tail.
- Cinnamon-vented Piha Lipaugus lanioides
A cotinga endemic to southeastern Brazil, inhabiting humid montane Atlantic Forest, mainly at about 500–1,000 m.
- Javan slow loris Nycticebus javanicus
This nocturnal primate moves through trees in Java's forests. It mainly eats gum and insects and has a pale, striped nape.
- Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius
The Sulphur-rumped Myiobius lives in the lower and middle levels of humid forest. Males have a dark olive back and pale yellow rump; the yellow crown patch is often hidden.
- Gorgona spiny rat Proechimys semispinosus
The Gorgona spiny rat has stiff fur and fine spines, with a chestnut to gray-brown back. It forages at night, eating fruit and other foods, and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
The White-throated Crake hides among plants in wetlands. Its white throat and barred flanks are useful marks, while face and neck color vary among subspecies.
- Red-nosed Bearded Saki Chiropotes albinasus
The red-nosed bearded saki feeds on fruit and nuts in the canopy forests of South America.