Meet the world’s animals.
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- Brumback's Night Monkey Aotus brumbacki
Photo: Martha Lucia Ortiz-Moreno · CC BY 4.0 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.
- Burmese Bushtit Aegithalos sharpei
This relatively long-tailed bushtit occurs in Myanmar’s Chin Hills. A 2014 Natmataung survey recorded it in pine and evergreen oak forest.
- Thick-tailed Three-toed Jerboa Stylodipus telum
This jerboa occurs in a broken belt of dry country from the lower Dnieper to Lake Zaysan.
- Long-tailed Potoo Nyctibius aethereus
This nocturnal bird has a long tail and mottled plumage. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying insects at night.
- Grizzled Leaf Monkey Presbytis comata
The grizzled leaf monkey's boundary with a close relative remains uncertain, with coat color varying by region. It lives in western Java's forests, is active in trees by day, and feeds mainly on leaves.
- Yellow Tit Machlolophus holsti
The Yellow Tit is endemic to Taiwan’s mountains and uses the canopy of primary broadleaf forest. Males are strikingly black and yellow, while females and juveniles differ in color and crest shape.
- Northern Tree Shrew Tupaia belangeri
The northern tree shrew has grey-olive fur and a long snout and lives in moist forests across South and Southeast Asia.
- Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla
The Pygmy Cupwing is a small bird with a very short tail and scaled-looking brown plumage. It forages in dense understory and near the forest floor.
- Pousargues' mongoose Dologale dybowskii
This small mongoose has a brown body, a gray face, and a bushy tail. It has been recorded in Central Africa, but little is known about its life in the wild.
- Okarito Brown Kiwi Apteryx rowi
The Okarito Brown Kiwi is a nocturnal kiwi of lowland forest on New Zealand's South Island. It has pale grey-brown, streaked feathers and a long bill.
- Sundevall's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros caffer
This bat has short, rounded wings, a large noseleaf, gray to gray-brown dorsal fur and a paler underside. It is recorded in southern African wooded savanna and riverine forest and feeds mainly on moths.
- Chiming Wedgebill Psophodes occidentalis
The Chiming Wedgebill inhabits arid Australia. It uses mulga woodland and low shrubland in Shark Bay, picking insects from the ground and small trees.
- Brant's Climbing Mouse Dendromus mesomelas
Brant's Climbing Mouse moves through and climbs low vegetation. Near Cape Town, it was recorded building a ball-shaped grass nest inside old weaver nests.
- Grey-headed Robin Heteromyias cinereifrons
This bird lives in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. Adults have a gray head, white throat, and rufous back, and search leaf litter for insects and larvae.
- Wapiti Cervus canadensis
The wapiti is a large deer found in herds in North America’s Yellowstone region.
- Crested Ant Tanager Habia cristata
This ant-tanager has a long, vivid red crest. A 1966 paper based on field observations in 1962 describes its life in stream ravines of Colombia's Western Andes.
- Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta
The long-nosed bandicoot lives in forests and scrubland in eastern Australia. It probes the ground with its long snout and digs for insects and other small invertebrates at night.
- 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.
- Small Japanese Mole Mogera imaizumii
The Small Japanese Mole is found mainly in eastern Japan. It uses habitats from lowland grasslands and farmland to mountain forest, with regional differences in size and coat color.
- Black Caracara Daptrius ater
Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.
- Andean Tuco-tuco Ctenomys opimus
The Andean tuco-tuco occurs in dry highland areas of the Andes. It has long, soft, pale-yellow fur and uses underground burrows.
- Orange-crowned Oriole Icterus auricapillus
Its yellow-orange plumage is brightest on the head, contrasting with its black face, breast, and tail; each black wing has an orange shoulder patch.
- Masked palm civet Paguma larvata
A climbing civet that lives in forests and near human settlements.
- Green-tailed Warbler Microligea palustris
The Green-tailed Warbler is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It has a gray head and body, olive-green back and wings, and mainly eats insects.