Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-fronted Tyrannulet Acrochordopus zeledoni

  

  The White-fronted Tyrannulet ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It has an olive back, bluish-grey crown, and a pale eyebrow that meets across the forehead. It uses moist mountain-forest canopy and edges, feeding on insects and small berries.

• Riparian Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) riparius

  

  The Riparian Myotis is a medium-sized bat with woolly fur. Its dorsal color varies geographically from reddish to blackish, and it ranges widely through the Neotropics.

• Great frigatebird Fregata minor

  

  A tropical seabird with long wings and a deeply forked tail.

• Barbary Ground Squirrel Atlantoxerus getulus

  

  The Barbary ground squirrel is a striped, ground-dwelling squirrel of rocky northwestern Africa. It digs burrows and can live socially.

• Japanese robin Erithacus akahige

  

  A bird of dense mountain undergrowth that hops over the ground searching for small animals.

• Screaming hairy armadillo Chaetophractus vellerosus

  

  A hairy armadillo of dry regions, with fur showing between the plates of its armor. In hot summer weather it stays in burrows and is active at night.

• Pale-billed Parrotbill Suthora atrosuperciliaris

  This small parrotbill ranges from the eastern Himalayas into southern China. It forms small groups in bamboo and forest edges and eats seeds and insects.

• Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii

  The Tasmanian subspecies P. g. gunnii uses areas where grassland and remnant forest occur together. It probes the ground with its long nose for insects and worms.

• Pacific swift Apus pacificus

  A long-winged bird that catches insects in flight and visits Japan in summer.

• Red-bellied Lemur Eulemur rubriventer

  The red-bellied lemur is a diurnal lemur whose facial and belly markings differ between males and females. It eats fruit, flowers, and leaves in eastern Madagascar’s rainforests.

• Cape Batis Batis capensis

  This small bird differs in its chest and throat markings between the sexes. Pairs search for insects in forests and dense vegetation.

• Common duiker Sylvicapra grimmia

  A small antelope that lives in grassland and woodland cover.

• Red-backed Mousebird Colius castanotus

  The Red-backed Mousebird lives in western Angola, including forest edges, and feeds on fruits, buds, and leaves. A brown-red patch on its lower back is distinctive.

• Jungle cat Felis chaus

  A wild cat with tall, tufted ears that also lives in grasslands and wetlands.

• White-whiskered Puffbird Malacoptila panamensis

  A bird of the middle and lower forest strata in Central America. Males have pale facial speckles and conspicuous white tufts along the cheeks.

• Northern Olingo Bassaricyon gabbii

  An olingo of forests from Honduras through Nicaragua and Costa Rica to western Panama. It has small rounded ears and a long tail and feeds on fruit and nectar in trees.

• Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella certhiola

  Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler is a small brown bird. It breeds in parts of Central Asia and Siberia and winters in Singapore.

• Alpine Pika Ochotona (Pika) alpina

  Ochotona alpina occurs in mountain regions of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China. Summer coat color varies among populations from yellowish gray to reddish brown.

• White-throated Toucan Ramphastos tucanus

  The white-throated toucan is a toucan with a strikingly large bill. It eats fruit and spends time in pairs or flocks in the canopy.

• Philippine warty pig Sus philippensis

  The Philippine warty pig has one subspecies associated with the Greater Luzon Faunal Region and another with the Greater Mindanao Faunal Region. Their head hair differs, while many details of the species' diet and behavior remain unknown.

• Javan Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratum

  The Javan Black-capped Babbler has a black head and chestnut-brown back. On Java, it searches for small prey among leaf litter in moist forest.

• Monk Saki Pithecia monachus

  Male and female monk sakis have different coat colors. In a study of seasonally flooded forest in northern Peru, seeds were their most frequent food, and they also ate arthropods.

• Pitta-like Ground Roller Atelornis pittoides

  The Pitta-like Ground Roller lives in forests of eastern Madagascar and the central High Plateau. Its blue head and black eye mask stand out, while it searches the leaf litter for prey.

• South American fur seal Arctocephalus australis

  A fur seal of South American waters that spends much of its time at sea and gathers on rocky shores to breed.