Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lyre-tailed Nightjar Uropsalis lyra

  

  The Lyre-tailed Nightjar lives along humid forest edges and woodland near water in the Andes. It is about 25–28 cm long and catches insects and other invertebrates in flight at night.

• Southern River Otter Lontra provocax

  A South American otter found in southern Chile and parts of Argentina.

• Tawny-backed Fantail Rhipidura superflua

  The Tawny-backed Fantail lives in humid forest on Buru Island. It is about 14 cm long and catches flying insects and other small invertebrates by day.

• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.

• Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus

  An ibis whose adult head and neck have bare black skin, while most body feathers are white. It probes for food in shallows and rice fields.

• Simmons' Mouse Lemur Microcebus simmonsi

  A small lemur recorded in eastern lowland rainforest in northeastern Madagascar. Its life in the wild is still not well documented.

• Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus

  The Spotted Honeyguide is an African bird with an olive back and a spotted breast. It searches forest canopies for beeswax and 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.

• Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum

  A fox-brown bird with dark streaks, bright yellow eyes, and a long bill.

• Black Agouti Dasyprocta fuliginosa

  The black agouti is a slim rodent whose back fur ranges from orange to almost black. It is mainly active by day, feeding on fruit and plants in forests, brush, and places near water.

• Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca

  A small warbler with dark cheeks contrasting with a pale throat. Wild birds in the UK mainly eat insects in spring and summer, then berries in autumn.

• Thick-thumbed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) rosseti

  This small bat is known from Cambodia, southern Thailand, and Vietnam. At one Vietnamese site, it was observed flying low over thickets and maize fields while foraging.

• Dusky Crimsonwing Cryptospiza jacksoni

  This small finch lives in high mountain forests. It feeds on seeds on the ground by day and is common in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park.

• Rusty Antechinus Antechinus adustus

  A marsupial with rusty tones in its dark brown fur, it lives in moist upland forests of northeastern Queensland.

• Ethiopian Thrush Turdus simensis

  This thrush occurs on the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands. Adults have gray-brown upperparts and a short tail, and forage on the ground for insects and worms. It uses open or scrubby habitats rather than dense forest.

• Eastern Rock Elephant Shrew Elephantulus myurus

  The eastern rock elephant shrew is a small mammal with a mobile, slender snout. It forages among rocky outcrops in southern Africa.

• Black-headed Bee-eater Merops breweri

  The Black-headed Bee-eater is marked by a black head and green and cinnamon plumage. It catches insects from an open perch.

• Pygmy Spotted Skunk Spilogale pygmaea

  A small skunk from Mexico’s Pacific coast, with white stripes on a black coat that break into spots toward the rear.

• African Grass Owl Tyto capensis

  The African Grass Owl is a nocturnal owl of wetlands and grasslands that roosts near the ground. It has a white heart-shaped facial disc and a brown back with white spots.

• Gaumer's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys gaumeri

  Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse is endemic to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Records show it eating land snails as well as seeds.

• Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus

  A large, heavy-bodied seabird with broad wings. Breeding adults have long, twisted, spoon-shaped central tail feathers.

• Bay Cat Catopuma badia

  The Bornean bay cat is a rarely detected wild cat of Borneo’s forests. Records exist, but much about its diet and way of life remains unknown.

• Green Iora Aegithina viridissima

  The Green Iora is a small bird of forest canopies. The male is dark green with bold black-and-white wing stripes.

• Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes tricinctus

  This armadillo has a rounded shell and can curl into a ball by fitting its head and tail shields together when threatened.