Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bornean Leafbird Chloropsis kinabaluensis

  

  This leafbird inhabits mountain forests of Borneo. A 2003 taxonomic review treated Chloropsis kinabaluensis as a distinct species after it had long been included as a subspecies of C. cochinchinensis.

• Chacoan Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous chacoensis

  A small armadillo of the dry Chaco that spends much of its time underground and mainly eats ants and termites.

• Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus

  A social bird that probes tree trunks with a long, curved red bill.

• Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea

  A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

• Blue Crane Grus paradisea

  This crane lives in southern African grasslands. Its bluish-grey body and long trailing display feathers stand out.

• Northern muriqui Brachyteles hypoxanthus

  A large monkey that moves through the forest canopy using long limbs and a grasping tail. It is restricted to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil.

• Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor

  Its glossy dark brown back contrasts with a white belly. In southern African grasslands and farmland, it forages for insects on the ground, often in flocks.

• Dwarf Dog-faced Bat Molossops temminckii

  A small molossid bat that is widespread in South America. It catches insects while flying in open areas.

• Chestnut Forest Crake Rallicula rubra

  This rail searches the forest floor for invertebrates in the highlands of New Guinea.

• Kayan River Slow Loris Nycticebus kayan

  This slow loris occurs in central and northern Borneo. The 2013 taxonomic study compared facial patterns and other traits when describing it as a distinct species. Species-specific information about its behavior and diet in the wild remains limited.

• Collared Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza cirrocephala

  A small hawk of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that uses trees or tall shrubs as cover before striking at small birds.

• Francis's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus francisi

  Francis's horseshoe bat is a rarely recorded species known from Sabah and Kalimantan on Borneo. The 2015 paper listed six records available at that time.

• Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus

  The Iberian Chiffchaff is a small leaf warbler, 11 to 12 cm long. It breeds in western Europe and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Plantain Squirrel Callosciurus notatus

  The plantain squirrel lives in tree-rich habitats of Southeast Asia and is marked by black-and-white side stripes and a reddish belly.

• Magellanic Oystercatcher Haematopus leucopodus

  The Magellanic Oystercatcher is a large wader found mainly along the coasts of southern South America. During the breeding season it also moves inland to wet grasslands.

• Barasingha Rucervus duvaucelii

  Barasingha deer live in wetlands and floodplains of northern and central India and southwestern Nepal. Males grow branched antlers, and herd patterns change with the season.

• White-winged Potoo Nyctibius leucopterus

  The White-winged Potoo is marked by large white shoulder patches and a small build.

• African Savanna Hare Lepus victoriae

  This hare ranges from northwestern Africa across much of sub-Saharan Africa. Coat color and habitat vary among populations, including those in mountains.

• Striated Antthrush Chamaeza nobilis

  This terrestrial antthrush is recorded in lowland Amazonian forest in Peru. PeruAves describes it as rare and associates it with terra firme, or relatively flood-free forest. This entry limits its account to Peruvian records.

• Golden Palm Civet Paradoxurus zeylonensis

  The golden palm civet is an arboreal civet native to Sri Lanka. Its coat occurs in golden-brown and dark-brown forms.

• Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa

  This laughingthrush occurs in the savannas and shrublands of eastern Africa. It searches close to the ground in leaf litter for termites and other invertebrates.

• Short-snouted Sengi Elephantulus brachyrhynchus

  The short-snouted sengi has a long, narrow snout and a faint white eye ring. In southern Africa it uses grassland with trees or shrubs.

• Yellow-rumped Honeyguide Indicator xanthonotus

  The Yellow-rumped Honeyguide occurs in Asia, mainly along the Himalayan foothills. Its orange forehead and rump stand out, and it feeds on beeswax and insects.

• Black-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta prymnolopha

  This agouti lives in Brazilian forests. One zoo photograph shows a dark rump, and a report from a museum park that observed it with another species recorded agoutis burying seeds.