Meet the world’s animals.

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• Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator

  

  A large hornbill of forests from Kenya and Angola to eastern southern Africa. It feeds mainly on fruit and nests in tree cavities, which the female seals during breeding.

• Bicolor-spined Porcupine Coendou bicolor

  

  The bicolor-spined porcupine has quills that are pale at the base and dark toward the tip, and is an able climber. It is mainly active at night in trees and eats leaves, fruit, and other plant parts.

• Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor

  

  A uniformly gray turaco with a tall crest and long tail, it often perches in small groups in trees and bushes. It occurs in open woodland and scrub in southern Africa.

• Domestic Pig Sus domesticus

  

  People keep domestic pigs as livestock. In the Kunekune breed, coat colors vary, and the pigs can graze on pasture.

• Rufous-capped Antthrush Formicarius colma

  

  A bird that searches for food while walking on the Amazon forest floor.

• White-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur albifrons

  

  The male's white face makes the sexes easy to distinguish. This lemur lives in forests of northeastern Madagascar and mainly eats fruit, young leaves, and flowers.

• Pale-browed Tinamou Crypturellus transfasciatus

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs along the Pacific side from southwestern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. Its pale brow and barred back help identify it.

• Philippine Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura alecto

  This insect-eating bat was recorded in a cave survey in the southern Philippines. Surveyed individuals averaged 76 mm in total length, with tails 31.5 mm long. They roosted in small hollows in partly lit caves.

• Purple-winged Roller Coracias temminckii

  A roller of Sulawesi forests and woodlands, it is noted for its purple wings and catches invertebrates on the ground.

• North American Least Shrew Cryptotis parvus

  A small shrew of North America, recorded in tall grass, brush and fallen logs, and soft soils around wetlands.

• Rüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula

  Rüppell's Weaver lives in dry parts of the Horn of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula and often searches for food in groups.

• Painted Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus forbesi

  Animals studied on Mt Dayman were described as having striking facial and head markings and a dark line down the back.

• Barred Buttonquail Turnix suscitator

  The Barred Buttonquail is a small bird that eats grass seeds and small invertebrates. Females are described as more brightly colored than males, and the birds are often solitary or in small groups.

• 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.

• Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus

  The Masked Shrike migrates to Cyprus in spring to nest in a tree or bush. It has a black band across the eye and may impale prey on a thorn.

• Eastern Forest Hedgehog Mesechinus orientalis

  This hedgehog was described from eastern China in 2023. Its short spines have bands of white, black, and pale color.

• Spotted Scrubwren Sericornis maculatus

  The Spotted Scrubwren lives in south-western Australian forest and searches leaf litter for insects and seeds. The appearance and life details below are limited to the subspecies described in that region.

• Fat dormouse Glis glis

  A dormouse native to Central Europe, it has gray fur, large eyes and ears, and long whiskers.

• Black-crowned Barwing Actinodura sodangorum

  This barwing is documented in high-elevation forest around Mount Ngoc Linh in central Vietnam. The account here is limited to the documented locality.

• Tres Marias Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin insularis

  This mouse opossum is known only from Mexico's Islas Marías Archipelago. A camera study on María Madre Island recorded it twice, both times during evening or night hours.

• Southern Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus albivitta

  It occurs in montane forests of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The species-level name used here is Southern Emerald Toucanet; White-throated may refer only to the white-throated nominate subspecies and should not be generalized to every form.

• Black-crowned Dwarf Marmoset Mico humilis

  The black-crowned dwarf marmoset is a small monkey known from a limited area of central Amazonian Brazil. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it in Mico but notes that this placement remains tentative.

• Rufous-capped Motmot Baryphthengus ruficapillus

  The Rufous-capped Motmot has a rufous head and blue-green eyebrow. It perches in the lower forest canopy and eats insects and small animals.

• Namib Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides flavicaudatus

  This sengi lives in the arid Namib and Pro-Namib of Namibia.