Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis amictus

  

  The Red-bearded Bee-eater has long red throat feathers that hang like a beard. It perches in Southeast Asian evergreen forest and waits for flying insects.

• Red-nosed Armored Tree-rat Makalata didelphoides

  A South American tree-dwelling rodent with a conspicuous red muzzle and spiny hairs on its back. It feeds in trees on plant material and fruit, and is recorded active from dusk into the night.

• Storm's Stork Ciconia stormi

  A large stork of lowland freshwater swamp forest. Adults are black and white with a red bill; immature birds have brown where adults are black.

• Common Genet Genetta genetta

  The common genet is a small African mammal with dark spots and a banded tail; it is active at night.

• Gould's Frogmouth Batrachostomus stellatus

  Gould's Frogmouth is a small frogmouth of Southeast Asian evergreen broadleaf forest. It occurs in dark and chestnut morphs.

• 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.

• Red-crested Turaco Tauraco erythrolophus

  The Red-crested Turaco is an Angolan endemic with a striking red crest and green body. It eats fruit and lives in pairs or groups in gallery and riverine forests.

• Little Chinese Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) meridianus

  The Little Chinese Jird lives in deserts and grasslands, and the color of its back varies.

• Brown-winged Kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera

  Adults have orange-brown underparts and a blue back. In southwestern Bangladesh's mangroves, the bird watches waterways from low perches and dives for prey.

• Arfak Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus schlegeli

  The Arfak ring-tailed possum is a rare possum known from the Arfak Mountains in northwestern New Guinea. Its coat is orange-brown, without dorsal stripes or facial markings.

• Carpentarian Grasswren Amytornis dorotheae

  This bird inhabits spinifex grassland and rocky areas in northern Australia, around the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

• African Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus africanus

  The African brush-tailed porcupine is a nocturnal rodent of West and Central African forests. It uses burrows during the day.

• Slaty-headed Longbill Toxorhamphus poliopterus

  The Slaty-headed Longbill has a dark head and a long, strongly curved bill. Records from New Guinea's mountain forests include feeding on nectar and arthropods.

• Pink Fairy Armadillo Chlamyphorus truncatus

  The lesser fairy armadillo is a small armadillo that lives in underground burrows. Its back is covered by pale pinkish-ochre armor, and it inhabits dry sandy areas of central Argentina.

• Smith's Longspur Calcarius pictus

  This longspur breeds in the Arctic and moves to central North American grasslands for winter.

• 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.

• Black Wood Pigeon Columba janthina

  The Black Wood Pigeon is Japan's largest pigeon. It is blackish purple with a green sheen around the neck.

• Greater Slow Loris Nycticebus coucang

  This slow loris is notable for its large forward-facing eyes. It moves through trees at night and eats floral nectar, sap, fruit, and small insects.

• Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus

  The Palm Cockatoo is a large black parrot of forests in New Guinea and northern Australia; it eats nuts and fruit.

• Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli

  Coquerel’s Sifaka is a lemur with a mostly white coat and chestnut patches on its chest and limbs. It leaps between trees and eats mainly leaves.

• White-winged Potoo Nyctibius leucopterus

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

• Lesser Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus elongatus

  A large spear-nosed bat recorded in the lowland Amazon. Its back and belly fur differ in color, and its wing tips are white.

• Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera

  This small finch uses wooded savanna and grassland from West into Central Africa. Adults are gray overall, with red areas on the wings and tail.

• Fat dormouse Glis glis

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