Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great Barbet Psilopogon virens

  

  A large, colorful barbet that lives in tall trees in Hong Kong. Several birds may gather at fruiting trees.

• South-eastern Pocket Gopher Geomys pinetis

  

  The southeastern pocket gopher spends much of its life underground in sandy soil, digging tunnels and eating roots and tubers.

• Inambari Gnatcatcher Polioptila attenboroughi

  

  This gnatcatcher is documented in the canopy of western Amazonian forest. Its original description reported specimens and recordings from a small number of sites in Amazonas, Brazil.

• Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus

  

  A dolphin of Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters. It feeds mainly on fish in shallow waters.

• Orange-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula canicularis

  

  The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a small parrot with an orange band across the forehead. In the wild it nests in arboreal termite mounds or cavities and eats fruit and seeds.

• Striped Hairy-nosed Bat Gardnerycteris crenulatum

  

  The striped hairy-nosed bat uses tree cavities as daytime roosts in lowland rainforest. It mainly eats insects and spiders, although fruit has also been recorded in its diet.

• Spot-winged Monarch Symposiachrus guttula

  The Spot-winged Monarch occurs on New Guinea. A guide to the Mimika region describes a black face and throat, grey back, white underparts and white wing spots, with records from lower and middle forest levels.

• Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi

  This jerboa is recorded from deserts of southern and southeastern Mongolia and northern China. Mongolian samples show sex-related and geographic variation in skull size.

• Many-colored Fruit Dove Ptilinopus perousii

  The Many-colored Fruit Dove is a small, compact dove with differences between the sexes. In island forests it feeds mainly on figs and gathers at fruiting trees.

• Collins' Squirrel Monkey Saimiri collinsi

  Collins' squirrel monkey occurs in the eastern Brazilian Amazon and is omnivorous. It often uses the middle and lower forest strata and sometimes descends to the ground to feed on insects.

• Aldabra Drongo Dicrurus aldabranus

  This drongo is endemic to Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. It is black with red eyes and a forked tail, and it also takes terrestrial prey on the islands.

• Huemul Hippocamelus bisulcus

  The huemul is a mountain-adapted deer that lives in the Patagonian forests of Argentina and Chile.

• Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus

  The Brown Treecreeper has a pale brown back and black-and-buff barring across the breast and belly. It lives in dry forests of eastern Australia and searches for insects on trunks and on the ground.

• Sa Pa White-toothed Shrew Crocidura sapaensis

  A shrew from northern Vietnam with dark gray-brown fur and a tail that is paler underneath.

• Three-toed Jacamar Jacamaralcyon tridactyla

  The Three-toed Jacamar occurs in southeastern Brazil. It has fine golden-buff markings on its head, a green gloss on its dark tail, and three toes on each foot.

• 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.

• Black-girdled Barbet Capito dayi

  A small barbet of lowland forest in central Amazonian Brazil and eastern Bolivia. The male’s red crown and black band across the white underside are distinctive.

• Egyptian mongoose Herpestes ichneumon

  A ground-dwelling mongoose that uses wooded areas near water.

• Yellow-billed Kingfisher Syma torotoro

  The Yellow-billed Kingfisher inhabits forest on New Guinea and on Australia's Cape York Peninsula. It watches for prey from low branches.

• Northern Tree Shrew Tupaia belangeri

  The northern tree shrew has grey-olive fur and a long snout and lives in moist forests across South and Southeast Asia.

• Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca

  The Sooty Albatross is a large seabird with dusky plumage that ranges over the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean.

• Angolan Genet Genetta angolensis

  The Angolan genet inhabits open miombo woodland interspersed with savanna. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night with camera traps and night transects.

• Thick-billed Longspur Rhynchophanes mccownii

  The Thick-billed Longspur breeds in North American shortgrass prairie and moves to open land farther south for winter.

• Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura monticola

  This bat has glossy brown fur and triangular ears. It hunts insects in tropical forests and roosts in caves or tree hollows.