Meet the world’s animals.

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• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• North-western Free-tailed Bat Ozimops cobourgianus

  

  This free-tailed bat occurs along the coast from Western Australia to the Northern Territory. Records associate it with mangroves in the west and woodland farther north.

• Philippine Trogon Harpactes ardens

  

  This trogon is endemic to the Philippines. The male has red underparts, while the female has orange-brown underparts; it lives in moist lowland and montane forest.

• Southern Needle-clawed Bushbaby Euoticus elegantulus

  

  The southern needle-clawed bushbaby is a small primate that moves through rainforest canopies at night and feeds mainly on tree gums.

• Chilean Skua Stercorarius chilensis

  

  The Chilean Skua is a seabird of southern South American coasts and offshore waters. It sometimes takes food from other seabirds.

• Common eland Taurotragus oryx

  

  A large antelope that lives in grassland and open woodland.

• Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa

  This black bird is confined to Tasmania and nearby islands. White tips on its wings and tail and its yellow eye are distinctive; it feeds in forests and near towns.

• Mountain Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii

  This cottontail has a grey-brown back, white underside, and black-tipped ears. It hides in brush on western North American mountainsides and riverbanks.

• Rusty-flanked Treecreeper Certhia nipalensis

  The Rusty-flanked Treecreeper is a small bird of high forests from the eastern Himalayas into southwestern China. It is recorded in mixed conifer and broadleaf forest with tall trees.

• Silvery Gibbon Hylobates moloch

  The silvery gibbon lives in forests on Java. Its long arms help it swing from branch to branch.

• Twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise Seleucidis melanoleucus

  The male has a black head and body, yellow underside, and wire-like flank plumes. It lives in lowland swamp forest and eats fruit and small animals.

• Southern muriqui Brachyteles arachnoides

  The southern muriqui is a large monkey that lives in remaining Atlantic Forest areas of southeastern Brazil and spends much of its time in trees.

• Gouldian finch Erythrura gouldiae

  A small bird with a green back, purple breast and yellow belly.

• Fijian Long-tailed Fruit Bat Notopteris macdonaldii

  A Pacific fruit bat with a long tail. A Fiji survey found nursing colonies in caves on Viti Levu.

• White-billed Starling Onychognathus albirostris

  Its glossy blue-black plumage and pale bill stand out. In the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands it uses cliffs, gorges, moorland, and towns, eating fruit and insects.

• Mesopotamian fallow deer Dama mesopotamica

  A deer with wild populations remaining in southwestern Iran; males have antlers that do not flatten into a broad palm.

• Black-faced Cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae

  The Black-faced Cuckooshrike occurs in wooded places other than rainforests, including suburbs. It eats insects and other foods, and is also called the Shufflewing for its wing-shuffling movement on landing.

• Black-backed Jackal Lupulella mesomelas

  A member of the dog family with separate ranges in eastern and southern Africa.

• African Jacana Actophilornis africanus

  The African Jacana walks on floating plants with its long toes and forages in wetlands. During breeding, the male incubates the eggs and cares for the chicks.

• Potto Perodicticus potto

  This nocturnal primate inhabits West African forest and moves slowly along branches.

• Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus

  The Australasian Bittern is a large heron relative that hides among dense reeds and rushes. When alarmed, it points its neck and bill upward and freezes among the plants.

• Peruvian Armored Tree-rat Toromys rhipidurus

  This is an arboreal spiny rat recorded in the Peruvian Amazon. A live animal captured near Iquitos showed pale cream patches behind its ears.

• King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa

  The King Vulture is a large scavenger of tropical lowland forests in Central and South America. It may wait for other birds to open a carcass.

• Guianan Bearded Saki Chiropotes sagulatus

  The Guianan Bearded Saki occurs in the Guianas and northern Brazil. It has reddish-brown body fur, dark head, tail and lower limbs, a beard, and rounded crown tufts. Species accounts describe a seed-heavy diet that shifts seasonally toward insects, flowers, and fruit.