Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus

  

  The common spotted cuscus is a marsupial with a long tail that can grip branches. It lives in lowland tropical forest in New Guinea and also in mangroves in northeastern Australia, feeding mainly on leaves.

• Mountain Trogon Trogon mexicanus

  

  This trogon lives in highlands from Mexico into Central America. The checklist lists pine, pine-oak, and montane evergreen forests as its habitats.

• Fat dormouse Glis glis

  

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

• Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes

  

  The Black-rumped Waxbill is a small bird of tall grass and scrub. It mainly eats plant seeds, and adults have a red line behind the eye.

• Red Goral Naemorhedus baileyi

  

  The red goral is a goat relative of the eastern Himalaya that shifts elevation within mountain forests as the seasons change.

• Red Tanager Piranga flava

  

  The Red Tanager occurs in open woodland and forest edges across eastern and southern South America, with a northern population in southern Guyana and adjacent far northern Brazil. In Bolivia, lowland forms are recorded south of the Cochabamba basin and in the Santa Cruz lowlands.

• Northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris

  A seal of the eastern and central North Pacific. It dives to feed and comes ashore to breed and molt.

• Madeira Firecrest Regulus madeirensis

  A small bird of Madeira's forests and uplands. Its crown is a key mark, and it searches among leaves for tiny insects.

• Ashy Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cineraceus

  A small leaf-nosed bat. In records from southern China its back is buff-brown to grey, with a paler underside.

• Peruvian Pelican Pelecanus thagus

  The Peruvian Pelican is a large pelican of the Pacific coast along the Humboldt Current. It catches fish near the surface and also uses areas around fishing ports.

• Massoia's Lutrine Opossum Lutreolina massoia

  This opossum lives in the South American Yungas montane forests. It is active at dusk and night, eats small mammals, fish, invertebrates, bird eggs, and fruit, and can climb and swim well.

• Guanay Cormorant Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum

  This seabird occurs along the Pacific coast from Peru to Chile. Adults have dark backs and white underparts, while juveniles are browner. It mainly eats anchoveta, but its diet varies with latitude.

• White-chested Titi Cheracebus lugens

  This titi has a dark head and limbs contrasted with white hands and chest. At one Colombian study site, its diet centered on fruit and immature seeds.

• Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus thoracicus

  The male has a black head with a small red crown patch and a yellowish-green back. In peat-swamp and heath forests, at edges, and in coastal vegetation, it eats fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Northern Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops nanus

  This free-tailed bat has large, rounded ears joined above the forehead. Two specimens were recorded at a wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, amid sorghum crops and fragments of low deciduous forest.

• Wreathed hornbill Rhyticeros undulatus

  A tropical forest bird with a ridged structure above its bill.

• Southern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus siki

  The southern white-cheeked gibbon lives in forests of central Laos and Vietnam. It stays in the canopy, and its diet changes with the seasons.

• Tawny-backed Fantail Rhipidura superflua

  The Tawny-backed Fantail lives in humid forest on Buru Island. It is about 14 cm long and catches flying insects and other small invertebrates by day.

• Forest Giant Squirrel Protoxerus (Protoxerus) stangeri

  This forest squirrel has a longer tail than head-and-body length in the Gabon record. The CNRS account says it often comes to the ground and eats insects, palm nuts, and leaves.

• Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus

  The Asian Dowitcher probes wetland mud with its long bill and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius

  The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.

• Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis

  The Blue-throated Roller is a West and Central African roller that catches flying insects on the wing. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a reddish-brown back and a pale blue throat.

• Boyacá Spiny-rat Proechimys chrysaeolus

  Field records for this spiny rat are scarce. One reported juvenile from Colombia was found as prey at an elevation of 810 m.

• Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura

  This small bird is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. Breeding males grow long tails, and the species lays eggs in other birds' nests.