Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fischer's Turaco Tauraco fischeri

  

  A turaco whose red feather pigment contains copper. It moves through forest and thicket using feet adapted for gripping branches, and often eats fruit.

• Short-tailed Porcupine Coendou rufescens

  The short-tailed porcupine lives in Andean forests and has a relatively short tail. Colombian observations document it searching Cecropia trees and eating their fruit during the day.

• Black-spotted Bare-eye Phlegopsis nigromaculata

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest. It forages in the understory and sometimes follows columns of army ants.

• Japanese raccoon dog Nyctereutes viverrinus

  A member of the dog family living in and around Japanese forests.

• Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps

  It has a blue-grey crown and lores, glossy black upperparts and throat, a white breast, buff belly, and red bill. In West African forest it forages in small, noisy flocks.

• 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.

• Common Potoo Nyctibius griseus

  Its grey to brown plumage is finely patterned with black and buff, and its large orange iris is conspicuous. It occurs in varied habitats in Central and South America and feeds on insects, especially around dawn and dusk.

• Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus

  A large sea lion of the cold North Pacific. It catches fish and other prey at sea and rests ashore.

• Moluccan Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles crinifrons

  The Moluccan Owlet-nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forest in the northern Moluccas.

• Golden-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis

  This is a small, golden-brown lemur. At study sites in northwestern Madagascar, it searched for food alone in trees at night and was recorded resting in tree holes and similar places.

• Diamantina Tapaculo Scytalopus diamantinensis

  This small tapaculo is restricted to mountains in northeastern Brazil. Males and females differ in the tone of their upperparts, and the species lives in dense forest-floor vegetation.

• Ground Cuscus Phalanger gymnotis

  This cuscus has a dark stripe down its back and a tail suited for gripping branches. It searches for fruit at night and can climb.

• 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.

• Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus goodfellowi

  A climbing kangaroo of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.

• Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis

  The Lesser Jacana is a small jacana of shallow freshwater wetlands with grasses and sedges. It may move as water levels change.

• Gorontalo Macaque Macaca nigrescens

  This dark-furred macaque has flat hair on its crown and lives in forests of northern Sulawesi. It eats fruit, other plant matter, and insects.

• Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus

  The Fire-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird whose male has a scarlet chest patch and a fine black stripe down the belly. In Taiwan it is one of the birds described as dispersing mistletoe seeds.

• Greater Naked Bat Cheiromeles torquatus

  The greater naked bat is mostly hairless, with a ring of black bristles around its neck. It occurs in Southeast Asia and hunts insects at night.

• White-winged Duck Asarcornis scutulata

  The White-winged Duck lives in wetlands beside forests. It moves between feeding areas and resting places around dawn and dusk.

• Paraguayan Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys macrurus

  This small opossum is known from eastern Paraguay and adjacent central-western Brazil. Its mid-back is darker, becoming paler toward the flanks and belly.

• Colasisi Loriculus philippensis

  The Colasisi is a small parrot of the Philippine islands that feeds on nectar, blossoms, and fruit. It may forage upside down in the canopy.

• Perrier's Sifaka Propithecus perrieri

  Perrier’s sifaka is an arboreal lemur with a black coat. It is active by day in small groups and eats mainly leaves, along with flowers and fruit.

• Goldcrest Regulus regulus

  A very small woodland bird with a yellow crown stripe.

• Pacific white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus obliquidens

  A dolphin that lives in groups in the temperate North Pacific.