Meet the world’s animals.
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- Black Bearded Saki Chiropotes satanas
Photo: Miguelrangeljr · CC BY-SA 3.0 The black bearded saki lives in forests of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Its dark coat and beard are distinctive, and it often eats fruit and seeds.
- Taita Apalis Apalis fuscigularis
This apalis occurs in forest fragments in the Taita Hills of southeastern Kenya. It has sooty-gray upperparts, a black throat and breast, and gleans small invertebrates from low vegetation.
- Geoffroy's Trident Leaf-nosed Bat Asellia tridens
This bat has a short muzzle and a noseleaf with three rear projections. It inhabits desert and semidesert from North Africa through the Middle East, often near oases and dry riverbeds, and catches insects in flight.
- Large Frogmouth Batrachostomus auritus
The Large Frogmouth is the largest Asian frogmouth and hides in lowland forest. It perches on branches and catches insects.
- Yucatan Black Howler Monkey Alouatta pigra
A monkey of forests in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. It feeds mainly on leaves in the trees, and groups use calls to signal their territories.
- Long-wattled Umbrellabird Cephalopterus penduliger
A large black bird whose male has a long chest wattle and an overhanging crest. Females are smaller, with a reduced or absent wattle.
- Black-mantled Tamarin Leontocebus nigricollis
This entry covers the nominate subspecies of the black-mantled tamarin. It inhabits humid tropical forest and edges; its described features include a black mantle, bare ears, and a gray-white muzzle.
- Ochre-breasted Catbird Ailuroedus stonii
The Hides Ridge field guide places the Ochre-breasted Catbird in lowland forest in southern New Guinea and describes foraging in lower layers and sometimes on the ground. Within its study area, it lists the bird only at Arakubi.
- Common African Dormouse Graphiurus (Graphiurus) murinus
A small African mammal with a gray back, pale belly, and bushy tail. It forages at night and hibernates during cold winters.
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
This woodpecker lives in eastern African forests and searches for insects on trunks and on the ground. It has a gray head and underside; adult males have a red crown.
- Giles's Planigale Planigale gilesi
Giles's planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened triangular head. It shelters in cracks in clay soil and eats arthropods.
- 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.
- Guinea Baboon Papio papio
A West African baboon whose wild ecology has been studied in a Senegalese national park.
- Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana
Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.
- Angolan Slender Mongoose Galerella flavescens
This mongoose is known from southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. Angolan animals are tan or yellowish, while Namibian animals are nearly black with a reddish tinge. In Namibia it lives among large granite boulders and the drainages and woodlands connecting them.
- Scaly Ground Roller Geobiastes squamiger
The Scaly Ground Roller is a terrestrial bird of Madagascar’s moist lowland forests.
- Dune Tuco-tuco Ctenomys australis
The dune tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of coastal dunes in Argentina. Animals on the dunes have been reported to have light blond fur.
- White-vented Whistler Pachycephala homeyeri
This whistler occurs in the southern Philippines and on Malaysia's Siamil Island. The sexes look alike, with rufous-brown upperparts and white underparts.
- Asian Palm Civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
A civet recognized by its dark facial markings and back stripes; it is recorded from forests to built-up areas in Singapore.
- Rufous-tailed Antbird Drymophila genei
This antbird has a dark head and rufous-brown tail. In southeastern Brazil's montane forest, it searches among bamboo and vines for insects.
- Mexican Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus mexicanus
The Mexican big-eared bat is a nocturnal bat with long ears. It occurs in Mexico’s highlands and eats insects, although detailed diet studies remain limited.
- Brown Accentor Prunella fulvescens
This highland bird has gray-brown plumage, a white eyebrow and belly, and a soft orange wash on the chest. It often searches for food on the ground, and the male's song is another feature.
- Bornean Slow Loris Nycticebus borneanus
Nycticebus borneanus is a slow loris of central and southern Borneo, in Indonesian Kalimantan. EAZA material records an observation in dipterocarp forest in a protected forest area and describes its dark facial markings.
- Ashy Storm Petrel Hydrobates homochroa
This small seabird uses the cool waters off California. It feeds close to the sea surface and breeds on islands from central California to northern Baja.