Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa pusilla

  

  The little yellow-eared bat is small, with yellow-edged ears and no tail. It roosts in leaf tents and mainly eats small fruits.

• Styan's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella pleskei

  The sexes look alike, with olive-brown upperparts, grayish-white underparts, and a rounded tail. It breeds on islands near Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East, then winters farther south.

• Javan slow loris Nycticebus javanicus

  This nocturnal primate moves through trees in Java's forests. It mainly eats gum and insects and has a pale, striped nape.

• Star-chested Treerunner Margarornis stellatus

  This ovenbird occurs in mossy montane forest from Colombia into western Ecuador. Its reddish-brown body and rows of white breast spots are distinctive.

• Caroline Flying Fox Pteropus molossinus

  This small flying fox lives on islands around Pohnpei. It has been recorded in tropical forest and mangroves and feeds on fruit and flowers.

• Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus speciosus

  This long-tailed, flocking minivet is a common year-round resident in Hong Kong woodland and forest margins. It may also use green spaces along the urban edge.

• Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat Rhabdomys pumilio

  The Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat has stripes along its back. In South Africa's Succulent Karoo, it was studied foraging alone while living in groups that share a nest.

• Red-footed booby Sula sula

  A red-footed booby that nests in trees and shrubs on tropical islands.

• Somali Hedgehog Atelerix sclateri

  The Somali hedgehog is known from a small number of sites in northern Somalia. Dark spines on its back contrast with pale belly fur, while details of its life in the wild remain poorly documented.

• Black-breasted Munia Lonchura teerinki

  This finch of New Guinea feeds on seeds. Adult males stand out with a black face and breast, a reddish-brown back, and a yellow rump.

• North American porcupine Erethizon dorsatus

  A rodent with quills among its fur that feeds on plants, including tree bark.

• Chestnut Forest Crake Rallicula rubra

  This rail searches the forest floor for invertebrates in the highlands of New Guinea.

• Sahamalaza Sportive Lemur Lepilemur sahamalaza

  The Sahamalaza sportive lemur is nocturnal and restricted to the Sahamalaza Peninsula in northwestern Madagascar.

• East Brazilian Chachalaca Ortalis araucuan

  This chachalaca occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has an ochraceous-cinnamon crown and hindneck with a white belly, and uses humid forest and scrubby woodland where it feeds on fruit.

• White-browed Titi Monkey Plecturocebus discolor

  This white-browed titi is reported from southern Colombia through Ecuador to Peru. It has a white band across the forehead.

• Hoy's Screech Owl Megascops hoyi

  This owl occurs in the mountains of southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has brown, gray, and red color morphs; the brown morph is described with pale eyebrows and bold cross-hatched belly markings.

• Mt. Claro Rock-wallaby Petrogale sharmani

  Sharman’s Rock-wallaby is a medium-sized wallaby from a restricted area of northern Queensland. It shelters among rocks and emerges around dusk to feed.

• Little Buttonquail Turnix velox

  The Little Buttonquail is a small ground-dwelling bird of Australian grasslands and woodlands. In breeding plumage, the sexes differ in head pattern, and males incubate the eggs.

• Ruwenzori Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ruwenzorii

  The Ruwenzori horseshoe bat is recorded in mountain areas of central Africa. Its noseleaf and its use of caves and similar roosts are documented in the species account.

• White-naped crane Antigone vipio

  A crane with a gray-and-white neck and pinkish legs.

• Tres Marias Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin insularis

  This mouse opossum is known only from Mexico's Islas Marías Archipelago. A camera study on María Madre Island recorded it twice, both times during evening or night hours.

• Yellow-bellied Longbill Toxorhamphus novaeguineae

  This bird is recognized by its long, down-curved bill and yellow belly. It lives in forests on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Allen's Olingo Bassaricyon alleni

  A member of the raccoon family found in forests east of the Andes. It is active in trees at night.

• Grey-backed Tachuri Polystictus superciliaris

  This small flycatcher is endemic to the eastern Brazilian highlands. It uses rocky or shrubby grassland and catches insects while clinging to long grass stems.