Meet the world’s animals.

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• Coppersmith Barbet Psilopogon haemacephalus

  

  A barbet that lives in Singapore’s parks and residential areas. Adults are mostly green with red and yellow markings, and feed largely on figs and other fruit.

• Günther's Dik-dik Madoqua guentheri

  Günther’s dik-dik is a small antelope of the drylands of East Africa. It selects leaves and other plant parts from shrubs and trees.

• Masked Woodswallow Artamus personatus

  This medium-sized bird's male has a black facial mask, and the species catches insects in flight. It wanders through dry regions and sometimes forms flocks.

• Bengal Slow Loris Nycticebus bengalensis

  This loris is active in trees at night. Its coat ranges from pale to strongly reddish, and its diet includes nectar and plant exudates.

• Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata

  This bird has buff-spotted plumage. The male courts by building an avenue-like structure and arranging decorations around it.

• Nicobar Tree Shrew Tupaia nicobarica

  The Nicobar treeshrew is restricted to Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar islands in India. A study on Great Nicobar found it active in trees and feeding mainly on insects.

• Karthala White-eye Zosterops mouroniensis

  The Karthala White-eye is tied to montane heath on Mount Karthala, Grand Comoro. It moves in energetic flocks and has a narrow white eye-ring and yellow underparts.

• Coppery Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops cupreus

  The coppery ring-tailed possum lives in forests and scrub of interior New Guinea. It climbs and is active at night, feeding on leaves and other plant parts.

• Buff-necked Woodpecker Meiglyptes tukki

  The Buff-necked Woodpecker is a forest-dwelling woodpecker. The male has a buff patch on each side of the neck and a red cheek stripe; the female lacks the red stripe.

• Wapiti Cervus canadensis

  The wapiti is a large deer found in herds in North America’s Yellowstone region.

• Eastern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes filholi

  This penguin breeds on subantarctic islands around New Zealand and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, then spends much of the non-breeding season at sea. It is treated as distinct from related rockhopper penguins.

• Common Slender Mongoose Galerella sanguinea

  This slender mongoose occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa and has been recorded from semidesert to woodland at elevations of 0–2,700 m.

• Austen's Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus austeni

  Austen's Brown Hornbill lives in closed forest. It eats fruit and small animals, and travels through the canopy in vocal social groups.

• Forrest's Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) forresti

  Forrest's pika is recorded at high elevations in Bhutan. A dark patch behind each ear meets across the nape.

• Red-footed booby Sula sula

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

• Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed Rat Isothrix bistriata

  The yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat is an arboreal rodent of western Amazon lowland forest. It nests in flooded forest and river floodplains.

• Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus

  The account describes the nominate subspecies in Madagascar, which uses wooded areas and degraded forest where large trees remain.

• Fringed Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) thysanodes

  The fringed myotis is a bat of western North America. Short hairs fringe the edge of its tail membrane, and females form nursery roosts in the southern United States.

• White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda

  The White-tailed Blue Flycatcher is an African flycatcher that may fan its long tail. It joins mixed-species feeding flocks in forests and miombo.

• Plains Spotted Skunk Spilogale interrupta

  In Texas, this small, striped skunk is mostly nocturnal and may stand on its forelegs to warn a threat.

• Olive-backed Tailorbird Orthotomus sepium

  Males have a dull gray body and rusty face; females have a less rusty head and whitish throat. It searches for small invertebrates in lowland scrub and mangroves.

• Robust Tuco-tuco Ctenomys tuconax

  The robust tuco-tuco lives in highland grassland in Tucumán Province, northwestern Argentina. It digs underground tunnels and feeds mainly on grasses.

• Grandala Grandala coelicolor

  This thrush ranges through high country from the Himalaya to Tibet and western China. Males are blue; females are brown with a bluish rump and white wing patches.

• South-eastern Pocket Gopher Geomys pinetis

  The southeastern pocket gopher spends much of its life underground in sandy soil, digging tunnels and eating roots and tubers.