Meet the world’s animals.

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• East Bornean Gray Gibbon Hylobates funereus

  

  This gibbon lives in northern and eastern Borneo and travels through the canopy using its long arms.

• Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator

  

  The Greater Honeyguide is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It can lead people, honey badgers, or baboons to a hive, then eat wax and larvae after the hive is opened.

• Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus

  

  The marsh deer is a deer of South American wetlands. Elastic tissue between its hooves is suited to muddy ground.

• Papuan Lorikeet Charmosyna papou

  

  A long-tailed parrot of montane forest in northwestern New Guinea, with a red body and green wings.

• African Linsang Poiana richardsonii

  

  The African linsang is a small carnivore with a slender, spotted body and a long ringed tail. It is active at night in trees and eats insects, fruit and other foods.

• West Peruvian Dove Zenaida meloda

  

  This sand-gray dove has a white crescent mark on its wings. It picks up seeds from the ground and may fly in flocks.

• Aquino's Titi Monkey Cheracebus aquinoi

  This titi monkey was described from Loreto, Peru. The study reports observations in several Amazonian forest types, including sandy-soil forest and flooded forest.

• Dulit Frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti

  The Dulit Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird of a few Bornean mountain areas. Its cryptic colors blend with branches, and it nests on branches in Sarawak.

• Western Spotted Skunk Spilogale gracilis

  This black-and-white skunk is active at night in Washington and uses cover such as thickets and fallen wood.

• Indochinese Barbet Psilopogon annamensis

  The Indochinese Barbet is a near-endemic resident of Vietnam. A Vietnamese species account reports it above 750 m in parts of eastern Laos and Cambodia and central to south-central Vietnam.

• 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.

• Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus

  An Australian stilt that gathers at salt lakes filled by rain. In breeding plumage, a chestnut band stands out across the breast.

• Rufous Dog-faced Bat Molossops neglectus

  This bat has reddish dark-brown fur and feeds on flying insects. Its records are separated between northern and southeastern South America, and southern specimens have tended to be smaller than northern ones.

• Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti

  The Spanish Imperial Eagle occurs in southwestern Iberia. At Monfragüe National Park in Spain, it is described as feeding mainly on rabbits and nesting in large trees.

• Red-collared Brown Lemur Eulemur collaris

  This lemur is notable for reddish-brown fur around its neck and orange-red eyes. Its tail is longer than its body and helps it balance as it moves through trees.

• Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis

  This thick-knee has large yellow eyes and long legs. It uses dry, open ground in Africa, including places near water.

• Eastern Forest Hedgehog Mesechinus orientalis

  This hedgehog was described from eastern China in 2023. Its short spines have bands of white, black, and pale color.

• Bold-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis bornensis

  This small babbler forages in the understory of lowland forest in Southeast Asia. Bold dark streaks on the underside and active insect foraging are noted as characteristic.

• Ruwenzori Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus ruwenzorii

  The Ruwenzori sun squirrel lives in mountain forests of the Albertine Rift. It uses the lower forest vegetation and eats mainly fruit.

• Red-browed Treecreeper Climacteris erythrops

  A small treecreeper that searches bark for invertebrates in rainforest and dense eucalypt woodland.

• Proserpine Rock Wallaby Petrogale persephone

  The Proserpine rock wallaby has a grey back, pale underside, and black feet. It shelters among rocky outcrops and also uses forest edges.

• Sulphur White-eye Zosterops minutus

  This small white-eye lives on Lifou in New Caledonia. It has a white eye-ring, uses open places near settlements and cultivated land, and eats insects and fruit.

• Turkestan Red Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rutila

  The Turkestan red pika is a pika of Central Asian mountains. Its coat is reddish brown in summer and gray in winter, and it stores grass among rocky slopes.

• Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa

  A Central American bird noted for its turquoise brow and racket-tipped tail feathers. It searches for insect prey in open dry woodland and scrub.