Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus

  

  This flying-fox has straw-colored fur around the eyes that looks like spectacles. It searches for fruit, nectar, pollen, and leaves at night and roosts in large camps.

• American Barn Owl Tyto furcata

  The American Barn Owl occurs across the Americas. It flies over open ground at night, searching for small mammals.

• Hinde's Pouched Rat Beamys hindei

  Hinde's pouched rat is a relatively large, burrowing rodent that eats a range of plant matter, including seeds and roots. It has been studied in a montane forest reserve in southern Tanzania.

• Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Weaver is a bird whose breeding males show a black head and yellow body and build woven grass nests. It lives in open country and wetlands across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

  A large rodent of South American watersides. It lives in groups, grazes on land and uses water to rest or escape danger.

• Erect-crested Penguin Eudyptes sclateri

  Erect-crested penguins have yellow crests that rise obliquely above their eyes. They breed on islands near New Zealand and feed on small crustaceans and squid.

• Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

  A bat with a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf; British accounts describe roosts in caves and buildings.

• Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus

  This bird is endemic to Jamaica. Its black plumage has a blue gloss on the head and back. In montane forest with many epiphytes, it uses its long bill to search for food.

• Greater Slow Loris Nycticebus coucang

  This slow loris is notable for its large forward-facing eyes. It moves through trees at night and eats floral nectar, sap, fruit, and small insects.

• Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike Prionops scopifrons

  This helmetshrike lives in forests and woodland from eastern to southeastern Africa and is seen in small to medium-sized flocks.

• Bearded Seal Erignathus barbatus

  The bearded seal lives in shallow Arctic and subarctic seas where seasonal sea ice forms.

• Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides

  The Southern Fulmar is a seabird with pale plumage and a pink bill tipped in black. It nests on cliffs on islands in the Southern Ocean and searches for food near the sea surface.

• Common brown lemur Eulemur fulvus

  A lemur of northwestern and eastern Madagascan forests. It is active by day and night and mainly eats fruit.

• Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus

  The Olive-backed Oriole lives in semi-open woodland and eucalypt forest. It has an olive back, red eye, and streaked pale underparts.

• Bornean White-bearded Gibbon Hylobates albibarbis

  This gibbon is active in trees by day and feeds mainly on fruit. Males have pale cheek fur, and the species occurs in southwestern Kalimantan.

• Polynesian Storm Petrel Nesofregetta fuliginosa

  The Polynesian Storm Petrel breeds on small Pacific islands. Its plumage ranges from light to dark, and it is thought to forage near breeding islands.

• Bank Vole Myodes glareolus

  A small vole recorded from Europe to Central Asia. It uses forests, scrub, and hedgerows.

• Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi

  It is recorded in dry bush country from Somalia through southern Ethiopia, southeastern Sudan, eastern Uganda, and Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. The field guide describes it as local and uncommon.

• Desert Hare Lepus tibetanus

  The desert hare has sandy fur and long ears and feeds on plants in steppe, desert and semi-desert habitats.

• Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus

  The Brown Babbler's pale lores and chin stand out against its brown plumage. It searches the ground for insects and other invertebrates in scrub and acacia thickets.

• Nosy Be Mouse Lemur Microcebus mamiratra

  Claire's mouse lemur has reddish-brown fur on its back and tail, with pale coloring on the muzzle and underside. Its current mapped range includes Nosy Be and adjacent mainland in northwestern Madagascar.

• 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.

• Mountain Tree Shrew Tupaia montana

  This treeshrew lives in the mountain forests of northern Borneo. It is an omnivore that uses the ground and climbs, and a mountain study reported body-weight variation with elevation.

• Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis

  A dark green wader whose plumage can shimmer emerald and bronze in good light. It occurs in lowlands from Central America to northern and eastern South America.