Meet the world’s animals.

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• Malabar Trogon Harpactes fasciatus

  

  The Malabar Trogon inhabits forests in India and Sri Lanka. The male has a blue bill and reddish belly; the female has an olive-brown head and golden belly.

• East Bornean Gray Gibbon Hylobates funereus

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

• Ethiopian White-eye Zosterops poliogastrus

  This small white-eye lives in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Its white eye-ring and yellow face stand out as it searches forests and shrubland for fruit, nectar, and invertebrates.

• Egyptian rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus

  A large-eyed fruit bat that feeds on very ripe fruit.

• Black Caracara Daptrius ater

  Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.

• Greater Glider Petauroides volans

  This nocturnal marsupial lives in forests of eastern Australia. It glides between trees using a membrane between its limbs and eats eucalyptus leaves.

• Blue-naped Pitta Hydrornis nipalensis

  A pitta with a reddish-brown head and body and a blue rump, living quietly in forest.

• Prehensile-tailed Hutia Mysateles prehensilis

  This large rodent lives in Cuba and is an accomplished climber. Its tail can curl around branches to help it grip.

• Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis

  This resident species is endemic to China. Around Mount Taishan it occurs from mountain areas to suburban tree cover and moves in flocks through shrubs and small trees.

• Bennett’s tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus bennettianus

  A tree-dwelling kangaroo of northeastern Australia’s rainforests.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.

• 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.

• Orange-cheeked Parrot Pyrilia barrabandi

  An Amazonian parrot with orange cheeks against a black head and olive throat and breast.

• Bicolor-spined Porcupine Coendou bicolor

  The bicolor-spined porcupine has quills that are pale at the base and dark toward the tip, and is an able climber. It is mainly active at night in trees and eats leaves, fruit, and other plant parts.

• Blue-throated Motmot Aspatha gularis

  The Blue-throated Motmot has a vivid blue throat and a short tail. It lives in mountain forest from southern Mexico into northern Central America.

• East African Potto Perodicticus ibeanus

  This primate moves slowly through trees at night. It has large round eyes and an arrow-shaped head, and eats fruit, insects, and other foods.

• Pied Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus

  The Pied Stilt walks through shallows on long legs, probing with a fine bill. h. leucocephalus in New Zealand.

• Reeves's muntjac Muntiacus reevesi

  A small deer whose males have short antlers and long upper canine teeth.

• Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus

  A social bird that probes tree trunks with a long, curved red bill.

• Red-fronted Lemur Eulemur rufus

  This lemur is notable for its black face and pale cheek fur. Males and females have different coat colors, and female coloration varies by region.

• Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis

  A small bird of southern mainland Australia. It forms small foraging groups in open woodland and shrubland, searching the ground for insects, spiders, and seeds.

• Amur Hedgehog Erinaceus amurensis

  The Amur hedgehog has spines along its back and sides and lives around forests, fields and orchards in East Asia.

• Choco Manakin Cryptopipo litae

  A manakin of the humid Chocó from eastern Panama through western Colombia to north-western Ecuador. The IOC lists it separately from Green Manakin based on plumage and vocal differences.

• Philippine Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura alecto

  This insect-eating bat was recorded in a cave survey in the southern Philippines. Surveyed individuals averaged 76 mm in total length, with tails 31.5 mm long. They roosted in small hollows in partly lit caves.