Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown Creeper Certhia americana

  

  The Brown Creeper is a small forest bird whose bark-like plumage helps it blend in as it searches along tree trunks.

• Ryukyu Flying Fox Pteropus dasymallus

  This flying fox roosts in forest trees and feeds mainly on fruit. Coat color and roosting patterns vary among subspecies.

• Yellow-breasted Racket-tail Prioniturus flavicans

  The Yellow-breasted Racket-tail has a yellow breast and racket-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It searches for food in the canopy of forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands, often in pairs or small groups.

• Red-nosed Armored Tree-rat Makalata didelphoides

  A South American tree-dwelling rodent with a conspicuous red muzzle and spiny hairs on its back. It feeds in trees on plant material and fruit, and is recorded active from dusk into the night.

• Black-chinned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus leclancheri

  The Black-chinned Fruit Dove occurs mainly in the Philippines and is described as a very rare resident in Taiwan. It uses forest patches.

• Kod-kod Leopardus guigna

  The kod-kod is a small wild cat of forests in central and southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. It climbs well and is mostly solitary.

• King Bird-of-paradise Cicinnurus regius

  The King Bird-of-paradise occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. Males court with brilliant red plumage and their long ornamental tail feathers.

• Trowbridge's Shrew Sorex trowbridgii

  Trowbridge’s shrew tunnels through the forest litter. Its sooty back, paler underside, and long two-toned tail help distinguish it.

• Maleo Macrocephalon maleo

  The Maleo lives in Sulawesi forests. Adults have a hard black knob on the head, and eggs are buried in sand warmed by geothermal heat.

• Pendlebury's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros pendleburyi

  This bat is recorded in peninsular Thailand. Its noseleaf has three supplementary leaflets, and surveys recorded it at limestone outcrops, caves, and forest sites.

• White-streaked Friarbird Melitograis gilolensis

  The White-streaked Friarbird occurs in the North Moluccas. Fine white streaks mark its throat and breast; it feeds on nectar, arthropods and small fruit.

• Tammar wallaby Notamacropus eugenii

  A grass-eating wallaby with large ears and a long tail.

• Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata

  Masked Tityras range from Mexico through Central America into South America. They use forests, edges, clearings and cultivated areas, feeding in pairs or small flocks on insects, small vertebrates and fruit.

• Hispid Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus hispidus

  The hispid pocket mouse has an olive-buff back and a pale underside. It stores food in grassland burrows and mainly eats seeds.

• 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.

• Collins' Squirrel Monkey Saimiri collinsi

  Collins' squirrel monkey occurs in the eastern Brazilian Amazon and is omnivorous. It often uses the middle and lower forest strata and sometimes descends to the ground to feed on insects.

• Bannerman's Shearwater Puffinus bannermani

  Bannerman's Shearwater is endemic to the Ogasawara Islands. Breeding colonies have been confirmed in forests on Minamiiwoto and Higashijima.

• White-bellied Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) noctivagus

  The white-bellied slender opossum has dull reddish-brown dorsal fur. In a lowland Peruvian rainforest study, it was recorded in both terrestrial and lower arboreal small-mammal communities.

• Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus

  Males are black and yellow-orange, while females are pale yellow. Females sew their hanging nests to the undersides of palm fronds.

• Galápagos sea lion Zalophus wollebaeki

  This sea lion lives along the Galápagos coast throughout the year. Its streamlined body helps it move through the water.

• Everett's White-eye Zosterops everetti

  Everett's White-eye has greenish upperparts, grayish underparts, and broad white spectacles. It forages in flocks along forest edges and in gardens across parts of the Philippines and the Talaud Islands of Indonesia.

• Haviside's Dolphin Cephalorhynchus heavisidii

  This small dolphin lives off southwestern Africa. Its grey body has a dark cape and white markings, and it is observed in shallow coastal and shelf waters, usually in small groups.

• Jungle Sparrow Passer pyrrhonotus

  The Sind Sparrow is a small sparrow of rivers and wetlands. The male has a chestnut eye-stripe, and the birds gather in reedy scrub.

• Northern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur occidentalis

  The Northern Bamboo Lemur occurs in northeastern and northwestern Madagascar. It is said to show little difference in appearance between sexes, but field studies remain limited.