Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-capped Antthrush Formicarius colma

  

  A bird that searches for food while walking on the Amazon forest floor.

• Blick's Arvicanthis Arvicanthis blicki

  Blick’s grass rat is a rodent specialized for Ethiopia’s high-elevation grasslands. Its skull has a downward-twisted snout region and enlarged eye sockets, and records span 2,750–4,050 m.

• Mouse-colored Penduline Tit Anthoscopus musculus

  This tiny bird is about 8 cm long, with a brownish-grey head and back, darker wings and a short tail. It forages in pairs or family groups in dry savanna and shrubland.

• Lesser Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) macrotis

  The lesser dog-like bat is a small bat with long ears and a pouch-like structure on the wing. It flies at night and eats small beetles, flies, and other insects.

• Hooded crane Grus monacha

  A gray crane with a white head and neck that also winters in Japan.

• Kayan River Slow Loris Nycticebus kayan

  This slow loris occurs in central and northern Borneo. The 2013 taxonomic study compared facial patterns and other traits when describing it as a distinct species. Species-specific information about its behavior and diet in the wild remains limited.

• Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus

  In India's Great Himalayan National Park, this fantail is found in mid-elevation forests. It has a yellow belly, olive upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It flicks its tail while moving through the understory and mid-canopy in pursuit of small insects.

• Black-and-white ruffed lemur Varecia variegata

  A mainly fruit-eating lemur of eastern Madagascar’s rainforests.

• Black-necked Aracari Pteroglossus aracari

  Adults have a black head and throat, a red rump, and a red band across the yellow underside. This aracari searches for fruit in the canopy.

• Giant Forest Hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni

  The giant forest hog is a large pig that lives in African forests. It eats grasses and other plants, and uses its tusks to dig for roots.

• Cinnamon Quail-thrush Cinclosoma cinnamomeum

  This ground-dwelling bird of central Australia has different breast and wing patterns in males and females. Family groups hold territories in dry scrub and stony plains.

• Japanese weasel Mustela itatsi

  A weasel native to Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and nearby islands, with an elongated body, short legs and a dark mark from forehead to nose.

• Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minor

  Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant occurs in dense understory in the Amazon Basin. In Peru, the account reports only a few sight records along the Yavarí River.

• Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus blasii

  Blasius’s horseshoe bat roosts in caves and similar shelters and has a distinctive nose shape.

• Cocos Booby Sula brewsteri

  A booby of rocky islands in the eastern Pacific. Males have a whiter face and gray bill; females have a paler brown head than female Brown Boobies.

• Gold-and-white Marmoset Mico chrysoleucos

  The gold-and-white marmoset is a small primate named for its golden-white coat and ear tufts. Groups have been recorded in flooded forests in southern Amazonia, Brazil.

• South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki

  The South Polar Skua is a large seabird that breeds in Antarctica and makes a shallow nest on the ground among rocks or moss.

• Peale's Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops aurispinosus

  Peale’s Free-tailed Bat is a Central and South American bat whose fur is usually dark brown but varies in shade. Its biology and distribution remain poorly known.

• Timor Stubtail Urosphena subulata

  The Timor Stubtail was recorded in forest on Timor, where its short tail was barely visible. A 1991 field report described chestnut upperparts and a pale eyebrow and noted that the bird was difficult to see in the undergrowth.

• Chinkara Gazella bennettii

  The chinkara is a small gazelle of dry parts of South Asia. It can go for a long time without water, an adaptation to arid environments.

• Tataupa Tinamou Crypturellus tataupa

  This ground-dwelling tinamou occurs in South America. It walks through forest undergrowth and may use more open grassland and scrub.

• Obi Cuscus Phalanger rothschildi

  The Obi cuscus is an arboreal marsupial from islands in North Maluku. A survey around Obi recorded fruit in its diet and trees used as nesting sites.

• McKay's Bunting Plectrophenax hyperboreus

  McKay's Bunting breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and moves to the west coast of Alaska for winter.

• Tricolored Bat Perimyotis subflavus

  Each hair of the tricolored bat has three color bands. It roosts among deciduous leaves during its active seasons and hibernates in winter.