Meet the world’s animals.

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• Painted Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus forbesi

  

  Animals studied on Mt Dayman were described as having striking facial and head markings and a dark line down the back.

• Red-faced Guan Penelope dabbenei

  

  The Red-faced Guan is a large bird of mountain forests in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has red bare facial skin and a red throat wattle.

• Harvest Mouse Micromys minutus

  

  A small mouse that climbs long grasses and reeds with its grasping tail.

• Cerulean Cuckooshrike Coracina temminckii

  

  This cuckooshrike is endemic to Sulawesi, where it inhabits mature hill and mountain forest. Adults are bluish, but juveniles and regional forms differ in color.

• Magdalena Rat Xenomys nelsoni

  

  The Magdalena rat lives in dry forests on Mexico's Pacific coast. It is arboreal and nocturnal, usually solitary, and feeds on leaves, buds, and fruit.

• Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha

  

  This egret occurs in a range of South African wetlands. It catches fish, amphibians, and aquatic invertebrates by standing still or walking slowly through shallow water.

• Formosan Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus formosae

  This bat has silky, glossy fur and a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It is endemic to Taiwan, but much of its natural history remains unknown.

• Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus

  This small bird is bright yellow with an olive back. It occupies a range of savanna settings, from moist savanna to dry thorn scrub.

• Tonkean Macaque Macaca tonkeana

  The Tonkean macaque is native to central Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands in Indonesia. It uses several kinds of tropical forest.

• Ivory-backed Woodswallow Artamus monachus

  Its white back and body contrast with a brown-grey head and dark wings. It catches flying insects over forest edges and openings.

• Eastern Pygmy Marmoset Cebuella niveiventris

  A tiny monkey of gallery forests in the upper Amazon region. It feeds mainly on tree sap and gum, making small holes in trunks to reach them.

• Bronze-winged Jacana Metopidius indicus

  This wetland bird has a black head and breast, bronze-green back and wings, and a short reddish tail.

• Philippine warty pig Sus philippensis

  The Philippine warty pig has one subspecies associated with the Greater Luzon Faunal Region and another with the Greater Mindanao Faunal Region. Their head hair differs, while many details of the species' diet and behavior remain unknown.

• Rufous-brown Solitaire Cichlopsis leucogenys

  This thrush has a disjunct range from northern South America through Peru to Brazil. In Peru it inhabits premontane forest and was recorded at Megantoni, Cusco, in 2022. Its body is ochraceous-brown, with a yellow bill, eye-ring, and legs.

• Mountain Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii

  This cottontail has a grey-brown back, white underside, and black-tipped ears. It hides in brush on western North American mountainsides and riverbanks.

• Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus

  A seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and may steal food from other seabirds. Adults vary from dark to pale color forms.

• Greater Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata

  This bat is marked by two white lines on its back. It roosts by day under bridges, in caves, or in hollow trees, then hunts insects at night.

• White-backed Mousebird Colius colius

  In southern Africa it feeds in sparse woodland and riverside vegetation. Groups may feed and roost together.

• Northern Tree Shrew Tupaia belangeri

  The northern tree shrew has grey-olive fur and a long snout and lives in moist forests across South and Southeast Asia.

• Sahel Paradise Whydah Vidua orientalis

  The Sahel Paradise Whydah lives in African savanna and grassland. It feeds on seeds on the ground; breeding males grow a long tail, and the species lays eggs in Green-winged Pytilia nests.

• Chacoan Tuco-tuco Ctenomys conoveri

  Conover's Tuco-tuco is a fossorial rodent of the Gran Chaco in Bolivia and Paraguay. It has a robust cylindrical body and builds branching burrows.

• African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus

  The African Openbill is a dark stork with a greenish gloss. Its bill has a gap between the upper and lower parts, which helps it feed on shelled mollusks.

• Dormouse Tufted-tailed Rat Eliurus myoxinus

  This tufted-tail rat is endemic to Madagascar. It is nocturnal and solitary, lives mainly in trees, and feeds chiefly on fruit.

• Mid-mountain Berrypecker Melanocharis longicauda

  The Mid-mountain Berrypecker lives in mountain forests of New Guinea. Males and females have different upperparts, and the bird feeds on small berries and spiders in the forest understorey.