Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern muriqui Brachyteles arachnoides

  

  The southern muriqui is a large monkey that lives in remaining Atlantic Forest areas of southeastern Brazil and spends much of its time in trees.

• Speckle-breasted Wren Pheugopedius sclateri

  

  This wren has plain rufous-brown upperparts and a gray, black-barred tail. It forages low and midway in forests in Ecuador and Peru.

• Camas pocket gopher Megascapheus bulbivorus

  

  This pocket gopher lives underground in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Its coat ranges from dark brown to reddish brown, and some individuals have a white throat patch.

• Gray Duck Anas superciliosa

  

  This dabbling duck has cream and black facial stripes and a green patch on the wing.

• Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed Rat Isothrix bistriata

  

  The yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat is an arboreal rodent of western Amazon lowland forest. It nests in flooded forest and river floodplains.

• Ash-colored Tapaculo Myornis senilis

  

  This tapaculo lives in Andean montane forest. It is mostly gray, feeds near the ground, and appears to be associated with bamboo stands.

• Ihering's Three-striped Opossum Monodelphis (Microdelphys) iheringi

  Ihering’s Three-striped Opossum is a small opossum with three dark lines on its back. It carries leaf litter to line a nest in soft soil and eats insects and small animals.

• Rufous-breasted Antthrush Formicarius rufipectus

  This chunky, short-tailed bird walks on the forest floor to forage. Its underparts are rufous, and it sometimes gathers near army-ant swarms.

• Borneo Gibbon Hylobates muelleri

  The Borneo Gibbon is an arboreal primate of Borneo's forests. It has no tail, gray-brown fur, and long arms used to travel among trees.

• Yellow-breasted Antwren Herpsilochmus axillaris

  This small antwren lives in humid Andean forests. It searches for arthropods in the canopy and mid-storey and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Wapiti Cervus canadensis

  The wapiti is a large deer found in herds in North America’s Yellowstone region.

• Great Jacamar Jacamerops aureus

  The Great Jacamar is notable for glossy green plumage and a rufous belly. In Peruvian Amazonian forests it searches for prey from the middle to upper layers of the forest.

• Brown Palm Civet Paradoxurus jerdoni

  Jerdon's palm civet is a nocturnal civet of the Western Ghats rainforests in India. It lacks distinct facial markings and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Brown Accentor Prunella fulvescens

  This highland bird has gray-brown plumage, a white eyebrow and belly, and a soft orange wash on the chest. It often searches for food on the ground, and the male's song is another feature.

• Gray Monk Saki Pithecia irrorata

  The gray monk saki lives in South American forests. Its gray coat and white hands and feet stand out.

• Long-tailed Potoo Nyctibius aethereus

  This nocturnal bird has a long tail and mottled plumage. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Dwarf Dog-faced Bat Molossops temminckii

  A small molossid bat that is widespread in South America. It catches insects while flying in open areas.

• Northern Gannet Morus bassanus

  A large seabird that glides over the sea and catches fish.

• Golden bamboo lemur Hapalemur aureus

  The golden bamboo lemur mainly eats young parts of bamboo. It occurs in southeastern Madagascar's forests.

• Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis

  The Pied Butcherbird is an Australian bird with black-and-white plumage and a hooked bill. It swoops from a perch to catch prey on the ground.

• Indian Hedgehog Paraechinus micropus

  The Indian hedgehog lives in dry regions and needs some plant cover for shelter and nest material.

• Chaplin's Barbet Lybius chaplini

  This Zambian barbet has a mostly white body, yellow-edged wings, and red skin around the eyes.

• Northern flying squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus

  The northern flying squirrel lives in northern coniferous forests and has white-and-gray belly fur and reddish fur along its back.

• Crested Tit-warbler Leptopoecile elegans

  This bird is about 10 cm long. By day in the Himalayas, it searches for small invertebrates among conifers, dwarf juniper scrub, and birches at high elevations.