Meet the world’s animals.

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• Appert's Greenbul Xanthomixis apperti

  

  This small bird is restricted to forests in southwestern Madagascar. Species accounts describe it searching for arthropods on the ground and low branches, sometimes in small family groups.

• Gray Slender Loris Loris lydekkerianus

  The gray slender loris is a nocturnal primate with large forward-facing eyes and long, slender limbs.

• Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus

  It is a small plover recorded in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with an incomplete white hindneck collar and pale, long legs.

• Verreaux's Sifaka Propithecus verreauxi

  Verreaux's sifaka is a day-active lemur of forests in western and southwestern Madagascar. It is known for clinging upright to tree trunks and leaping between branches.

• Black-tailed Myiobius Myiobius atricaudus

  Olive upperparts, a yellow rump, black tail, and white throat mark this flycatcher. Males have a hidden yellow crown patch. It searches for insects low in forest.

• Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga commissarisi

  This bat ranges from southern Mexico to Panama. It uses flower nectar as a major food source and also eats soft fruit and insects.

• Yellow-faced Honeyeater Caligavis chrysops

  It is widespread in eastern Australian forest and woodland. It probes flowers for nectar and searches leaves and branches for insects.

• Bolivian squirrel monkey Saimiri boliviensis

  A small monkey of forests in Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. It searches branches for insects and fruit.

• Black-and-yellow Broadbill Eurylaimus ochromalus

  The Black-and-yellow Broadbill is a small bird with a bright blue bill and bold black, white, yellow, and pink plumage. It catches insects by sallying from a perch in forest midlevels and canopy.

• Atlantic Forest Hocicudo Oxymycterus dasytrichus

  Oxymycterus dasytrichus is a rodent of eastern Brazil. Its account records it in seasonally flooded forest, moist openings in or near forest, and cultivated fields.

• Bluish-slate Antshrike Thamnomanes schistogynus

  This antshrike inhabits forests in the southern Amazon basin. Males are uniformly bluish gray; females have gray heads, breasts, and upperparts with a rufous belly. It forages in the forest midstory, usually with mixed-species flocks.

• Collared Mongoose Urva semitorquata

  This mongoose is found in forests on Borneo and Sumatra. Much about its ecology, including its habitat preferences, remains poorly known.

• Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri

  The Black-chinned Hummingbird is a small hummingbird found across western North America into Mexico. A male's black chin can flash purple in the right light.

• Desert Pocket Gopher Geomys arenarius

  The desert pocket gopher is a rodent that digs underground burrows in sandy soils. It carries food in cheek pouches and feeds on plants below ground.

• Miombo Pied Barbet Tricholaema frontata

  This barbet is normally almost restricted to mature miombo woodland in south-central Africa. A paper reports a pair at an isolated site in Republic of the Congo and one captured bird there with more yellow underparts than southern specimens.

• Marine Otter Lontra felina

  The marine otter lives among rocky shores along the Pacific coast of South America. It has dark brown fur and feeds on fish, crustaceans, and mollusks.

• Clark's Grebe Aechmophorus clarkii

  Clark's Grebe is a diving bird with a long neck and pale face. During courtship, pairs run side by side across the water.

• Northern Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys peguensis

  This small gymnure ranges across hills and mountains of Indochina. Records include forest-floor cover and sites beneath fallen logs.

• Tablas Fantail Rhipidura sauli

  This fantail is restricted to Tablas Island. The Philippine national fauna red-list account reports it in the understory of lowland forest and second growth, usually below 1,000 m.

• Long-tailed Planigale Planigale ingrami

  Ingram's planigale is a marsupial with a tiny body, flattened head, and long tail. It is active at night and uses cracks in the ground for shelter and foraging in the dry season.

• Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa

  A Central American bird noted for its turquoise brow and racket-tipped tail feathers. It searches for insect prey in open dry woodland and scrub.

• Karoo Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides proboscideus

  A small sengi with a long nose and large eyes that lives on gravel plains in the Karoo region.

• Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi

  A forest bushshrike of west and central Africa. Adults combine tawny-orange head and breast, a black face mask and a broad white wing stripe.

• Soemmerring's gazelle Nanger soemmerringii

  Soemmerring's gazelle is a gazelle of the dry grasslands and scrub of the Horn of Africa.