Meet the world’s animals.

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• Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht

  

  The Baglafecht Weaver is seen in pairs, small groups, or alone in the Kenyan highlands described by the Mpala field guide. It hangs a foliage-hidden nest from a branch or frond.

• Madidi Titi Plecturocebus aureipalatii

  The Madidi titi lives in humid forests in Bolivia. Its golden crown and orange chest and limbs stand out.

• Black-and-red Broadbill Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos

  With striking red-and-black plumage and a large colorful bill, it lives in waterside forests of Southeast Asia.

• Painted Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys pictus

  The painted spiny pocket mouse ranges from Mexico to northwestern Guatemala. It has a reddish-brown back, white underside, and spiny coat, and stores seeds in caches.

• Puerto Rican Amazon Amazona vittata

  The Puerto Rican Amazon is a green parrot endemic to Puerto Rico. It feeds mainly on wild fruit; tabonuco fruit is also important in October.

• North American porcupine Erethizon dorsatus

  A rodent with quills among its fur that feeds on plants, including tree bark.

• Giant Conebill Conirostrum binghami

  In Peru, this conebill is strongly associated with Polylepis woodland. It has a long, pointed bill.

• Common Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus

  The common spotted cuscus is a marsupial with a long tail that can grip branches. It lives in lowland tropical forest in New Guinea and also in mangroves in northeastern Australia, feeding mainly on leaves.

• Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

  The Common Reed Bunting is widespread in Britain and Ireland. Males have black heads, females have browner heads, and in winter they forage in farmland with other small birds.

• Junín Red Squirrel Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pyrrhinus

  The Junín red squirrel is an arboreal squirrel recorded in Peru. Its back is reddish brown, while the underside ranges from white to more reddish shades.

• Moluccan King Parrot Alisterus amboinensis

  This parrot lives in forests on Indonesian islands, including the Moluccas. The six subspecies differ in plumage.

• Atlantic Forest Rhipidomys Rhipidomys mastacalis

  This small rodent has a head-and-body length of 125–155 mm. It is arboreal and nocturnal, and has been recorded in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest.

• Rufous-capped Antthrush Formicarius colma

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

• Rock-dwelling Sheath-tailed Bat Paremballonura tiavato

  This small bat lives on Madagascar. Its dorsal fur is long and slightly shaggy, pale to medium grey-brown, and its ears are long with rounded tips.

• Scarlet-horned Manakin Ceratopipra cornuta

  A manakin of humid forests in northern South America. Males and females differ in head plumage, and males display in small groups.

• Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus

  A small whale with a bulging forehead and relatively short flippers, found in warm seas.

• Dalmatian pelican Pelecanus crispus

  A pelican with a large bill pouch that feeds on fish in lakes and wetlands.

• Sulawesi Flying Fox Acerodon celebensis

  The Sulawesi Flying Fox is a fruit bat found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. A small island off eastern Central Sulawesi serves as a daytime roost, and the bats fly to mainland forests at night.

• Raggiana Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea raggiana

  The Raggiana Bird-of-paradise has strongly different male and female plumage. Males display red flank plumes in courtship, while females care for the nest and young.

• Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus

  A North American fox that can climb trees.

• Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae

  The male Blue-throated Hummingbird has a throat of sapphire-colored feathers that glitter in good light. Both sexes have two white facial stripes and gray underparts.

• Central American squirrel monkey Saimiri oerstedii

  The Central American squirrel monkey is a small primate restricted to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama. It lives in humid forest.

• Madagascar Yellowbrow Crossleyia xanthophrys

  The Madagascar Yellowbrow is endemic to eastern Madagascar's rainforest. It searches for insects in dense undergrowth, often near the ground.

• Eastern Hoolock Gibbon Hoolock leuconedys

  Eastern hoolock gibbons live in forests from Myanmar and northeastern India to southern Yunnan in China. Pairs sing in coordinated calls.