Meet the world’s animals.

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• Agile Gibbon Hylobates agilis

  

  This gibbon lives high in tropical forest and uses its long arms to move from branch to branch.

• Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus

  

  The black crown and white eyebrow stand out on this tchagra, which occurs widely across sub-Saharan Africa. It uses dry thorn woodland, miombo woodland, and some gardens.

• Common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula

  

  A tree-dwelling nocturnal marsupial with large eyes and rounded ears.

• Black-headed Tanager Stilpnia cyanoptera

  

  This tanager ranges from northern Colombia to northeastern Venezuela. Males have a black head, pale upperparts and blue flashes on the wings; females are grey-toned with green wing flashes. It uses moist woodland and eats small fruits and arthropods.

• Berg's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys bergi

  

  Berg’s tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of Argentina’s Dry Chaco. Besides northwestern Córdoba, one female was recorded in Salavina Department, Santiago del Estero, and identified as this species using genetic and morphological evidence.

• Rufous-tailed Antthrush Chamaeza ruficauda

  

  This antthrush walks along the forest floor. It has a long rufous-brown tail and is recorded in highland forest and scrub of southeastern Brazil.

• Clymene Dolphin Stenella clymene

  The Clymene dolphin is a small dolphin of tropical and subtropical offshore waters in the Atlantic. It is known for leaping and spinning as it falls back into the water.

• Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow Peucaea sumichrasti

  This sparrow is found on the Pacific slope of southern Mexico. It has a rufous crown and cinnamon-colored flanks and undertail.

• Gray Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) incanus

  Males are larger than females, and coat color varies with age and region. It lives along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil and searches for insects on both the ground and in trees.

• Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca

  Breeding males have a bright orange face and throat and forage high in leafy forest canopies.

• Gee's Golden Langur Trachypithecus geei

  Gee's golden langur occurs in Assam, India, and neighbouring Bhutan. It lives in trees in forested habitats.

• Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus percussus

  The Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. Males have conspicuous red patches on the head and breast, and the species feeds mainly on fruit.

• Père David's deer Elaphurus davidianus

  A deer native to China. After it disappeared from the wild there, reintroduction has reestablished wild populations in China.

• Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor

  This shrike is marked in grey, black, and white. A small number visit Britain in winter, and birds on lowland heath are known to impale prey on thorn bushes and store it.

• Long-tailed Spiny-rat Proechimys longicaudatus

  A spiny rat from inland South America, including dry forests. Its reddish or yellowish back is mixed with dark-brown hairs, its belly is white, and its tail is sparsely haired.

• Blunt-winged Warbler Acrocephalus concinens

  The Blunt-winged Warbler is a small reed warbler of wetlands and mountain grasslands. Some populations migrate seasonally.

• Thomas's Shaggy Bat Centronycteris centralis

  Thomas’s shaggy bat is a rare, long-furred bat found mainly in lowland forests from Central America to Peru. A Costa Rican specimen contained plant hoppers and other insects.

• Guianan Puffbird Notharchus macrorhynchos

  The Guianan Puffbird is a forest bird with a white forehead and throat and a broad black breast band. It ranges through the Guianas, eastern Venezuela, and northeastern Brazil.

• Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira tildae

  Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat is a fruit-eating bat found from northern South America into Brazil and neighboring countries. Its coat varies, and it has ochre shoulder patches and dark fur around the eyes.

• Madagascar Sandgrouse Pterocles personatus

  The Madagascar Sandgrouse feeds on seeds on dry open ground. Groups may fly to water, and males carry water to chicks in their soaked belly feathers.

• Perrier's Sifaka Propithecus perrieri

  Perrier’s sifaka is an arboreal lemur with a black coat. It is active by day in small groups and eats mainly leaves, along with flowers and fruit.

• Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa

  A round bird with a black band around its white throat and dark markings on its flanks. It feeds on seeds and other small foods in farmland and open scrub.

• Pale Fork-crowned Lemur Phaner pallescens

  The pale fork-crowned lemur is a nocturnal lemur of western Madagascar’s dry forests. It feeds mainly on tree gum and sap.

• 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.