Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-crested Tanager Loriotus rufiventer

  

  Adult males have a black head, back and tail, with a partly hidden yellow crown crest. The chest and belly center is rusty with yellow edging. It feeds in mature-forest canopy and subcanopy, often in mixed flocks.

• Visayan spotted deer Rusa alfredi

  The Visayan spotted deer is a small deer with pale spots on a dark coat. It is native to a few islands in the central Philippines.

• Rhinomyias brunneatus

  This flycatcher searches for insects in forest undergrowth and along edges. It has brown upperparts, a pale eye-ring, a white throat, a pale brown breast and pink legs. Its breeding range is in southern China, with wintering areas in Southeast Asia. The pool uses Rhinomyias; the consulted account uses Cyornis brunneatus.

• Meerkat Suricata suricatta

  A meerkat is a mongoose relative from dry parts of southern Africa. It uses burrows and lives in groups.

• Moluccan Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles crinifrons

  The Moluccan Owlet-nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forest in the northern Moluccas.

• Eurasian Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus

  This small shrew has a long, pointed snout and very small eyes and ears. In Britain it occurs in places with grass, leaf litter, or other ground cover.

• American Coot Fulica americana

  A dark waterbird with a white bill. It swims like a duck but has broad lobes on its toes and feeds on aquatic plants.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

  This striped grass mouse was common at a savanna study site in Ethiopia. Broken pale stripes run along its flanks.

• Brown Parisoma Curruca lugens

  The Brown Parisoma has a pale throat and belly and narrow white tail edges, and forages for invertebrates in East African woodland.

• Brown White-lined Bat Saccopteryx leptura

  This small bat has two pale stripes along its back. It catches small flying insects, and small groups have been recorded roosting on tree trunks and similar places in lowland forests.

• Cryptic Antthrush Chamaeza meruloides

  This antthrush walks on the floor of montane forest in southeastern Brazil. Its reddish tail has a black band near the tip and pale tips. It may climb over fallen logs and roots.

• Mongoose Lemur Eulemur mongoz

  The mongoose lemur is known for its grey fur and beard. Adult males and females have different beard colors.

• White-crowned Penduline Tit Remiz coronatus

  This small bird is marked by a white crown and a dark facial band. It breeds in Central Asia and moves south for winter.

• Asian Badger Meles leucurus

  The Asian badger ranges from eastern Europe to eastern Asia and is well adapted for digging. It has a white face with dark stripes over the eyes, and its coat color varies by region.

• Demoiselle crane Grus virgo

  A crane with pale plumes behind the eyes and long black breast feathers.

• Pearson's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus pearsonii

  This horseshoe bat ranges across parts of South and Southeast Asia. Its back is brown and underside paler.

• White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata

  Its gray body contrasts with a black crest and wings and white on the belly and underside of the long tail. In eastern African montane evergreen forest and nearby scrub or bamboo, it feeds on flies, ants, and other small invertebrates.

• Red-mantled Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus lagonotus

  This tamarin occurs in the Ecuadorian Amazon and eastern Andean foothills. The university species account describes it in lower and middle forest layers, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Southern Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus albivitta

  It occurs in montane forests of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The species-level name used here is Southern Emerald Toucanet; White-throated may refer only to the white-throated nominate subspecies and should not be generalized to every form.

• Northern Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops nanus

  This free-tailed bat has large, rounded ears joined above the forehead. Two specimens were recorded at a wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, amid sorghum crops and fragments of low deciduous forest.

• Spotted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma punctatum

  The Spotted Quail-thrush blends into the ground of dry, open woodland. Males have a black face and throat with a white eyebrow, and birds are usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Peters's Gazelle Nanger petersii

  This gazelle occurs along the coast of Kenya through northeastern Somalia. Its horns are relatively short and straight. A specialist catalogue describes a coastal-plain habitat and tolerance of drier conditions.

• Pine Flycatcher Empidonax affinis

  This small flycatcher lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Guatemala. Its olive-grey body has a conspicuous eye ring.

• Mountain Cuscus Phalanger carmelitae

  The mountain cuscus is an arboreal marsupial of New Guinea's mountains. It has thick, dark fur and feeds on leaves and fruit at night.