Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana

  

  The Bar-tailed Treecreeper lives in mountain forests and searches for small food items on trunks and branches.

• Masked palm civet Paguma larvata

  

  A climbing civet that lives in forests and near human settlements.

• Ashy-faced Owl Tyto glaucops

  

  The Ashy-faced Owl has a gray facial disk and tawny plumage marked with darker spots. It takes small mammals and other prey.

• 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.

• Ruby-throated Myzomela Myzomela eques

  

  The Ruby-throated Myzomela lives in forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. Males have an iridescent red throat patch, and the species mainly feeds on nectar.

• 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.

• Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari

  The Maguari Stork lives in South American wetlands. It has contrasting black-and-white plumage and searches for prey while walking through shallow water.

• Dry Chaco Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys pulchellus

  This small opossum is recorded in northern Argentina. Argentina’s 2019 assessment lists localities across several provinces, chiefly in the Chaco region.

• Cryptic Warbler Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi

  This small bird lives in Madagascar. A species account lists montane forest as its habitat and describes it searching for small invertebrates on branches. A separate field account records the appearance of recently fledged young.

• Formosan Rock Macaque Macaca cyclopis

  A macaque of Taiwan’s forests. It is mainly arboreal but also searches for food on the ground.

• Black-lored Yellowthroat Geothlypis auricularis

  A small bird of the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru. Males have black around the eye; females show a yellow brow and eyering. It occurs in low thickets and open-woodland edges.

• Amur Hedgehog Erinaceus amurensis

  The Amur hedgehog has spines along its back and sides and lives around forests, fields and orchards in East Asia.

• Blue-footed booby Sula nebouxii

  A booby with striking blue feet that dives into the sea to catch fish.

• Proserpine Rock Wallaby Petrogale persephone

  The Proserpine rock wallaby has a grey back, pale underside, and black feet. It shelters among rocky outcrops and also uses forest edges.

• 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.

• Woolley's False Antechinus Pseudantechinus woolleyae

  A small carnivorous marsupial from rocky, arid areas of Western Australia. It has chestnut fur behind the ears and a flat tail.

• Dusky Broadbill Corydon sumatranus

  The Dusky Broadbill is a forest bird of Southeast Asia, with a heavy bill, dark plumage, and a pale throat. It gathers in small groups in the canopy.

• Burmese Ferret-badger Melogale personata

  The Burmese ferret-badger has distinctive black-and-white facial markings and a white stripe down its back. It is mostly nocturnal and rests in burrows or other shelters by day.

• Azure Dollarbird Eurystomus azureus

  The Azure Dollarbird has dark purple-blue plumage and pale azure wing patches. It lives in forests of Indonesia's northern Moluccas.

• Chapman's Rice Rat Oryzomys chapmani

  Its back ranges from brown to dark with black hairs; its ears are smallish and blackish, and the tail is uniformly colored. It lives in Mexican cloud forest and grassy areas in pine-oak forest, and is nocturnal and terrestrial.

• Spectacled Longbill Oedistoma iliolophus

  This small honeyeater is about 11 cm long. It is grayish olive, with a short tail and yellowish eye ring, in New Guinea forest and forest margins.

• Atlantic Bamboo Rat Kannabateomys amblyonyx

  The Atlantic bamboo rat is an arboreal rodent of bamboo patches in the Atlantic Forest. It grips bamboo with broad digits and feeds on bamboo leaves and stems.

• New Caledonian Cuckooshrike Coracina analis

  The New Caledonian Cuckooshrike lives in forests on New Caledonia. A local island guide records it eating insects and small fruits in forest.

• Common Malacomys Malacomys longipes

  The Common Malacomys has long hind feet and a tail longer than its head and body. An identification key that includes records from Rwanda's forests summarizes it as often found near water.