Meet the world’s animals.

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• Philippine Megapode Megapodius cumingii

  

  This megapode has brown-to-grey plumage and bare red facial skin. In Borneo it searches on the ground and buries eggs in a mound of plant material, where heat from decomposition incubates them.

• Greater Long-nosed Fruit Bat Macroglossus sobrinus

  The greater long-nosed fruit bat has a slender snout and feeds on nectar. By visiting flowers, it also helps pollinate wild bananas.

• Collared Aracari Pteroglossus torquatus

  The Collared Aracari is a toucan relative with a bright yellow belly and red rump. It moves through trees in small flocks and eats fruits, insects, and other foods.

• Blanford's Fox Vulpes cana

  Blanford's fox is a small fox with large ears and a bushy tail. It can also climb among rocky slopes.

• Blunt-winged Warbler Acrocephalus concinens

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

• Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin Cebus malitiosus

  This capuchin lives around the Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia. Its dark coat contrasts with pale fur on the head and shoulders.

• Bush Petronia Gymnoris dentata

  The Bush Petronia is a small bird whose male has a gray crown and a russet brow stripe. It feeds on seeds on the ground in dry savanna and scrub.

• Tayra Eira barbara

  A climbing mustelid with a dark body and a lighter-colored head.

• Large Woodshrike Tephrodornis virgatus

  This forest bird has a heavy bill and a dark band across the face. It searches quietly for food in the upper forest layers.

• Pallas's cat Otocolobus manul

  A Central Asian cat with long, dense fur. Its rounded head and low-set ears give the face a flattened appearance.

• Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis

  This small bird occurs in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. A nest has been studied in foothill evergreen forest there.

• Puku Kobus vardonii

  A southern and central African antelope of grasslands and floodplains. It shifts away from flooded areas in the rainy season and stays closer to water during the dry season.

• Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis

  A pitta with blue plumage and a black bill. It breeds in southern China and Southeast Asia and appears in Singapore during migration and winter.

• Hog deer Axis porcinus

  A stocky deer that moves with its head low under forest cover.

• Large-billed Gerygone Gerygone magnirostris

  This small bird is 10–12 cm long and uses lowland wetlands and mangroves. It is active by day and searches trees for invertebrates.

• Blackish Red Bat Lasiurus ebenus

  The Blackish Red Bat has been recorded in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Its type specimen has a black face and wings, with black and dark-brown bands in the back fur.

• Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus

  A large gull of the North Atlantic coast. Adults have broad black wings and back, a white head, and a large yellow bill.

• Oriental Basin Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fulvescens

  This pocket gopher is recorded in central Mexico. Surveys found it in second-growth vegetation or scrub depending on the site, and reported a preference for flat, sandy ground with few rocks.

• Black-and-white Becard Pachyramphus albogriseus

  An integrative taxonomic study separated P. albogriseus from P. salvini, which had been included in the broader Black-and-white Becard. This entry concerns P. albogriseus, found on the eastern Andean slope and in montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.

• White-striped Free-tailed Bat Austronomus australis

  It has a brown back, a paler underside, and broad white stripes along its sides. This Australian bat is nocturnal and uses echolocation to find insects.

• Ash-breasted Antbird Myrmoborus lugubris

  The Peru Aves account for subspecies berlepschi associates it with wooded river islands on major Amazonian rivers.

• Butler's Dunnart Sminthopsis butleri

  This small carnivorous marsupial has a reported head-and-body length of 88 mm and a tail about 90 mm long. The report gives an average mass of 15–30 g.

• Cape Penduline Tit Anthoscopus minutus

  This small bird lives in dry scrub and other habitats in southern Africa. Its black-and-white forehead pattern and pale-yellow belly help identify it.

• Mantled guereza Colobus guereza

  An African forest monkey with long white fringes that feeds mainly on leaves.