Meet the world’s animals.

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• Painted Buttonquail Turnix varius

  

  Females are larger and more colorful than males. In forest and woodland, birds scratch the leaf litter in a spinning motion to find seeds, insects, fruit, and leaves.

• Panamint Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys panamintinus

  The Panamint kangaroo rat is nocturnal and ranges from eastern California into western Nevada. It eats seeds on sandy or gravelly ground beneath desert shrubs.

• Green-tailed Jacamar Galbula galbula

  The Green-tailed Jacamar is a forest bird that catches flying insects with its long, slender bill.

• Brown Capuchin Cebus brunneus

  It has a long, thick coat, a pale yellowish-grey face and a V-shaped crown patch. It lives in forests in northern Venezuela.

• Plain-backed Antpitta Grallaria haplonota

  This antpitta forages on the floor of humid montane forest in the northeastern Andes. It has dusky, faintly scaled upperparts and a rufous underside with soft dark blotches.

• Robinson's Banded Langur Presbytis robinsoni

  This langur ranges from the northern Malay Peninsula through southern Thailand to Myanmar. Some sources treat it as a subspecies of P. femoralis, while a 2020 genetic study and MDD support species-level recognition.

• Palawan Flowerpecker Prionochilus plateni

  This small bird occurs on islands in the western Philippines. Males and females differ in color, and throat and breast colors also vary between island subspecies.

• Agricola’s Opossum Cryptonanus agricolai

  This is a small opossum. Ventral fur is unbanded white in most examined specimens, and little is known about its field ecology.

• Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons

  The Black-fronted Bushshrike lives in mountain forests of eastern and southern Africa. Its underparts occur in several color forms, and it sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Red Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista petaurista

  The red giant flying squirrel spreads a membrane between its limbs to glide from tree to tree. It is nocturnal and lives among forest trees.

• Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

  This small leaf warbler is endemic to the Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to high mountain scrub, as well as farms and gardens, and is usually sedentary.

• Aztec Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) aztecus

  This fruit-eating bat includes a population in Mexico's mountains. It eats fruit and carries seeds to other parts of the forest.

• Red-flanked Lorikeet Hypocharmosyna placentis

  The Red-flanked Lorikeet is a small parrot that searches flowering trees and epiphytes for nectar and pollen. The nominate subspecies male has red flank feathers.

• Burmese Hare Lepus peguensis

  This hare uses open woodland and grassy scrub, feeding on the ground from dusk into the night.

• Ashy-fronted Bulbul Pycnonotus cinereifrons

  The Ashy-fronted Bulbul occurs on Palawan and nearby islands in the western Philippines. It is treated here as the separate species Pycnonotus cinereifrons, rather than under older treatments that included it as a subspecies of the Olive-winged Bulbul. It eats fruit in forest edges and coastal scrub.

• Long-tailed Colilargo Oligoryzomys longicaudatus

  A small rice rat found in Chile and Argentina. It has a long tail and is mostly nocturnal and terrestrial, though it climbs well.

• Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea

  This whydah occurs in Africa. Breeding males grow long tails and lay eggs in the nests of small finches.

• Minute Fruit Bat Cynopterus minutus

  The minute fruit bat is a fruit-eating bat that may show pale yellow fur around the neck. Two individuals were caught along a forest trail in a protected area of Borneo.

• Golden-bellied Gerygone Gerygone sulphurea

  The Golden-bellied Gerygone is a small bird with a gray-brown back and yellow underparts. It occurs in many tree-filled places, including cities, across parts of Southeast Asia.

• Short-eared Rock Wallaby Petrogale brachyotis

  The short-eared rock wallaby has short ears and a bushy tail. It lives near rocky hills and gorges in northern Australia.

• Yellow-bellied Longbill Toxorhamphus novaeguineae

  This bird is recognized by its long, down-curved bill and yellow belly. It lives in forests on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Northern California Pocket Gopher Megascapheus laticeps

  Megascapheus laticeps, the Northern California Pocket Gopher, occurs in California and Oregon. Its original description records a broad head and large feet, reddish-yellow-brown fur with dark tips along the back, and a grayish-white tail that is darker above.

• Pemba Sunbird Cinnyris pembae

  This sunbird is restricted to Pemba Island off Tanzania. Males are green and violet; females have gray-brown upperparts and pale underparts.

• Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros armiger

  The great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat is a large bat with gray-brown fur and leaf-like folds on its nose. It rests in caves by day and emerges early in the evening.