Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sambar Rusa unicolor

  

  Asia’s largest deer, it feeds near forests and wetlands.

• Lineated Barbet Psilopogon lineatus

  The Lineated Barbet eats fruit and excavates nesting holes in dead trees. In Singapore, an introduced population occurs in parks and along woodland edges.

• Natal Red Duiker Cephalophus natalensis

  This small antelope lives in forests and thickets of southeastern Africa. Its upperparts are reddish brown, its underside is paler, and it dives into nearby bushes when alarmed.

• Beautiful Jay Cyanolyca pulchra

  The Beautiful Jay lives in wet montane forest from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. Its crown, back, wings, and tail are blue, set off by a black face.

• Fawn-colored Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cervinus

  The Queensland species profile places this bat in the north of the state and describes it hunting insects at night and roosting in caves or mines.

• Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus

  This small honeybird has a patchy range south of the Sahara. It searches leaves and branches for insects and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Big-eared Opossum Didelphis aurita

  The big-eared opossum is a marsupial with bare black ears and a dark line down the middle of its forehead. It is nocturnal and uses both the ground and trees.

• Common Guillemot Uria aalge

  The Common Guillemot is a seabird that gathers on coastal cliffs to breed and otherwise lives at sea.

• Brown Titi Plecturocebus brunneus

  An arboreal monkey from Brazil's Rondônia state. Its brown back, reddish limbs and belly, and black crown help distinguish it.

• Chameleon Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx lepidus

  This small kingfisher is marked by a white bar on the side of its neck and an orange spot beside the base of its bill.

• Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon plicatus

  The 2018 study describes a relatively narrow wing shape in bats reported as Chaerephon plicatus. In a 2018 study of two central Thailand roost caves, brown planthoppers were common in droppings during rice growing; other insects appeared during the fallow period.

• White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda

  A small, compact lark with a dark, scaly-looking back and white outer tail feathers. It is recorded in cropped grassland.

• Western Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Hesperosciurus) griseus

  The western gray squirrel has a gray back, pale underside and bushy tail. In Washington, it occurs in scattered pine and oak woodlands.

• Whooping Motmot Momotus subrufescens

  This motmot ranges from eastern Panama to northwestern South America and uses lowland forest.

• California Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus californicus

  This small rodent is known for white, grooved spines on its rump and a tufted tail. At night it carries seeds in its cheek pouches and stores them in burrows.

• Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus

  It walks through shallow water on long pink legs and searches for food with a slender bill.

• Spectacled Hare Wallaby Lagorchestes conspicillatus

  This small wallaby has orange rings around its dark eyes. In the dry grasslands of Australia, it hides in tall grass by day and feeds on plants at night.

• Chestnut-capped Piha Lipaugus weberi

  This cotinga is known from a restricted area of Colombia's Central Cordillera. Its chestnut crown and gray body are distinctive.

• Incan Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus incarum

  A broad-nosed bat occurring east of the Andes. Records from Brazil’s Cerrado and Pantanal were confirmed as P. incarum rather than P. helleri.

• Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus pinskeri

  A forest eagle endemic to the Philippines, it is currently recognized as Nisaetus pinskeri. Adults of the southern population have a pale crown and bold black-and-white markings on the breast and legs.

• Caroline Flying Fox Pteropus molossinus

  This small flying fox lives on islands around Pohnpei. It has been recorded in tropical forest and mangroves and feeds on fruit and flowers.

• Buff-breasted Wren Cantorchilus leucotis

  It lives in secondary lowland forest along rivers from central Panama through northern South America. Pairs sing duets, and the birds search the understory for terrestrial invertebrates.

• Forest Rabbit Sylvilagus brasiliensis

  This rabbit was reassessed using a neotype from Pernambuco. Older, broad South American records are not carried forward as confirmed range for this taxon; this account stays with documented coastal-forest evidence.

• Orange-crowned Fairywren Clytomyias insignis

  This small bird has an orange crown. It moves in small groups through mountain-forest thickets on New Guinea and gleans invertebrates from leaf undersides.