Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-headed Penduline Tit Remiz macronyx

  

  The Black-headed Penduline Tit is a Central Asian migrant.

• 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.

• Eared Pitta Hydrornis phayrei

  

  The Eared Pitta lives close to the forest floor, where it searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Western Naked-backed Fruit Bat Dobsonia peronii

  

  The Western naked-backed fruit bat occurs in Indonesia and Timor-Leste in the Lesser Sunda Islands. The life-history details here are mainly from field observations on Timor.

• Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys

  

  The Plain-backed Pipit occurs across sub-Saharan Africa and searches for food on the ground in open grassland and similar habitats. The nominate subspecies in southern Africa has an inconspicuously streaked back.

• Northern Four-eyed Opossum Philander vossi

  

  This small opossum ranges from pale gray to black, with white spots around the eyes. A 1963 Tamaulipas account says it seemed fairly common in tropical deciduous forest at relatively low elevations along the eastern side of the Sierra Madre Oriental.

• Masked Booby Sula dactylatra

  A large seabird with a white body, black wings and tail, and dark skin at the base of the bill; it catches fish and squid over tropical seas.

• Black-crested Sumatran Langur Presbytis melalophos

  This leaf monkey is marked by a black crest and a two-toned tail. By day it leaps among forest trees and eats mainly leaves, along with fruit.

• Black-cheeked Gnateater Conopophaga melanops

  This small bird searches for insects near the ground in Brazil’s eastern Atlantic Forest. Males have a distinctive black face pattern.

• Common Red Brocket Mazama americana

  The common red brocket is a small deer that eats fruit and leaves in Peru’s dense forests.

• Canada goose Branta canadensis

  A goose native to North America, with a long black neck and head and a white patch across the cheeks and chin.

• Arabian Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura gallarum

  This small bat is recorded from northeastern Africa and southern Arabia. A museum specimen list records seven females from Ain Hamran Cave in Oman.

• Sri Lanka Frogmouth Batrachostomus moniliger

  It is a nocturnal bird that sits motionless on branches, with plumage that blends into bark. It lives in lowland forests in Sri Lanka.

• Wrinkle-faced Bat Centurio senex

  The wrinkle-faced bat has folds of skin around its broad, flat face, giving it a wrinkled look. It is nocturnal and eats fruit.

• Brown Noddy Anous stolidus

  A tern that breeds in colonies on small islands in tropical and subtropical seas. Adults are dark brown, with a white forehead fading to grey at the nape, and take fish and squid near the ocean surface.

• Central American Least Shrew Cryptotis orophilus

  This small shrew occurs in Central America. Its original description notes different coat colors on the back and underside.

• Rufous-capped Spinetail Synallaxis ruficapilla

  The Rufous-capped Spinetail occurs in dense thickets and forest edges from eastern Brazil into neighboring countries. It hops on the ground and, when disturbed, flies to the nearest thicket.

• Zebra Duiker Cephalophus zebra

  This small bovid lives in West African forests. It has striped markings on its back and short horns; the account records it in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire.

• American robin Turdus migratorius

  A North American thrush found in parks, lawns and forests. It searches the ground for earthworms and often eats fruit in autumn and winter.

• Cape Scrub Hare Lepus saxatilis

  The Cape Scrub Hare has mottled grey and black fur above and white fur below. It forages at night in scrub and eats grasses and other plant parts.

• Green Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius pulchellus

  The Green Shrike-Vireo ranges from southeastern Mexico to eastern Panama. It occurs in humid forest canopies and second-growth woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• Black-striped Wallaby Notamacropus dorsalis

  This wallaby is marked by a black stripe from its forehead down its back. It rests in dense vegetation by day and feeds on grasses and herbs at night.

• Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans

  The Laughing Falcon has a pale head with a black mask around the eyes. It feeds mainly on snakes, and pairs may exchange laughter-like calls at dawn and dusk.

• Goeldi's Marmoset Callimico goeldii

  Goeldi's marmoset is a small primate with shaggy black hair. It relies heavily on mushrooms during the dry season, when fruit is scarce.