Meet the world’s animals.

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• Asian Badger Meles leucurus

  

  The Asian badger ranges from eastern Europe to eastern Asia and is well adapted for digging. It has a white face with dark stripes over the eyes, and its coat color varies by region.

• Gray's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella fasciolata

  A migratory warbler that stays hidden deep in shrubs while giving a short, powerful song.

• Geoffroy's Marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's marmoset is a small monkey with dark ear tufts and a white face. It lives in Brazil's lowland rainforests, where group members help care for young.

• Silvereye Zosterops lateralis

  A small bird seen in Australia and other regions, with a conspicuous white eye-ring. It eats insects, fruit and nectar.

• Gapper's Red-backed Mouse Myodes gapperi

  This small mammal lives in cool forests and other habitats in northern North America. A reddish-brown stripe runs along its back, and it nests around roots, stumps, and fallen logs.

• Blue Bird-of-paradise Paradisornis rudolphi

  The male has blue wings and long ornamental plumes, while the female has brown underparts. It lives in montane forest of central and eastern New Guinea and feeds mostly on fruit.

• Small Woolly Bat Kerivoula intermedia

  This woolly bat was surveyed in lowland tropical rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. A morphological comparison says it is slightly larger than the closely related Kerivoula minuta, with size serving as a main distinction.

• Philippine Trogon Harpactes ardens

  This trogon is endemic to the Philippines. The male has red underparts, while the female has orange-brown underparts; it lives in moist lowland and montane forest.

• Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni

  The grassland melomys has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside. In a Halmahera survey, it was caught in ground-level traps in secondary growth, including near rivers.

• Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta

  The Bar-breasted Firefinch has pink markings on the face and belly. It ranges from western Africa to parts of eastern Africa and forages in grassland and savanna near rivers.

• Piebald Shrew Diplomesodon pulchellus

  A Central Asian desert shrew with a white back patch that prefers damp sand.

• Black-backed Grosbeak Pheucticus aureoventris

  The Black-backed Grosbeak has a black head and a black-and-white back. It occurs around Andean montane forest edges and valleys, preferring wetter habitats than a close relative.

• Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus

  The Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat ranges from South and Southeast Asia through Australia to islands of the western Pacific. It is an insect-eating bat active at night that roosts in tree hollows and rock crevices.

• Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris

  The Little Black Cormorant is slim and black, with a green sheen on its back. It dives to catch fish and other prey.

• Greater spot-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus nictitans

  The greater spot-nosed monkey is a West and Central African guenon with a conspicuous white spot on its nose and dark fur. It eats fruit and seeds and spends much of its time in trees.

• Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum

  At Gunung Merapi National Park on Java, a male was recorded visiting a nest and feeding two chicks. This was an observation of one nest and does not establish the species' general breeding behaviour.

• Red-tailed Phascogale Phascogale calura

  This marsupial has a gray back, cream underside and a black brush at the end of its tail. It mainly lives in trees.

• Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi

  A small hornbill of West Africa and lands west of the Congo River, marked by a broad gray-white eyebrow stripe.

• Wapiti Cervus canadensis

  The wapiti is a large deer found in herds in North America’s Yellowstone region.

• Visayan Blue Fantail Rhipidura samarensis

  A Philippine fantail recorded on Bohol, Leyte and Samar, where it occurs in moist lowland forest. Its head and upperparts are blue, with paler blue underparts.

• Daghestan Tur Capra cylindricornis

  The Daghestan Tur is a wild goat of the rugged eastern Caucasus. Males carry large horns that sweep back, and the goats feed on grasses and shrubs.

• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca

  A yellow-legged shorebird that often wades in deeper water than many other sandpipers.

• Brazilian White-eared Opossum Didelphis albiventris

  The Brazilian white-eared opossum is a marsupial from northern and eastern South America. Its white ears and dark line between the eyes stand out; it forages on the ground at night and can climb trees.

• Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus

  The account describes the nominate subspecies in Madagascar, which uses wooded areas and degraded forest where large trees remain.