Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern quoll Dasyurus viverrinus

  

  A spotted marsupial that searches for insects and other food at night.

• Acacia Pied Barbet Tricholaema leucomelas

  The Acacia Pied Barbet is a stocky bird with striking red, white, black, and yellow facial markings. It occurs in southern African savanna and woodland habitats, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Greater Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) myotis

  The greater mouse-eared bat is a large bat found in western, central and southern Europe and Asia Minor.

• White-throated Bushtit Aegithalos niveogularis

  This small Himalayan bird is marked by its white throat. It searches for insects in birch and pine woods and moves in flocks.

• Southern Short-tailed Shrew Blarina carolinensis

  The Southern Short-tailed Shrew is marked by small eyes and a long, mobile snout. It uses moist woodland floor habitat and burrows or surface nests.

• Moluccan Scrubfowl Eulipoa wallacei

  The Moluccan Scrubfowl lives in forests of the Moluccan Islands. It gathers at communal nesting grounds at night and buries its eggs in sand or other loose ground.

• Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus

  A shaggy antelope of grassland near water.

• Wattled Broadbill Sarcophanops steerii

  The Wattled Broadbill is a resident bird of Mindanao and nearby Philippine islands. Males have a purplish back, rusty tail, pink underparts, and a pale blue wattle around the eye; females have white underparts.

• Davis's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma evotis

  Davis’s Round-eared Bat is recorded in lowlands from southern Mexico to northeastern Honduras. It flies in the forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.

• Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni

  This small bird lives in humid forests from eastern DR Congo into western East Africa. Blue-green eye wattles and chestnut patches along the sides of the neck are distinctive.

• Baluchistan Gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) nanus

  Its upper body is sandy or grayish, its underside is white, and its tail ends in a dark tuft. In Qatar it is recorded widely on gravelly and rocky plains rather than dune sands.

• Crested ibis Nipponia nippon

  A wetland bird whose pink flight feathers show when it flies.

• Delicate Laucha Calomys tener

  The delicate laucha ranges across several parts of South America. Specimens reported from Misiones had brown to reddish-brown backs and pale undersides.

• Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva

  In breeding plumage, its black face and underparts are edged by a white stripe, with gold-spangled upperparts. It breeds on tundra and searches the ground for insects.

• Thomas's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus thomasi

  Thomas's horseshoe bat has russet-tinged brown fur and a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It roosts in cave colonies and is recorded from southern China and mainland Southeast Asia.

• White-naped Xenopsaris Xenopsaris albinucha

  This small passerine occurs in separated parts of South America, from Venezuela to the southern cone. A study found resident, partly migratory, and migratory breeding populations, with seasonal plumage change in the records.

• Phayre's Langur Trachypithecus phayrei

  This forest monkey moves through trees and feeds mainly on leaves. Adults are dark blue-gray, while young are born with yellowish fur.

• Hook-billed Vanga Vanga curvirostris

  The Hook-billed Vanga is endemic to Madagascar. It has a hooked bill, and breeding pairs share care of the nest and young.

• Wied's Black-tufted-ear Marmoset Callithrix kuhlii

  A small monkey of coastal forests in Brazil that feeds on tree sap, fruit, and insects.

• Silktail Lamprolia victoriae

  A forest bird of Taveuni in Fiji. Its dark body has bright blue speckling, and its white rump is conspicuous.

• Bunyoro rabbit Poelagus marjorita

  The Bunyoro rabbit is a member of the rabbit family found in central and eastern Africa, in grassland and shrubland.

• Orange-breasted Bunting Passerina leclancherii

  The Orange-breasted Bunting forages for seeds in dry scrub and rural areas on Mexico’s Pacific slope. Males show blue, green, orange, and yellow; females are grey-green and pale yellow.

• Gray Four-eyed Opossum Philander opossum

  At Paracou in French Guiana, most adult and subadult specimens had a grizzled-gray back contrasting with a blackish head. The 2001 field report records animals at night, on the ground and in trees.

• 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.