Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Wallaroo Osphranter robustus

  

  The common wallaroo is a kangaroo relative that lives among rocky and mountainous areas and open woodlands on mainland Australia.

• Indochinese Barbet Psilopogon annamensis

  The Indochinese Barbet is a near-endemic resident of Vietnam. A Vietnamese species account reports it above 750 m in parts of eastern Laos and Cambodia and central to south-central Vietnam.

• Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus

  This large fruit-eating bat has fur ranging from light to dark brown. It flies among trees at night and forages with other bats for fruit.

• Sumatran Treepie Dendrocitta occipitalis

  The Sumatran Treepie lives in forests on Sumatra. A white nape and long tail make it distinctive, and it is usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• Pallas's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene cephalotes

  Pallas's tube-nosed fruit bat is widespread in Indonesia, less common in Papua New Guinea, and known in Australia only from Moa Island. It roosts in rainforest and mangrove trees.

• Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus

  The Scaly-throated Honeyguide has fine streaks on its throat and feeds in forests and dense woodland on beeswax, bees, and other insects.

• Chinese Hare Lepus sinensis

  This hare occurs in southeastern China and Taiwan. Its account describes chestnut fur, triangular black ear tips, and records at grassland edges and scrubby hillsides.

• Parakeet Auklet Aethia psittacula

  The Parakeet Auklet has a thick orange bill and white head plume and searches for food at sea in the North Pacific.

• Big-eared Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus macrotis

  The big-eared horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat with relatively large ears. In a summer study in southwestern China, most detected insect food belonged to Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies.

• Black-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

  The Black-billed Kingfisher has a cream-colored head and underparts, dark greenish-brown wings, and a large bill. It hunts for crabs along rivers and coasts.

• Malay Weasel Mustela nudipes

  The Malay weasel has a pale head and a slender reddish-brown to orange body. It searches for small animals on the ground during the day.

• Indian Bush Lark Plocealauda erythroptera

  This lark inhabits dry lowlands in India and southeastern Pakistan. A pale eyebrow, heavily streaked upperparts, and a spotted breast help identify it.

• Black-crowned Dwarf Marmoset Mico humilis

  The black-crowned dwarf marmoset is a small monkey known from a limited area of central Amazonian Brazil. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it in Mico but notes that this placement remains tentative.

• Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum

  This forest bird ranges from Central America into northwestern South America and catches insects and small animals.

• Patagonian Chinchilla Mouse Euneomys chinchilloides

  With long, dense grey-brown fur, it lives in sandy areas with rocky shelter and patches of grass or shrubs. Records are from central and southeastern Chile and adjacent Argentina.

• Black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus

  A black-and-white bird that wades through shallow water on long legs.

• Madeira Pipistrelle Pipistrellus maderensis

  The Madeira pipistrelle is a small bat found in the Madeira and Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to towns and catches flying insects.

• Black-tipped Cotinga Carpodectes hopkei

  The Black-tipped Cotinga occurs from southeastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador, mainly in humid forest canopy. Males are almost white and females mostly gray above. It eats fruit, but details are sparse and seasonal movement is only suspected.

• Common Grammomys Grammomys dolichurus

  This small, narrow-footed rodent has been described as nocturnal and arboreal in older references. Its ecology in the wild remains poorly known.

• Socotra Buzzard Buteo socotraensis

  The Socotra Buzzard is resident only on Socotra Island. A 2010 paper described it as a distinct species, noting brown upperparts, pale underparts and differences from related buzzards.

• Northern Short-tailed Shrew Blarina brevicaudus

  This short-tailed shrew ranges from southern Canada into eastern and central parts of the United States. It is most numerous in damp woods and wetlands and makes runways close to the ground.

• White-headed Wren Campylorhynchus albobrunneus

  The White-headed Wren is about 18 cm long. Records come from Panama and Colombia, where it searches foliage for small invertebrates in forest edges and secondary growth.

• Lesula Cercopithecus lomamiensis

  This monkey lives in lowland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and eats fruit and leaves.

• Pilbara Grasswren Amytornis whitei

  This long-tailed bird lives in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It runs among large spinifex clumps in dry, open country.