Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis

  

  The Rufous-faced Warbler is a small bird of forests from the eastern Himalayas to southern China and northern Indochina. It quietly searches for insects in the middle and lower canopy.

• Ecuador Red Brocket Mazama rufina

  This small deer lives in the Andes. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a black head and legs.

• Chestnut Wood Quail Odontophorus hyperythrus

  The Chestnut Wood-Quail lives in the understory of humid montane forest in Colombia. Its chestnut and black mottling is set off by a white throat and red forehead patch.

• Northern Three-striped Opossum Monodelphis (Microdelphys) americana

  The Northern Three-striped Opossum has three black lines on its back. Close relatives share the same pattern, so appearance alone may not distinguish them.

• Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler Locustella amnicola

  The Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler has olive-brown upperparts and a white throat and belly. It uses wetlands, shrubland, and other semi-open habitats, and the species is listed for Sakhalin Oblast.

• Indochinese Gray Langur Trachypithecus crepusculus

  This leaf monkey lives in forests. In a study of one group in an evergreen broadleaf forest in Yunnan, China, the langurs spent most of their time in trees; ground visits included licking rocks.

• Nicobar Hooded Pitta Pitta abbotti

  This bird occurs in the Nicobar Islands. A 2021 field note recorded one individual eating a fallen fig, using the older name Pitta sordida abbotti. ITIS lists Pitta abbotti as valid and the older combination as a synonym.

• 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.

• Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus

  The Northern Carmine Bee-eater is a vivid red bird that catches grasshoppers and other insects in flight, often in flocks.

• Harpy Fruit Bat Harpyionycteris whiteheadi

  The harpy fruit bat lives in forests on islands including the Philippines. The account describes dark brown upper fur and group roosts in fruiting plants.

• Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala

  A large stork of wetlands on the Indian subcontinent. It has a white body with a pink tinge and searches shallow water for small fish.

• Lesser Shrew Crocidura suaveolens

  The Lesser White-toothed Shrew ranges across the Palaearctic. In AlUla, Saudi Arabia, it has been recorded at 1,040 m on Harrat Uwayrid. The regional guide reports an insect diet and nests under shelter in dry grass or leaf litter.

• Sunda Frogmouth Batrachostomus cornutus

  It is active at night. On Bangka Island, parents take turns warming the chick and bring it insects.

• Trefoil Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus trifoliatus

  The trefoil horseshoe bat is a nocturnal insect-eater of forest understories. Its noseleaf and wing membranes are yellowish brown, and its fur is long and soft.

• White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster

  A large grey bird about 50 cm long, with a white belly and wing patch and a white band across the tail. It lives in East African woodland and savanna, often in small groups, and eats fruit and acacia buds and seeds.

• 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.

• Pohnpei Kingfisher Todiramphus reichenbachii

  This kingfisher is endemic to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. It occurs at forest edges and mangroves and excavates a nest burrow in rotten wood.

• Baja California Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus rudinoris

  It has a yellowish gray-brown back, a white underside, and a tail longer than its body. It is active at night and carries seeds in cheek pouches to store in its burrow.

• White-winged Fairywren Malurus leucopterus

  It lives in dry scrub and grassland; breeding males show a conspicuous white wing patch.

• Spix's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus fuscicollis

  A 2022 report describes orange-brown fur on the forehead, crown, and temples of L. f. fuscicollis. The tamarins were observed north of the Río Abujao in Peru, in terra firme forest that is not seasonally flooded.

• Large Green Pigeon Treron capellei

  This large green pigeon has olive plumage and golden lines on its wings. Males have a yellow-orange breast; it feeds on figs in lowland forests.

• Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus

  A hare of North America’s boreal forests, it changes coat color with the seasons. Its large hind feet help it stay atop the snow.

• White cockatoo Cacatua alba

  A cockatoo of Indonesia’s northern Moluccan islands, with white plumage and a broad crest that opens like a fan.

• Black-striped Squirrel Callosciurus nigrovittatus

  A squirrel with black stripes along its sides. It is active by day in trees and eats fruit and insects. Stripe patterns vary among subspecies.