Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dunnock Prunella modularis

  

  A small gray and brown bird that searches for food on the ground in gardens and shrubbery in the UK.

• Brown Antechinus Antechinus stuartii

  This small carnivorous marsupial has a gray-brown back and large, thin ears. It lives in forests and woodlands of northern and eastern Australia and searches for insects at night.

• Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis

  Recorded throughout the year in Britain and Ireland. It is most widespread in the north and west and in uplands during breeding, and across much of the area in winter except the highest ground.

• Prince Bernhard's titi Plecturocebus bernhardi

  Prince Bernhard's titi is a small monkey studied in forest in Rondônia, Brazil. Groups of two to four were observed at one remnant, and sampled animals had continuous orange fur across the chest and limbs.

• White-cheeked Turaco Menelikornis leucotis

  The White-cheeked Turaco is a green turaco centered in the Ethiopian Highlands. Its rounded crest, white cheek patch, and crescent-shaped white neck mark are distinctive.

• Hog deer Axis porcinus

  A stocky deer that moves with its head low under forest cover.

• Black-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma michleri

  This bird searches for food by hopping on the forest floor. The range and ecology here are limited to the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica.

• Ussuri Shrew Crocidura lasiura

  The Ussuri shrew is a small shrew of Northeast Asia. A study in the Russian Far East found it using a broad range of habitats within forest-steppe, including forest vegetation.

• Blackish Tapaculo Scytalopus latrans

  This small tapaculo lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. It is about 11.5 cm long and searches for food in bamboo, alone or in pairs.

• Southern Luzon Phloeomys Phloeomys cumingi

  This rodent lives in forests on several Philippine islands. Its coarse, dark coat and long-haired tail stand out. Accounts also describe it using spaces near the forest floor and holes in trees.

• Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis

  The Woodland Kingfisher is an African kingfisher with blue upperparts and wings and a white underside. A southern African regional guide records it as a summer resident.

• domestic ferret Mustela furo

  The domestic ferret is a slender member of the weasel family that lives with people. Ferrets in human care come in several coat-color forms.

• 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.

• Mehely's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus mehelyi

  Mehely's horseshoe bat has a patchy Mediterranean range, roosts in caves and feeds mostly on moths.

• Fulvous-crested Tanager Tachyphonus surinamus

  This tanager lives in forests of northern Amazonia. The male is black with a fulvous crest, while the female has an olive back and gray head.

• Golden-mantled Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus tripartitus

  This small primate occurs in the western Amazon of Peru and Ecuador. It has golden-orange shoulders and back, a black head and a white face. It lives in lowland evergreen forest and eats fruit and insects.

• Archer's Ground Robin Cossypha archeri

  A robin-chat of the Albertine Rift montane forests. It often feeds for insects on the ground.

• Chinese Goral Naemorhedus griseus

  The Chinese goral is a goat-like animal that climbs rocky, steep slopes on broad hooves.

• Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa

  A dark waterbird that forages among wetland plants; when it searches on land, it flicks its tail and reveals its white undertail.

• Hawaiian Hoary Bat Aeorestes semotus

  This bat is naturally found only in the Hawaiian Islands, on the main islands except Niihau.

• Eastern Orphean Warbler Curruca crassirostris

  A migratory warbler of open woodland and scrub, it feeds on small invertebrates.

• Olive-backed Pocket Mouse Perognathus fasciatus

  This small pocket mouse carries seeds in cheek pouches. It comes above ground at night and spends the day in a soil burrow.

• Whooping Crane Grus americana

  A tall crane of North America. Adults have a white body, black wing tips, and a red crown.

• Miller's Langur Presbytis canicrus

  Presbytis canicrus is a langur of East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. A field report identified it by its dark head, white forehead, and gray back, and recorded an individual active in a karst-forest tree while eating fruit.