Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguineus

  This finch occurs in mountain regions from Türkiye through the Caucasus, Iran and northern Afghanistan to north-western India. It lives on rocky slopes and eats seeds.

• Golden-bellied Mangabey Cercocebus chrysogaster

  The golden-bellied mangabey is notable for orange fur on the front of its body. In forests and wetlands of the central Congo Basin, groups travel through trees and on the ground to find food.

• White-mantled Barbet Capito hypoleucus

  This barbet lives in the north-central Colombian Andes. It uses humid montane and gallery forest and feeds on fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus

  The marsh deer is a deer of South American wetlands. Elastic tissue between its hooves is suited to muddy ground.

• Smaller Black-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris nectarinioides

  A small sunbird of dry East African habitats. The male has a black belly, iridescent green throat and long downcurved bill; it feeds on nectar.

• Common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

  A bat from Mexico through much of South America that feeds on animal blood.

• Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus

  A black-and-white forest hornbill with a large bill, it feeds on fruit and changes its movements with the season

• Angolan Soft-furred Fruit Bat Lissonycteris angolensis

  Surveys around Mount Cameroon captured this fruit bat near fruiting trees, cultivated land and cave entrances. The current MDD species page uses the name Myonycteris angolensis.

• Cambodian Tailorbird Orthotomus chaktomuk

  A small tailorbird restricted to dense floodplain scrub in southeastern Cambodia. Males have a black throat patch, and both sexes have an orange crown.

• Lesser Marmoset Rat Hapalomys delacouri

  The lesser marmoset rat has a tail longer than its body, ending in a tuft. A Vietnam guide reports it using bamboo internodes.

• Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea

  In the Singapore population, males have a blue body and conspicuous black nape; females are duller.

• White Bald Uacari Cacajao calvus

  The white bald uacari is a monkey of the upper Amazon region of Brazil. Sparse hair on its head and face makes its red face and pale body fur distinctive.

• Snethlage's Antpitta Hylopezus paraensis

  This antpitta occurs in the southern Brazilian Amazon. A 2012 revision treated it as a lineage distinguished from relatives by vocal and genetic evidence.

• Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus goodfellowi

  A climbing kangaroo of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.

• Andean Tinamou Nothoprocta pentlandii

  This bird forages in Andean scrub, grassland, and other open habitats. Its upperparts have intricate dark markings and pale streaks, with a fine dark line behind the eye.

• Bokhara Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus bocharicus

  The Bokhara horseshoe bat lives in arid Central Asian foothills and uses caves and mines as roosts.

• Taliabu Masked Owl Tyto nigrobrunnea

  The Taliabu Masked Owl is a rare owl known from Taliabu Island. Its plumage is described, but its feeding and breeding habits remain unknown.

• 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.

• Spotted Nightjar Eurostopodus argus

  The Spotted Nightjar is an Australian nightjar that rests on the ground by day and becomes active at dusk and night.

• Ornate Shrew Sorex ornatus

  This shrew inhabits low elevations, riparian grasslands, and brushy sites in California. It searches beneath leaf litter and rocks for insects and other invertebrates by day and night.

• Chestnut-capped Piha Lipaugus weberi

  This cotinga is known from a restricted area of Colombia's Central Cordillera. Its chestnut crown and gray body are distinctive.

• Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes mearnsi

  The Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest, Connochaetes mearnsi, is restricted to the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It is a small, dark form with a longer tail and a hanging mane. Most of the population moves seasonally in the dry season.

• Cobalt Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera carolinae

  The Cobalt Paradise Kingfisher is a kingfisher of Numfor Island. Long, narrow feathers trail from the tail; it searches near the forest floor for invertebrates and nests in termite mounds.