Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-chinned Jacamar Galbula tombacea

  

  This jacamar uses riverine forest and the edges of seasonally flooded forest in the Amazon Basin. Its metallic green plumage and white chin patch are distinctive; it catches flying insects in the air.

• Yellow-bellied Weasel Mustela kathiah

  

  This weasel has dark brown fur on its back and tail and a yellowish belly. It lives in mountain forests and catches small animals such as rodents.

• Slate-throated Gnatcatcher Polioptila schistaceigula

  

  This small bird occurs in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. Males and females have different white markings around the eyes, and the species lives in moist lowland forest.

• Queensland Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene robinsoni

  

  A fruit-eating bat of eastern Australian forests, with tubular nostrils and pale spots scattered across its wings.

• Least Auklet Aethia pusilla

  

  The Least Auklet is a very small seabird that breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and Alaska. It nests in rock crevices and eats small animals from the sea.

• Derby's Woolly Opossum Caluromys derbianus

  

  This tree-dwelling marsupial has a long, bushy tail, a reddish-brown back, a pale underside, and a dark stripe on its face.

• Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus

  In good light, adults show maroon, green, and bronze colors. They forage in flocks in shallow wetlands, probing the mud with their bills.

• Common Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas

  A monkey of savannas and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Philippine Oriole Oriolus steerii

  The Philippine Oriole occurs in the Philippines and is found in forest from lowlands to foothills, including forest edges.

• Northern Pudu Pudu mephistophiles

  This very small deer lives in the northern Andes. It has a dark brown face, lives alone, and is found in high-altitude páramo near humid montane forest.

• Grey-hooded Fulvetta Fulvetta cinereiceps

  The Grey-hooded Fulvetta searches for insects in the undergrowth of Chinese mountain forests and bamboo thickets, usually in small flocks. Under the current species treatment, it occurs in China.

• Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus waterhousii

  Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat is a medium-to-large bat with large ears and a noseleaf. Bahamian records describe cave roosts and insect gleaning from surfaces such as the ground.

• Japanese Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus

  A coastal cormorant that dives for fish; white patches appear on its face and thighs during breeding season.

• Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula

  The Greater White-toothed Shrew occurs throughout mainland Portugal. Its back changes from gray in winter to reddish brown in summer. It uses open places, shrub-rich woodland edges, gardens and farmland, and is mostly nocturnal but also active by day.

• Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens

  The Crested Guan is a large bird with a prominent crest. A Belize Zoo guide describes it in Belizean forests and as an arboreal species.

• Tamarau Bubalus mindorensis

  The tamaraw is a wild bovid found only on Mindoro in the Philippines. Accounts describe it using grassland and secondary forest, with adults usually living alone.

• Wallacean Drongo Dicrurus densus

  This drongo occurs in the Lesser Sundas and southeastern Moluccas of Indonesia and in Timor-Leste. It has glossy blue-black plumage and a long, deeply forked tail.

• Swamp Rabbit Sylvilagus aquaticus

  It lives in wetlands and low areas near water. When pursued, it may enter the water, swim, or dive.

• Dark-fronted Babbler Dumetia atriceps

  The Dark-fronted Babbler often stays hidden near the ground, and its dark head pattern varies among subspecies.

• Antilopine wallaroo Osphranter antilopinus

  The antilopine wallaroo is a marsupial of northern Australian savanna woodlands. Adult males and females differ in coat color.

• Highland Tinamou Nothocercus bonapartei

  The Highland Tinamou often remains on the ground during the day. It was recorded in rainforest at about 1,200 m at Cacao Biological Station in Costa Rica.

• Eastern Black-handed Tamarin Saguinus ursula

  This small monkey occurs east of the Tocantins River in Brazil. The EAZA guide notes forest patches toward the Cerrado and Caatinga transition.

• Montane Widowbird Euplectes psammacromius

  Males have yellow wing patches that can act as signals in territorial contests. In a field experiment in southern Tanzania, males whose patches were blackened more often lost territories or contests.

• Black Bearded Saki Chiropotes satanas

  The black bearded saki lives in forests of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Its dark coat and beard are distinctive, and it often eats fruit and seeds.