Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black Bee-eater Merops gularis

  

  This African bee-eater lives in forests and at forest edges. It can look black from a distance, but red and blue stand out in good light.

• Madagascan Straw-colored Fruit Bat Eidolon dupreanum

  The Madagascan Straw-colored Fruit Bat is endemic to Madagascar. A diet study in the east found that it ate mainly fruit and also used eucalyptus flowers.

• Moluccan Scrubfowl Eulipoa wallacei

  The Moluccan Scrubfowl lives in forests of the Moluccan Islands. It gathers at communal nesting grounds at night and buries its eggs in sand or other loose ground.

• Brown's Pademelon Thylogale browni

  This small-to-medium wallaby is native to northern and eastern New Guinea, where it occurs in forest and grassland. Populations thought to have been introduced to islands such as New Ireland have contracted.

• Bismarck Cicadabird Coracina remota

  A cicadabird of the Bismarck Archipelago. Females are described with a gray crown and chestnut back.

• Rusty Antechinus Antechinus adustus

  A marsupial with rusty tones in its dark brown fur, it lives in moist upland forests of northeastern Queensland.

• Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone corvina

  The Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher is a small bird naturally found on La Digue in Seychelles. It lives in forest, and birds have also been translocated to other islands.

• Ornate Titi Plecturocebus ornatus

  The ornate titi is a small monkey of forests in eastern Colombia. Its reddish-orange chest and belly, white forehead stripe, and bushy tail stand out.

• Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus

  This bird occurs in damp scrub and thickets along forest edges in the East African highlands. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale eyebrow and a cinnamon-colored breast band.

• Piebald Shrew Diplomesodon pulchellus

  A Central Asian desert shrew with a white back patch that prefers damp sand.

• Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

  The Common Reed Bunting is widespread in Britain and Ireland. Males have black heads, females have browner heads, and in winter they forage in farmland with other small birds.

• Seurat’s Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) seurati

  Seurat’s spiny mouse lives in rocky desert in southern Algeria. It rests beneath rocks or in crevices by day and is active at night.

• Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus

  A large shorebird of North American grasslands, the Long-billed Curlew is notable for its very long, strongly down-curved bill.

• 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.

• Purple-winged Roller Coracias temminckii

  A roller of Sulawesi forests and woodlands, it is noted for its purple wings and catches invertebrates on the ground.

• Weddell's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus weddelli

  A small monkey recorded in Rondônia, Brazil. The official species account describes the nominate subspecies east of the Madeira River.

• Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator

  A large white swan of North America. It feeds on aquatic plants in shallow water and breeds along wetlands and lakes.

• Kirk's dik-dik Madoqua kirkii

  A tiny antelope of East and southwestern Africa, living among shrubs and savannah vegetation.

• White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys

  A tiny warbler of montane forests in central and eastern Africa; the source treats several subspecies together.

• Gaisler's Big-eared Bat Plecotus gaisleri

  This large-eared bat is reported from North Africa. Molecular analysis confirmed it on Pantelleria, Italy, and records also confirm it on Malta and Gozo.

• Golden-breasted Fulvetta Lioparus chrysotis

  The Golden-breasted Fulvetta is patchily distributed in mountain forests from the Himalaya into mainland Southeast Asia. It has a black head with silvery ear-coverts and orange-yellow underparts.

• 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.

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea

  This flycatcher ranges widely from West to East Africa. It searches for insects in forest and woodland, along rivers and in farmland, and builds a low nest.

• Diana monkey Cercopithecus diana

  A West African monkey that uses the upper levels of forest trees.