Meet the world’s animals.

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• Horned Guan Oreophasis derbianus

  

  The Horned Guan is a large bird of mountain forests in southeastern Mexico and Guatemala. The red horn on an immature bird is small and has not yet developed into the adult form.

• Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus roxellana

  A monkey of montane forests in central and western China; leaves are a major part of its diet, alongside seeds and fruit.

• Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus

  Males have a yellow comb against a slate-blue head, while females are browner. In Southeast Alaska’s wet evergreen forests, their foods change with the seasons.

• Big-eared Woolly Bat Chrotopterus auritus

  The big-eared woolly bat is a large bat with long dark-brown fur and large ears. It is active at night and catches small vertebrates and insects.

• Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus

  The Rainbow Bee-eater has vivid green, blue, and yellow plumage. It beats captured bees against a perch to remove their stings before eating them.

• Indian Desert Gerbil Meriones (Cheliones) hurrianae

  This gerbil is common in India’s arid zone. It digs burrows, is mainly active by day, and has a black tuft at the end of its tail.

• Grey-headed Robin Heteromyias cinereifrons

  This bird lives in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. Adults have a gray head, white throat, and rufous back, and search leaf litter for insects and larvae.

• Day's Shrew Suncus dayi

  Day’s shrew is a small shrew from humid montane forests in southern India. Its back is dark brown and its underside has a silvery sheen.

• White-bellied Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis albiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. It forages in the midstory and subcanopy.

• Japanese hare Lepus brachyurus

  A hare endemic to Japan, including Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. It uses forest edges and other areas with grasses and shrubs.

• White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys

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

• Massoia's Lutrine Opossum Lutreolina massoia

  This opossum lives in the South American Yungas montane forests. It is active at dusk and night, eats small mammals, fish, invertebrates, bird eggs, and fruit, and can climb and swim well.

• Ross's Goose Anser rossii

  A small goose that breeds in the Canadian Arctic and migrates to parts of the southern United States for winter. Adults are white with black wingtips, a shorter neck, and a smaller bill than a Snow Goose.

• Common marmoset Callithrix jacchus

  A small monkey with conspicuous white ear tufts that feeds on tree sap and raises young with help from family members.

• Bearded Barbet Lybius dubius

  This stocky bird with a large bill lives in tropical West Africa. It has black upperparts, a red throat and belly and a yellow eye patch. Figs are a favoured food, and several birds may roost together.

• Black-flanked Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis

  The black-flanked rock wallaby lives among rocky outcrops in western and south-central Australia. A dark flank stripe and use of rock crevices are characteristic.

• Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus

  Gartered Trogons use forest edges, lighter woodland, and clearings with large trees in lowlands and foothills. Males are green and violet-blue, while females are mostly grey above and on the throat and chest; both have orange-yellow lower underparts. They eat insects and fruit.

• Guianan Saki Pithecia pithecia

  The Guianan saki is a South American monkey whose males and females have different facial coloring; it spends nearly all its life in trees.

• Philippine Bush-hen Amaurornis olivacea

  The species account gives a body length of 24–31 cm, freshwater wetland habitat, and an omnivorous diet. Its listed sound recordings come from several parts of the Philippines.

• San Diego Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus fallax

  The San Diego pocket mouse is a small rodent that comes out at night to gather seeds.

• Chaco Puffbird Nystalus striatipectus

  The Chaco Puffbird lives in dry woodland and tree formations of the Chaco. Its brown head and back contrast with black streaks across the white lower breast and belly.

• Sumatran Mountain Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) altitudinis

  This squirrel is recorded in the Barisan Mountains of Sumatra. It uses forest layers from low bushes to the canopy and feeds on acorn-like nuts called “giseng” by local people.

• Red-bellied Fruit Dove Ptilinopus greyi

  This fruit-eating dove feeds on forest fruits. Males are green with purple markings on the forehead and belly; a survey on Pentecost also recorded it in secondary and native forest.

• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.