Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-billed Brush-turkey Talegalla fuscirostris

  

  The Black-billed Brushturkey lives in lowland forests of New Guinea. Its black bill helps distinguish it from the very similar Red-billed Brushturkey.

• Straw-colored Fruit Bat Eidolon helvum

  Its coat ranges from straw-colored to dark gray. It eats fruit and nectar, is active at night, and may form large colonies.

• Choco Toucan Ramphastos brevis

  This toucan lives in humid forests from western Colombia into Ecuador. Males and females differ in bill length.

• 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.

• Australian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus australis

  The Australian Reed Warbler is a small olive-brown bird with a pale eyebrow. It moves south in summer to breed and nests among reeds in wetlands.

• Red Goral Naemorhedus baileyi

  The red goral is a goat relative of the eastern Himalaya that shifts elevation within mountain forests as the seasons change.

• Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda

  This weaver lives in and around Tanzania’s Serengeti. Its brown plumage looks scaly where pale feather edges overlap, and a dry-season study found it using open grassland.

• Welwitch's bat Myotis (Chrysopteron) welwitschii

  Welwitch's bat has a netlike pattern in its wing membrane. Records are scattered across a broad part of Africa.

• Comoro Blue Vanga Cyanolanius comorensis

  The Comoro Blue Vanga is a blue bird of woodland in the Comoros. It was formerly grouped with the Madagascar Blue Vanga but is now a separate species. Its current status on Grand Comoro is uncertain.

• Robinson's Banded Langur Presbytis robinsoni

  This langur ranges from the northern Malay Peninsula through southern Thailand to Myanmar. Some sources treat it as a subspecies of P. femoralis, while a 2020 genetic study and MDD support species-level recognition.

• Orange-fronted Plushcrown Metopothrix aurantiaca

  This small bird has greenish-olive upperparts, a yellow throat, and orange legs. In Amazonian riverine forest, it searches foliage for food in pairs or small groups.

• Pygmy Round-eared Bat Lophostoma brasiliense

  This small bat has rounded ears and a short tail enclosed by the flight membrane. It is active after dusk, feeds on insects, and has been reported roosting in arboreal termite nests.

• African Pitta Pitta angolensis

  Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.

• Yellow-necked Field Mouse Apodemus flavicollis

  Apodemus flavicollis is described in a British mammal atlas as mainly a woodland mouse. The yellowish band below its neck joins the brown upper fur, and many British records are near ancient woodland.

• Chestnut-breasted Whiteface Aphelocephala pectoralis

  A small bird of elevated gibber plains in central to eastern South Australia. It uses dry shrubland and stony hills and plains.

• Mexican Giant Shrew Megasorex gigas

  The Mexican giant shrew is known only from Mexico. A small number of collection records place it along damp streams and in forests with fallen logs and rocks.

• River Tern Sterna aurantia

  A tern with a yellow bill and a deeply forked tail. It flies over rivers and lakes in South Asia and catches fish.

• Corsican Hare Lepus corsicanus

  The Corsican hare is native to central and southern Italy and Sicily. The population on Corsica is considered introduced.

• Foothill Schiffornis Schiffornis aenea

  The Foothill Schiffornis is recorded in montane forest in northeastern Peru along the Andean foothills. Its regional account describes a narrow core area and notes more recent records farther south in Amazonas.

• Dry Chaco Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys pulchellus

  This small opossum is recorded in northern Argentina. Argentina’s 2019 assessment lists localities across several provinces, chiefly in the Chaco region.

• Chestnut-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina cristata

  A lowland forest antbird of southeastern Colombia and northwestern Brazil that searches near the ground around columns of ants.

• Swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor

  A dark-coated wallaby that shelters in dense forest undergrowth.

• Black-backed Wood Quail Odontophorus melanonotus

  The Black-backed Wood Quail has a dark brown back and a rufous throat and breast. It forages on the forest floor in montane forests spanning northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia.

• Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys irroratus

  The Mexican spiny pocket mouse is currently placed in Heteromys. It has coarse grey-brown fur and cheek pouches, and searches for seeds at night, carrying them to burrows.