Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gee's Golden Langur Trachypithecus geei

  

  Gee's golden langur occurs in Assam, India, and neighbouring Bhutan. It lives in trees in forested habitats.

• Angel Tern Gygis alba

  The Angel Tern is a seabird with all-white plumage and a dark bill, living widely among tropical and subtropical islands.

• Wrinkle-faced Bat Centurio senex

  The wrinkle-faced bat has folds of skin around its broad, flat face, giving it a wrinkled look. It is nocturnal and eats fruit.

• Madagascar Ibis Lophotibis cristata

  This ibis lives only in the forests of Madagascar. Its white wings and crest stand out, and it probes the forest floor for food with a long bill.

• Loring's Thallomys Thallomys loringi

  Loring's Thallomys is recorded in western, central, and southwestern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It lives in trees in acacia woodland and savanna scrub.

• Ivory-billed Aracari Pteroglossus azara

  This toucan occurs in the humid lowland forests of western Amazonian Bolivia. It has a pale bill and red, black, and yellow breast bands; fruit-feeding has been recorded in the canopy.

• Greater kudu Strepsiceros strepsiceros

  A striped antelope of African thickets and woodland.

• Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor

  Tickell’s Thrush searches forest floors for food and makes partial seasonal movements in elevation and range.

• Anderson's Squirrel Callosciurus quinquestriatus

  Anderson's squirrel is reported from montane forests in southern Yunnan and eastern Myanmar. Its upperparts are brown to olive-yellow, with contrasting black-and-white stripes below. It eats plant matter as well as insects.

• Channel-billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae

  The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a large cuckoo with a massive pale, down-curved bill. It migrates to Australia from New Guinea and Indonesia and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Riparian Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) riparius

  The Riparian Myotis is a medium-sized bat with woolly fur. Its dorsal color varies geographically from reddish to blackish, and it ranges widely through the Neotropics.

• Rusty-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus frater

  This antwren occurs in separated forest regions of Central and South America. Males are gray, females are olive-brownish, and both accounts describe rusty tones in the wings.

• Brazilian arboreal mouse Rhagomys rufescens

  The Brazilian arboreal mouse was redescribed in a 2004 rediscovery paper based on two specimens. Its lifestyle in that paper includes inferences from morphology rather than direct observations.

• Indochinese Barbet Psilopogon annamensis

  The Indochinese Barbet is a near-endemic resident of Vietnam. A Vietnamese species account reports it above 750 m in parts of eastern Laos and Cambodia and central to south-central Vietnam.

• Drill Mandrillus leucophaeus

  The drill is a close relative of the mandrill. It searches for food on the forest floor and can also climb trees to feed or sleep.

• Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae

  Lilian's Lovebird is a small green parrot with a white eye ring and red bill. In the wild it lives in flocks and uses woodland near water in southeastern Africa.

• Carriker's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma carrikeri

  Carriker's round-eared bat is recorded in Bolivia. A Bolivian species account reports insect feeding and termite mounds used as roosts.

• Bare-headed Laughingthrush Melanocichla calva

  This laughingthrush occurs in the hills of northeastern Borneo. Its dark body, bare head, pale blue areas around the eyes, and red bill are distinctive.

• Common Malacomys Malacomys longipes

  The Common Malacomys has long hind feet and a tail longer than its head and body. An identification key that includes records from Rwanda's forests summarizes it as often found near water.

• Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala

  A large stork of wetlands on the Indian subcontinent. It has a white body with a pink tinge and searches shallow water for small fish.

• Lichtenstein's Hartebeest Alcelaphus lichtensteinii

  Its horn bases are short and broad, and its horns curve inward before turning backward. A 1976–1977 study in south-eastern Zimbabwe found that it preferred tall grass habitat.

• White-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis ruficeps

  This parrotbill ranges from northeast India east of Sikkim to Bhutan and adjacent Tibet. It uses bamboo near broadleaf evergreen forest and may be seen in small groups.

• African Palm Squirrel Epixerus ebii

  The African palm squirrel is a forest squirrel with a patchy range in West and Central Africa. It is recognizable by its gray back, orange to red underside, and patterned tail.

• King of Saxony Bird-of-paradise Pteridophora alberti

  This bird-of-paradise lives in the forests of New Guinea’s central mountains. The male raises its long head plumes and displays them during courtship.