Meet the world’s animals.

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• Asian Golden Weaver Ploceus hypoxanthus

  

  The Asian Golden Weaver was recorded nesting among cattails at freshwater wetlands in a Bangkok study area.

• Hoffmann's two-toed sloth Choloepus hoffmanni

  A sloth with a flat face and small nose; its small ears are hidden in long fur. It spends most of its life in trees and eats leaves and fruit.

• Shining Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus

  In New Zealand, the Shining Bronze Cuckoo is a small migrant that arrives in spring and stays into autumn. Its back has a green sheen and its white underside is barred. It lays eggs in smaller birds' nests and leaves the care of its young to them.

• Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus

  The southern brown bandicoot is a ground-dwelling marsupial. This entry follows the source’s account of the eastern subspecies.

• Grey Sibia Heterophasia gracilis

  It occurs in hill regions of northeast India, Myanmar, and western Yunnan in China, using evergreen, deciduous, pine, and secondary forests.

• Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris

  This dolphin has no beak and a rounded, bulging forehead. It uses coastal, muddy, brackish river mouths and deltas; river populations are also recorded.

• Spotted Elachura Elachura formosa

  The Spotted Elachura is a brown bird marked with white spots. It searches for insects near the ground in damp forest, from eastern Nepal and northeastern India to southern China.

• Mountain Degu Octodontomys gliroides

  The Mountain Degu lives in dry areas around the Andes. This burrowing rodent uses small holes among rocks or cactus roots and feeds on vegetation.

• Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis

  This grass warbler occurs widely in tropical Africa. Its black moustache-like stripe and broad, rounded dark tail are distinctive. Records in southern Africa are localized to tall grass near streams and wetlands.

• Woodland Jumping Mouse Napaeozapus insignis

  A small jumping mouse of northeastern North American forests. It is mostly active at night and spends a long part of winter hibernating.

• Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus

  A long-winged tern with a pointed bill that catches small fish in shallow coastal waters.

• Northern Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus

  The northern maned three-toed sloth occurs in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe. A field study confirmed that it eats leaves, especially young leaves.

• Taiwan Barbet Psilopogon nuchalis

  The Taiwan Barbet lives in Taiwan’s broadleaf forest, parks, and gardens and mainly eats fruit. A historical account quoted by the museum says it can be hard to see among leaves, while its clear call can reveal it.

• Prehensile-tailed Hutia Mysateles prehensilis

  This large rodent lives in Cuba and is an accomplished climber. Its tail can curl around branches to help it grip.

• Crested Drongo Dicrurus forficatus

  This black drongo has a crest and forked tail and occurs on Madagascar and Anjouan.

• Large Indian civet Viverra zibetha

  A nocturnal civet of Asian forests and scrub.

• Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis longicaudatus

  This small bird has a restricted range in northeast India. It lives mostly on the forest floor among mossy rocks and crevices.

• Waigeo Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus papuensis

  The Waigeo spotted cuscus is an arboreal cuscus from islands west of New Guinea. It lives in forest and eats fruit, leaves, and insects.

• Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus

  The Long-tailed Jaeger is a slender seabird that breeds on Arctic tundra and hunts lemmings during the breeding season. Outside that season, it travels to oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Emin’s Tateril Taterillus emini

  This is a gerbil species with a long tail. In Ethiopia it has been recorded in dry lowland savanna.

• Green Hylia Hylia prasina

  This small bird has separate populations in western and eastern Africa and lives in forest. Its dark olive upperparts and pale-yellow eyebrow are distinctive; it eats insects.

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• North Island Kokako Callaeas wilsoni

  The North Island Kokako is endemic to New Zealand's North Island, where it lives in native forest. It has blue-gray plumage and blue wattles, and feeds in trees on fruit, leaves, and insects.

• Brazilian Funnel-eared Bat Natalus macrourus

  This bat occurs south of the Amazon in South America, from dry Caatinga and Cerrado to humid forests. It is known to roost in caves, but species-specific diet information is limited.