Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

  

  The Red-eyed Vireo is a woodland songbird that searches leaves in the canopy for caterpillars and also eats fruit in its South American wintering areas.

• Philippine Slow Loris Nycticebus menagensis

  

  The Philippine Slow Loris has a white muzzle and small dark rings around the eyes. It is nocturnal and spends almost all of its time in trees.

• Seychelles Kestrel Falco araeus

  

  This small falcon lives on islands in the Seychelles. It hunts insects and small vertebrates, including skinks and geckos.

• Black-headed Night Monkey Aotus nigriceps

  

  The black-headed night monkey is a small monkey of Amazonian forest, active mainly at night. Its large eyes and the black line running between them are distinctive.

• Eastern Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus frugivorus

  

  A chocolate-brown back and bright yellow skin around the eye help identify this bird. In Hispaniola's mountain forests, it searches leaf litter for small animals and seeds.

• Eastern Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax validus

  

  An arboreal hyrax of East Africa. A survey on the Kenyan coast recorded animals identified as Dendrohyrax validus using trees as well as caves and rocky places.

• Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus tickelli

  Tickell’s Brown Hornbill lives in forests of southern Myanmar and western Thailand, usually in groups of about five to seven, feeding on fruit and small animals.

• Crowned Sifaka Propithecus coronatus

  A lemur of western Madagascar that moves through trees and feeds on leaves and fruit.

• Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana

  The Bar-tailed Treecreeper lives in mountain forests and searches for small food items on trunks and branches.

• Goodman’s mouse lemur Microcebus lehilahytsara

  Goodman’s mouse lemur is a small lemur that looks very similar to another mouse lemur species.

• Crimson-browed Finch Carpodacus subhimachalus

  This finch lives at high elevations in southwestern China. Males have red markings around the brow and cheeks, while females are olive or yellow-green. It may move to lower elevations in winter.

• Vaquita Phocoena sinus

  The vaquita is a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Its rounded head and dark eye and lip patches help identify it.

• Mourning Babbler Pellorneum malaccense

  The Mourning Babbler occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands. At Krau in Pahang, a study often recorded it taking food from aerial dead leaves at heights above ground up to 2 m.

• Brown-headed Spider Monkey Ateles fusciceps

  The black-headed spider monkey has black fur and a dark face. Long limbs and a grasping tail help it move through the canopy, where fruit is its main food.

• Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps

  The Red-headed Bunting breeds in Central Asia and winters in India. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor; females and young can be difficult to identify because they resemble Black-headed Buntings.

• Painted Tree Shrew Tupaia picta

  The painted treeshrew lives in lowland forest on Borneo. A faint stripe on its back helps distinguish it from similar plain-coated relatives.

• Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus

  This tyrant flycatcher has streaking on its head and back. It makes short sallies from high perches in the canopy to catch insects and other food.

• Arabian Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma cystops

  This long-tailed bat has also been recorded in southwestern Algeria. About half of its tail lies within the narrow membrane between the hind legs. A survey there found groups in rocky cavities and a cave.

• Moluccan Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles crinifrons

  The Moluccan Owlet-nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forest in the northern Moluccas.

• Southern Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes matacus

  The southern three-banded armadillo is an armadillo that tucks its head and legs beneath its hard shell and curls up for defense.

• Noisy Scrubbird Atrichornis clamosus

  The Noisy Scrub-bird has short wings and strong legs and moves along the ground and through low shrubs. It occurs on the mainland of southwestern Western Australia.

• Crabeater Seal Lobodon carcinophaga

  This seal is widespread in pack ice around Antarctica. It feeds mainly on krill; despite its name, crabs are not its principal food.

• Guinea turaco Tauraco persa

  A green bird with a tall crest and a long tail.

• Bonobo Pan paniscus

  An ape living in forests south of the Congo River whose groups gather or split as food availability changes.