Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wood's Slit-faced Bat Nycteris woodi

  

  Wood's slit-faced bat is a small bat of southern African woodland savannas. Its fur ranges from gray to reddish brown, and it roosts by day in places such as hollow trees and caves.

• Scaly-breasted Thrasher Allenia fusca

  

  The Scaly-breasted Thrasher occurs in the Lesser Antilles. It has dark gray-brown upperparts, a pale wingbar, a scaly underside, and white tail tips. It forages at different heights in trees.

• Southwestern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus concinnus

  

  The western pygmy possum is a small marsupial with a white belly and large eyes. It moves through trees at night and rests in a leaf-lined nest by day.

• Cuckoo Roller Leptosomus discolor

  

  It lives in woodland and forest in Madagascar and the Comoros. Males have iridescent green upperparts, while females are brown above.

• Peter's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera discifera

  

  This small bat roosts in groups under leaves and uses suction cups on its feet and thumbs to cling to them.

• Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni

  

  A pratincole that catches insects in flight. It breeds in Eurasia and migrates to Africa.

• 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.

• Pale-winged Trumpeter Psophia leucoptera

  A ground-walking bird of Amazonian forest, with glossy black plumage and a broad rounded white area on the back.

• Caribbean Least Funnel-eared Bat Chilonatalus micropus

  The Caribbean Least Funnel-eared Bat is a small bat with pale yellow-brown fur. It is recorded on Caribbean islands and Colombian islands, where it roosts in humid caves.

• Sao Tome Thrush Turdus olivaceofuscus

  The São Tomé Thrush lives in forests on São Tomé. It searches among leaf litter, where beetles, snails, worms, and fruit have been recorded in its diet.

• Pel's Anomalure Anomalurus pelii

  Pel's anomalure is a gliding squirrel with scaly structures on its tail. It occurs in high forest in West Africa.

• Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum

  This tanager ranges widely through Central and South America. In Bolivia it occurs in forest and palm groves as well as cultivated land and urban parks.

• Peters' Mouse Lemur Microcebus myoxinus

  Peters's mouse lemur is a small primate of western Madagascar. At night it searches for fruit and insects in trees, usually foraging alone.

• Violet Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus damarensis

  This bird searches trees along dry rivers for insects and small geckos. A Namibian subspecies has coppery and violet iridescence on its mantle feathers.

• Silky Sifaka Propithecus candidus

  A sifaka known for its long, silky white fur. It moves among trees by day in mountain forest in northeastern Madagascar.

• White-breasted Wood-Swallow Artamus leucoryn

  This bird has dark bluish-gray head, back, wings, and tail with white underparts. It ranges from northern and eastern Australia to New Guinea, Fiji, and the Philippines, and mainly catches insects in flight.

• Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis

  The squirrel glider is a marsupial of eastern Australian forests. It travels between trees using its gliding membrane and is active at night.

• White-necked Picathartes Picathartes gymnocephalus

  The White-necked Picathartes is a forest bird known for nesting at rocky sites. A Cornell Living Bird field account describes nest sites and ground foraging around Bonkro, Ghana.

• Gould's Wattled Bat Chalinolobus gouldii

  Gould's wattled bat has brown fur on the rear and underside, with darker fur on its head and shoulders. In southern Australia, it hibernates through winter.

• Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae

  Rachel's Malimbe occurs in lowland forest around the Gulf of Guinea. Males have a red crown and black face, with yellow on the lower breast and undertail coverts.

• Dusky Hopping Mouse Notomys fuscus

  This hopping mouse lives in Australian dunes and other dry places. It has large ears, a long tail and hind feet, and a white underside. At night it forages on dunes.

• Jamaican Vireo Vireo modestus

  The Jamaican Vireo is a small, rounded bird with gray-green to olive plumage, a white iris, white wing bars, pale yellow underparts, and bluish-gray legs. It hides in dense vegetation, eats insects and small fruit, and occurs at forest edges and roadsides across elevations in Jamaica.

• Andean Tuco-tuco Ctenomys opimus

  The Andean tuco-tuco occurs in dry highland areas of the Andes. It has long, soft, pale-yellow fur and uses underground burrows.

• Madagascar Hoopoe Upupa marginata

  The Madagascar Hoopoe searches for small prey on the ground in dry woodland and other open habitats on the island.