Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Yellow Robin Eopsaltria griseogularis

  

  The Western Yellow Robin lives in woodland and forest in southwestern Australia. It is gray with a white throat and yellow rump, and drops from low branches to the ground to catch invertebrates.

• Collins' Squirrel Monkey Saimiri collinsi

  Collins' squirrel monkey occurs in the eastern Brazilian Amazon and is omnivorous. It often uses the middle and lower forest strata and sometimes descends to the ground to feed on insects.

• North Island Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli

  This nocturnal kiwi probes leaf litter and rotten wood with its long bill. It lives in forests and scrub on New Zealand’s North Island and eats small invertebrates.

• Giant Ground Pangolin Smutsia gigantea

  The giant pangolin is the largest pangolin in Africa. It is nocturnal, terrestrial and associated with moist areas near water.

• Javan Banded Pitta Hydrornis guajanus

  It searches among leaf litter and dense cover in the lowland and foothill forests of Java. BirdGuides also shows photo records from Bali.

• Western Woolly Lemur Avahi occidentalis

  The western woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of western Madagascar's forests. It has thick grayish fur and lives in small family groups.

• Indian Spotted Creeper Salpornis spilonota

  This small bird searches tree trunks for insects. It has spotted and barred plumage and uses a slender curved bill to pick prey from bark.

• 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.

• Southern Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula

  The Southern Crag-Martin nests on cliffs and buildings in southern Africa. It catches small insects in flight and is distributed across the region.

• Indus river dolphin Platanista minor

  The Indus river dolphin is a freshwater dolphin of the Indus River system. A 2021 study treated it as a species separate from the related Ganges river dolphin.

• Eastern Crested Berrypecker Paramythia montium

  The Eastern Crested Berrypecker lives in moist montane forest in the eastern New Guinea highlands. It has a black crest and face, a blue-gray tail, and yellowish areas on the lower belly.

• Azara’s agouti Dasyprocta azarae

  A daytime forest-floor rodent that eats fruit and seeds.

• Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus

  A large hornbill that walks through dry open country in search of prey.

• Amazon manatee Trichechus inunguis

  A manatee restricted to the fresh waters of the Amazon River system, with thick dark-gray skin and a pale belly patch.

• Green-and-black Fruiteater Pipreola riefferii

  The Green-and-black Fruiteater eats fruit in the canopy and middle levels of Andean montane forest. Males in northern Peru show striking green and black plumage.

• Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat Pteronotus (Phyllodia) mesoamericanus

  An insect-eating bat studied in a Costa Rican dry-forest population in 2020, where researchers examined how wing shape related to diet.

• Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana

  The Western Tanager is a small bird that breeds in western North American forests. Males stand out with an orange-red head and yellow body.

• Greater spot-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus nictitans

  The greater spot-nosed monkey is a West and Central African guenon with a conspicuous white spot on its nose and dark fur. It eats fruit and seeds and spends much of its time in trees.

• Reichard's Seedeater Crithagra reichardi

  Reichard's Seedeater is a small bird about 12–14 cm long. It is active by day, lives in woodland and semi-open places, and eats seeds.

• Southern Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus

  The southern tree hyrax is a tree-dwelling mammal with soft grey-brown fur, found in forests across eastern and southern Africa.

• Guadalupe Murrelet Synthliboramphus hypoleucus

  This small seabird is dark above and white below. It nests on islands off western Baja California and differs from Scripps's Murrelet by having more white around the eye.

• Spix's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera tricolor

  Spix's disk-winged bat clings head-up inside leaves with tiny suction discs. Small groups roost in leaves and change resting sites each day.

• Toucan Barbet Semnornis ramphastinus

  The Toucan Barbet is stout and medium-sized. Males have a glossy black nuchal tuft that females lack. It occurs in the mountains of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador and mainly eats fruit. At the study site, territorial groups bred in tree cavities.

• Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma hardwickii

  This long-tailed bat occurs from the Middle East into South Asia. It roosts in rock fissures, caves, and abandoned structures; a study in northern India found it using historical buildings and feeding on insects.