Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lowland White-eye Zosterops meyeni

  

  A white-eye recorded in the Philippines. An old museum catalogue describes the color of Luzon specimens, while Philippine Museum field notes describe small groups on Calayan Island.

• East Bornean Gray Gibbon Hylobates funereus

  This gibbon lives in northern and eastern Borneo and travels through the canopy using its long arms.

• Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus nanus

  This small woodpecker searches tree bark for invertebrates in forests and more open woodland.

• Hairy Long-eared Bat Nycteris hispida

  The hairy long-eared bat occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa. Its ears are longer than its head, and the long tail has a T-shaped tip.

• Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus

  The Magellanic Penguin breeds along southern South American coasts and islands. It catches fish and squid at sea and raises chicks in nests on land.

• Large Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus magnater

  The large long-fingered bat has dark brown to nearly black dorsal fur. Meghalaya records came from cave sites and above a river, and researchers recorded calls from bats flying in front of a cave.

• Brown-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes cylindricus

  The Brown-cheeked Hornbill is a large hornbill of West African forests. It feeds mainly on fruit high in the canopy and also catches insects.

• Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli

  Coquerel’s Sifaka is a lemur with a mostly white coat and chestnut patches on its chest and limbs. It leaps between trees and eats mainly leaves.

• Brown Booby Sula leucogaster

  A large seabird of tropical oceans around the world. Adults have a brown back and white belly; they dive for fish and squid and breed in colonies on islands.

• Hairy-nosed Otter Lutra sumatrana

  The hairy-nosed otter has short fur across the nose pad. Records come from wetlands and shallow coastal waters in Southeast Asia, and fish are a common food.

• White-breasted Mesite Mesitornis variegatus

  This terrestrial forest bird is endemic to Madagascar and searches leaf litter for insects and other invertebrates. Adults have chestnut upperparts and black crescent-shaped marks along the sides of the breast. The guide says the sexes look similar, while plumage can vary with age or sex.

• Hova rice tenrec Oryzorictes hova

  The Hova rice tenrec occurs in Madagascar. In the 1996 Marojejy survey, adults were collected in lowland forest and montane mossy forest.

• Azure Dollarbird Eurystomus azureus

  The Azure Dollarbird has dark purple-blue plumage and pale azure wing patches. It lives in forests of Indonesia's northern Moluccas.

• Broad-toed Feather-tailed Glider Acrobates frontalis

  This small marsupial occurs in eastern Australia. A 2023 paper describes long hairs projecting from both sides of the tail in living Acrobates, including A. frontalis, giving it a feather-like edge.

• African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda

  This blue flycatcher occurs in wooded habitats of West and Central Africa. It perches among foliage and makes short flights to catch small arthropods.

• Golden bamboo lemur Hapalemur aureus

  The golden bamboo lemur mainly eats young parts of bamboo. It occurs in southeastern Madagascar's forests.

• Ashy Tailorbird Orthotomus ruficeps

  The male Ashy Tailorbird has slate-gray plumage, a rufous-chestnut face, and a white belly. In Singapore it is seen most often in mangroves, but also in swamp forest and coastal scrub.

• Black-footed cat Felis nigripes

  A small cat with tawny fur, dark spots and bands, and black foot pads.

• Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus

  The Yellow-billed Oxpecker occurs in savannas with large mammals. In the southern African accounts, hosts bearing ticks are described as essential to its presence.

• Dall's Porpoise Phocoenoides dalli

  A porpoise found widely in coastal and offshore waters of the North Pacific, including around Japan. Its markings vary by region and life stage.

• Western Shriketit Falcunculus leucogaster

  This bird occurs in Western Australia. It runs along trunks and branches, tearing at bark to search for insects.

• Urial Ovis vignei

  Urials are wild sheep of Asian grasslands and hills; males carry large spiraling horns.

• Aztec Thrush Ridgwayia pinicola

  The Aztec Thrush has dark brown-black upperparts and a white underside. It lives in moist montane forest in Mexico and includes fruit in its diet.

• Bornean orangutan Pongo pygmaeus

  An ape of Borneo’s tropical forests. It moves through trees using long arms and grasping hands and feet.