Meet the world’s animals.

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• Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea

  

  The Violet-backed Hyliota searches leaf undersides for small prey. A Rwanda survey recorded it in canopy foliage below 2,000 m.

• Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata

  

  The surviving subspecies has native populations in Western Australia and translocated populations elsewhere. Its gray-to-reddish-brown coat and black tail-tip brush are distinctive.

• Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani

  

  It lives in East African savannas and dry forests and eats both plant matter and small invertebrates.

• Llama Lama glama

  

  A domestic camelid long used to carry loads in the Andes. It has a long neck and legs but no hump.

• Spotted Kestrel Falco moluccensis

  

  This small falcon hunts in open grassland and farmland in Indonesia. Its prey includes insects, small birds, lizards, and small mammals.

• Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

  

  An ape of northern Sumatra that moves through trees using its long arms.

• Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea

  The Ruddy Pigeon is usually found in the canopy or subcanopy of mature forest. In Peru it is recorded in Andean foothill forest and humid forest in far northwestern Tumbes.

• Bush Hyrax Heterohyrax brucei

  A hyrax found in sub-Saharan Africa. It lives in rocky savannas and bush steppe and is active by day.

• Cinnamon Becard Pachyramphus cinnamomeus

  This bird lives along forest edges and in open places. It eats insects, spiders, and berries, and has cinnamon-colored plumage with a lighter throat.

• 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.

• Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum

  Males have red on the head and back, while females are gray-brown apart from a red rump and upper tail. It is a common resident in Singapore.

• Antillean Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops blainvillei

  This nocturnal, insect-eating bat roosts in caves. Its face has conspicuous folds of skin, and the species occurs on Caribbean islands.

• Velvet Asity Philepitta castanea

  The Velvet Asity lives in Madagascar's forests, and breeding males look very different from females. Males raise the structures above their eyes during courtship.

• Robert's Spiny-rat Proechimys roberti

  This spiny rat occurs in central Brazil. In a habitat analysis at Brasília National Park, all nine individuals used for the microhabitat analysis were captured in dry gallery forest.

• Australian Logrunner Orthonyx temminckii

  Adult Australian Logrunners differ in throat color by sex. On the floor of moist eastern Australian forests, they use their stiff tails for support while scratching through leaf litter for food.

• Black Bearded Saki Chiropotes satanas

  The black bearded saki lives in forests of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Its dark coat and beard are distinctive, and it often eats fruit and seeds.

• Cuban Black Hawk Buteogallus gundlachii

  This hawk lives near the coasts of Cuba. It often eats crabs and may scavenge dead fish. An older study used a subspecies combination; this entry follows the current species name.

• Javan Ferret-badger Melogale orientalis

  The Javan ferret-badger is recorded in the hills and mountains of Java and Bali. It searches for food by digging through leaf litter at night.

• Pale-edged Flycatcher Myiarchus cephalotes

  The back is olive-brown, the chest gray, and the belly pale yellow. On Ecuador’s eastern Andean slope it occurs along forest edges and in open places.

• Andean Mountain Cavy Microcavia niata

  The mountain cavy is a small rodent of high Andean grasslands. It may live in groups and eats plants.

• Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris

  This medium-sized owl lives in grassland and has long legs that project beyond the tail in flight.

• Hawk's Sportive Lemur Lepilemur tymerlachsoni

  Hawk’s sportive lemur is confined to forest on Nosy Be. Gray fur frames its large eyes, and a dark stripe runs from its head down its back.

• Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus

  The Sacred Kingfisher lives in Australian forests and wooded edges. Many birds that breed in the south move north for winter.

• Malayan pangolin Manis javanica

  A mammal with scales covering its upperparts and a long tongue for eating ants and termites. On Borneo it is recorded in forests and cultivated areas, including gardens.