Meet the world’s animals.

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• Forty-spotted Pardalote Pardalotus quadragintus

  

  A small bird found only in Tasmania and closely tied to forests containing white gum (Eucalyptus viminalis).

• Grant's Golden Mole Eremitalpa granti

  This small golden mole has no visible tail, and its eyes are covered by skin. It moves through dunes and searches for food at night.

• Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei

  This barbet is known from Cordillera Azul in Peru. During the original description study, birds were observed taking fruit in the canopy of high-elevation cloud forest and moving in loose groups.

• Potto Perodicticus potto

  This nocturnal primate inhabits West African forest and moves slowly along branches.

• Red-legged Seriema Cariama cristata

  This large ground-dwelling bird has a red bill and legs and a prominent crest. In Argentina it runs through woodland and savanna and gives loud calls answered by other birds.

• Large Tree Shrew Tupaia tana

  The large tree shrew lives in forests on Borneo. It searches mainly for invertebrates on the forest floor and digs into the soil with its claws.

• Slaty-headed Longbill Toxorhamphus poliopterus

  The Slaty-headed Longbill has a dark head and a long, strongly curved bill. Records from New Guinea's mountain forests include feeding on nectar and arthropods.

• Western Ring-tailed Possum Pseudocheirus occidentalis

  A nocturnal marsupial of forests in south-western Australia. It eats leaves and other plant foods, then rests by day in leafy nests built among branches.

• Western Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus tertius

  This long-tailed, ground-feeding bird lives in wet broadleaf forest on Hispaniola. It searches through leaf litter and stays among dense undergrowth, especially near streams.

• Gray-legged Night Monkey Aotus griseimembra

  This nocturnal monkey has large eyes and gray-brown fur. In the wild it lives in rainforest from northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela and eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Yellow-breasted Greenfinch Chloris spinoides

  A finch whose male has conspicuous yellow-green plumage. Summer records are reported from southern Gilgit-Baltistan; these do not represent the full range.

• Fea's Muntjac Muntiacus feae

  Fea’s muntjac is a small deer of forests in Thailand and southernmost Myanmar that is active alone at night.

• Barred Cuckooshrike Coracina lineata

  This large cuckooshrike is recorded from New Guinea and the Bismarck and Solomon Islands to eastern Australia. The account describes it foraging in forest canopies.

• Yellow Mongoose Cynictis penicillata

  A mongoose of open, semi-arid habitats in southern Africa that forages for insects and other small prey.

• South American Painted Snipe Nycticryphes semicollaris

  A painted-snipe of southern South American wetlands, with a reddish-brown head, neck and upper breast and white-marked dark wings. It feeds along muddy water margins.

• Afghan Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rufescens

  The Afghan pika is a mountain pika with a cream collar edged in russet during summer. It gathers plants, dries them, and stores them in burrows.

• Flamecrest Regulus goodfellowi

  The Flamecrest is endemic to Taiwan's mountains, where it searches conifer foliage for small insects.

• Brazilian Funnel-eared Bat Natalus macrourus

  This bat occurs south of the Amazon in South America, from dry Caatinga and Cerrado to humid forests. It is known to roost in caves, but species-specific diet information is limited.

• Reunion Stonechat Saxicola tectes

  This stonechat lives on Réunion. Males show a white eyebrow and wing patch and an orange breast, while the sexes differ in color.

• Philippine Tarsier Carlito syrichta

  The Philippine tarsier is a small primate with very large eyes and ears and long hind limbs. It moves through trees at night and catches insects and other prey.

• Fire-tailed Myzornis Myzornis pyrrhoura

  The Fire-tailed Myzornis has green-and-gold plumage, a dark face mask, and a red tail. It searches flowering shrubs for food in the Himalayas.

• Lord Derby's Anomalure Anomalurus derbianus

  This squirrel-shaped rodent glides from tree to tree. It is active around dusk and at night in forests of western and central Africa.

• Rufous Scrubbird Atrichornis rufescens

  The Rufous Scrub-bird forages on the forest floor in damp forests of eastern Australia.

• Ferreira’s Spiny Tree-rat Mesomys hispidus

  This arboreal rodent has stiff spines on its back and a long tail ending in a tuft. It is reported throughout the Amazon Basin and was commonly captured in mature forest in a Peruvian study.