Meet the world’s animals.

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• Incan Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus incarum

  

  A broad-nosed bat occurring east of the Andes. Records from Brazil’s Cerrado and Pantanal were confirmed as P. incarum rather than P. helleri.

• Domestic Pig Sus domesticus

  

  People keep domestic pigs as livestock. In the Kunekune breed, coat colors vary, and the pigs can graze on pasture.

• Red slender loris Loris tardigradus

  

  The red slender loris is a small primate endemic to Sri Lanka. A 2017 study places the species across the island's wet zone and montane areas.

• Gray-bellied Night Monkey Aotus lemurinus

  

  The lemurine night monkey is a nocturnal primate found in Colombia and Ecuador. It has large eyes and lives in small family groups in the forest canopy.

• Peyrieras's Woolly Lemur Avahi peyrierasi

  

  Peyrieras’s woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of southeastern Madagascar’s forests. Its back is gray-brown, its underside is white, and its tail is reddish brown. It is arboreal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Simmons' Mouse Lemur Microcebus simmonsi

  

  A small lemur recorded in eastern lowland rainforest in northeastern Madagascar. Its life in the wild is still not well documented.

• Bolivian Red Howler Alouatta sara

  The Bolivian red howler is a large howler monkey of lowland tropical and subtropical forests in South America. It mainly eats leaves, fruit, and flowers, and gives loud calls.

• Sumatran Treeshrew Tupaia ferruginea

  The Sumatran Treeshrew occurs on Sumatra and Tanahbala in the Batu Islands. A 2011 survey recorded a field-identified Tupaia glis at a forest trap line in Riau, Sumatra.

• Pichi Zaedyus pichiy

  A small armadillo of dry southern South America that digs burrows and feeds mainly on insects.

• Spotted seal Phoca largha

  A spotted seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic. It lives around seasonal sea ice.

• Sunda Shrew Crocidura monticola

  The Sunda shrew has gray-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. Under the current taxonomy cited in the account, it occurs on Java and is found in montane forest.

• Anatolian Sheep Ovis gmelini

  This wild sheep inhabits mountains in the Caucasus and western Asia. It uses hills, grasslands, shrublands, and rocky terrain, and lives in groups.

• Moonrat Echinosorex gymnurus

  The moonrat is usually black except for its white head and tail tip. It is recorded from the southern Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra.

• European Garden Dormouse Eliomys quercinus

  The European garden dormouse is marked by a dark mask and a black-and-white tail tip. In Spain, it occurs across the Iberian Peninsula, but its distribution is uneven.

• Herbert River Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus herbertensis

  This marsupial has a black body with white markings on its chest and belly. It is mainly arboreal, active at night, and eats leaves.

• Demidoff's Dwarf Galago Galagoides demidoff

  This small galago has a white stripe from between the eyes down the nose. It moves among branches at night and rests in a leaf nest by day.

• Attwater's Pocket Gopher Geomys attwateri

  Attwater's pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent that excavates tunnels with its forefeet. At a Texas study site, it was recorded eating many kinds of plants and making winding underground passageways.

• Forest Rabbit Sylvilagus brasiliensis

  This rabbit was reassessed using a neotype from Pernambuco. Older, broad South American records are not carried forward as confirmed range for this taxon; this account stays with documented coastal-forest evidence.

• Alpine Pika Ochotona (Pika) alpina

  Ochotona alpina occurs in mountain regions of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China. Summer coat color varies among populations from yellowish gray to reddish brown.

• Somali Elephant Shrew Galegeeska revoili

  The Somali Elephant Shrew is a small sengi with a tail that appears much longer than its head and body. In southern Djibouti, pairs were observed sheltering beneath low bushes.

• Capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

  A large rodent of South American watersides. It lives in groups, grazes on land and uses water to rest or escape danger.

• Five-toed Dwarf Jerboa Cardiocranius paradoxus

  The five-toed dwarf jerboa is a small jerboa with 5 toes on its hind feet. It moves through dry rocky areas at night and eats plant seeds.

• Doria's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus dorianus

  It has dark brown fur without silver tipping. It lives in montane forests of southeastern New Guinea and is described as especially adapted to life in trees.

• True's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon mirus

  A whale with a rounded forehead and short beak that feeds on fish and squid in deep water.