Meet the world’s animals.

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• Orange-footed Megapode Megapodius reinwardt

  

  The Orange-footed Megapode has dark gray plumage, orange legs, and a crest at the back of its head. It uses scrub, rainforest, shores, and city parks, feeding on fallen fruit and seeds and laying eggs in large mounds.

• Eastern Mindanao Gymnure Podogymnura intermedia

  Podogymnura intermedia is a gymnure known from mountain sites in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Long black hairs and golden-tipped hairs give its back golden streaks or speckles.

• Red-headed Myzomela Myzomela erythrocephala

  Adult males have a red face and rump, while females have only faint red on the face. The species is mainly found in coastal mangroves, where it feeds on nectar.

• Silvery Gibbon Hylobates moloch

  The silvery gibbon lives in forests on Java. Its long arms help it swing from branch to branch.

• Guianan Schiffornis Schiffornis olivacea

  This bird lives in humid forest from eastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil. It is olive brown and often perches low.

• Mountain Pygmy Possum Burramys parvus

  The mountain pygmy possum is a small mammal adapted to Australia's alpine zone. It is known to store food and hibernate for long periods.

• Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.

• Onager Equus hemionus

  An Asiatic wild ass. The appearance and behavior here describe the Persian onager subspecies in Iran.

• Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea

  An all-white seabird that breeds along the Antarctic coast and on nearby islands. It feeds on fish, squid, krill, and other prey in cold seas.

• Sulawesi Warty Pig Sus celebensis

  The Sulawesi warty pig is a wild pig native to Sulawesi. Its dark coat is mixed with yellowish or white hairs, and it is an omnivore that eats roots, fruit, and other foods.

• Nicaraguan Grackle Quiscalus nicaraguensis

  This grackle lives in marshes, lake edges, riverside areas, pastures, and flooded scrub. It travels and forages in groups ranging from small parties to large flocks. In Nicaragua, it also occurs along large-lake shores and nearby wetlands.

• 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.

• Fiji White-eye Zosterops explorator

  A small white-eye found in Fijian forest, forest edges, shrubland and farmland. It is also recorded in mountains above 750 m.

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• 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.

• South-eastern Pocket Gopher Geomys pinetis

  The southeastern pocket gopher spends much of its life underground in sandy soil, digging tunnels and eating roots and tubers.

• Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius

  The Sociable Weaver has pale brown plumage with dark feather edging and a black chin. Around the Kalahari, groups build and use large communal nests.

• Southern Birch Mouse Sicista subtilis

  The Southern Birch Mouse is a small rodent recorded in dry steppe and small river valleys during a study in the South Urals.

• Short-billed Greenbul Xanthomixis zosterops

  This Xanthomixis is endemic to Madagascar and lives in humid evergreen forest. The source also uses names such as Spectacled Tetraka; this entry retains the pool label Short-billed Greenbul.

• Malayan tapir Acrocodia indica

  The Malayan tapir inhabits Southeast Asian tropical forests. Adults have large black-and-white areas on the body.

• Western Quail-thrush Cinclosoma marginatum

  The Western Quail-thrush lives on stony hills and low acacia ridges in western Australia, walking on the ground to forage. Males and females differ in breast pattern.

• Dusky Caenolestid Caenolestes fuliginosus

  The dusky caenolestid is a small marsupial of the cool, wet highlands of the Andes. It has an elongated face and glossy, silky fur.

• Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis

  A small bird that breeds among Arctic rocks and forms flocks in open places in North America during winter. It searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Palau Flying Fox Pteropus pelewensis

  The Palau Flying Fox has been studied on the Palau Islands. Field work there reported bats roosting in forest and leaving after sunset to feed on fruits, flowers, and other plant foods.