Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rio Mayo Titi Plecturocebus oenanthe

  

  This titi monkey is endemic to the San Martín region of Peru. Pale fur around the face is a characteristic feature, though it is faint in some individuals.

• Grey-banded Babbler Robsonius sorsogonensis

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits forests in southern Luzon, Philippines. It has long legs and a long tail, with dark brown upperparts and rufous-brown wings and tail.

• Shark Bay Bandicoot Perameles bougainville

  The Shark Bay bandicoot is a small marsupial native to islands off Western Australia. It makes a nest beneath shrubs for daytime shelter.

• Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor

  A small bird with a blue-green back and white underside that catches insects in flight.

• Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma muscatellum

  The Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat is a small bat whose tail is longer than its forearm. It feeds over dry, open ground and rests in rocky crevices and caves.

• Japanese waxwing Bombycilla japonica

  A winter visitor to Japan with a red tail tip.

• Javan Chevrotain Tragulus javanicus

  This small ruminant is native to Java. It has no horns, and adult males have canines.

• Hauxwell's Thrush Turdus hauxwelli

  Peru Aves' adult examples of unknown sex show rich brown plumage and a pale, dusky-spotted lower belly. The thrush forages in the forest understory and often on the ground.

• Great Stripe-faced Bat Vampyrodes major

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. Its back is dark brown, and long hairs fringe the rear edge of its tail membrane.

• Black Storm Petrel Hydrobates melania

  The black storm-petrel is a dark seabird with a long, forked tail. It flies buoyantly low over the water and picks food from the surface.

• Spix's Night Monkey Aotus vociferans

  Spix's night monkey is active at night. A feeding study in Peruvian river basins found fruit to be its main recorded food, with flowers and nectar also used.

• Black-backed Butcherbird Cracticus mentalis

  The Black-backed Butcherbird is a medium-sized, black-and-white butcherbird with a white throat. It occurs in southeastern New Guinea and northern Australia.

• Northern Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys peguensis

  This small gymnure ranges across hills and mountains of Indochina. Records include forest-floor cover and sites beneath fallen logs.

• White-winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos

  The black bird has a white wing patch, red eyes and a slightly curved bill. It forms groups in eastern and southeastern Australia and forages on the ground.

• Prehensile-tailed Hutia Mysateles prehensilis

  This large rodent lives in Cuba and is an accomplished climber. Its tail can curl around branches to help it grip.

• White-winged Robin Peneothello sigillata

  The White-winged Robin has velvety black plumage and white patches in the wings. In New Guinea's mountains it forages in the lower forest levels for insects and also takes fruit and seeds.

• Thick-tailed Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Anguistodontus) crassicauda

  This small jerboa has a tail longer than its body and three-toed hind feet. It digs long burrows in sand dunes.

• Gray-crowned Palm-Tanager Phaenicophilus poliocephalus

  The Gray-crowned Palm-Tanager has been recorded on Haiti's southern peninsula and nearby islands. Its flocking and plumage are described in a study of Haitian populations.

• Broad-striped Malagasy Mongoose Galidictis fasciata

  The broad-striped Malagasy mongoose lives in forests of eastern Madagascar. It is mainly active on the ground at night.

• Blyth's Frogmouth Batrachostomus affinis

  Blyth's Frogmouth has plumage ranging from rufous-brown to grey. It hunts insects at night from low perches in lowland and hill forests, including Borneo.

• Small Sulawesi Cuscus Strigocuscus celebensis

  The small cuscus has pale buff fur and a partly bare tail. It lives on Sulawesi and nearby islands.

• Jungle Prinia Prinia sylvatica

  This prinia occurs on the Indian Peninsula and often uses dry scrub and grassy hills.

• Goldman's Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys goldmani

  This small pocket gopher is reported from the plateau of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. A regional mammal guide describes its short, soft yellowish-brown to dark reddish-brown coat and gives general habits for pocket gophers as a family.

• Western Bowerbird Chlamydera guttata

  The Western Bowerbird is an inland Australian bird with reddish spots and a yellowish underside. Males build avenue-like bowers from sticks, decorate them with objects such as bones and shells, and display to attract females.