Meet the world’s animals.

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• Javan slow loris Nycticebus javanicus

  

  This nocturnal primate moves through trees in Java's forests. It mainly eats gum and insects and has a pale, striped nape.

• Philippine Bush Warbler Horornis seebohmi

  

  This warbler occurs in the mountains of Luzon in the Philippines. Its species account lists dense brush and undergrowth above 800 m.

• 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.

• Brown Bush-hen Zapornia akool

  

  A rail of wet grass and marsh edges, with brown upperparts and a gray face and breast. It searches for food in damp cover.

• Gray-faced Sengi Rhynchocyon udzungwensis

  

  This large sengi is recorded in two forest blocks in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Its face is grizzled gray, and it lives in moist evergreen montane forest. It makes ground nests lined with leaves.

• Lesser Rhea Rhea pennata

  

  The Lesser Rhea is a large, flightless bird of South American plains. Adult feather tips are white, and it uses its wings to steer while running.

• Onager Equus hemionus

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

• Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus

  The Laced Woodpecker has a green back and yellowish underparts. The male has a red crown and nape, while those areas are black in the female.

• Fennec fox Vulpes zerda

  A small fox of sandy areas such as the Sahara. It has strikingly large ears and a pale coat.

• Sooty-capped Puffbird Bucco noanamae

  Endemic to Colombia, this puffbird has a dark cap, white throat, and broad black breast band. It waits on a perch, then catches insects in the forest understory.

• Coruro Spalacopus cyanus

  The coruro is a rodent of Chilean grasslands that lives in groups in underground tunnel systems and feeds on plant bulbs.

• Tit Berrypecker Oreocharis arfaki

  The Tit Berrypecker is a fruit-eating bird of New Guinea’s montane forest. Males show bright yellow and orange, while females are mainly olive and gray.

• Burmeister’s Porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis

  Burmeister’s porpoise lives along the coasts of South America. Small, thorn-like bumps line the front edge of its dorsal fin.

• Plain Mountain Finch Leucosticte nemoricola

  This finch lives in high mountains from the Himalayas across the Tibetan Plateau into central China. It forages for seeds on the ground and may form flocks outside the breeding season.

• Ifola Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus notatus

  This tree kangaroo lives in Papua New Guinea's central highlands. Its very dark chocolate coat has yellow rings at the tail base and silvery-tipped hairs on the back and limbs.

• Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps

  The Ruddy-headed Goose occurs at the southern end of South America and on the Falkland Islands. The mainland population breeds in the south and winters in south-western Buenos Aires Province.

• North Atlantic beaked whale Mesoplodon bidens

  This beaked whale lives in cold North Atlantic waters. Its reported diet is mainly squid and small fish, although its natural history remains poorly known.

• Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens

  The Mourning Collared Dove is an African dove that lives in forests and gardens. It is distinct from North America’s Mourning Dove despite the similar English name.

• Iberian Hare Lepus granatensis

  The Iberian hare has large eyes, long ears and powerful hind legs. It is native only to the Iberian Peninsula and prefers open, level ground.

• Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor

  The Grey Currawong is a large bird of southern Australia. It searches on the ground and among vegetation for animals and fruit.

• Large Asian Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lekaguli

  This bat has a large noseleaf. In 2019, six were caught and released after measurements near a cave on Negros Island, Philippines.

• Sooretama Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus ambiguus

  This antbird occurs mainly near the coast of southeastern Brazil. Males are gray and black, while females are brown-toned; the species searches for insects along forest edges and in coastal woodland.

• Black-winged Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa tumida

  The black-winged little yellow bat ranges from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The edges of its range remain uncertain.

• Maleo Macrocephalon maleo

  The Maleo lives in Sulawesi forests. Adults have a hard black knob on the head, and eggs are buried in sand warmed by geothermal heat.