Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Ningaui Ningaui yvonnae

  

  This small marsupial lives in semi-arid parts of southern Australia. It has short light-brown fur and a long, thin tail, and occurs in open heath and low mallee scrub.

• Griffin's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros griffini

  

  This bat was described from Vietnam. The original paper reports captures on Cat Ba Island in the north and at Chu Mom Ray in the Central Highlands, in forests of different condition.

• Alaotran gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis

  

  The Alaotran gentle lemur is a small lemur with a long tail and dense fur. It lives only in the reed and papyrus wetlands around Lake Alaotra in Madagascar.

• Hispid Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus hispidus

  

  The hispid pocket mouse has an olive-buff back and a pale underside. It stores food in grassland burrows and mainly eats seeds.

• Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin Cebus aequatorialis

  

  The Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin uses mature forest, especially near streams, and also enters degraded forest. Coat color varies with age and among individuals.

• Underwood's Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi

  

  Underwood's bonneted bat ranges from the southwestern United States through western Mexico to Central America. Confirmed information about its roosts is limited.

• Big-eared Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus macrotis

  The big-eared horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat with relatively large ears. In a summer study in southwestern China, most detected insect food belonged to Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies.

• Northern Baja Deermouse Peromyscus fraterculus

  The northern Baja deermouse has cinnamon-rufous dorsal fur flecked with black, with a darker midline and flanks. It is a habitat generalist, recorded from desert scrub and washes to forests and agricultural areas.

• Nilgiri Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Vandeleuria nilagirica

  This mouse is recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India. In Coorg, specimens were captured in a banana plantation and nests were found in one patch of a coffee estate.

• Silver-haired Bat Lasionycteris noctivagans

  The silver-haired bat is a North American bat with silver-white tips on black fur. It flies at night and may roost alone under loose bark or in tree cavities.

• Common dwarf mongoose Helogale parvula

  A small mongoose of African grasslands and woodlands.

• Red wolf Canis rufus

  Once widespread in the eastern United States, the red wolf now has a wild population in a limited area of northeastern North Carolina.

• Fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus

  A waterside cat of South and Southeast Asia, with a stocky body, short tail and dark spots and lines on grey-brown fur.

• Formosan Ferret-badger Melogale subaurantiaca

  The Formosan ferret-badger of Taiwan has a white stripe along its back. It is usually solitary and nocturnal, eating small animals, insects, earthworms, and fruit.

• Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus gambianus

  It has a white spot at the base of each ear, and males have white shoulder tufts. It mainly eats fruit, with records of nectar feeding in Ghana.

• Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris

  This dolphin has no beak and a rounded, bulging forehead. It uses coastal, muddy, brackish river mouths and deltas; river populations are also recorded.

• Orange-sided Opossum Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) dimidiata

  This small opossum lives in grasslands of northern Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay. Its back is gray, its underside is yellowish, and males are larger than females.

• Stump-tailed Macaque Macaca arctoides

  A macaque with a very short tail and dark red facial skin. A zoo profile records it from Southeast Asia and northeastern India.

• 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.

• Northern Ghost Bat Diclidurus (Diclidurus) albus

  The northern ghost bat has white fur and pale pink wing membranes. It feeds on flying insects at night and ranges from Mexico into northeastern South America.

• Gray Short-tailed Bat Carollia subrufa

  The gray short-tailed bat is a small bat recorded in the dry-forest region of northwestern Nicaragua. A local field survey found both males and females in March.

• Guianan Red Howler Alouatta macconnelli

  Its back is bright orange to golden, and its tail is dark red. This howler monkey is centered in forests north of the Amazon, including the Guianas.

• Eurasian Water Shrew Neomys fodiens

  A shrew that lives beside fresh water and dives to search for prey.

• Soemmerring's gazelle Nanger soemmerringii

  Soemmerring's gazelle is a gazelle of the dry grasslands and scrub of the Horn of Africa.