Meet the world’s animals.

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• Perote Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus perotensis

  

  This ground squirrel lives in the highlands of eastern Mexico. It is active by day and retreats to underground burrows at night.

• Fieldfare Turdus pilaris

  

  A thrush that travels from northern Europe to Britain for winter, often moving through the countryside in flocks to find berries.

• Chacoan Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous chacoensis

  

  A small armadillo of the dry Chaco that spends much of its time underground and mainly eats ants and termites.

• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

  

  Adults have a bare red head and soar with raised wings in a teetering flight. They use their sense of smell to find carrion.

• Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus

  

  The southern brown bandicoot is a ground-dwelling marsupial. This entry follows the source’s account of the eastern subspecies.

• Short-tailed shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris

  

  A dark seabird that breeds in Australia and makes long ocean journeys.

• Gray Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur griseus

  This lemur lives in eastern Madagascar. In a rainy-season study at Maromizaha, the observed Hapalemur griseus griseus often ate young bamboo growth and used the lower forest layer.

• Orange River White-eye Zosterops pallidus

  The Orange River White-eye is a white-eye of arid southern Africa. It moves through foliage in flocks and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Western Yellow-backed Duiker Cephalophus silvicultor

  The western yellow-backed duiker is an antelope of African lowland forests, recognized by the triangular yellow patch on its back.

• Brandt's Mountain Finch Leucosticte brandti

  A finch of open high mountains that feeds on seeds. The head can look darker in breeding plumage and paler outside the breeding season.

• Garlepp's Pampas Cat Leopardus garleppi

  A wild cat recorded in Peru’s Eten wetlands. It has reddish fur with spots; in 2019, an individual was filmed crossing a path and moving into tall vegetation.

• Gray-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyianus

  The Gray-breasted Seedsnipe lives on the ground in the high Andes. Males are gray, while females have mottled brown plumage.

• Western Lowland Olingo Bassaricyon medius

  An olingo of forests from Panama to Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes. It lives in trees and eats fruit.

• Greater Lophorina Lophorina latipennis

  It lives in montane forest on New Guinea, and the sexes look very different. The male has a black body with metallic green-blue ornaments; the female is brown and patterned.

• Forrest's Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) forresti

  Forrest's pika is recorded at high elevations in Bhutan. A dark patch behind each ear meets across the nape.

• Berlepsch's Tinamou Crypturellus berlepschi

  Berlepsch's Tinamou is a ground-dwelling bird about 29–32 cm long. It lives in humid forests of northwestern South America, is active by day, and eats both plant and animal matter.

• Bearded Pig Sus barbatus

  A wild pig with bristles around the mouth and chin. Group movement varies with forest continuity.

• Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus

  The Snowy Plover is a small, sand-colored shorebird that searches open beaches and salt-lake shores for prey. It makes a well-hidden nest on sandy beaches.

• Aquino's Titi Monkey Cheracebus aquinoi

  This titi monkey was described from Loreto, Peru. The study reports observations in several Amazonian forest types, including sandy-soil forest and flooded forest.

• Blue-masked Leafbird Chloropsis venusta

  The Blue-masked Leafbird is a small bird of humid montane forest in the foothills of Sumatra. Males show violet-blue and deep indigo markings, while females have bright blue markings on the face and throat.

• Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuscus

  The Ryukyu Long-fingered Bat has narrow, elongated wings. An Okinawa Prefecture account describes it roosting on the islands and feeding on insects at night.

• Southern Hyliota Hyliota australis

  A small bird of miombo woodland in southern Africa. The male is black, white and yellow, and searches for insects in the canopy.

• Lesser Mouse-deer Tragulus kanchil

  It has no antlers; males have long canine teeth. This small ungulate lives alone or in pairs and eats leaves and fruit.

• Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill Tockus ruahae

  This red-billed hornbill form was recorded in central and southern Tanzania. Its original description named ruahae as a subspecies of Tockus erythrorhynchus.