Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Shaggy Bat Centronycteris maximiliani

  

  This bat is recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guianas. In Pará, Brazil, a female was captured at a tree cavity used as a day roost.

• Taliabu Masked Owl Tyto nigrobrunnea

  

  The Taliabu Masked Owl is a rare owl known from Taliabu Island. Its plumage is described, but its feeding and breeding habits remain unknown.

• Madras Tree Shrew Anathana ellioti

  

  The Madras tree shrew is a small Indian mammal with a mottled back, pale belly, and pale shoulder stripe. It is reported to spend more time on the ground than in trees.

• Black-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis flavirostris

  

  This bird of northeastern India is recognized by its thick bill and black breast.

• Minute Tuco-tuco Ctenomys minutus

  

  The minute tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of the southern Brazilian coastal plain. Populations in sandy fields beside dunes are described as typically brown.

• White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra

  

  Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.

• Six-banded armadillo Euphractus sexcinctus

  An armadillo of South American savannas that digs its own burrows with strong claws.

• Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus

  The Northern Red-billed Hornbill has a long, curved red bill. In sub-Saharan Africa it eats fruit, insects, and small animals in savanna and woodland.

• Malagasy giant rat Hypogeomys antimena

  The Malagasy giant rat lives in a restricted area on Madagascar's western coast. Family groups use underground burrows, are mainly active at night, and are thought to feed mostly on fallen fruit.

• Black-capped Gnatcatcher Polioptila nigriceps

  This slender, small bird searches for insects among low vegetation. Breeding males have a black cap.

• Yucatan Black Howler Monkey Alouatta pigra

  A monkey of forests in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. It feeds mainly on leaves in the trees, and groups use calls to signal their territories.

• Demoiselle crane Grus virgo

  A crane with pale plumes behind the eyes and long black breast feathers.

• Sierra Madre Occidental Pocket Gopher Megascapheus sheldoni

  The Sierra Madre Occidental pocket gopher is a rodent of the highlands of western Mexico. It inhabits high-elevation pine-oak forests and ranges from northwestern Chihuahua through Durango to western Zacatecas and northeastern Nayarit.

• Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus

  Male Flame-rumped Tanagers are mostly black with rumps that range from yellow to red, while females are mainly olive gray and yellow. They form small flocks in forest edges and gardens, feeding on fruit and invertebrates.

• Javan Chevrotain Tragulus javanicus

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

• Smoky Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fumigatus

  This flycatcher inhabits Andean forests. It is dark brown with pale mottling on the throat; one nest on a dead stump was reported in Ecuador.

• 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.

• Oriental Darter Anhinga melanogaster

  This waterbird swims with its long neck above the surface and spears fish underwater with its bill. After leaving the water, it perches on rocks or other supports and spreads its wings to dry.

• Common Brown Four-eyed Opossum Metachirus myosuros

  This opossum occurs in forests from Central America into central South America. It has brown fur, small pale eye spots and a long, nearly naked tail. It is nocturnal, solitary and mainly terrestrial.

• White-capped Bunting Emberiza stewarti

  This bunting breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and moves toward northwestern India outside the breeding season. It gathers in flocks and searches for food on the ground during that period.

• Silvery Gibbon Hylobates moloch

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

• James's Flamingo Phoenicoparrus jamesi

  James's Flamingo has pale pink plumage, black flight feathers, red legs, and a short yellow bill with a black tip. It feeds in shallow high-Andean salt lakes and moves lower when wetlands freeze.

• Eastern Roe Deer Capreolus pygargus

  The eastern roe deer lives across northern Asia and parts of central Asia. It was once treated as a subspecies of the western roe deer, but the account treats it as a distinct species.

• Biak Gerygone Gerygone hypoxantha

  This small bird is confined to Biak Island, Indonesia. It has greyish-brown upperparts, a broken whitish eye-ring, and white lores, and uses lowland forest and forest edges.