Meet the world’s animals.

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• Formosan Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus monoceros

  

  The Formosan horseshoe bat is a small species endemic to Taiwan. Its pale brown coat and three-part noseleaf are distinctive, and it roosts in groups in caves and tunnels.

• Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus

  A mousebird with a red face and long tail. Flocks use trees in dry regions and feed on leaves and fruit.

• Mesopotamian Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys citellus

  This mouse opossum is recorded in a habitat mosaic in northeastern Argentina. Its taxonomy has been debated.

• Kalij Pheasant Lophura leucomelanos

  Males are mainly black and silver, while females are reddish brown. Both have red facial skin, a crest, and a laterally compressed tail. They scratch the ground for food.

• Brown Agouti Dasyprocta variegata

  This agouti is listed from Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. An Argentine biodiversity profile describes reddish-brown fur flecked with black and records in forest, savanna and cultivated areas near water.

• Bernier's Vanga Oriolia bernieri

  This vanga lives in humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches leaf bases and dead wood for insects.

• South American coati Nasua nasua

  A coati of South American forests, with an elongated flexible snout and a long ringed tail.

• Black-billed Gull Chroicocephalus bulleri

  The Black-billed Gull is a slender gull found only in New Zealand. It breeds on gravelly riverbeds and uses rivers or coasts at different times of year.

• Flat-headed cat Prionailurus planiceps

  A small water-associated cat with a narrow head and a flattened forehead.

• Straw-necked Ibis Threskiornis spinicollis

  The Straw-necked Ibis is a large ibis widely distributed in Australia. It moves in search of suitable habitat and forages in shallow water and on the ground.

• Desert Warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus

  The desert warthog lives in dry savannas and is a separate species from the common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus.

• Red-necked Aracari Pteroglossus bitorquatus

  The Red-necked Aracari here is the eastern species Pteroglossus bitorquatus, with a red rump, nape, and chest band against green and yellow plumage. It forages in forest canopies.

• Dsinezumi Shrew Crocidura dsinezumi

  This shrew occurs on Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and nearby Japanese islands. Its coat varies by season and region, and it has been recorded along riverbanks and in farm-field thickets.

• Yellow-legged Thrush Turdus flavipes

  This thrush occurs widely in South America. An island study by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro reports it in lowlands during the coldest months and conspicuous near mountaintops in spring and summer on Bom Jesus Island.

• Borneo Short-tailed Porcupine Hystrix (Thecurus) crassispinis

  This porcupine lives in forests and cultivated areas on Borneo. Its dark brown quills, with pale tips and bases, help identify it.

• Black-bellied Malkoha Phaenicophaeus diardi

  The Black-bellied Malkoha often moves alone among leafy parts of the canopy and feeds on insect larvae.

• Fulvous Pocket Gopher Megascapheus fulvus

  This pocket gopher ranges across the western and southwestern United States and Mexico. A specimen obtained by its describer near San Francisco Mountain had reddish-brown upperparts, a whitish underside, and long, flattened foreclaws.

• Water Dikkop Burhinus vermiculatus

  The Water Thick-knee is a large shorebird that is active at night along rivers and lakes. Its mottled gray-brown plumage helps it blend into grass and waterside cover.

• Common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius

  A small dormouse with large eyes, small rounded ears, and a furry tail.

• Humaita Antbird Myrmelastes humaythae

  This antbird lives in upper Amazon forests, including southeastern Peru. Males are gray, females reddish brown, and the birds move through low forest cover.

• Short-snouted Sengi Elephantulus brachyrhynchus

  The short-snouted sengi has a long, narrow snout and a faint white eye ring. In southern Africa it uses grassland with trees or shrubs.

• Coppersmith Barbet Psilopogon haemacephalus

  A barbet that lives in Singapore’s parks and residential areas. Adults are mostly green with red and yellow markings, and feed largely on figs and other fruit.

• Japanese serow Capricornis crispus

  The Japanese serow is a cattle relative from Japan’s mountain forests. Both sexes hold territories and live alone.

• Derbyan Parakeet Psittacula derbiana

  It lives in mountains of Tibet, southwestern China, and northeastern India. Adult males and females can be told apart by bill color.