Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fierce Bonneted Bat Eumops ferox

  

  This bat is recorded in Cuba. Its historical description gives pale-based brown back fur and blackish-brown cheeks and chin. A capture inside a house in Cárdenas has also been reported.

• Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens

  The Magnificent Frigatebird is a large seabird with long wings and a deeply forked tail. It soars over tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the Americas.

• 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.

• Thamnornis Thamnornis chloropetoides

  This small bird lives in dry woodland and scrub in southwestern Madagascar. It searches among foliage and leaf litter for insects and spiders.

• Brazilian Guinea Pig Cavia aperea

  The Brazilian guinea pig is a wild guinea-pig relative of South American grasslands and savannas. It feeds mainly on plants and moves under cover in dense vegetation.

• Namaqua Warbler Phragmacia substriata

  The Namaqua Warbler skulks in reedbeds near watercourses. It has a rufous-brown back and flanks contrasting with a white breast marked by faint streaks. The Namibian guide records it along the Orange River and at Fish River Canyon.

• Swamp Antechinus Antechinus minimus

  The swamp antechinus is a small marsupial of wet grasslands and scrub on Tasmania and islands in Bass Strait. It is most active around dusk.

• Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta

  The Restless Flycatcher catches insects over open woodland and farmland. When hawking prey, it can appear to hover with its head pointing down.

• Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi

  This jerboa is recorded from deserts of southern and southeastern Mongolia and northern China. Mongolian samples show sex-related and geographic variation in skull size.

• Rufous-faced Antpitta Grallaria erythrotis

  This antpitta occurs in humid mountain forest in Bolivia. It has a dark crown, orange face and white throat, and searches for small prey close to the ground.

• Black-footed Gray Langur Semnopithecus hypoleucos

  This langur lives in southern India. It is active by day and feeds mainly on leaves.

• 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.

• 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.

• Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris

  This medium-sized owl lives in grassland and has long legs that project beyond the tail in flight.

• Egyptian mongoose Herpestes ichneumon

  A ground-dwelling mongoose that uses wooded areas near water.

• Tschudi's Nightjar Systellura decussata

  This nightjar uses dry open country, where its sandy plumage blends with the ground and sparse vegetation.

• Stoliczka's Asian Trident Bat Aselliscus stoliczkanus

  Stoliczka's trident bat has a three-pointed noseleaf and has been recorded roosting in caves in Yunnan.

• Brown Creeper Certhia americana

  The Brown Creeper is a small forest bird whose bark-like plumage helps it blend in as it searches along tree trunks.

• Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus

  This small rodent lives in rocky dry country in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Adults have gray-brown fur, and rocky outcrops provide places to shelter.

• Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii

  It has a short, notched bill; males are mainly grey and females are brown with dark streaks. The species remains in dry forest and scrub along Peru's coast.

• Sika deer Cervus nippon

  The sika deer is native to East Asia, including Japan, and primarily inhabits forests.

• Little Kingfisher Ceyx pusillus

  A tiny blue-and-white kingfisher of rivers, wetlands, and mangroves. It watches for prey from a perch near the water.

• Insular Mole Mogera insularis

  This burrowing mole has soft gray-black fur, tiny eyes, and shovel-shaped forefeet in the Taiwanese subspecies. Species-level range records include Taiwan and Hainan Island.

• Northern Red-shouldered Macaw Diopsittaca nobilis

  A small green macaw with red shoulder feathers in adults. It eats seeds and fruit in South American savanna, woodland, and wetland habitats.