Meet the world’s animals.

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• Crete Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) minous

  

  This spiny mouse lives on Crete. It has a gray back, reddish-yellow flanks with fine spines, and uses dry scrub and rocky crevices.

• Nathusius's Pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii

  

  Nathusius's pipistrelle is a migratory bat. In the UK it catches flying insects near lakes and rivers.

• Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomops franqueti

  

  Franquet's epauletted fruit bat is an African fruit bat that eats fruit and flowers. White shoulder patches and the absence of a tail are distinctive.

• Moustached Guenon Cercopithecus cephus

  

  The moustached guenon is a monkey with a blue-white stripe below its nose and bright yellow whiskers. It mainly eats fruit and also takes seeds, leaves, and insects in the forest.

• Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa thyone

  

  This small bat has pale dorsal fur. Bolivian records include humid evergreen and young secondary forests, and the species specializes on wild figs.

• Bubal Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus

  

  A long-legged African antelope with a narrow muzzle, the hartebeest lives in herds on savanna grasslands. Coat color and horn shape vary across its range.

• Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica

  A large squirrel endemic to India that lives in forest canopies.

• Brazilian arboreal mouse Rhagomys rufescens

  The Brazilian arboreal mouse was redescribed in a 2004 rediscovery paper based on two specimens. Its lifestyle in that paper includes inferences from morphology rather than direct observations.

• Ryukyu Islands Tree Rat Diplothrix legata

  This large Japanese endemic rodent occurs on Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima, and Okinawa Island. The University of Tokyo Museum account notes that its tail is longer than its body.

• Chinese Pipistrelle Hypsugo pulveratus

  The Chinese pipistrelle is a small bat recorded in China. A university species page describes its coat and forest records, along with examples of roosting in buildings.

• Minute Fruit Bat Cynopterus minutus

  The minute fruit bat is a fruit-eating bat that may show pale yellow fur around the neck. Two individuals were caught along a forest trail in a protected area of Borneo.

• Chacma Baboon Papio ursinus

  A baboon of southern Africa's grasslands, savannas and wooded highlands.

• Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus bidens

  The Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat is a small leaf-nosed bat recorded in South American forests. In Bolivia it has been observed in primary and secondary forest, with roosts under palm or banana leaves.

• Marco Polo Argali Ovis polii

  Ovis polii is a wild sheep described from the dry Pamir steppe. Males have long, winding horns, and the sheep use rolling hills, broad valleys, and gradual mountain sides.

• Hopi Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) rufus

  This chipmunk lives in rocky areas of the western United States. It favors places with juniper and pinyon pine and has reddish dorsal stripes.

• Cactus Deermouse Peromyscus eremicus

  The Cactus Deermouse is a small mouse with a tail longer than its body. It lives in deserts and dry areas and is active at night.

• Selous's Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) selousi

  This spiny mouse has rufous-brown or coffee-colored upperparts and a white underside. It is recorded on isolated rocky ridges in eastern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe and northern South Africa.

• Eastern Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus rafinesquii

  This North American bat has large ears and brownish-gray fur. It leaves its roost late at night to catch moths and other insects along forest edges and waterways.

• Pallas's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene cephalotes

  Pallas's tube-nosed fruit bat is widespread in Indonesia, less common in Papua New Guinea, and known in Australia only from Moa Island. It roosts in rainforest and mangrove trees.

• Sun-tailed Monkey Allochrocebus solatus

  The sun-tailed monkey lives only in the forests of central Gabon. It uses both the ground and trees and is associated with dense forest undergrowth.

• Little White-shouldered Bat Ametrida centurio

  This small bat has pale patches on its shoulders. Males are grayer than females and have a swollen area below each eye.

• Black Wildebeest Connochaetes gnou

  A bovid of open grasslands and the Karoo in southern Africa. It mainly grazes short grass and uses open country.

• Mentawai Squirrel Callosciurus melanogaster

  This dark squirrel is found only on the Mentawai Islands. It is active by day, mostly in trees, and eats fruit and young leaves.

• Bunny Rat Reithrodon auritus

  Its back has mixed gray and black fur, its underside is pale gray, and its large rounded ears are furry. It lives in open grasslands and pampas, digging or using burrows and natural rock holes.