Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bay-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus rufigularis

  

  The Bay-breasted Cuckoo has a gray back and rusty throat and breast. It searches for small animals in forests from lowlands to mountains on Hispaniola.

• Black Squirrel Monkey Saimiri vanzolinii

  The black squirrel monkey has a dark crown and colorful limbs. In flooded forests of northern Brazil, it moves through trees by day to find fruit and insects.

• Dusky Purpletuft Iodopleura fusca

  This cotinga is recorded in forest canopies from the Guiana Shield to northern Brazil. In field observations, males had purple upper-flank tufts and birds caught flying insects from the canopy.

• Horsfield's Shrew Crocidura horsfieldii

  This shrew occurs in India and Sri Lanka, where it is recorded in moist forests and grasslands. It is terrestrial and feeds on insects.

• David's Fulvetta Alcippe davidi

  David’s Fulvetta ranges from China to northern Indochina and lives in the understory of broad-leaved evergreen forest. It has been recorded in mixed flocks with other birds and feeds on insects and berries.

• European Garden Dormouse Eliomys quercinus

  The European garden dormouse is marked by a dark mask and a black-and-white tail tip. In Spain, it occurs across the Iberian Peninsula, but its distribution is uneven.

• Golden Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster

  Males are conspicuously yellow with black wings. The species uses dry, semi-open country and forest edges, where it eats seeds, insects, and fruit.

• Striped Bush Squirrel Paraxerus flavovittis

  A squirrel found in southern Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and northern Mozambique. It is active by day and nests in tree hollows.

• Böhm's Spinetail Neafrapus boehmi

  This small swift has a very short tail and flies fast above African savannas and open woodland.

• Greater Bamboo Lemur Prolemur simus

  A bamboo-eating lemur, it moves among branches with long hind legs and tail and can be active both by day and at night.

• Sichuan Tit Poecile weigoldicus

  The Sichuan Tit inhabits high elevations in southwestern China, in coniferous forest and near the tree line at 2,200–4,310 m.

• 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.

• Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus

  The Broad-winged Hawk is a small, stocky raptor with black-and-white tail bands. During migration it forms large flocks.

• Potto Perodicticus potto

  This nocturnal primate inhabits West African forest and moves slowly along branches.

• Madagascar Forest Rail Mentocrex kioloides

  This secretive, ground-dwelling forest rail is endemic to Madagascar. The paper records one subspecies in eastern humid forest and another in the northwestern transition between humid and dry deciduous forest, with regional plumage differences.

• Screaming hairy armadillo Chaetophractus vellerosus

  A hairy armadillo of dry regions, with fur showing between the plates of its armor. In hot summer weather it stays in burrows and is active at night.

• Peg-billed Finch Acanthidops bairdi

  This finch lives in volcanic highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its long upturned bill is distinctive, and it feeds on insects, seeds, and fruit in mountain forest and bamboo.

• Creeping Vole Microtus (Mynomes) oregoni

  The creeping vole is a small vole of the Pacific coast of North America. Its tiny eyes and short tail are distinctive, and it uses tunnels and burrows close to the ground.

• Buff-sided Robin Poecilodryas cerviniventris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 16–18 cm and a mass of 20–25 g, and gives humid forest, riparian vegetation, and mangroves as habitats. Its page also lists audio-recording sites in northern Australia.

• Calamian Deer Axis calamianensis

  The Calamian deer occurs on the Calamian Islands of the Philippines. A specialist identification key describes it as lacking the distinct spotted pattern seen in the chital. It browses leaves by day and lives in small herds.

• Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster

  This roller occurs in western and central Africa. Its pale-blue belly and vivid blue tail stand out, and it dives from trees to the ground to catch prey.

• Serval Leptailurus serval

  An African cat with long legs, large ears and black spots and stripes on a tawny coat.

• Citrine Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa helianthea

  This small flycatcher is active by day; adults have olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts and rump.

• Ross Seal Ommatophoca rossii

  The Ross seal breeds in dense Antarctic pack ice. Six seals tracked off Queen Maud Land moved into open water after their February moult and returned to the pack ice in October.