Meet the world’s animals.

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• Typical Lemniscomys Lemniscomys striatus

  

  The typical lemniscomys is a grassland mouse with pale stripes and rows of spots on its back. It is active by day and nests among grass or brush.

• Cluster Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) sodalis

  

  The Cluster Bat is a North American bat that hibernates in caves and migrates in spring and fall. It has small hind feet and feeds on insects.

• Madagascan Rousette Rousettus madagascariensis

  

  The Madagascan rousette is a small fruit bat found only on Madagascar. It is active at night and feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Hamlyn's Monkey Cercopithecus hamlyni

  

  A white T-shaped stripe across the face makes this monkey distinctive. It lives in bamboo-rich forests and forms small groups.

• Leach's Single Leaf Bat Monophyllus redmani

  

  Leach's single leaf bat has a long muzzle and tongue. It roosts deep inside large, humid caves.

• Chinese Goral Naemorhedus griseus

  

  The Chinese goral is a goat-like animal that climbs rocky, steep slopes on broad hooves.

• Alexander's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus alexandri

  This small squirrel lives in lowland forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its back has orange, black, and cream stripes, and it searches for food on trees by day.

• Atlantic Forest Hocicudo Oxymycterus dasytrichus

  Oxymycterus dasytrichus is a rodent of eastern Brazil. Its account records it in seasonally flooded forest, moist openings in or near forest, and cultivated fields.

• Bolam's Pseudomys Pseudomys bolami

  This small mouse has yellow-brown fur and a long, heavily furred tail. It is nocturnal, shelters in burrows, and eats seeds, fruit, and small invertebrates. It occurs in southern Australia.

• Cave Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) velifer

  This myotis has a bare patch between the shoulder blades and mainly roosts in caves. Females give birth to one young per year.

• Mauritian fruit bat Pteropus niger

  The Mauritian fruit bat is a large fruit-eating bat with golden fur, endemic to Mauritius.

• Tana River Mangabey Cercocebus galeritus

  The Tana River mangabey lives only along the lower Tana River in southeastern Kenya, where riverine forest occurs in patches. Its pale gray-brown fur, black face, and white eyebrows stand out. It eats fruits and seeds and sleeps in forks of tall trees.

• Merriam's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga mutica

  This bat has brown back fur with whitish bases, and its tongue tip may show even at rest. It ranges from Mexico through Central America to northern and western Colombia.

• Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes mearnsi

  The Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest, Connochaetes mearnsi, is restricted to the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It is a small, dark form with a longer tail and a hanging mane. Most of the population moves seasonally in the dry season.

• Gunnison's Prairie Dog Cynomys (Leucocrossuromys) gunnisoni

  Gunnison's prairie dogs have yellowish-buff coats and build connected burrow colonies in grasslands and high-desert country. They warn one another of danger with calls.

• Patagonian Chinchilla Mouse Euneomys chinchilloides

  With long, dense grey-brown fur, it lives in sandy areas with rocky shelter and patches of grass or shrubs. Records are from central and southeastern Chile and adjacent Argentina.

• Heath Pseudomys Pseudomys shortridgei

  The heath pseudomys is a relatively large native Australian mouse of heath and woodland. Its blunt-looking face and long, hairy two-colored tail are distinctive.

• Chiriquinan Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) chiriquinus

  Eptesicus chiriquinus is recorded in Bolivia. The Bolivian bat conservation program describes most records as humid, while also documenting a capture in dry inter-Andean forest at Torotoro National Park.

• Madagascan Flying Fox Pteropus rufus

  The Madagascan flying fox is a large fruit bat found only on Madagascar. It mainly takes juice from fruit and spits out the dry pulp and seeds, helping disperse seeds.

• Red-bellied monkey Cercopithecus erythrogaster

  The red-bellied monkey is a forest-dwelling primate found from southern Nigeria into Benin and Togo.

• Buffy Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus infuscus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs in several countries of northwestern South America. One diet study was conducted in montane forest in central Peru.

• Kirk's dik-dik Madoqua kirkii

  A tiny antelope of East and southwestern Africa, living among shrubs and savannah vegetation.

• Mearns's Squirrel Tamiasciurus mearnsi

  This squirrel is restricted to the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, Mexico. It lives in high-elevation conifer forest and uses tree hollows for nests.

• Black-wristed Deermouse Peromyscus melanocarpus

  This small mouse lives in mountain forests of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Dark fur on its wrists and lower forelegs stands out; it forages at night for seeds and other foods on the forest floor.