Meet the world’s animals.

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• Canefield Rat Rattus sordidus

  

  This ground-dwelling rat occurs in northeastern Australia. A survey in the Pellew Islands also recorded it in grassy open woodland.

• Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor

  The Abyssinian Scimitarbill is marked by glossy dark plumage and a long, strongly downcurved orange bill. It lives in dry scrub and open woodland in eastern Africa.

• Durga Das's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros durgadasi

  It is a small bat with rounded ears and a simple noseleaf without supplementary leaflets. In Karnataka, it roosts in subterranean caves.

• Gould's Toucanet Selenidera gouldii

  A small toucan relative with a black head and chest in males and chestnut-brown head and chest in females. It lives in humid South American forests, and detailed diet records are limited.

• African Linsang Poiana richardsonii

  The African linsang is a small carnivore with a slender, spotted body and a long ringed tail. It is active at night in trees and eats insects, fruit and other foods.

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea

  The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a tiny, long-tailed bird with blue-gray plumage. It moves through the outer foliage of broadleaf forests and scrublands while searching for insects and spiders.

• Collared Pika Ochotona (Pika) collaris

  The collared pika has a collar-like pattern from the nape to the shoulders. It uses rocky slopes and nearby meadows, gathering plants for winter.

• Chilean Tinamou Nothoprocta perdicaria

  Its streaked grey-brown plumage blends into the ground; it feeds on plant material and small animals in grassland and fields.

• Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Lagothrix flavicauda

  The Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey is a primate endemic to Peru. It lives in trees and eats fruit, leaves, and other plant foods. Its long reddish-brown coat and yellow patch beneath the tail are distinctive.

• Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus

  A shrike with a bold black face band and reddish-brown back that watches for prey from a perch.

• Eurasian Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus

  This small shrew has a long, pointed snout and very small eyes and ears. In Britain it occurs in places with grass, leaf litter, or other ground cover.

• African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta

  The African Pygmy Kingfisher is a small kingfisher widespread south of the Sahara. It eats insects more often than fish and searches for prey from a perch.

• Common Wallaroo Osphranter robustus

  The common wallaroo is a kangaroo relative that lives among rocky and mountainous areas and open woodlands on mainland Australia.

• Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus

  The Bronze-winged Courser is a ground-dwelling bird of dry African country. It is mostly active at dusk and night, and usually runs rather than flies when disturbed.

• Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus

  A dolphin of Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters. It feeds mainly on fish in shallow waters.

• Demoiselle crane Grus virgo

  A crane with pale plumes behind the eyes and long black breast feathers.

• 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.

• Water Rail Rallus aquaticus

  A secretive rail that breeds in wetlands in Britain and Ireland. Birds arriving from continental Europe add to the winter population.

• Etendeka Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides micus

  This small sengi has been recorded near the Etendeka volcanic formation in northwestern Namibia. It has rust-colored fur and a hairless gland on the underside of the tail. It is nocturnal and uses the space beneath rocks as a daytime shelter.

• Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis

  A small heron that hides in reeds and freezes with its neck stretched when it senses danger.

• Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon plicatus

  The 2018 study describes a relatively narrow wing shape in bats reported as Chaerephon plicatus. In a 2018 study of two central Thailand roost caves, brown planthoppers were common in droppings during rice growing; other insects appeared during the fallow period.

• Orange-footed Megapode Megapodius reinwardt

  The Orange-footed Megapode has dark gray plumage, orange legs, and a crest at the back of its head. It uses scrub, rainforest, shores, and city parks, feeding on fallen fruit and seeds and laying eggs in large mounds.

• Peyrieras's Woolly Lemur Avahi peyrierasi

  Peyrieras’s woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of southeastern Madagascar’s forests. Its back is gray-brown, its underside is white, and its tail is reddish brown. It is arboreal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus

  A bird of open areas near water. Small, spur-like projections on its wings give it its English name.