Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sundevall's Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) crassus

  

  This jird has a sandy back with black spots and a white underside. It often leaves its burrow in the evening to feed on seeds and vegetation.

• Western Barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus

  

  The European barbastelle is a bat whose broad ears meet above its forehead. The tips of its black fur are pale, and it uses different roosts in summer and winter.

• L'Hoest's Monkey Allochrocebus lhoesti

  

  L'Hoest's monkey is recognizable by its dark coat and white beard. It spends more time on the ground than many monkeys.

• Brazilian Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma doriae

  

  The Brazilian big-eyed bat has distinctive white lines on its face and back. It is recorded in many Brazilian habitats and often feeds on wild figs.

• Weyns's Duiker Cephalophus weynsi

  

  This small antelope is recorded in forest areas of Central and East Africa. It is brown, with grayish shoulders and no dark back stripe. A small reddish tuft sits on its head.

• Junín Red Squirrel Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pyrrhinus

  

  The Junín red squirrel is an arboreal squirrel recorded in Peru. Its back is reddish brown, while the underside ranges from white to more reddish shades.

• Cerrado Red-nosed Mouse Wiedomys cerradensis

  This rodent occurs in the semiarid zone of northeastern Brazil. The 2017 HMW 7 account reported a few scattered localities; it has a grizzled brown back, orange rump, eye-rings, muzzle, ears, and upper feet, and a white underside.

• Central Australian Rock Rat Zyzomys pedunculatus

  The central Australian rock rat lives among rocky sites in central Australia. Records describe a thick tail and a diet based mainly on seeds.

• Common Noctule Nyctalus noctula

  A large bat with reddish-brown fur and rounded ears. In Britain, it roosts in tree holes and emerges early in the evening to catch insects.

• Black-shanked Douc Pygathrix nigripes

  The black-shanked douc is a douc langur found in forests of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It spends most of its time in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Guianan Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus latifolius

  This small-to-medium spear-nosed bat occurs in the Guianas and northern Amazonia. It has dark smoky-brown fur, large rounded ears, and a short, broad noseleaf.

• Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii

  A wetland antelope adapted to life among swamp vegetation.

• Redwood Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) ochrogenys

  This chipmunk lives in coastal mountains of northern California. It occupies redwood and mixed-conifer forests, forages on the ground, and also climbs low branches.

• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.

• Cutch Cremnomys Cremnomys cutchicus

  This rat is endemic to India. It has a gray-brown back, a pale belly, and a tail longer than its body; it mainly eats plants and inhabits rocky hills with trees or scrub.

• Leaf-winged Bat Glauconycteris variegata

  Its wing membranes have a leaf-like net pattern, and the bat hides among foliage while roosting. It is widely but patchily recorded across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Black Colobus Colobus satanas

  The black colobus is covered in glossy black fur and lives high in the rainforest canopy of western Africa.

• Pale-faced Bat Phylloderma stenops

  The pale-faced bat is a large bat recorded in humid forests of Ecuador. Reports include foods ranging from small vertebrates to fruit.

• Przewalski's Gazelle Procapra przewalskii

  Przewalski's gazelle lives along the grassland-desert transition in China. Its current range is limited to isolated populations around Qinghai Lake.

• Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) niger

  A medium-sized North American tree squirrel, notable for its reddish-brown coat and red belly. It also occurs in open woodlands and urban areas.

• Caucasus Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) daghestanicus

  This vole lives in high mountain meadows of the Caucasus. Its back is dark and its underside is silvery.

• Fawn-footed Melomys Melomys cervinipes

  This small rat lives in forests of eastern Australia. Coat color varies with age; it has pale feet and a long, mosaic-patterned tail.

• Canyon Bat Parastrellus hesperus

  The canyon bat is a small gray-brown bat of dry western North America. It uses rocky and arid habitats and begins foraging soon after sunset.

• Proboscis monkey Nasalis larvatus

  A monkey of riverine and coastal forests on Borneo. Males have conspicuously large noses.