Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker Dicaeum melanozanthum

  

  A small bird of forests from the Himalayas into northern Southeast Asia. The male has a dark head and back with a yellow belly, and the species moves with elevation.

• Bornean Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus borneensis

  

  This Bornean bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It roosts in caves and other sheltered places by day and hunts flying insects at night.

• Long-tailed Potoo Nyctibius aethereus

  

  This nocturnal bird has a long tail and mottled plumage. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying insects at night.

• Ethiopian wolf Canis simensis

  

  A wolf found only in Ethiopia's highlands, with a bright reddish coat and long legs.

• Lined Antshrike Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus

  

  This antshrike has strongly different male and female plumage. It uses dense vegetation along humid forest edges in the eastern Andean foothills.

• Southern Highland Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea comes

  

  This cavy is known from the southern Bolivian and northern Argentine Andes. Its back is mottled olive, brown, and tan, while its underside mixes yellow and white. At one Bolivian valley site, a colony was observed foraging by day near burrows.

• New Zealand Storm Petrel Fregetta maoriana

  This seabird is recorded in northern New Zealand waters, with the outer Hauraki Gulf identified as a core area of activity during the New Zealand summer.

• Assam Rabbit Caprolagus hispidus

  The Assam rabbit is a hare with short, broad ears and a coarse outer coat. It feeds on grass roots and shoots in tall-grass country.

• Great Spinetail Synallaxis hypochondriaca

  The Great Spinetail is a furnariid restricted to the upper Marañón drainage of northern Peru. It uses the understory of dry and semideciduous forest.

• Large Asian Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lekaguli

  This bat has a large noseleaf. In 2019, six were caught and released after measurements near a cave on Negros Island, Philippines.

• Malayan Banded Pitta Hydrornis irena

  This pitta occurs in peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra in Indonesia. BirdLife records it in lowland swamp and evergreen forests.

• Green Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops archeri

  The green ringtail possum has a lime-green-looking coat and a thick tail. It lives in trees in northeastern Queensland and mainly eats leaves.

• Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor

  This bushshrike lives in forests of western and central Africa. It has several plumage forms, including birds with orange or red underparts.

• Gray mouse lemur Microcebus murinus

  A small lemur of Madagascan forests. It forages at night and sleeps in sites such as tree holes by day.

• Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis longicaudatus

  This small bird has a restricted range in northeast India. It lives mostly on the forest floor among mossy rocks and crevices.

• Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus

  This small rodent lives in rocky dry country in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Adults have gray-brown fur, and rocky outcrops provide places to shelter.

• Rock Pratincole Glareola nuchalis

  The Rock Pratincole is a small, dark bird with white rump and underwing markings. It breeds by fast, rocky rivers; the southern African population moves seasonally.

• Camas pocket gopher Megascapheus bulbivorus

  This pocket gopher lives underground in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Its coat ranges from dark brown to reddish brown, and some individuals have a white throat patch.

• Yellow-legged Flyrobin Microeca griseoceps

  The Yellow-legged Flyrobin is recorded in New Guinea’s mid-montane rainforest and on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. The Birds Queensland account uses the name Kempiella griseoceps, while the pool lists Microeca griseoceps.

• Atlantic White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus

  This dolphin lives in the cool-temperate North Atlantic. It has a yellowish-tan flank streak and a white patch, and eats small fish, squid, and crustaceans. It tends to move north and inshore in summer and south and offshore in winter.

• Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle

  A seabird of northern rocky coasts that catches fish and other prey; its plumage changes with the season.

• Gianna's Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira giannae

  This bat was described from Peru and has also been recorded in Colombia. Its dorsal fur ranges from brown to reddish brown, with hairs that have differently colored bases and tips. One Colombian survey captured it in both lower and middle forest strata.

• Galah Eolophus roseicapilla

  A widespread Australian cockatoo, with a pink face and breast contrasting with grey wings and back.

• Andrew's Three-toed Jerboa Stylodipus andrewsi

  Andrew's Three-toed Jerboa occurs from Mongolia's Gobi region into northern China. Stylodipus species have relatively shorter hind limbs than some related jerboa genera.