Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sri Lankan giant squirrel Ratufa macroura

  

  A large squirrel of southern India and Sri Lanka, with a grizzled tail marked by pale hairs. It spends almost all its time in trees.

• Black-footed Colilargo Oligoryzomys nigripes

  

  The black-footed colilargo is a small rodent with a tail longer than its head and body combined and relatively short, broad hind feet. A southern Brazilian forest study found it associated with dense scrub.

• Indochinese Forest Rat Rattus andamanensis

  

  The Indochinese forest rat has brown upperparts, a white underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is nocturnal and omnivorous in forest settings.

• Southwestern Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) auriculus

  

  This small bat has brown fur and long ears. It becomes active after sunset and uses sound to find moths and other insects.

• Lesula Cercopithecus lomamiensis

  

  This monkey lives in lowland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and eats fruit and leaves.

• Heller's Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus helleri

  

  This broad-nosed bat is recorded from Mexico through Central America to northern South America west of the Andes. A 2010 revision separated species from the older broad P. helleri complex.

• Snow Sheep Ovis nivicola

  The snow sheep lives in rocky mountains of eastern Siberia. It makes short seasonal movements and eats grasses and lichens.

• Ochre Bush Squirrel Paraxerus ochraceus

  The ochre bush squirrel lives in East African savanna woodland. Its pelage is listed as having no red coloration, and the flanks have no stripe or at most one pale stripe. Detailed ecology is poorly known.

• Broad-faced Deermouse Peromyscus megalops

  The broad-faced deermouse has a dark streaked back and a pale underside. It has been studied in humid mountain forests of southern Mexico.

• Alpine Field Mouse Apodemus alpicola

  An Alpine mouse with limited records in Italy; its ecology is still not well documented.

• Southern Yellow Bat Dasypterus ega

  This bat is recorded in the lowlands of Bolivia. Its short, woolly coat is dark gray to cinnamon on the back, with a strongly contrasting belly. It catches insects while flying in open spaces.

• Gray-cheeked Mangabey Lophocebus albigena

  The nominate subspecies of the gray-cheeked mangabey is recorded from Cameroon’s Atlantic coast to central Uganda. It mainly eats fruit, along with leaves, flowers, and animal matter.

• Tschudi's Tailless Bat Anoura peruana

  This nectar-feeding bat occurs in the Andes. A 2019 study in the La Paz Valley found pollen and fecal evidence suggesting that it feeds on 14 locally native or cultivated plant species. That evidence comes from one Bolivian valley.

• Chinkara Gazella bennettii

  The chinkara is a small gazelle of dry parts of South Asia. It can go for a long time without water, an adaptation to arid environments.

• Maritime Striped Squirrel Tamiops maritimus

  The maritime striped squirrel is a small squirrel with bold black stripes along its back. The traits described here are for the subspecies found in Taiwan.

• Kam Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus kamensis

  A highland hamster recorded in western China, where the account describes valleys with grassland, scrub, and cultivated fields.

• Fat Sand Rat Psammomys obesus

  The fat sand rat is a stocky gerbil-like rodent that burrows near desert shrubs and changes its activity with the heat.

• Long-legged Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) volans

  Long-legged myotis is a western North American bat with a ridged spur at the ankle and fur on the underside of the wing extending to the line between elbow and knee. It hunts insects over water, beneath tree canopies, and along cliffs.

• Preuss's Monkey Allochrocebus preussi

  Preuss's monkey is a forest primate marked by a silvery-white neck collar and reddish-brown back. It is active by day and forages for fruit and young shoots in groups.

• Brown Tent-making Bat Uroderma magnirostrum

  The brown tent-making bat eats fruit and roosts in tents made from leaves. It ranges from western Mexico to southeastern Brazil.

• Maxwell’s Duiker Philantomba maxwellii

  Maxwell’s duiker is a small antelope of West African forests and wooded patches in savannah. It stays close to cover and feeds on leaves and fruit.

• Slender Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) tenuis

  The slender squirrel has olive-brown upperparts and tail with gray underparts. It lives in trees and takes both plant and animal foods by day and night.

• Roborovski hamster Phodopus roborovskii

  A small hamster of sandy habitats in Mongolia and northern China.

• Rudd's Bristle-furred Rat Uranomys ruddi

  This rat has a short tail and a white belly. In a Guinea survey it was recorded in escarpment forest, gallery forest, and near cultivated or fallow land.