Meet the world’s animals.

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• Flamecrest Regulus goodfellowi

  

  The Flamecrest is endemic to Taiwan's mountains, where it searches conifer foliage for small insects.

• Least Sac-winged Bat Balantiopteryx io

  This small bat occurs in lowland areas from Mexico into Central America. It mainly roosts in caves, and males have a small pouch in the wing membrane.

• Pollen's Vanga Xenopirostris polleni

  This vanga is endemic to humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It is recorded from sea level to 2,000 m, though its distribution is patchy.

• Cape Fox Vulpes chama

  A small fox of southern Africa and the smallest member of the dog family.

• Red-necked Amazon Amazona arausiaca

  The Red-necked Amazon is a large green parrot with a purple-blue face and red throat. It is found only on Dominica, where it feeds on fruit and seeds in mountain rainforest canopy.

• Common Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea musteloides

  The common yellow-toothed cavy, or cui, is a guinea pig-like rodent from South America. Its coat varies from light to dark brown, and its white underside has a sharp boundary along the flanks. It is most active at dawn and dusk and lives in mixed-sex groups.

• Red-chested Buttonquail Turnix pyrrhothorax

  The Red-chested Buttonquail walks through grassland to eat seeds and small insects. Females are larger than males and have richer chestnut coloring on the breast.

• Mountain Tree Shrew Tupaia montana

  This treeshrew lives in the mountain forests of northern Borneo. It is an omnivore that uses the ground and climbs, and a mountain study reported body-weight variation with elevation.

• Western Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio

  In European wetlands, this large waterbird stands out for its purplish-blue body and red frontal shield. It handles reeds with its bill and feet.

• Blackish Grass Mouse Thaptomys nigrita

  The blackish grass mouse is a small rodent that uses tunnels beneath leaf litter. A survey in southern Brazil recorded it in deciduous forest with pitfall traps.

• Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Polioptila melanura

  The Black-tailed Gnatcatcher is a small blue-gray bird of dry scrub in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Breeding males grow a black cap, and both parents take part in raising their young.

• Chacoan Tuco-tuco Ctenomys conoveri

  Conover's Tuco-tuco is a fossorial rodent of the Gran Chaco in Bolivia and Paraguay. It has a robust cylindrical body and builds branching burrows.

• Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata

  This small bird ranges widely across Africa. Breeding males vary in plumage and bill color among regional forms, and they mimic the songs of their firefinch hosts.

• Forest Giant Pouched Rat Cricetomys emini

  Study animals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were slender and had short, soft gray fur. They used underground burrows and were active both by day and at night.

• Madagascar Sandgrouse Pterocles personatus

  The Madagascar Sandgrouse feeds on seeds on dry open ground. Groups may fly to water, and males carry water to chicks in their soaked belly feathers.

• Nubra Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) nubrica

  The Nubra pika lives at high elevations in the Himalayas. It has a gray back, a pale underside, and uses rocky alpine scrub.

• Black-throated Accentor Prunella atrogularis

  The Black-throated Accentor breeds in mountain regions of Central Asia and around the Urals. The nominate form and subspecies huttoni differ in throat markings and winter movements.

• 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.

• Grey Grasswren Amytornis barbatus

  This account follows the Bulloo subspecies described by the New South Wales government. Records along the lower Bulloo River are associated with wetlands of dense tall vegetation.

• Greater Naked Bat Cheiromeles torquatus

  The greater naked bat is mostly hairless, with a ring of black bristles around its neck. It occurs in Southeast Asia and hunts insects at night.

• Lesser Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus

  A stork with a large bill and little feathering on its head and neck. In Bangladesh it occurs around shallow wetlands, grassland and farmland.

• Eastern Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus

  The Eastern Horseshoe Bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf and roosts in caves and mines. The museum account notes that northern and southern populations may be different species.

• Margaret's Batis Batis margaritae

  This small bird has a disjunct range in western Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Zambia. It uses humid forest and forest edges and feeds on invertebrates.

• Caucasian Mountain Ground Squirrel Spermophilus musicus

  The Caucasian mountain ground squirrel lives in high meadows and mountain steppe of the central Caucasus and spends winter in burrows.