Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas

  

  A monkey of savannas and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis

  A dark greenish-blue bird with a red bill and pale patches on its wings in flight.

• Grey Rhebok Pelea capreolus

  The rhebok is an antelope with long ears and a curly gray-brown coat. It browses in rocky uplands and grasslands.

• Yellow-browed Bulbul Acritillas indica

  This bulbul lives in forests in India and Sri Lanka. It has a yellow eyebrow, face, and throat, with olive upperparts.

• White-footed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur leucopus

  The white-footed sportive lemur has a gray-brown back and pale underside. It rests in tree holes and leaps among branches at night.

• Appert's Greenbul Xanthomixis apperti

  This small bird is restricted to forests in southwestern Madagascar. Species accounts describe it searching for arthropods on the ground and low branches, sometimes in small family groups.

• Philippine Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura alecto

  This insect-eating bat was recorded in a cave survey in the southern Philippines. Surveyed individuals averaged 76 mm in total length, with tails 31.5 mm long. They roosted in small hollows in partly lit caves.

• Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata

  The Pin-tailed Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry steppe-like areas. In the European account, males have elongated central tail feathers and differ from females in breast and facial markings.

• Ruddy Mongoose Urva smithii

  The ruddy mongoose is found in India and is marked by a dark, reddish coat and a black tail tip. It favors forests and is most active around dawn and dusk.

• Madagascar Forest Rail Mentocrex kioloides

  This secretive, ground-dwelling forest rail is endemic to Madagascar. The paper records one subspecies in eastern humid forest and another in the northwestern transition between humid and dry deciduous forest, with regional plumage differences.

• Emilia's Marmoset Mico emiliae

  Emilia's Marmoset is a small monkey marked by a blackish crown, white brow, grayish-brown back, and black tail. A survey in the southern Brazilian Amazon recorded it in regenerating areas with many lianas.

• Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii

  A large bustard of arid regions across Asia. Birds breeding in northeast Asia migrate south, while some southern populations are resident.

• Coucha Rat Mastomys natalensis

  This rodent is recorded across much of sub-Saharan Africa. A study in semi-arid Tanzania found it eating plant material and seeds.

• Common Miner Geositta cunicularia

  This ground-dwelling bird forages in open country across South America. The sources describe several subspecies and habitats, from coastal dunes to dry highland plains.

• Griffin's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros griffini

  This bat was described from Vietnam. The original paper reports captures on Cat Ba Island in the north and at Chu Mom Ray in the Central Highlands, in forests of different condition.

• Lineated Barbet Psilopogon lineatus

  The Lineated Barbet eats fruit and excavates nesting holes in dead trees. In Singapore, an introduced population occurs in parks and along woodland edges.

• Cape genet Genetta tigrina

  A southern African genet with dark spots on a pale coat and rings on its tail. It is active at night and climbs well.

• Cassin's Auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus

  Cassin's Auklet is a small seabird that breeds on islands along the Pacific coast of North America. It dives for small crustaceans and nests in burrows.

• Turkestan Red Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rutila

  The Turkestan red pika is a pika of Central Asian mountains. Its coat is reddish brown in summer and gray in winter, and it stores grass among rocky slopes.

• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla

  The Semipalmated Sandpiper is a small shorebird with a short bill. It breeds on Arctic tundra and winters along coasts farther south in the Americas.

• Yucatan Black Howler Monkey Alouatta pigra

  A monkey of forests in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. It feeds mainly on leaves in the trees, and groups use calls to signal their territories.

• Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris

  The Alpine Accentor is a small bird seen near alpine rocks and snowfields. In the Japanese account, its head and chest are gray-black, its flanks are reddish brown, and its back is finely mottled.

• Asian Highland Shrew Suncus montanus

  This shrew is endemic to Sri Lanka, where records span montane forest and lower wet-zone hills. It forages among leaf litter, rotting logs, and streamside vegetation, mostly at night.

• Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus

  The Common Black Hawk is a dark raptor that waits for prey in wooded wetlands and along streams. It is rare in the southwestern United States and more common from Mexico southward.