Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-bellied Titi Plecturocebus caligatus

  

  The Chestnut-bellied Titi is a small Amazon lowland monkey with reddish chestnut fur across its chest and belly.

• Oriental Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros albirostris

  

  The Oriental Pied Hornbill is marked by black-and-white plumage and a large pale yellow bill. During breeding, the female stays in a tree cavity while the male brings food from outside.

• Owston’s Palm Civet Chrotogale owstoni

  

  Owston’s palm civet occurs in Vietnam, eastern Laos and a small part of southern China. It searches damp forest for small animals such as earthworms.

• Hume's Treecreeper Certhia manipurensis

  

  Hume’s Treecreeper has a brown back with pale streaks and spots and an orange-brown rump. In Yunnan, the shanensis form occurs in forest and searches bark for small prey.

• Mongolian marmot Marmota (Marmota) sibirica

  

  The Siberian marmot hibernates through the harsh season.

• Reichard's Seedeater Crithagra reichardi

  

  Reichard's Seedeater is a small bird about 12–14 cm long. It is active by day, lives in woodland and semi-open places, and eats seeds.

• Dusky Antechinus Antechinus swainsonii

  This small marsupial lives in moist forests and dense understory in southeastern Australia. It has dark fur and searches for small invertebrates at night.

• Rufous Limestone Babbler Gypsophila calcicola

  This bird occurs on limestone hills in central Thailand. A research paper identifies its rufous belly as a notable feature among related wren-babblers.

• Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros turpis

  This leaf-nosed bat occurs on islands of the Yaeyama group. Its noseleaf lacks a central projection, and females raise their young in a separate cave after birth.

• Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans

  The Yellow-throated Bunting is an East Asian bunting. The male has a striking black-and-yellow head, and a tracking study recorded males migrating to China.

• Crowned lemur Eulemur coronatus

  A lemur of northern Madagascar, recognized by its orange crown-like forehead marking. It is active mainly by day and lives in groups that travel through trees.

• Jelski's Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix jelskii

  Jelski’s Chat-Tyrant forages in the dense understory of humid montane forest. The Peru Aves page consulted here uses the older combination Ochthoeca jelskii; this entry follows the pool’s name, Silvicultrix jelskii, for the same species.

• San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys gravipes

  The San Quintín kangaroo rat lives on a small coastal plain in Baja California, Mexico. It was rediscovered in 2017, and later surveys confirmed its presence.

• Australian Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles cristatus

  The Australian Owlet-nightjar rests in tree hollows by day and searches for insects at night. Its back can be reddish brown or greyish brown.

• Bare-eared Squirrel Monkey Saimiri ustus

  A diurnal monkey from south of the Amazon River in Brazil that searches for fruit and insects in trees.

• Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus

  The Yellow-billed Turaco lives in forests of western and central Africa. Its green and blue-violet plumage is striking; it moves along branches and feeds mainly on fruit.

• European Free-tailed Bat Tadarida teniotis

  The European free-tailed bat occurs around the Mediterranean and in parts of southern Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. It catches flying insects over mountains and urban areas and roosts in rock crevices, caves, and bridges in both summer and winter.

• Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax

  The Little Bustard lives in dry grassland and pasture. During the breeding season, a male courts a female with stamping and leaps.

• Gambian Rat Cricetomys gambianus

  A rat with large cheek pouches for carrying food, it rests in burrows or hollow trees by day and searches for food at night.

• White-edged Oriole Icterus graceannae

  This icterid ranges from western Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Adults are yellow-orange with a black bib, back, wings, and tail; white edging on the outer tail feathers is a useful mark.

• Mediterranean horseshoe bat Rhinolophus euryale

  A bat of wooded foothills and mountains. It emerges at twilight to hunt moths and other insects.

• Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum

  The Bar-tailed Trogon lives in humid African mountain forest. By day it searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• Baker's Small-toothed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys bakeri

  Baker's Small-toothed Harvest Mouse was described from the mountains of central Guerrero, Mexico. The original paper records it in pine-oak and cloud forest.

• White-tailed Shrike Lanioturdus torquatus

  This bird occurs in southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. It has black, grey, and white plumage with yellow eyes and searches for insects on the ground and in trees.