Meet the world’s animals.

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• Collared Mongoose Urva semitorquata

  

  This mongoose is found in forests on Borneo and Sumatra. Much about its ecology, including its habitat preferences, remains poorly known.

• New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides

  

  A crow of Grande Terre in New Caledonia that uses tools to extract food from dead wood.

• Matthey's Mouse Mus (Nannomys) mattheyi

  

  This small mouse has a short tail and a clear contrast between its light-brown back and whitish belly. It lives in moist savanna and grassland in West Africa.

• Gray Whistler Pachycephala simplex

  

  The Gray Whistler is a small bird with a grayish back and pale underparts.

• Cauca Climbing Mouse Rhipidomys caucensis

  

  The Cauca climbing mouse is a small rodent known from the Andes of western Colombia. It has been collected in high-elevation cloud forest.

• Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica

  

  This 9–10 cm bird is active by day and feeds on fruit.

• Lesser Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus sedulus

  The lesser woolly horseshoe bat is recorded from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Few specimens are known, but it has been reported roosting in a culvert at a Malaysian national park.

• Striped Wren-Babbler Kenopia striata

  The Striped Wren-Babbler is a small bird with white streaks on its dark head and chestnut back. It searches for small insects close to the ground in moist lowland forest, especially swampy areas.

• Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina

  The northern pig-tailed macaque is now treated as a species distinct from the southern pig-tailed macaque. A Thai comparison found differences between the northern and southern forms in crown hair, facial markings, coat, and tail.

• Black-lored Cisticola Cisticola nigriloris

  The Black-lored Cisticola is a highland cisticola with a reddish-brown head and brown back. It searches for small invertebrates by day in grassland and scrub near forest.

• Illiger's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus illigeri

  This saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forests of Peru. Its mottled back, black crown, and reddish-orange rump help describe its appearance.

• Pale-legged Warbler Myiothlypis signata

  The Pale-legged Warbler searches for food in the lower growth and edges of mountain forest on the eastern Andes, including bamboo thickets.

• Corsican Hare Lepus corsicanus

  The Corsican hare is native to central and southern Italy and Sicily. The population on Corsica is considered introduced.

• Giant Antpitta Grallaria gigantea

  This bird is about 24 cm long and has a heavy bill. Near Mindo, it was observed repeatedly thrusting its bill sharply into the soil of a muddy forest trail.

• Peters's Sheath-tailed Bat Paremballonura atrata

  This sheath-tailed bat occurs in Madagascar. It has long, shaggy, brownish-black fur and rounded ears, and a Marojejy survey also recorded it in open habitats.

• Javan Trogon Apalharpactes reinwardtii

  The Javan Trogon lives in mountain forests in western Java. Males have a green-blue back and yellow belly, and the bird searches the lower forest for insects and figs.

• Flamarion's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys flamarioni

  Flamarion's Tuco-tuco is a rodent with sandy fur and long, stiff hairs on its digging fingers. It lives alone in burrows in coastal dunes of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.

• Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus velutinus

  This cuckoo has a glossy black, slender body and a flared tail. It lives in lowland and foothill forests of the Philippines and searches for insects in the canopy.

• 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.

• Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis

  The Marsh Sandpiper is a slender wader with a needle-like bill and long yellowish legs. In Peninsular Malaysia it is recorded as a migrant and nonbreeding visitor.

• Humboldt's Woolly Monkey Lagothrix lagothricha

  This large monkey lives in the canopy of humid forests, where it eats mainly fruit and travels in groups.

• Yellow-breasted Bowerbird Chlamydera lauterbachi

  The Yellow-breasted Bowerbird lives in eastern and central New Guinea, where males build an avenue-shaped bower and decorate it with blue fruit and stones to court females.

• Oriental Basin Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fulvescens

  This pocket gopher is recorded in central Mexico. Surveys found it in second-growth vegetation or scrub depending on the site, and reported a preference for flat, sandy ground with few rocks.

• Ornate Tinamou Nothoprocta ornata

  The Ornate Tinamou has spots on the head and neck, an unspotted gray breast, and lower-belly plumage that grades from buff to rufous.