Meet the world’s animals.

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• Amur Falcon Falco amurensis

  

  This small falcon breeds in East Asia and migrates to southern Africa. Plumage differs among adult males, females, and juveniles.

• Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros armiger

  

  The great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat is a large bat with gray-brown fur and leaf-like folds on its nose. It rests in caves by day and emerges early in the evening.

• Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus

  

  A starling of African forests and parks. Adults have iridescent blue, green and purple plumage, form small canopy flocks and feed mainly on fruit.

• Thomas' Dwarf Lemur Cheirogaleus thomasi

  

  This lemur is known from littoral forests in southeastern Madagascar. The 2020 IUCN assessment lists forest fragments from the dry forest at Petriky to the wetter forest at Ste Luce.

• Golden Vireo Vireo hypochryseus

  

  This small vireo is endemic to Mexico. Adults are mainly olive and yellow, with a yellow line above the eye.

• Pouched Mouse Saccostomus campestris

  

  The pouched mouse is a burrowing rodent that carries seeds and similar foods in its cheek pouches. It occurs in grassland, sandy country, and cultivated areas.

• Pale-billed Antpitta Grallaria carrikeri

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern Andean slope of northern Peru. It uses the understory of high-elevation cloud forest, especially places with abundant bamboo.

• Southern Pocket Gopher Megascapheus atrovarius

  A pocket gopher from Mexico's Pacific-side mountains. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in Megascapheus; a 2011 redescription reports dry thornscrub along the western Sierra Madre Occidental.

• Golden-throated Barbet Psilopogon franklinii

  The Golden-throated Barbet has a green body, golden throat, and red forehead. It feeds on fruit, including figs, in mountain forests.

• Hourglass Dolphin Lagenorhynchus cruciger

  A small dolphin of the cold offshore Southern Ocean, distributed around Antarctica. Its black-and-white flank pattern resembles an hourglass, though observations remain limited.

• Tawny-faced Gnatwren Microbates cinereiventris

  The Tawny-faced Gnatwren lives in the lower levels of humid forest from Central America to northwestern South America. It forages near the ground and in leaf litter, and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Caracciolo's Stripe-faced Bat Vampyrodes caraccioli

  Caracciolo's stripe-faced bat is a fruit-eating bat marked with white lines on its face and back. In Bolivia, it feeds mainly on figs and roosts high in the canopy.

• Yellow-fronted Parrot Poicephalus flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Parrot is recognizable by its green body and yellow face and crown. Its wild diet is poorly known, though leaves, seeds, and fruit are thought to be part of it.

• Greater Egyptian jerboa Jaculus orientalis

  This North African jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night and spends the day in burrows dug in sand or clay.

• Biak Black Flycatcher Myiagra atra

  This island flycatcher has glossy black males and gray females. Its range includes islands off northwestern New Guinea.

• Black Capuchin Sapajus nigritus

  Its back ranges from brown to black and the underside from yellow to dark reddish brown. In one group studied at an urbanized park in Brazil, foraging was frequent and stone use to crack palm seeds was recorded.

• Henderson Fruit Dove Ptilinopus insularis

  The Henderson Fruit Dove lives in forests on Henderson Island, where it is endemic. Adults have a purplish-crimson crown and eat fruit.

• Sika deer Cervus nippon

  The sika deer is native to East Asia, including Japan, and primarily inhabits forests.

• Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus

  The Spangled Drongo has blue-green spots across glossy black plumage and a long forked tail. It waits on a perch and catches insects in flight.

• Mexican Giant Shrew Megasorex gigas

  The Mexican giant shrew is known only from Mexico. A small number of collection records place it along damp streams and in forests with fallen logs and rocks.

• Bronzy Jacamar Galbula leucogastra

  This jacamar has a long bill and metallic green-blue and bronze plumage. It waits on branches and catches flying insects.

• Southern muriqui Brachyteles arachnoides

  The southern muriqui is a large monkey that lives in remaining Atlantic Forest areas of southeastern Brazil and spends much of its time in trees.

• Red-headed Barbet Eubucco bourcierii

  The Red-headed Barbet is sometimes found in pairs or mixed-species flocks in the forest canopy. Males have bright red heads, green backs, and yellow bellies; females have blue cheeks and orange sides to the neck.

• Common Slender Mongoose Galerella sanguinea

  This slender mongoose occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa and has been recorded from semidesert to woodland at elevations of 0–2,700 m.