Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lodgepole Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) speciosus

  

  The lodgepole chipmunk inhabits conifer forests in California, including the Sierra Nevada. It is active by day and gathers food on the ground.

• White-ankled Deermouse Peromyscus pectoralis

  

  The White-ankled Deermouse occurs in the Mexican highlands and mountains. It is active at night and eats seeds, fruits, and other foods.

• Baluchistan Gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) nanus

  

  Its upper body is sandy or grayish, its underside is white, and its tail ends in a dark tuft. In Qatar it is recorded widely on gravelly and rocky plains rather than dune sands.

• Van Gelder's Bat Bauerus dubiaquercus

  

  This bat is notable for its large ears and spiral-shaped nostrils. In Mexico, records come from several forest types.

• Black Crested Mangabey Lophocebus aterrimus

  

  The black-crested mangabey has a black coat, grey cheek whiskers, and a narrow crown tuft. It searches for fruit and seeds in the middle and upper forest canopy and seldom descends to the ground.

• Nilgai Boselaphus tragocamelus

  

  A large antelope of the Indian subcontinent that is active by day in grassland and woodland.

• Layard's Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) layardi

  This squirrel occurs in forests of southern and central Sri Lanka. Three stripes along its back and a deep-red underside are distinctive.

• European hamster Cricetus cricetus

  A wild hamster that carries plants and grains in its cheek pouches and stores them underground.

• Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys major

  The greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent recorded in northern Borneo rainforest. It is active mainly in the canopy at night and uses tree hollows and connections between trees.

• Strelkov's Long-eared Bat Plecotus strelkovi

  Plecotus strelkovi is a long-eared bat of the dry mountain ranges of Central Asia. The revision describes a gray coat without a warm brown cast and yellowish-white underparts.

• Takin Budorcas taxicolor

  The Mishmi form is a plant-eating hoofed mammal of the eastern Himalayas and nearby mountains.

• Tropical Ground Squirrel Notocitellus adocetus

  The tropical ground squirrel has a grizzled black-and-tan back and a long, slender tail. The genus has an unusually semi-arboreal body plan for ground squirrels; a western Mexican study found this species eating seeds and fruit pulp.

• Heather Vole Phenacomys intermedius

  The Heather Vole has long, soft fur. It stays active all year, using burrows in summer and surface nests beneath the snow in winter.

• Himalayan Field Mouse Apodemus pallipes

  The Himalayan field mouse is a small rodent recorded around the Himalaya and Pamir ranges. Its back is described as brown or gray, with a paler underside and large ears and eyes.

• Fringed Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) thysanodes

  The fringed myotis is a bat of western North America. Short hairs fringe the edge of its tail membrane, and females form nursery roosts in the southern United States.

• Western Hartebeest Alcelaphus major

  A large West African hartebeest described with short, slightly glossy fawn-brown fur, dark markings on the legs, and black horns that form a U when viewed from the front.

• Taurus Ground Squirrel Spermophilus taurensis

  The Taurus ground squirrel is restricted to the Taurus Mountains of Turkey. It inhabits montane areas above 1,000 m and is active by day.

• Mexican Deer Mouse Peromyscus mexicanus

  The Mexican deer mouse lives in forests of Central America. Its tail has very little hair, and coat color varies by region and season.

• Barbary Lemniscomys Lemniscomys barbarus

  This small mouse has alternating light and dark stripes along its back. In the wild it is active by day and follows runways from grassy nests or burrows to feeding areas.

• Tricolored Bat Perimyotis subflavus

  Each hair of the tricolored bat has three color bands. It roosts among deciduous leaves during its active seasons and hibernates in winter.

• West African savanna buffalo Syncerus brachyceros

  This is the West African savanna form of the African buffalo. In W Regional Park, seven breeding herds were tracked; late in the dry season they used areas near permanent rivers, and six shifted southwest as the rains began.

• Arctic Ground Squirrel Urocitellus parryii

  The Arctic ground squirrel lives in colonies in tundra and other northern habitats across Alaska, northern Canada and eastern Siberia, and overwinters underground.

• Merriam's Deermouse Peromyscus merriami

  Merriam's deermouse is a small mouse ranging from southern Arizona into northwestern Mexico. It is recorded in dry scrub, thorn forest, and grassland.

• Blanford's Madromys Madromys blanfordi

  Surveys in Gujarat, western India, recorded Blanford's Madromys at multiple sites in 2015–2016. White hairs at the tail tip help distinguish its appearance.