Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tehuantepec Jackrabbit Lepus flavigularis

  

  The Tehuantepec jackrabbit is a hare with a restricted range around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico.

• Hodgson's Treecreeper Certhia hodgsoni

  

  Hodgson's Treecreeper is a small bird of mountain regions from Pakistan east to China. It has a brown back and pale underside, and searches tree bark for insects and spiders.

• Gray Sac-winged Bat Balantiopteryx plicata

  

  A white edge on the wing membrane contrasts with this bat's pale-gray to dark-brown back. A diet study in a fragmented dry forest in Mexico found that its prey mix differed from that of two other bat species in the same community.

• Grey-winged Cotinga Lipaugus conditus

  

  This cotinga was recorded in mountain cloud forests in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. A field report described calling males as similar to females but brighter, with a greyer face.

• Long-tailed Tuco-tuco Ctenomys fulvus

  

  This burrowing rodent lives in dry areas of northern Chile and adjoining Argentina. The Chilean assessment records different habitats for named subspecies, including desert and oasis settings.

• Sudan Golden Sparrow Passer luteus

  

  The Sudan Golden Sparrow is notable for the male's yellow head and underparts and chestnut back. Females are sandy brown. The species uses dry savanna and scrub, and forms flocks and nests in groups during the breeding period.

• Western Nesomys Nesomys lambertoni

  Lamberton’s forest rat is a rodent recorded in forest on the limestone formations of western Madagascar.

• Scaled Chachalaca Ortalis squamata

  This arboreal bird lives in forests of southern Brazil. A regional account describes it in family groups or small flocks and notes its fruit diet.

• White-cheeked Spider Monkey Ateles marginatus

  This spider monkey has a white forehead triangle and pale lines on its face against black fur, and uses calls to stay in contact with its group.

• White-bellied Minivet Pericrocotus erythropygius

  This account refers to Pericrocotus erythropygius and excludes the separately treated Jerdon's Minivet. Males show black, white, and orange, while females are mainly grey-brown and white.

• Texas Pocket Gopher Geomys personatus

  This rodent digs burrows in sandy soil in southern Texas and feeds underground on grass roots and other plants.

• Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus

  The Australasian Bittern is a large heron relative that hides among dense reeds and rushes. When alarmed, it points its neck and bill upward and freezes among the plants.

• Red-crested Tree Rat Santamartamys rufodorsalis

  This arboreal rodent is known from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. In the 2017 species account, the known evidence comprised two museum specimens and one photographic record.

• Sennar Penduline Tit Anthoscopus punctifrons

  The Sennar Penduline Tit is a tiny bird with an olive-grey back and a black-speckled forehead. It forages in small parties in acacia canopies across semi-desert parts of the Sahel.

• Little Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) phaea

  It has a brown back, a cream-to-orange underside, and white spots at the tip of its tail. The appearance comes from one specimen report; recent taxonomic sources confirm specimens from the foothills of southwestern Colombia.

• Great Woodswallow Artamus maximus

  The Great Woodswallow is the largest woodswallow, marked by a dark grey head and white rump and belly.

• Lesser Brocket Mazama nanus

  The lesser brocket is a small deer of dense subtropical vegetation in southeastern South America. Its coat is reddish brown, darker along the back; an Argentine account says it eats leaves, shoots, and fruit.

• Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa

  The Northern Jacana lives in wetlands from Mexico to Panama and on some Caribbean islands. Its long legs and toes help it walk over floating plants.

• Feline Genet Genetta felina

  This genet occurs in southern Africa. It has a pale grey coat with a continuous black line down the middle of its back, and uses grassland, open woodland and thickets.

• Chiguanco Thrush Turdus chiguanco

  This thrush has a gray-brown body, yellow bill, and yellow legs. The Peruvian account says it searches for food by hopping on the ground and eats fruit and insects.

• Red-nosed Bearded Saki Chiropotes albinasus

  The red-nosed bearded saki feeds on fruit and nuts in the canopy forests of South America.

• Chilean Skua Stercorarius chilensis

  The Chilean Skua is a seabird of southern South American coasts and offshore waters. It sometimes takes food from other seabirds.

• Large-eared Free-tailed Bat Otomops martiensseni

  This large-eared free-tailed bat occurs in Africa. A 2001 study in South Africa found it using buildings as daytime roosts.

• Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina

  This whydah lives in dry savanna and bushy habitats in eastern Africa. Breeding males grow extremely long central tail feathers and search the ground for grass seeds.