Meet the world’s animals.

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• Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

  

  A small bird that moves through woodland in flocks; males show orange and females yellow.

• 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.

• Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus

  The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture is a vulture of the Americas recorded in wetlands along Guatemala's Pacific coast. It feeds mainly on carrion, but may also take live fish, reptiles, and insects.

• 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.

• Hooded Tinamou Nothocercus nigrocapillus

  Its head and upper neck are dusky, its throat is white, and its brown body has whitish specks on the wings and back. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and usually walks alone on the forest floor.

• 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.

• Long-billed Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus

  This small bird uses humid tropical forest and its edges, especially vine tangles in the mid to upper levels.

• Parma wallaby Notamacropus parma

  A wallaby that rests in thickets by day and feeds on grasses at night.

• Black-throated Jay Cyanolyca pumilo

  A dark-blue jay with a black face and throat edged by a narrow whitish eyebrow. It inhabits humid mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America.

• Desert Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys deserti

  The desert kangaroo rat digs burrows among the dunes of arid southwestern North America and is mainly active at night.

• Buff-browed Chachalaca Ortalis superciliaris

  This chachalaca occurs in lowland northeastern Brazil south of the Amazon. A pale eyebrow and chestnut outer tail feathers help distinguish it.

• Brant's Climbing Mouse Dendromus mesomelas

  Brant's Climbing Mouse moves through and climbs low vegetation. Near Cape Town, it was recorded building a ball-shaped grass nest inside old weaver nests.

• White-cheeked Nuthatch Sitta leucopsis

  This nuthatch has a black crown and nape that contrast with its white face. It is resident in the conifer forests of Gilgit-Baltistan.

• Red-bellied Tamarin Tamarinus labiatus

  This tamarin has white moustache-like facial hairs and a rusty-red chest and belly. It is active by day in the middle canopy of Amazonian forests in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.

• Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa

  The male has chestnut on the head, nape, and upper breast; the female is darker overall, with a paler chest and throat. It hides in dense wetland vegetation and searches for small prey on the ground.

• Smith's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus rupestris

  This hare lives in rocky country. It hides in crevices or beneath rocks by day and feeds on grasses and shrub shoots at night.

• Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus

  A wetland bird that walks on floating plants with long toes; its central tail feathers grow long in breeding plumage.

• Ring-tailed lemur Lemur catta

  A lemur of southern Madagascar and nearby regions, recognizable by its long tail with black-and-white rings.

• Buff-breasted Babbler Pellorneum tickelli

  This small babbler keeps near dense cover and the ground. A study in northern Thailand found nests along creeks, where both sexes incubated eggs and cared for nestlings.

• Maritime Striped Squirrel Tamiops maritimus

  The maritime striped squirrel is a small squirrel with bold black stripes along its back. The traits described here are for the subspecies found in Taiwan.

• Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum

  A pratincole with a tern-like flight that catches insects over open country near water.

• Greater Guinea Pig Cavia magna

  The greater guinea pig is a wild relative of the domestic guinea pig. It has webbed toes and lives in wetlands, with long fur forming a crest on its neck.

• Blue-cheeked Flowerpecker Dicaeum maugei

  The Blue-cheeked Flowerpecker is a tiny, short-tailed bird found in forests and plantations.

• Clymene Dolphin Stenella clymene

  The Clymene dolphin is a small dolphin of tropical and subtropical offshore waters in the Atlantic. It is known for leaping and spinning as it falls back into the water.