Meet the world’s animals.

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• Zenati Myotis Myotis (Myotis) zenatius

  

  This bat has a small number of records from Morocco and Algeria. Adults have dark gray-brown fur on the back and whitish flanks. Most identified individuals were found at caves, including records of year-round cave use, but the species' ecology remains poorly known.

• Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor

  This slender warbler is marked in black and yellow. Despite its name, it favors scrubby second-growth forest and young pine stands rather than open prairie.

• Wapiti Cervus canadensis

  The wapiti is a large deer found in herds in North America’s Yellowstone region.

• Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius

  The Bush Stone-curlew lives in forests and open woodlands on mainland Australia. It walks on long legs and is active at night while searching for food.

• Desert Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus penicillatus

  The desert pocket mouse lives in arid areas of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is nocturnal and carries seeds in its cheek pouches for storage.

• Pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta

  A shallow-water bird that forages with a slender upcurved bill.

• Karimi's Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys karimii

  Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum has a thick tail whose size changes with seasonal food availability. Juveniles were captured in both wet and dry seasons, suggesting it might breed year-round.

• Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus

  An African starling with glossy green and blue plumage and a bronze-glossed purple tail. It eats insects and fruit.

• Black Bearded Saki Chiropotes satanas

  The black bearded saki lives in forests of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Its dark coat and beard are distinctive, and it often eats fruit and seeds.

• Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

  This finch has black and dark red plumage, and individuals differ in bill size. Adults eat seeds, while parents feed nestlings a soft diet made mostly of insects.

• Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus bidens

  The Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat is a small leaf-nosed bat recorded in South American forests. In Bolivia it has been observed in primary and secondary forest, with roosts under palm or banana leaves.

• 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.

• Four-toed hedgehog Atelerix albiventris

  A small, spiny-backed mammal of African grassland and woodland.

• Rainbow Pitta Pitta iris

  This resident pitta lives in the seasonal forests of northern Australia and searches the leaf litter for food that changes with the season. The sexes look very similar.

• Common Punaré Thrichomys apereoides

  This spiny rat is known from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Studies report insects and seeds in its diet and suggest it may help disperse some small seeds.

• Pin-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis gularis

  A small, vocal babbler of lowland forests in Southeast Asia, it forages in small groups from near the ground to the canopy.

• Small Five-toed Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) elater

  This jerboa lives in dry areas of Turkey and western Asia. It has a sandy back, white underside, and black tail tip, and moves by hopping on long hind legs at night.

• Ruwenzori Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris stuhlmanni

  The current name is Cinnyris stuhlmanni, but a 1949 Ruwenzori account uses the older name Nectarinia afer stuhlmanni and describes males there. Current data place it in Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.

• Mountain Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus cunninghami

  This possum lives in cool, wet mountain forests. Its short rounded ears and bushy black tail, bare underneath, stand out.

• Burmese Nuthatch Sitta neglecta

  An early bird reference described the Burmese Nuthatch as Sitta castaneiventris neglecta. It noted that birds from the Karen Hills had a paler throat and breast than belly and flanks.

• Ruidoso Pocket Gopher Megascapheus ruidosae

  This pocket gopher was described from Ruidoso, New Mexico. The original description records dark brown to nearly black fur above, ochre-brown sides and underside, and white feet and tail tip.

• Crested Gallito Rhinocrypta lanceolata

  The Crested Gallito has a reddish crest and flanks with a black tail, and it runs frequently on the ground.

• Red wolf Canis rufus

  Once widespread in the eastern United States, the red wolf now has a wild population in a limited area of northeastern North Carolina.

• Helmeted Manakin Chiroxiphia galeata

  The Helmeted Manakin is a small manakin with different male and female plumage. A study in southeastern Brazil documented nests low in the forest undergrowth.