Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lyle's Flying Fox Pteropus lylei

  

  Lyle's flying fox is a Southeast Asian bat that roosts in large groups high in trees by day and flies out at night to find fruit and other foods.

• Green Pygmy Goose Nettapus pulchellus

  The Green Pygmy Goose is a small waterbird with green on its head and back and a short bill. It lives in vegetated freshwater wetlands, often in pairs or small groups.

• Antelope Rat Tatera indica

  This large gerbil has reddish fur and a black tail tip. It burrows in dry plains and eats plants and insects.

• Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata

  A small bird that searches for insects in the understory of eastern South American forest. A 2015 study used the older treatment that grouped three traditionally recognized subspecies within one species.

• Bornean Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys dorsalis

  A small gymnure from Borneo, recorded in hill and montane forests from about 1,000 m elevation.

• Japanese bush warbler Horornis diphone

  A small bird of satoyama woods, low hills and thickets, known for its spring song.

• Monk Saki Pithecia monachus

  Male and female monk sakis have different coat colors. In a study of seasonally flooded forest in northern Peru, seeds were their most frequent food, and they also ate arthropods.

• Patagonian Mockingbird Mimus patagonicus

  About 23 cm long, this bird has grey-brown upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and an ochre belly. It uses shrub steppe and searches the ground for insects and worms.

• Black Wallaroo Osphranter bernardus

  The black wallaroo is a kangaroo relative of Kakadu’s rocky Stone Country.

• Grey-throated Martin Riparia chinensis

  This small swallow ranges from Central to Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, records are from above open country.

• Intermediate Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus affinis

  This horseshoe bat is recorded in southern China, including Xishuangbanna in Yunnan. The University of Bristol account describes caves as usual roosts and reports some individuals using tree hollows in tropical forest there.

• Andaman Drongo Dicrurus andamanensis

  The Andaman Drongo is a forest bird of the Andaman Islands. Its glossy black body has a deeply notched tail with curled outer feathers. It moves in groups and catches insects in flight.

• Black-shouldered Opossum Caluromysiops irrupta

  The black-shouldered opossum is a South American marsupial with dark markings from its shoulders down the forelegs and back, and fur over most of its tail. It is active high in the canopy at night.

• Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus

  This small cormorant has a long tail and short crest, and breeds mainly around African fresh waters.

• Pallas's cat Otocolobus manul

  A Central Asian cat with long, dense fur. Its rounded head and low-set ears give the face a flattened appearance.

• Brown Bush-Warbler Locustella luteoventris

  The Brown Bush Warbler is a rare winter visitor in Hong Kong, where it hides in tall grass and reedbeds.

• Cinereus Shrew Sorex cinereus

  The cinereus shrew is widespread in northern North America and is often found in moist places such as forests and river or lake edges. It is active at night and feeds mainly on invertebrates.

• Rusty-winged Barbtail Premnornis guttuliger

  An Andean forest bird that searches among foliage in the lower and middle forest layers.

• Wyoming Pocket Gopher Thomomys clusius

  This small pocket gopher occurs in southern Wyoming. It has pale yellow-gray fur and is recorded on fine-soil flats, including areas with Gardner saltbush.

• Pied Cuckooshrike Coracina bicolor

  A cuckooshrike of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Males are sharply black and white, while females are dark gray and white; it uses lowland and hill forest.

• Mountain Gazelle Gazella gazella

  A gazelle of the Middle East’s hills and plains. The Jerusalem Zoo account describes it as active by day and feeding on grass and leaves.

• Masked Booby Sula dactylatra

  A large seabird with a white body, black wings and tail, and dark skin at the base of the bill; it catches fish and squid over tropical seas.

• Black Squirrel Monkey Saimiri vanzolinii

  The black squirrel monkey has a dark crown and colorful limbs. In flooded forests of northern Brazil, it moves through trees by day to find fruit and insects.

• Sooty Munia Lonchura melaena

  This is a small mannikin described here from its New Britain population. It has a black head and breast and eats grass seeds and sugarcane seed heads.