Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum

  

  An antelope of water-rich grasslands in central and southern Africa; only males have horns.

• Many-banded Aracari Pteroglossus pluricinctus

  

  This toucan has a long bill and a banded chest. In northwestern South America it feeds mainly on fruit and nuts, sometimes taking insects, and roosts communally in tree cavities.

• Mexican Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma scopaeum

  

  This Mexican bat has records along the Pacific side of the country and as far east as Veracruz. It uses dry forest and riparian forest.

• Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica

  

  The species breeds on subantarctic islands, and some birds move toward equatorial waters in winter.

• Ridley's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros ridleyi

  

  Ridley's leaf-nosed bat has a broad noseleaf and large ears. Reports from Peninsular Malaysia describe small groups roosting in tree hollows and drainage structures.

• Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami

  

  A large ground-dwelling bird with black-and-white wing markings. In South Africa and Eswatini, males inflate the neck and display white plumes.

• Short-tailed Mongoose Urva brachyura

  The short-tailed mongoose occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. It searches the forest floor for prey by day and is generally solitary.

• Little Pratincole Glareola lactea

  The little pratincole is a small bird that catches insects while flying over water and farmland. It is also recorded along Thai rivers and lakeshores.

• Eastern Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) dimidiatus

  Its back is covered with spine-like hairs, and it has a white underside and a white spot below each eye. Its range extends from Sinai across the Arabian Peninsula to southern Pakistan.

• Bornean Leafbird Chloropsis kinabaluensis

  This leafbird inhabits mountain forests of Borneo. A 2003 taxonomic review treated Chloropsis kinabaluensis as a distinct species after it had long been included as a subspecies of C. cochinchinensis.

• Big-eared Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) macrotis

  The Big-eared Woodrat is a nocturnal rodent of woodland and scrub from California into northern Mexico. It builds stick nests and feeds on plant material.

• Puerto Rican Owl Gymnasio nudipes

  The Puerto Rican Owl is endemic to Puerto Rico. It occurs from forest to urban settings and feeds on insects and other small prey.

• Great Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus luctus

  Its long, woolly fur is dark gray-brown to black with pale tips. The Sunda Island populations treated as R. luctus in the 2019 account are recorded in tropical forest.

• Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera danae

  The Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher lives in moist forest in southeastern New Guinea. Adult males have a brown head and back, pink underparts, and long tail feathers.

• Black-cheeked White-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus ascanius

  This monkey is marked by a white nose spot and pale cheek fur on a black face; chestnut fur beneath its tail is another distinctive feature.

• Blue-throated Bee-eater Merops viridis

  This green bird is marked by a blue throat and long tail streamers. It watches from a perch and catches flying insects in the air.

• Geoffroy's Marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's marmoset is a small monkey with dark ear tufts and a white face. It lives in Brazil's lowland rainforests, where group members help care for young.

• Bay-crowned Brush Finch Atlapetes seebohmi

  The Bay-crowned Brush Finch occurs along the western Andes of southern Ecuador and north-western Peru. Its grey plumage is marked by a rufous crown and pale throat; it forages in montane scrub, dwarf forest, and forest edges.

• Tres Marias Cottontail Sylvilagus graysoni

  The Tres Marias cottontail is restricted to the Tres Marias Islands off Mexico. It has a brown throat patch and is usually active on the ground at night.

• Least Storm Petrel Hydrobates microsoma

  About sparrow-sized, this seabird is entirely black with a short wedge-shaped tail. It flutters low over the sea to pick food from the surface and nests in colonies on rocky islands off western Mexico.

• Mauritian Tomb Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) mauritianus

  Its underside is white and its back is mixed gray. It occurs in central and southern Africa and nearby islands, and flies out after dark.

• Aberrant Bush Warbler Horornis flavolivaceus

  This small warbler lives in the highlands of the Sunda Islands. On Borneo it hides in scrub, sings often, and feeds on insects.

• Silky Tuco-tuco Ctenomys sericeus

  This is a subterranean tuco-tuco from Patagonia, with a short, glossy coat mixing olive and brown tones with black. Much of its field natural history remains unknown.

• Great white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus

  An aquatic bird with a long bill and a stretchy pouch beneath it.