Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gray-collared Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) cinereicollis

  

  This chipmunk occurs in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States. It mainly uses conifer forests and mature woodlands and gathers and stores seeds.

• Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas

  The Common Scimitarbill has a slender, curved bill and uses dry open woodland in eastern and southern Africa. It moves through the canopy alone or in pairs.

• Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus cornutus

  The subspecies recorded around Yasaka Dam roosts in mountain caves and catches flying insects at night near the river.

• Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis

  The contrast between its grey head and yellow belly is striking. It catches insects in woodland and appears in Hong Kong during autumn and winter migration.

• Cape Scrub Hare Lepus saxatilis

  The Cape Scrub Hare has mottled grey and black fur above and white fur below. It forages at night in scrub and eats grasses and other plant parts.

• Wilson's Storm Petrel Oceanites oceanicus

  Wilson's Storm Petrel is a small seabird with long legs and a white rump patch. It breeds around Antarctica and travels widely over the oceans.

• Yucatan Small-eared Shrew Cryptotis mayensis

  The Yucatan small-eared shrew has short gray fur and tiny eyes. It occurs in lowland areas around the Yucatan Peninsula and searches for small prey at night.

• Rufous-winged Philentoma Philentoma pyrhoptera

  This bird inhabits evergreen and peat-swamp forests in Southeast Asian lowlands and hills. The cited page describes male plumage. Its diet is poorly known, and suggested insect prey is explicitly an inference.

• Oriental House Rat Rattus tanezumi

  The Oriental House Rat is widely recorded in rural and residential parts of Taiwan. Its back is gray-brown, its underside gray-white, and it eats grain grown or stored by people.

• Taiwan Fulvetta Fulvetta formosana

  This fulvetta is endemic to Taiwan's mountains. It moves in small flocks through understory and bamboo, feeding mainly on insects.

• Hinde's Pouched Rat Beamys hindei

  Hinde's pouched rat is a relatively large, burrowing rodent that eats a range of plant matter, including seeds and roots. It has been studied in a montane forest reserve in southern Tanzania.

• Dusky Myzomela Myzomela obscura

  This small bird is dark brown above and paler below, with a darker patch around the eye. At James Cook University's Cairns campus, it is shown feeding on umbrella-tree flowers and fruit.

• 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.

• Black Skimmer Rynchops niger

  The Black Skimmer is a waterbird of American coasts, estuaries, and lagoons. It catches small fish by flying just above the water with its longer lower bill cutting the surface.

• Guiana dolphin Sotalia guianensis

  This small dolphin lives in shallow seas and estuaries. It has a triangular dorsal fin and gray coloring and feeds on fish, squid, and crustaceans.

• Yunnan Fulvetta Alcippe fratercula

  This small bird lives from southern China into northern Indochina, in evergreen broadleaf forest, secondary forest, bamboo and scrub. It has a grey head, a blackish crown stripe and a white eye-ring.

• Botta's Pocket Gopher Megascapheus bottae

  This rodent digs underground tunnels with its large front claws and incisors. It carries food in cheek pouches outside its mouth.

• Blackish Oystercatcher Haematopus ater

  The Blackish Oystercatcher occurs along the Pacific coast of South America. It searches rocky shores and beaches for shellfish and other prey and breeds near the coast.

• Golden-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis

  This is a small, golden-brown lemur. At study sites in northwestern Madagascar, it searched for food alone in trees at night and was recorded resting in tree holes and similar places.

• Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea

  This small gnatcatcher includes several regional forms. In Peru it has grey upperparts, whitish to greyish underparts, and a black-and-white tail that it often cocks.

• Side-striped Jackal Lupulella adustus

  A slender jackal of western, central and southern Africa that also eats fruit and insects.

• Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata

  This small bird ranges widely across Africa. Breeding males vary in plumage and bill color among regional forms, and they mimic the songs of their firefinch hosts.

• Jalapan Pine Vole Microtus (Pitymys) quasiater

  The Jalapan pine vole is endemic to a limited part of Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental. It has been recorded in mountain cloud forest as well as some fields and pastures.

• Madagascan Grebe Tachybaptus pelzelnii

  The Madagascar Grebe is a small diving bird endemic to Madagascar. In breeding plumage it has a black head and reddish-brown sides to the upper neck.