Meet the world’s animals.

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• Laxmann's shrew Sorex caecutiens

  

  Laxmann's shrew (Sorex caecutiens) occurs from Europe to East Asia.

• Tamaulipas Crow Corvus imparatus

  The Tamaulipas Crow is a small crow of northeastern Mexico. It also occurs in towns, ranches, and open areas with trees.

• Northern California Pocket Gopher Megascapheus laticeps

  Megascapheus laticeps, the Northern California Pocket Gopher, occurs in California and Oregon. Its original description records a broad head and large feet, reddish-yellow-brown fur with dark tips along the back, and a grayish-white tail that is darker above.

• Lesser Greenlet Hylophilus decurtatus

  The Tumbes population in north-western Peru is recorded in humid and semi-deciduous forest, from the canopy to the subcanopy. The local account describes an olive back and grey head.

• Red-flanked Duiker Cephalophus rufilatus

  This small antelope is recorded along forest–savanna mosaics from the Sahel margin into north-eastern Central Africa. It is reddish-brown, with a dark face mark and a thin tufted tail. The gray back band can vary.

• Red-lored Whistler Pachycephala rufogularis

  This whistler lives in Australian mallee shrubland. The New South Wales factsheet describes known populations around Round Hill and Nombinnie in central New South Wales.

• Guianan Weeper Capuchin Cebus olivaceus

  A troop-living capuchin with a pale buff body, dark markings on its head, and a dark tail tip. It can wrap its tail around branches.

• Bahama Woodstar Nesophlox evelynae

  The Bahama Woodstar is a small hummingbird found in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. It feeds mainly on nectar and also contributes to pollination.

• Javan Ferret-badger Melogale orientalis

  The Javan ferret-badger is recorded in the hills and mountains of Java and Bali. It searches for food by digging through leaf litter at night.

• Caucasian Snowcock Tetraogallus caucasicus

  A pheasant-family bird of high rocky slopes in the Caucasus, it may move lower during severe winter weather.

• Boyacá Spiny-rat Proechimys chrysaeolus

  Field records for this spiny rat are scarce. One reported juvenile from Colombia was found as prey at an elevation of 810 m.

• Madagascar Blue Vanga Cyanolanius madagascarinus

  The Madagascar Blue Vanga lives in forests on Madagascar. Males have a blue head and back, a black stripe through the eye, and white throat and underparts. Females are duller. It searches among leaves for insects and sometimes eats berries.

• Common Shaggy Bat Centronycteris maximiliani

  This bat is recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guianas. In Pará, Brazil, a female was captured at a tree cavity used as a day roost.

• South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea

  This tern lives along the coasts of South America. Adults have pale gray bodies, a black cap, and red bills and legs.

• White-bellied spider monkey Ateles belzebuth

  A spider monkey of the northeastern Amazon, with long limbs and a gripping tail.

• White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni

  The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.

• Mexican Cottontail Sylvilagus cunicularius

  The Mexican cottontail is a wild rabbit of Mexico. It is described as the largest rabbit native to the country, and it uses grassland patches from dusk into the night.

• Lettered Aracari Pteroglossus inscriptus

  The Lettered Araçari is a toucanet with letter-like markings on its upper bill. Males have a black head, females a chestnut head, and the species uses the Amazonian forest canopy.

• White-tailed antelope squirrel Ammospermophilus leucurus

  A ground squirrel that moves with its tail held over its back, it lives in deserts and dry shrublands.

• Spectacled Thrush Turdus nudigenis

  The Spectacled Thrush occurs in the Lesser Antilles and parts of South America, including Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. It uses open places with trees and shrubs to search for fruit and small prey.

• Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea

  A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

• Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx fugax

  Hodgson’s Hawk-Cuckoo is an uncommon visitor to Singapore in winter and during migration.

• Atlantic White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus

  This dolphin lives in the cool-temperate North Atlantic. It has a yellowish-tan flank streak and a white patch, and eats small fish, squid, and crustaceans. It tends to move north and inshore in summer and south and offshore in winter.

• Peruvian Thick-knee Burhinus superciliaris

  It lives in open western lowlands and foothills. By day it sits still in pairs or small groups; at night it becomes active and vocal.