Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis

  

  Western Reef Herons occur in pale and dark plumage forms; the dark form is marked by a white throat. They hunt along coasts and estuaries.

• Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas

  

  The golden-headed lion tamarin is a small monkey with a black body and a conspicuous golden mane. It lives in small groups in forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impetuani

  

  The Lark-like Bunting lives in dry areas of southern Africa. Both sexes have pale buff-brown streaked plumage, and the birds may move as conditions change.

• Ryukyu Flying Fox Pteropus dasymallus

  

  This flying fox roosts in forest trees and feeds mainly on fruit. Coat color and roosting patterns vary among subspecies.

• Black Turnstone Arenaria melanocephala

  

  The Black Turnstone is a seasonal migrant along the Pacific coast that searches for food by turning over rocks and seaweed.

• Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat Chalinolobus morio

  

  The Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat is an Australian bat with brown fur and short, rounded ears. It roosts in tree hollows and other structures and catches moths below the canopy.

• 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.

• Kintampo Rope Squirrel Funisciurus substriatus

  This squirrel lives in West African savannas and riverside woods. Its back ranges from greenish yellow to ochre, with white side stripes and a ringed tail.

• Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians

  This small bush warbler breeds in East Asia and moves south seasonally. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society account documents it as a winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Sanford's Brown Lemur Eulemur sanfordi

  Sanford's brown lemur inhabits forests in northern Madagascar. Males have conspicuous cheek fur, and females differ in coat color.

• Mongolian Short-toed Lark Calandrella dukhunensis

  The Mongolian Short-toed Lark is a small lark that breeds in dry sandy steppe in eastern Mongolia. It has brown upperparts and warm rufous-buff on the sides of the breast.

• Grant's gazelle Nanger granti

  A long-legged gazelle with a conspicuous pale rump patch.

• Spot-billed Pelican Pelecanus philippensis

  The Spot-billed Pelican is a waterbird of South and Southeast Asian wetlands. It scoops fish near the surface into its bill pouch, drains the water, and swallows the fish.

• Serval Leptailurus serval

  An African cat with long legs, large ears and black spots and stripes on a tawny coat.

• Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus

  This 18–21 cm bee-eater has a green crown and back, a black eye stripe, and a dark throat patch. It catches flying insects over damp grassland and reedbeds.

• Milton's Titi Plecturocebus miltoni

  This southern Amazonian titi monkey was described in 2014 as Callicebus miltoni; the current genus used here is Plecturocebus. Its most distinctive pattern combines a pale forehead stripe, dark orange-brown sideburns and throat, a dark gray upper body, and an orange tail.

• White-browed Nuthatch Sitta victoriae

  A small nuthatch marked by a white eyebrow and chestnut flanks, known from highlands around Mount Victoria in Myanmar.

• Greater Japanese Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus nippon

  Rhinolophus nippon is a large horseshoe bat recorded in Japan. In a 2003 study, adult females in Yamaguchi Prefecture foraged in open forest areas and along woodland paths.

• Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli

  The Grey Penduline Tit has a black-and-white face and head, with dark gray-brown upper wings and tail. In northeastern Namibia it occurs in broadleaf woodland and sometimes gardens, where it eats insects and probes flowers for nectar.

• Channel Islands Gray Fox Urocyon littoralis

  This small fox lives only on six of the Channel Islands off California. Each island has its own distinct subspecies.

• Blue-fronted Lancebill Doryfera johannae

  This hummingbird occurs in wet forest in the northern Andes. The male has a blue forehead, the female a green one, and it feeds from deep tubular flowers.

• 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.

• Siberian Accentor Prunella montanella

  The Siberian Accentor has yellow eyebrows and a yellow throat; it breeds in Russia and winters in northern China and the northern Korean Peninsula.

• Phou Khao Khouay Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros khaokhouayensis

  This bat has records from forests in Laos and Vietnam. In Laos, surveys captured it in both intact and disturbed evergreen forest.