Meet the world’s animals.

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• Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii

  

  Livingstone's Turaco is green, with a white-tipped crest and red on the inner wings. It eats fruit and berries.

• Caucasus Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) daghestanicus

  

  This vole lives in high mountain meadows of the Caucasus. Its back is dark and its underside is silvery.

• Common Newtonia Newtonia brunneicauda

  

  The Common Newtonia is endemic to Madagascar. It has grey-brown upperparts and pale underparts, and searches forests for small invertebrates.

• Pantanal Punare Thrichomys pachyurus

  

  This spiny rat lives in central South America. Most animals have the usual coat, but some individuals with predominantly white fur have been reported; it uses densely vegetated places.

• 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.

• Cape York Rat Rattus leucopus

  

  The Cape York Rat is a small rodent from the Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Australia. A study found it active on the ground at night and nesting communally in burrows.

• Indian Stone-curlew Burhinus indicus

  The Indian Stone-curlew is a ground-dwelling bird breeding from India into Southeast Asia and is mostly nocturnal.

• Big Crested Mastiff Bat Promops centralis

  This mastiff bat of the Americas flies fast on long wings. It uses habitats from forests to open country and roosts in tree hollows or buildings.

• Yellow-billed Cotinga Carpodectes antoniae

  The male Yellow-billed Cotinga is white with a pale blue-gray crown and yellow bill; the female has grayish upperparts and dark wings and tail. It eats fruit around Pacific-coast mangroves in Central America.

• Black-headed Marmoset Mico nigriceps

  This small marmoset lives in lowland forest and forest edges in the south-central Amazon. It eats gum, fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis

  This North American swallow catches insects while flying low over water and nests in burrows in banks.

• Island flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus

  The island flying fox is a flying fox occurring on islands from South Asia to the southwest Pacific.

• Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna

  The Eastern Meadowlark lives in grasslands and farmland in eastern North America and searches for food on the ground.

• Felten's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) punicus

  Felten’s myotis occurs in northwestern Africa and several Mediterranean islands. It forages over semi-desert and sparsely vegetated areas and roosts underground.

• Victorin's Warbler Cryptillas victorini

  This small bird lives in the damp fynbos of South Africa's Cape mountains. The sexes look much alike, with a gray face, pale yellow eye, and cinnamon-buff underparts.

• Red-tailed Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) granatensis

  The red-tailed squirrel is an arboreal squirrel with variable coat and tail colors; fruits, nuts and seeds make up much of its diet.

• Tinkling Shieldbill Peltops montanus

  The Tinkling Shieldbill lives in the mountain forests of New Guinea. Its glossy blue-black body has striking white markings and a red rump, and it catches insects from high perches.

• Marco Polo Argali Ovis polii

  Ovis polii is a wild sheep described from the dry Pamir steppe. Males have long, winding horns, and the sheep use rolling hills, broad valleys, and gradual mountain sides.

• Blue Korhaan Eupodotis caerulescens

  This bustard lives mainly in South Africa. The male stands out with a blue-grey neck and underparts and a black-and-white face.

• Sunda leopard cat Prionailurus javanensis

  The Sunda leopard cat is a small wild cat of Southeast Asian islands. Its orange-yellow coat has dark spots, and it hunts mainly small mammals on the ground at night.

• Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens

  In breeding plumage, an adult Levaillant’s Cisticola shows a rufous crown and a scaled-looking back. It searches for insects in wet grass and males sing during summer display flights.

• Red-bellied Titi Plecturocebus moloch

  The red-bellied titi stands out for its orange underside and white tail tip. It lives in southern Amazonia in central Brazil and favors dense understory in wet forests.

• Taiwan Thrush Turdus niveiceps

  This thrush is endemic to Taiwan. It breeds in montane forest at about 1,000–2,500 m and may descend to foothills and lowlands in winter.

• Big-eared Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus macrotis

  The big-eared horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat with relatively large ears. In a summer study in southwestern China, most detected insect food belonged to Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies.