Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-mantled Barbet Capito hypoleucus

  

  This barbet lives in the north-central Colombian Andes. It uses humid montane and gallery forest and feeds on fruit, seeds, and insects.

• African Wildcat Felis lybica

  A wild cat found across much of Africa and parts of Asia, with coat color and markings that vary by region.

• Spectacled Longbill Oedistoma iliolophus

  This small honeyeater is about 11 cm long. It is grayish olive, with a short tail and yellowish eye ring, in New Guinea forest and forest margins.

• Himalayan Goral Naemorhedus goral

  A member of the bovid family native to the Himalayas. It uses forested and scrub-covered slopes and has gray-to-brown fur with short horns that curve backward.

• Red-fronted Rosefinch Carpodacus puniceus

  The Red-fronted Rosefinch is about 20 cm long and eats plant seeds on rocky, shrub-covered high slopes by day. Call-recording sites in western China, including Qinghai and Sichuan, show only part of its range.

• Javan Rusa Rusa timorensis

  A deer recorded in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

• Boyer's Cuckooshrike Coracina boyeri

  Boyer’s Cuckooshrike lives in forests of New Guinea. It occurs in moist lowland forest and mangroves, and compiled diet data classify it as frugivorous.

• Egyptian mongoose Herpestes ichneumon

  A ground-dwelling mongoose that uses wooded areas near water.

• Chestnut-naped Forktail Enicurus ruficapillus

  This streamside bird is notable for its chestnut head and black-and-white tail. It searches for insects along rivers and streams in humid Southeast Asian forests.

• Clear-winged Woolly Bat Kerivoula pellucida

  The clear-winged woolly bat is a small bat with pale fur and nearly translucent wing membranes. It occurs on islands in Southeast Asia, with records of roosting in dead leaves.

• Golden Parrotbill Suthora verreauxi

  The Golden Parrotbill is a small bird, about 11 cm long, with a distinctive head and neck. It uses bamboo patches in pairs or small groups and eats insect larvae, small beetles and seeds.

• Camas pocket gopher Megascapheus bulbivorus

  This pocket gopher lives underground in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Its coat ranges from dark brown to reddish brown, and some individuals have a white throat patch.

• Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis

  The Pied Butcherbird is an Australian bird with black-and-white plumage and a hooked bill. It swoops from a perch to catch prey on the ground.

• Florida Bonneted Bat Eumops floridanus

  A large bat of southern Florida, it catches insects in flight and roosts in tree cavities and some building spaces.

• Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii

  This small bird breeds in dry, open forests of western North America. Its white eye-ring is conspicuous, and it forages slowly through the lower and middle parts of trees. In winter it may join mixed flocks of woodland birds.

• Woolley's False Antechinus Pseudantechinus woolleyae

  A small carnivorous marsupial from rocky, arid areas of Western Australia. It has chestnut fur behind the ears and a flat tail.

• Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus

  This sparrow ranges from southeastern Mexico to Belize and Honduras. Its upperparts are olive to grass green, and the head is black-striped. A study in Campeche found three nests on the ground near thickets.

• Grivet Chlorocebus aethiops

  The grivet is a monkey of northeastern Africa. A forest study in northern Ethiopia recorded a diet that changed with the season.

• Burmese Bushtit Aegithalos sharpei

  This relatively long-tailed bushtit occurs in Myanmar’s Chin Hills. A 2014 Natmataung survey recorded it in pine and evergreen oak forest.

• Formosan Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus monoceros

  The Formosan horseshoe bat is a small species endemic to Taiwan. Its pale brown coat and three-part noseleaf are distinctive, and it roosts in groups in caves and tunnels.

• Crimson-breasted Shrike Laniarius atrococcineus

  A black shrike with a white wing stripe and vivid red underparts, it lives in dry scrub and savanna of southern Africa, where pairs defend territories.

• Antillean Fruit-eating Bat Brachyphylla cavernarum

  The Antillean Fruit-eating Bat roosts in cave colonies and emerges in the evening to forage in forest, taking a variety of plant foods.

• Horus Swift Apus horus

  The Horus Swift has a patchy sub-Saharan African range and catches insects in flight. Its nesting sites include eastern and southern Africa and northern Senegal.

• Indochinese Forest Rat Rattus andamanensis

  The Indochinese forest rat has brown upperparts, a white underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is nocturnal and omnivorous in forest settings.