Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Vole Microtus (Microtus) arvalis

  

  The common vole is a small vole with brown-gray fur and a short tail. In grassland and farmland, it searches for plants beneath grass cover or underground.

• Eastern Barn Owl Tyto javanica

  

  This nocturnal owl lives in open country in eastern Australia. Its white heart-shaped face and sandy plumage with black spots help identify it. At night it searches for small animals on the ground.

• Southern Tigrina Leopardus guttulus

  

  The Southern Tigrina is a small cat with thick-edged markings on yellow-brown fur. It ranges from Brazil to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, and hunts small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

• Northern Silvery Kingfisher Ceyx flumenicola

  

  This kingfisher is endemic to Bohol, Leyte and Samar in the central Philippines. It uses forested streams and river edges, where a low perch gives it a view of the water.

• Black-and-orange Myotis Myotis (Chrysopteron) formosus

  

  This medium-sized bat has light yellow-brown fur on its back and pale yellow fur underneath. The 2014 review included the Taiwanese population as a subspecies of this species.

• Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle

  

  A seabird of northern rocky coasts that catches fish and other prey; its plumage changes with the season.

• Ashy Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cineraceus

  A small leaf-nosed bat. In records from southern China its back is buff-brown to grey, with a paler underside.

• Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Hydrobates monorhis

  Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel is a small, dark-brown seabird.

• Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin Sousa plumbea

  A dolphin of the western Indian Ocean coast, with a small dorsal fin set on a large hump and a gray body.

• Tristram's Warbler Curruca deserticola

  A breeding-plumage male of the nominate subspecies is slate blue-grey with a rufous patch on the wing. It uses dry montane scrub; some birds move seasonally.

• Spix's White-fronted Capuchin Cebus unicolor

  This capuchin occurs in the upper Brazilian Amazon. Its specialist handbook account lists lowland and seasonally flooded forest and describes a diet of fruits and invertebrates.

• Spectacled Parrotbill Suthora conspicillata

  A small bird of the mountains of central China, it has white rings around the eyes that look like spectacles. Small groups search among shrubs and forest edges.

• 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.

• Lanceolated Monklet Micromonacha lanceolata

  This puffbird has a large-looking head, a plump body, and a short tail. In Bolivia’s Río Paracti valley, one male was recorded in understory forest near a river.

• Cavendish's Dik-dik Madoqua cavendishi

  The current Mammal Diversity Database account places this dik-dik in eastern Uganda, southwestern Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania. A study at Mpala in central Kenya was conducted in semi-arid Acacia bushland.

• Hook-billed Vanga Vanga curvirostris

  The Hook-billed Vanga is endemic to Madagascar. It has a hooked bill, and breeding pairs share care of the nest and young.

• 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.

• White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda

  A small, compact lark with a dark, scaly-looking back and white outer tail feathers. It is recorded in cropped grassland.

• Madagascan Straw-colored Fruit Bat Eidolon dupreanum

  The Madagascan Straw-colored Fruit Bat is endemic to Madagascar. A diet study in the east found that it ate mainly fruit and also used eucalyptus flowers.

• Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus

  This babbler searches for food in forest undergrowth and near the ground. Its whitish breast has a scaly pattern, but the pattern varies and is not always a clear identification mark.

• Ecuador Red Brocket Mazama rufina

  This small deer lives in the Andes. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a black head and legs.

• Yellow-crowned Barbet Psilopogon henricii

  The Yellow-crowned Barbet is green with a yellow crown and blue throat. It eats fruit in forests across Southeast Asia.

• Pampas Fox Lycalopex gymnocercus

  A medium-sized fox of grasslands and other habitats in southern South America, with regional variation in diet and coat color.

• Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis

  This seabird spends much of its time over the North Pacific and returns to remote island colonies to raise its chick.