Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ecuador Red Brocket Mazama rufina

  

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

• Black-faced Quail-Finch Ortygospiza atricollis

  This small bird searches grasslands for seeds, and males have a noticeable black facial mask

• Fraternal Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) fraterculus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs in western Ecuador and north-central and western Peru. It is especially abundant in dry forests and arid areas, and it also helps disperse seeds.

• Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata

  The Speckled Chachalaca has reddish-brown plumage with pale spots on the front of its neck and chest. It eats fruit and uses both trees and the ground.

• 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.

• Austral Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nana

  This small owl is described in a regional account for northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. It is brown to reddish, with a pale underside marked by heavy brown streaks.

• Herb Field Mouse Apodemus uralensis

  The herb field mouse is a small mouse recorded from central and eastern Europe east through Russia to western China. Its back is dark brown and its underside is whitish gray.

• Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki

  The Yellow-legged Buttonquail is a ground-dwelling bird of open grasslands from India to East Asia. It eats both plant matter and small animals.

• Ornate Titi Plecturocebus ornatus

  The ornate titi is a small monkey of forests in eastern Colombia. Its reddish-orange chest and belly, white forehead stripe, and bushy tail stand out.

• Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis

  A large North American crane with a long neck and legs. It feeds in wetlands and grasslands and gathers in large flocks during migration and winter.

• Gray Dorcopsis Dorcopsis luctuosa

  The Gray Dorcopsis is a lowland marsupial of southern and southeastern New Guinea. Its smoky-gray back has a yellow patch around the cloacal opening.

• Pygmy Longbill Oedistoma pygmaeum

  The Pygmy Longbill is a very small bird of New Guinea’s forests. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant matter.

• Lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros

  A small bat with a horseshoe-shaped fold of skin around its nose. In Ireland, records are concentrated in six western counties.

• Fuscous Flycatcher Cnemotriccus fuscatus

  This flycatcher occurs across South America. The Peru account describes it foraging in the understory of river-created habitats, with different subspecies associated with different environments.

• Dark Four-eyed Opossum Philander melanurus

  This opossum occurs in western Ecuador and nearby parts of northwestern South America. An older, broader classification described coastal populations as dark-coated, and a camera-trap study in one part of Ecuador suggested an association with permanent water.

• Moustached Tinkerbird Pogoniulus leucomystax

  This small African barbet has a white moustache-like marking. It is usually seen alone or in pairs in montane forest.

• Jungle cat Felis chaus

  A wild cat with tall, tufted ears that also lives in grasslands and wetlands.

• Rüppell's Korhaan Heterotetrax rueppelii

  Rüppell's Korhaan is a bustard of stony semi-desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Males have a gray-blue head with black bands, while females are less strongly marked and duller overall.

• Bicolored Shrew Crocidura leucodon

  The bicolored shrew has a dark back and a pale underside. It hunts small animals in dry grasslands, woods and roadside brush.

• Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa

  A large wader that walks wetlands on long legs, moving between breeding and wintering areas.

• Goitered Gazelle Gazella subgutturosa

  The goitered gazelle lives in dry grasslands and deserts across a broad area from Central Asia to the Middle East. Its social grouping changes with the season.

• Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus

  The Spotted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird that searches for seeds in dry, open country.

• Fisher Pekania pennanti

  A mustelid carnivore of North American forests, with a tail about one third of its total length.

• Menetries's Warbler Curruca mystacea

  Menetries's Warbler is a small migrant that breeds in scrub in Southwest Asia. In breeding plumage, the male has a dark head while the female is brownish gray.