Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi

  

  This large heron has a black cap, white neck, and grey back. It searches for fish and other prey in South American wetlands.

• Common Noctule Nyctalus noctula

  

  A large bat with reddish-brown fur and rounded ears. In Britain, it roosts in tree holes and emerges early in the evening to catch insects.

• Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii

  

  The Green-breasted Mango is a relatively large hummingbird of tropical American lowlands, found around forest edges and clearings.

• Carmen Mountain Shrew Sorex milleri

  

  The Carmen Mountain shrew is a small shrew of northern Mexico's highlands. Its back is light brown, its tail is bicolored, and it has been found near logs and leaf litter in moist forest.

• Arabian Golden Sparrow Passer euchlorus

  

  Male Arabian Golden Sparrows are golden, while females are sandy brown. They search for seeds in small flocks and may gather in large groups outside the breeding season.

• Lichtenstein's Hartebeest Alcelaphus lichtensteinii

  

  Its horn bases are short and broad, and its horns curve inward before turning backward. A 1976–1977 study in south-eastern Zimbabwe found that it preferred tall grass habitat.

• Brown Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens

  The Brown Woodland Warbler has a brown-olive back, pale underside, and searches for insects in trees.

• Sowell's Short-tailed Bat Carollia sowelli

  This Central American fruit-eating bat has soft gray-brown fur and a small white stripe on its head. It eats fruits including those of Piper plants.

• Gillett's Lark Calendulauda gilletti

  This lark occurs in eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. It has brown streaking and a rufous crown and searches for prey on the ground in semi-arid savanna. The source's treatment includes the former Degodi Lark.

• Large-eared Free-tailed Bat Otomops martiensseni

  This large-eared free-tailed bat occurs in Africa. A 2001 study in South Africa found it using buildings as daytime roosts.

• Elegant Parrot Neophema elegans

  An olive-green parrot with a yellow face and blue forehead band. It searches on the ground for seeds and nests in tree hollows.

• Arcuate Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus arcuatus

  The Arcuate Horseshoe Bat has slightly reddish-brown to dark-brown upperparts and buff to gray-brown underparts. In the Philippines it occurs in varied forests, from lowland to montane habitats.

• Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor

  It ranges from Middle America through the northern two-thirds of South America east of the Andes. In Costa Rica it is a resident of lowlands, where it eats fruit and insects and nests in tree cavities.

• Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys microps

  A narrow face and small ears frame the gray-brown back and white underside of this kangaroo rat. It is semi-fossorial and nocturnal, with a range across dry country in the western United States.

• Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli

  This shrike occurs in dry scrub and savanna in East Africa. It moves in small groups and watches for prey from exposed perches.

• Agile Antechinus Antechinus agilis

  The agile antechinus is a small marsupial of southeastern mainland Australia. It forages around leaf litter and fallen logs, eating insects and small vertebrates.

• Silver-throated Tanager Tangara icterocephala

  This yellow tanager has a silvery-white throat. In Costa Rica, it uses humid mountain forest and forest edges.

• Malbrouck Chlorocebus cynosuros

  This savanna monkey occurs in central and southern Africa. Its species profile highlights open woodland with grasses and also lists riverine and marsh forests and human-modified areas.

• African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis

  This stork occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It has a fluffy white neck and black body. The bill is black with red on the tip and upper ridge. It walks through wetlands and pastures to find visible prey such as frogs and fish.

• Long-tailed Ground Squirrel Urocitellus undulatus

  The long-tailed ground squirrel is a medium-sized, ground-dwelling squirrel of Central Asia. A Mongolian study found several genetically distinct regional groups.

• Pacific Swallow Hirundo javanica

  The Pacific Swallow has dark, blue-glossed upperparts and a shallow forked tail. It catches insects in flight and ranges from Southeast Asia to New Guinea and the Society Islands.

• Derby's Woolly Opossum Caluromys derbianus

  This tree-dwelling marsupial has a long, bushy tail, a reddish-brown back, a pale underside, and a dark stripe on its face.

• Javan Frogmouth Batrachostomus javensis

  The Javan Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird endemic to Java, Indonesia. It has brown mottled plumage and rests on branches by day.

• Black-tailed Thallomys Thallomys nigricauda

  The Black-tailed Thallomys is an arboreal rodent with a black tail, living in dry Acacia savanna.