Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster

  

  The common water rat is a large rodent adapted to life near water. It has webbed feet and a thick tail with a white tip.

• Northern Black Bustard Afrotis afraoides

  

  The Northern Black Bustard, also called the Northern Black Korhaan, is a ground-dwelling bird of open, dry country in southern Africa, with very different male and female plumage.

• Tufted Gray Langur Semnopithecus priam

  

  The tufted gray langur lives in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is active by day and often uses trees, while also travelling on the ground.

• Fan-tailed Berrypecker Melanocharis versteri

  

  This bird lives in New Guinea’s mountains. Males have white pectoral tufts, females are olive-colored, and the species eats small berries and arthropods.

• Great Stripe-faced Bat Vampyrodes major

  

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. Its back is dark brown, and long hairs fringe the rear edge of its tail membrane.

• Sao Tome Shorttail Amaurocichla bocagii

  

  This small bird occurs only on São Tomé Island. The IUCN assessment describes forested river valleys as its main habitat and notes some records in montane areas.

• Hill's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus hilli

  This horseshoe bat is known from a very small area in Nyungwe National Park, southwestern Rwanda. The species treatment lists two localities.

• Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata

  This tanager has a gray head and yellow-orange underparts. Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest.

• Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura seychellensis

  The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat is a rare bat endemic to the Seychelles. A study on Silhouette Island found it roosting in small caves among boulders in lowland woodland.

• MacGillivray's Prion Pachyptila macgillivrayi

  A seabird breeding around St Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean and on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. It eats small crustaceans at sea and ranges widely outside the breeding season.

• Common Shrew Sorex araneus

  The common shrew occurs from Europe east to Lake Baikal. It has a differently colored back, flanks, and underside, and searches woodland, grassland, and other habitats for invertebrates.

• Tickell's Blue Flycatcher Cyornis tickelliae

  A flycatcher with a blue back and reddish throat. It catches flying insects in undergrowth and also picks up termites and similar prey from the ground.

• Dwarf Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys velutinus

  The velvety fat-tailed opossum has been recorded in Brazil’s Cerrado and has a tail whose thickness changes seasonally.

• White-vented Whistler Pachycephala homeyeri

  This whistler occurs in the southern Philippines and on Malaysia's Siamil Island. The sexes look alike, with rufous-brown upperparts and white underparts.

• 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.

• Mangrove Pitta Pitta megarhyncha

  This pitta walks on mangrove floors and searches for small prey with its long bill. Its crown is a uniform buff-brown.

• San Joaquin Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys nitratoides

  This small kangaroo rat has powerful hind legs and lives in valleys of central California.

• Jerdon's Leafbird Chloropsis jerdoni

  A green leafbird with a dark blue-black throat in males. It may join mixed-species flocks at trees bearing flowers or fruit.

• Perote Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus perotensis

  This ground squirrel lives in the highlands of eastern Mexico. It is active by day and retreats to underground burrows at night.

• 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.

• Allied Rock Wallaby Petrogale assimilis

  The allied rock-wallaby lives on rocky terrain in northern Queensland, Australia. It forages at night and shelters under rocks during the day.

• Red-hooded Tanager Piranga rubriceps

  The Red-hooded Tanager contrasts a red head and breast with a yellow body in the Andes. Females have less red than males, and the birds forage in pairs or small groups.

• Western Quoll Dasyurus geoffroii

  The western quoll is a carnivorous marsupial of forests and woodlands in south-west Western Australia. It has white spots and is active at night.

• Moluccan Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus musschenbroeki

  The Moluccan Drongo-Cuckoo occurs on islands in eastern Indonesia. A juvenile observed on Sulawesi in 2021 had a black body with dense white spots and a very short tail.