Meet the world’s animals.

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• Atlantic Forest Red Brocket Mazama bororo

  

  This deer lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Work around Intervales in São Paulo recorded activity from dusk into the night; two tracked females used well-preserved native vegetation.

• Hooded crane Grus monacha

  

  A gray crane with a white head and neck that also winters in Japan.

• Vieira's Titi Plecturocebus vieirai

  

  Plecturocebus vieirai occurs in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Pará. Its original description reports a pale gray-brown coat and white facial markings, while the ICMBio species sheet describes humid forest and streamside sites with buriti palms.

• Willis's Antbird Cercomacroides laeta

  

  This antbird is patchily distributed in Brazil and reaches extreme southern Guyana in the north. Its three subspecies occupy different areas.

• Hairy-nosed Otter Lutra sumatrana

  

  The hairy-nosed otter has short fur across the nose pad. Records come from wetlands and shallow coastal waters in Southeast Asia, and fish are a common food.

• Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus

  

  This 18–21 cm bee-eater has a green crown and back, a black eye stripe, and a dark throat patch. It catches flying insects over damp grassland and reedbeds.

• Charming gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) amoenus

  The charming gerbil is a small rodent found in North Africa. Records cover hard dry ground, salt marshes, and cultivated land, among other settings.

• Lemon-throated Barbet Eubucco richardsoni

  This barbet occurs in Amazonian floodplain and várzea forest. It is about 15 cm long, and the colors of its crown and breast vary among subspecies and between sexes.

• Campbell's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus campbelli

  This arboreal monkey lives in coastal West Africa. It forms groups, eats fruits and leaves, and uses calls to signal danger and other cues.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.

• Chestnut Short-tailed Bat Carollia castanea

  The chestnut short-tailed bat is a nocturnal fruit-eating bat. In a study, it relied on the scent of ripe Piper fruit when foraging and used more echolocation when that scent was absent.

• New Zealand Storm Petrel Fregetta maoriana

  This seabird is recorded in northern New Zealand waters, with the outer Hauraki Gulf identified as a core area of activity during the New Zealand summer.

• 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.

• Blue-winged Parrot Neophema chrysostoma

  It has an olive head and back with a large dark-blue wing patch. It uses grasslands and grassy woodland, foraging on the ground for grass seeds.

• Long-clawed Shrew Sorex unguiculatus

  The long-clawed shrew digs tunnels with large forefeet and long claws. A study in Hokkaido recorded it eating earthworms.

• Rufous-breasted Accentor Prunella strophiata

  Its bright orange breast and eyebrow contrast with a white throat and streaked brown back. It breeds in high-altitude forest and descends to lower scrub in winter.

• Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin gaumeri

  The Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum is a small opossum of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its original description gives a muted grayish-brown back and pale cream belly and cheeks. Specimens have also been collected in sub-evergreen forest in Quintana Roo.

• Thick-billed Grasswren Amytornis modestus

  This profile focuses on the Grey Range subspecies, A. m. obscurior, in New South Wales. The state government page describes it in bluebush shrubland in arid and semi-arid country.

• Buffy-headed Marmoset Callithrix flaviceps

  The Buffy-headed Marmoset is a small monkey with white tufts flaring from the sides of its head. It lives in southeastern Brazil and feeds on tree gum and other foods.

• Creamy-crested Spinetail Cranioleuca albicapilla

  The Creamy-crested Spinetail occurs in the inter-Andean valleys of central and southern Peru, where it is recorded in scrub and riparian forest.

• Desmarest's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys desmarestianus

  Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse has fur-lined pouches beside its mouth. In Costa Rica's wet forests it forages on the ground at night; the Costa Rican diet records focus on palm nuts and other seeds.

• Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala

  The Noisy Miner is a grey bird with yellow bare skin around the eye and feeds on nectar and insects.

• European Ground Squirrel Spermophilus citellus

  The European ground squirrel is a small ground squirrel that lives where grass is short. It comes out of underground burrows during the day.

• Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus

  This small honeybird has a patchy range south of the Sahara. It searches leaves and branches for insects and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.