Meet the world’s animals.

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• Madagascan Kestrel Falco newtoni

  

  This small falcon occurs in many open habitats and towns across Madagascar, while avoiding dense forest.

• Little Chinese Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) meridianus

  

  The Little Chinese Jird lives in deserts and grasslands, and the color of its back varies.

• Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus

  

  The Superb Starling is an East African bird with a blue-green breast, a white band, and a reddish belly. It forages on the ground in small flocks.

• Rondon's Marmoset Mico rondoni

  

  Rondon’s marmoset occurs only in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. It eats fruits and insects in forest and also uses plant exudates as food.

• Slaty Vireo Vireo brevipennis

  

  This vireo occurs in Mexico. It has slate-gray plumage and a long tail, with green edges on the wing and tail feathers. In 1998, a nesting pair was observed in dry subtropical woodland in Oaxaca.

• Fijian Long-tailed Fruit Bat Notopteris macdonaldii

  

  A Pacific fruit bat with a long tail. A Fiji survey found nursing colonies in caves on Viti Levu.

• Moustached Antpitta Grallaria alleni

  This ground-dwelling antpitta is recorded in the Andean foothills of Colombia and Ecuador, where it uses dense undergrowth in wet forest.

• Yucatan Yellow Bat Rhogeessa aenea

  This small bat is recorded mainly in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican biodiversity profile describes sex-related ear features and records from forests, farmland, and built-up places.

• White-cheeked Barbet Psilopogon viridis

  A barbet of the Western Ghats and nearby peninsular India. Kerala observations found a fruit-rich diet that also included flowers.

• Alpine marmot Marmota (Marmota) marmota

  An alpine marmot that eats grasses and roots in summer, then spends the long winter underground with its family.

• Collared Gnatwren Microbates collaris

  The Collared Gnatwren is a small forest bird with a long bill and a black breast band. It moves quickly through low growth in northern Amazonian forest while searching for insects and other arthropods.

• Kirk's dik-dik Madoqua kirkii

  A tiny antelope of East and southwestern Africa, living among shrubs and savannah vegetation.

• Painted Parakeet Pyrrhura picta

  The Painted Parakeet is a South American parrot with a mostly green body, reddish-brown areas on the rump and tail, and blue outer wing feathers. It eats fruits, flowers, and seeds in humid forest.

• Napo Saki Pithecia napensis

  The Napo saki is a saki monkey of northwestern South American forests. Its long, coarse coat mixes gray, cream, and black hairs. A survey in northern Peru recorded it in both flooded forest and terra firme forest.

• Broad-billed Flycatcher Myiagra ruficollis

  It has a bluish-grey head and back with an orange-rufous throat and chest. Birds in northern Australia use wet tropical forest and mangroves.

• Thailand Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus thailandensis

  The Thailand horseshoe bat is confirmed from northern Thailand, with records from other parts of Thailand and southern Cambodia also assigned to it. Recent comparisons leave uncertainty about its boundary with related species and about a record from southern Vietnam.

• Andaman Wood Pigeon Columba palumboides

  This large pigeon lives in forests of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It has a pale grey head and neck, dark back and wings, red bare skin around the eye and a pale yellow bill with a red base. It eats figs and other fruits.

• Jameson's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus randensis

  A hare of rocky outcrops, with a white patch at the neck and a black tail tip. It rests among rocks by day and feeds on nearby grass at night.

• Sumatran Drongo Dicrurus sumatranus

  The Sumatran Drongo lives in humid forests on Sumatra and catches insects by sallying from a perch. This account places the former Mentawai subspecies with Hair-crested Drongo.

• Cuban Fig-eating Bat Phyllops falcatus

  The Cuban fig-eating bat is a medium-sized bat recorded in Cuba and on Hispaniola. It has white shoulder patches, while information about its food comes from only a few observations of fruit and seeds.

• White-throated Jacamar Brachygalba albogularis

  A jacamar with a white throat and facial markings and a long, pale-yellow bill; it catches flying insects along riverside forest.

• Bawean Deer Axis kuhlii

  This deer is endemic to Bawean Island, Indonesia. A 2017 survey used camera traps and fecal records at several mountains in the island reserve and recorded it in mixed secondary and teak forest on Mount Bulu.

• Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei

  This barbet is known from Cordillera Azul in Peru. During the original description study, birds were observed taking fruit in the canopy of high-elevation cloud forest and moving in loose groups.

• Asian Highland Shrew Suncus montanus

  This shrew is endemic to Sri Lanka, where records span montane forest and lower wet-zone hills. It forages among leaf litter, rotting logs, and streamside vegetation, mostly at night.