Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus blasii

  

  Blasius’s horseshoe bat roosts in caves and similar shelters and has a distinctive nose shape.

• Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger

  A bird of African savannas and dry woodland, it forages on the ground and breeds in large groups.

• Wood Lemming Myopus schisticolor

  The wood lemming lives in the moss layer on the floor of wet coniferous forests. It gathers and hides moss in autumn to eat during winter.

• Northern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes moseleyi

  The Northern Rockhopper Penguin is a species distinct from the Southern Rockhopper Penguin. It breeds on a small number of islands in the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean.

• Corsican Hare Lepus corsicanus

  The Corsican hare is native to central and southern Italy and Sicily. The population on Corsica is considered introduced.

• Cuban Oriole Icterus melanopsis

  It is endemic to Cuba and Isla de Pinos. It lives in forests, plantations, and human-settled places; adult males and females are alike, with black plumage and yellow patches.

• Northern Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Prasadsciurus) pennantii

  A South Asian squirrel that searches for food both in trees and on the ground.

• Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus

  Males have black upperparts with white wing patches, while females have a chestnut back and tail. This forest bird catches insects in flight and also picks them from leaves and branches.

• Long-tailed Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus

  A small bat of New Zealand. At dusk it flies along forest edges and catches insects.

• Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea

  An all-white seabird that breeds along the Antarctic coast and on nearby islands. It feeds on fish, squid, krill, and other prey in cold seas.

• Visayan spotted deer Rusa alfredi

  The Visayan spotted deer is a small deer with pale spots on a dark coat. It is native to a few islands in the central Philippines.

• Silver Oriole Oriolus mellianus

  Silver Oriole has silvery plumage that contrasts with the black head, throat, and wings of the adult male. It breeds in southern China and winters in southern Thailand and western Cambodia.

• Stephens' kangaroo rat Dipodomys stephensi

  Stephens' kangaroo rat is a nocturnal rodent of grasslands and sparse scrub in southern California. It has long hind legs and carries seeds in cheek pouches.

• Southern Tchagra Tchagra tchagra

  This southern African bushshrike lives in scrub and at woodland edges and forages near the ground. Its plumage description here is limited to the nominate subspecies.

• Tres Marias Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin insularis

  This mouse opossum is known only from Mexico's Islas Marías Archipelago. A camera study on María Madre Island recorded it twice, both times during evening or night hours.

• Scaly Laughingthrush Trochalopteron subunicolor

  The Scaly Laughingthrush occurs in eastern Himalayan mountain forest and scrub, and may move to lower elevations in winter. A museum specimen is also recorded from Mount Fansipan in northern Vietnam.

• Prince Bernhard's titi Plecturocebus bernhardi

  Prince Bernhard's titi is a small monkey studied in forest in Rondônia, Brazil. Groups of two to four were observed at one remnant, and sampled animals had continuous orange fur across the chest and limbs.

• Plumbeous Ibis Theristicus caerulescens

  The Plumbeous Ibis is a grey ibis with a long, curved bill. In Argentina it uses wetlands with trees and nests in trees.

• Hairy Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) hirsutus

  The hairy fruit-eating bat is endemic to Mexico. A colony using caves was studied in Jalisco.

• Whitehead's Trogon Harpactes whiteheadi

  Whitehead's Trogon inhabits moist mountain forest on Borneo and has strongly different male and female plumage.

• Giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis

  A large otter of South American rivers and lakes. It lives in family groups and hunts fish mainly during the day.

• Chuuk Monarch Metabolus rugensis

  The Chuuk Monarch is endemic to the Chuuk Islands. Baker’s 1951 account describes a mostly white male with a black face and throat and a mostly sooty-black female. The species uses large patches of primary forest and mangroves.

• Tonkean Macaque Macaca tonkeana

  The Tonkean macaque is native to central Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands in Indonesia. It uses several kinds of tropical forest.

• Gansu Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus kansuensis

  This small leaf-warbler breeds in western China. Its breeding forest and pale facial and crown stripes help describe it.