Meet the world’s animals.

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• Antelope Rabbit Lepus callotis

  

  This jackrabbit lives in high plateau grasslands of southwestern New Mexico and northern and central Mexico. It mainly eats grasses, and its white flanks are a useful field mark.

• Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans

  

  The Yellow-throated Bunting is an East Asian bunting. The male has a striking black-and-yellow head, and a tracking study recorded males migrating to China.

• Fischer's Pygmy Fruit Bat Haplonycteris fischeri

  

  This small, tailless bat has a darker head and cinnamon-brown fur. It lives in Philippine forests and eats fruit, including figs.

• Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni

  

  In breeding plumage it has a dark grey body, white head, and red bill. It breeds in Mexico’s Gulf of California and moves north along the Pacific Coast.

• Black-fronted Titi Callicebus nigrifrons

  

  This small monkey has a black forehead and lives in forests of southeastern Brazil. In studied areas, it ate mainly fruit, along with leaves and flowers, and family groups of a pair and their young were reported.

• Chestnut Antpitta Grallaria blakei

  

  This antpitta occurs in the Peruvian Andes. Its chestnut plumage stands out, and it uses forest near the ground, often in dense bamboo.

• Steppe Polecat Mustela eversmanii

  The Steppe Polecat is a mustelid of dry open habitats across parts of Europe and Central Asia. Its pale coat contrasts with a dark facial mask, legs, and part of the tail.

• White-winged Duck Asarcornis scutulata

  The White-winged Duck lives in wetlands beside forests. It moves between feeding areas and resting places around dawn and dusk.

• Brants's Whistling Rat Parotomys brantsii

  This rodent occurs in southern Africa. It is mainly active around dawn and dusk and uses consolidated sandy ground in sparsely vegetated semidesert. An 1849 description records a pale yellow-brown back finely flecked with dark brown and a pale belly.

• Greyish Baywing Agelaioides badius

  This icterid lives in central and southern South America, using open woodland, scrub, and grassland with scattered trees.

• Yellow Baboon Papio cynocephalus

  A baboon of savanna, open woodland and riverine forest that forages on the ground.

• Chestnut-collared Swallow Petrochelidon rufocollaris

  This swallow occurs in western Peru and Ecuador, from lowlands to Andean foothills. The Peru Aves account describes it over scrub, deciduous woodland, and farmland.

• Gray Short-tailed Bat Carollia subrufa

  The gray short-tailed bat is a small bat recorded in the dry-forest region of northwestern Nicaragua. A local field survey found both males and females in March.

• Plain Wren Cantorchilus modestus

  The Plain Wren lives along the Pacific side of Central America, from southern Mexico to Panama. It often uses forest edges and other open or modified habitats.

• Cinereus Shrew Sorex cinereus

  The cinereus shrew is widespread in northern North America and is often found in moist places such as forests and river or lake edges. It is active at night and feeds mainly on invertebrates.

• River Prinia Prinia fluviatilis

  This prinia inhabits grassy river edges and wetlands. In a 2006 observation in Mali, twelve singing birds were recorded along riverbanks; three individuals seen well were much paler than another species.

• Northern Three-striped Opossum Monodelphis (Microdelphys) americana

  The Northern Three-striped Opossum has three black lines on its back. Close relatives share the same pattern, so appearance alone may not distinguish them.

• Purple-breasted Sunbird Nectarinia purpureiventris

  This sunbird lives in the forests of the Albertine Rift. Breeding males show a long tail and iridescent colors, and forage at flowering trees.

• Pied Tamarin Saguinus bicolor

  The pied tamarin is an arboreal monkey from around Manaus in Amazonas, Brazil. It is active by day and has conspicuous white shoulders and chest.

• Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala

  The Black-throated Barbet lives in dry parts of eastern Africa. It uses trees and shrubs and eats fruit and insects.

• Plateau Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ornatus

  This kangaroo rat occurs in arid and semi-arid parts of Mexico. Its range forms a narrow belt from southeastern Durango toward southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca.

• Peruvian Booby Sula variegata

  The Peruvian Booby hunts fish in cool waters off western South America. It breeds on coastal cliffs and slopes on small islands.

• Ochre Bush Squirrel Paraxerus ochraceus

  The ochre bush squirrel lives in East African savanna woodland. Its pelage is listed as having no red coloration, and the flanks have no stripe or at most one pale stripe. Detailed ecology is poorly known.

• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea

  This fantail is endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. It has a black head with a white eyebrow and cinnamon-colored back and rump. It lives in montane forest, feeds mostly on insects, and sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.