Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) subterraneus

  

  The common pine vole is a small vole that often tunnels in deep soil and eats plant roots and tubers.

• Burmese Bushtit Aegithalos sharpei

  This relatively long-tailed bushtit occurs in Myanmar’s Chin Hills. A 2014 Natmataung survey recorded it in pine and evergreen oak forest.

• Riverine Rabbit Bunolagus monticularis

  The riverine rabbit lives in separate areas of South Africa. It is active around dawn and dusk; some populations live along seasonal rivers.

• Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus

  A small pipit that breeds in high mountain grasslands. It descends after breeding, and northern populations migrate. Adults in breeding plumage show a faint rosy wash from the throat to the belly.

• Little Ground Squirrel Spermophilus pygmaeus

  The little ground squirrel is a small ground squirrel of flat steppes and semi-deserts, ranging from the lower Dnieper to Betpak-Dala in Kazakhstan.

• Williams's Lark Mirafra williamsi

  This small lark lives on lava-strewn plains in Kenya's semi-desert. Its upperparts vary from dark to rusty brown, and its streaked chest and white outer tail feathers are noticeable in flight.

• Slender Yellow Bat Rhogeessa gracilis

  The Slender Yellow Bat is a small bat recorded in Mexico. Current taxonomic references use Baeodon gracilis for the taxon previously called Rhogeessa gracilis.

• Guianan Toucanet Selenidera piperivora

  This toucanet has green upperparts and tail, chestnut tail tips and a red-and-black bill. It ranges from southeastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil north of the Amazon and eats fruit and insects.

• Chihuahua Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus eremicus

  The Chihuahua pocket mouse is a small rodent of dry country in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

• Inambari Gnatcatcher Polioptila attenboroughi

  This gnatcatcher is documented in the canopy of western Amazonian forest. Its original description reported specimens and recordings from a small number of sites in Amazonas, Brazil.

• North-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) demerarae

  The North-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum is a small marsupial with long, soft fur and dark rings around the eyes. Its tail is longer than the body and furred only near the base.

• Variegated Tinamou Crypturellus variegatus

  The Variegated Tinamou is a wary bird of humid forests in northern South America. Its rufous neck and dark bars across the back are striking features.

• Coimbra Filho's Titi Callicebus coimbrai

  Black forehead, crown and ears set off the striped front half of this titi monkey's back. One group studied in a southern Sergipe forest fragment fed more during the wet season and rested more during the dry season. Its Atlantic Forest range includes Sergipe and northern coastal Bahia.

• Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis

  This fiscal has gray and black plumage edged with white. It searches for invertebrates by day in dry scrub in eastern Africa.

• Fringed Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) fimbriatus

  A study of eastern Paraguayan specimens found that females tend to have larger wings; this bat feeds on fruit.

• Guam Kingfisher Todiramphus cinnamominus

  The Guam Kingfisher formerly lived on Guam. It has not lived in the wild since 1986; males have cinnamon head and underparts, while those of females are paler or white.

• Pacific Marten Martes caurina

  Martes caurina occurs in western North America and on Pacific coastal islands. Its coat varies in color; in Alaska it feeds mainly on voles and mice and is most often associated with mature and old-growth evergreen forest.

• Little Pratincole Glareola lactea

  The little pratincole is a small bird that catches insects while flying over water and farmland. It is also recorded along Thai rivers and lakeshores.

• Pale-thighed Langur Presbytis siamensis

  This leaf monkey lives in forests from southernmost Thailand across Peninsular Malaysia. Its greyish coat and long tail are noticeable features.

• Red-crowned crane Grus japonensis

  A crane of East Asian wetlands, recognized by a white body and a red patch on the head.

• Muskox Ovibos moschatus

  A long-coated, herd-living bovine of Arctic tundra.

• Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus

  The head and underparts are gray, the back is olive-brown, and the legs are red. It uses a variety of waterside habitats, from Peruvian coastal lowlands to Andean wetlands.

• Spix's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus fuscicollis

  A 2022 report describes orange-brown fur on the forehead, crown, and temples of L. f. fuscicollis. The tamarins were observed north of the Río Abujao in Peru, in terra firme forest that is not seasonally flooded.

• Snowy Egret Egretta thula

  A slender white heron with black legs and bright yellow feet that searches shallow water for small aquatic animals.