Meet the world’s animals.

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• Richardson's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus richardsonii

  

  Richardson's Ground Squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of the northern Great Plains. It digs underground burrows and hibernates through the cold season.

• Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus

  In Japan, this shrike arrives as a summer visitor in areas north of central Honshu and also occurs in shrubby grassland.

• Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus

  A large kangaroo from southern Australia that eats grasses and shrubs.

• Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

  The Australasian Grebe is a small waterbird whose breeding plumage has a glossy black head and chestnut facial stripe. It dives for small fish and aquatic insects.

• Bonin flying fox Pteropus pselaphon

  A large fruit-eating bat native only to the Ogasawara Islands.

• Black-capped Vireo Vireo atricapilla

  The Black-capped Vireo is a small bird that moves between breeding and wintering areas. Adult males have black caps, while females have olive-colored heads; both forage for insects and spiders among leaves.

• Greater Hog Badger Arctonyx collaris

  The greater hog badger has a long, projecting snout and strong claws for digging.

• Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea

  The Chestnut-vented Warbler is gray, with a pale eye, streaked throat, rufous vent, and large white tail patches. In dense scrub it is often detected by voice.

• Lesser Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) blythii

  The lesser mouse-eared bat has a narrow, pointed muzzle and brown-grey fur on its back. It hunts insects over warm, open grassland and other open places.

• Graceful Pitta Erythropitta venusta

  A pitta of Sumatra's forests. Adults have a dark head, blue-green eyebrow, and red belly, and search for food on the forest floor.

• Coke's Hartebeest Alcelaphus cokii

  Coke's Hartebeest occurs in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Its coat is pale tawny, the rump patch is only slightly paler, and only the tail tuft is black. It selects grasses in grassland with scattered acacia scrub.

• 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.

• Pygmy Round-eared Bat Lophostoma brasiliense

  This small bat has rounded ears and a short tail enclosed by the flight membrane. It is active after dusk, feeds on insects, and has been reported roosting in arboreal termite nests.

• Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata

  The Horned Puffin is a black-and-white seabird with an orange-and-yellow bill in breeding adults. It nests on rocky cliffs and spends winter far offshore in the Pacific.

• Rudd's Bristle-furred Rat Uranomys ruddi

  This rat has a short tail and a white belly. In a Guinea survey it was recorded in escarpment forest, gallery forest, and near cultivated or fallow land.

• Slender-billed Parakeet Enicognathus leptorhynchus

  The Choroy is a gregarious, noisy parakeet. Groups feed in trees or on the ground while a sentinel watches; alarm calls can send the flock into flight.

• Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus

  This stocky Arctic lemming has a thick coat that changes with the seasons, becoming white in winter.

• Wire-crested Thorntail Discosura popelairii

  This hummingbird is recorded in humid forests of southern Colombia. Breeding males have wire-like ornamental feathers.

• Hamadryas baboon Papio hamadryas

  A baboon of dry grasslands and rocky areas; the adult male’s long mane looks like a cape around the shoulders.

• Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

  A large woodpecker with a red crest and white neck stripes that searches dead wood for ants.

• New England cottontail Sylvilagus transitionalis

  The New England cottontail uses shrubland and dense thickets in young forest. It is difficult to distinguish visually from the related eastern cottontail.

• Black-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma michleri

  This bird searches for food by hopping on the forest floor. The range and ecology here are limited to the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica.

• Karimi's Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys karimii

  Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum has a thick tail whose size changes with seasonal food availability. Juveniles were captured in both wet and dry seasons, suggesting it might breed year-round.

• White-winged Fairywren Malurus leucopterus

  It lives in dry scrub and grassland; breeding males show a conspicuous white wing patch.