Meet the world’s animals.

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• Melodious Babbler Malacopteron palawanense

  

  This babbler is endemic to Palawan and Balabac in the Philippines. It forages in the middle and lower forest layers of lowland evergreen forest.

• 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.

• Spotted Buttonquail Turnix ocellatus

  It has been recorded in Philippine grasslands, scrub, ravine edges, bamboo-forest edges, and gardens. It is secretive and stays under ground cover.

• Kelaart's Pipistrelle Pipistrellus ceylonicus

  This small bat is recorded across the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Its mean forearm length is 37.2 mm, and dorsal fur varies from gray-brown to chestnut, reddish, or golden brown. In 2021, one male was rescued in a village in Rajasthan, India.

• Yellow-breasted Bowerbird Chlamydera lauterbachi

  The Yellow-breasted Bowerbird lives in eastern and central New Guinea, where males build an avenue-shaped bower and decorate it with blue fruit and stones to court females.

• Heermann's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys heermanni

  Heermann's kangaroo rat hops on long hind legs and carries seeds in cheek pouches to its burrow. It is active alone at night.

• Chabert Vanga Leptopterus chabert

  This bird is endemic to Madagascar and is marked by a blue eye-ring, black upperparts, and a white underside. It searches for food in flocks in the canopy.

• Thomas's Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus dorsalis

  This bat has a white stripe along its back. A survey in western Ecuador recorded specimens at several lowland sites.

• 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.

• 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.

• Rufous-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma rufopileatum

  The Rufous-crowned Antpitta is reported from humid foothill forest on the Pacific slope of Colombia and into northwestern Ecuador. It has a rufous head and a dark band through the eye, and is described hopping on the ground to search for insects.

• Chinese Hare Lepus sinensis

  This hare occurs in southeastern China and Taiwan. Its account describes chestnut fur, triangular black ear tips, and records at grassland edges and scrubby hillsides.

• Sichuan Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus forresti

  This leaf-warbler breeds in Sichuan. Its yellow crown stripe, yellow eyebrow, and pale yellow rump are among the field marks described in a specialist field guide.

• Natal Red Duiker Cephalophus natalensis

  This small antelope lives in forests and thickets of southeastern Africa. Its upperparts are reddish brown, its underside is paler, and it dives into nearby bushes when alarmed.

• Miombo Pied Barbet Tricholaema frontata

  This barbet is normally almost restricted to mature miombo woodland in south-central Africa. A paper reports a pair at an isolated site in Republic of the Congo and one captured bird there with more yellow underparts than southern specimens.

• Dalton's Praomys Praomys daltoni

  A medium-sized mouse described as having a pure-white belly. A survey in western Guinea recorded it in gallery forest and cultivated areas at a small number of sites.

• Samoan Flycatcher Myiagra albiventris

  The Samoan Flycatcher is restricted to Samoa. It is found in open forest, forest edges, village gardens, and mangrove edges, where it makes short sallies to catch insects in the air.

• Bornean Spotted-winged Fruit Bat Balionycteris maculata

  This small fruit bat has yellow spots on its wings. It lives in forests in Thailand, Malaysia, and Borneo and is usually active at night.

• Chestnut Wattle-eye Platysteira castanea

  Males are black and white while females are brownish; the species lives in wet habitats and lowland forest in central and eastern Africa and eats insects.

• Eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus

  A kangaroo of eastern Australian woodland and grassland that moves by hopping on its hind legs.

• Everett's Scops Owl Otus everetti

  This small scops owl inhabits lower montane forest in the Philippines. It has a dark brown crown and ear-tufts, pale forehead, and orange-red eye rims.

• Mexican Prairie Dog Cynomys (Cynomys) mexicanus

  The Mexican prairie dog is a squirrel relative that burrows in dry grasslands of northern Mexico. It comes above ground by day and lives in social groups.

• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola

  A large plover that breeds in the Arctic and feeds on coastal mudflats during migration and winter. Breeding-plumaged males show a sharp black-and-white pattern.

• Anderson's Four-eyed Opossum Philander andersoni

  This opossum occurs in northwestern South America. It uses lowland primary and secondary forests and riparian forest, and is mostly terrestrial.