Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blackish Antbird Cercomacroides nigrescens

  

  The male and female have very different plumage. The species searches for insects in dense vines and shrubs at forest edges and in floodplain forest.

• Bhutan Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista nobilis

  The Bhutan giant flying squirrel is a large gliding squirrel reported from the eastern Himalaya. It has a deep reddish-brown body and a lighter gliding membrane; its tail tip is often black.

• Cream-striped Bulbul Ixos leucogrammicus

  The Cream-striped Bulbul lives in the foothills and lower mountains of western Sumatra. It searches for food in the middle and upper levels of forest and visits fruiting trees.

• Iberian Hare Lepus granatensis

  The Iberian hare has large eyes, long ears and powerful hind legs. It is native only to the Iberian Peninsula and prefers open, level ground.

• White-throated Bushtit Aegithalos niveogularis

  This small Himalayan bird is marked by its white throat. It searches for insects in birch and pine woods and moves in flocks.

• Siberut Langur Presbytis siberu

  This langur is endemic to Siberut Island, Indonesia, and the current MDD treats it as a separate species. It lives in trees and is active by day, though field research dedicated to the species remains limited after its separation from related forms.

• Jamaican Euphonia Euphonia jamaica

  Males are bluish grey with a yellow band across the mid-belly; females and young birds are olive and grey. It eats fruit and buds.

• Fijian Long-tailed Fruit Bat Notopteris macdonaldii

  A Pacific fruit bat with a long tail. A Fiji survey found nursing colonies in caves on Viti Levu.

• Purple Roller Coracias naevius

  The Purple Roller scans for prey from high perches in open African savannas.

• Bicolored Shrew Crocidura leucodon

  The bicolored shrew has a dark back and a pale underside. It hunts small animals in dry grasslands, woods and roadside brush.

• Silvery Grebe Podiceps occipitalis

  The southern form lives on lakes in Argentina and Chile, eating small aquatic animals.

• Yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus

  A rock-dwelling wallaby of dry regions in Australia.

• Dark Newtonia Newtonia amphichroa

  Dark Newtonia occurs in eastern Madagascar. Adults have grey-brown backs and pale, tan-tinged undersides, and the species uses low rainforest and nearby secondary growth.

• Ord's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ordii

  Ord's kangaroo rat lives in dry areas of western North America and moves by hopping on long hind legs. It carries seeds in its cheek pouches and stores them in burrows.

• Maroon-tailed Parakeet Pyrrhura melanura

  The Maroon-tailed Parakeet has a green body and dark maroon tail. It occurs in forested parts of Colombia and feeds on fruit in small flocks.

• 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.

• Quail-plover Ortyxelos meiffrenii

  This small bird walks through dry grassland. Males have rufous and black-and-white markings, and only males incubate the eggs.

• Müller's Rat Sundamys muelleri

  Müller's rat has long, rough brown fur and a dark tail longer than its body. It is mainly nocturnal and ground-dwelling, but also climbs into low vegetation.

• New Guinea Flightless Rail Megacrex inepta

  The New Guinea Flightless Rail lives in wetlands and thickets on New Guinea. It has a gray forehead, a rusty-brown crown and nape, and a green bill.

• Black-and-orange Myotis Myotis (Chrysopteron) formosus

  This medium-sized bat has light yellow-brown fur on its back and pale yellow fur underneath. The 2014 review included the Taiwanese population as a subspecies of this species.

• California Gnatcatcher Polioptila californica

  This small gray bird often moves its long, narrow black tail. It lives in scrubby dry habitats from southern California to Baja California, Mexico.

• Caucasian Badger Meles canescens

  The Caucasian badger ranges from the Caucasus through Southwest and Central Asia. Its face has broad dark bands over the eyes and ears, with a white band between them.

• Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri

  The male Straw-tailed Whydah grows a very long tail in breeding plumage and shows bold black-and-pale markings. It feeds on seeds on the ground in dry savanna.

• 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.