Meet the world’s animals.

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• Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocoptes medius

  

  A woodpecker of broad-leaved woods, it searches trunks and branches. Its red crown and black-and-white pattern help identify it.

• 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.

• Giant Weaver Ploceus grandis

  The Giant Weaver occurs only on São Tomé. It is often seen in small groups in secondary forest and oil-palm plantations, feeding on seeds, palm nuts, and invertebrates.

• Mentawai Squirrel Callosciurus melanogaster

  This dark squirrel is found only on the Mentawai Islands. It is active by day, mostly in trees, and eats fruit and young leaves.

• Tibetan Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes tibetanus

  A sandgrouse of dry highland plains. The male has a sandy back and white belly, while the female has more barred plumage.

• Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus

  This large fruit-eating bat has fur ranging from light to dark brown. It flies among trees at night and forages with other bats for fruit.

• Bridled Titmouse Baeolophus wollweberi

  The Bridled Titmouse lives in forests of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. It joins mixed flocks and searches for food among tree branches.

• 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.

• Shining-green Hummingbird Chrysuronia goudoti

  Male Shining-green Hummingbirds are mostly green, with a slightly downcurved bill and a moderately forked tail. Females have a white chin and belly. The species uses habitats from dry forest to gallery forest; birds may gather at large flowering trees.

• Blackish Deer Mouse Peromyscus furvus

  The blackish deer mouse lives in cloud forests along the Sierra Madre Oriental in eastern Mexico. It is described with dark fur, large ears, and a long, slightly scaled tail.

• Yellow-headed Manakin Chloropipo flavicapilla

  The male has a yellow head and olive back. It lives in the lower growth of Andean forest and feeds on fruit.

• Leschenault's Rousette Rousettus leschenaultii

  Rousettus leschenaultii is a fruit-eating flying fox ranging across South and Southeast Asia. Its dorsal fur is fulvous brown and the underside grey to brown-grey; it roosts by day in caves and some buildings.

• Cobb's Wren Troglodytes cobbi

  This wren is now confined to small offshore islands in the Falklands. It searches for small animals in grassland near the tide line and on rocky shores.

• Ifola Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus notatus

  This tree kangaroo lives in Papua New Guinea's central highlands. Its very dark chocolate coat has yellow rings at the tail base and silvery-tipped hairs on the back and limbs.

• Neotropical Palm Swift Tachornis squamata

  The Neotropical Palm Swift has a deeply forked tail and uses palm groves for nesting and roosting.

• Yucatan Small-eared Shrew Cryptotis mayensis

  The Yucatan small-eared shrew has short gray fur and tiny eyes. It occurs in lowland areas around the Yucatan Peninsula and searches for small prey at night.

• African penguin Spheniscus demersus

  A penguin of the South African and Namibian coasts that breeds in large colonies.

• Camiguin Forest Mouse Apomys camiguinensis

  This mouse is recorded from Camiguin Island in the southern Philippines. Its species account describes a russet-brown back with fine dark-and-pale hairs and a pale underside.

• Slender-billed White-eye Zosterops tenuirostris

  This small bird lives only on Norfolk Island. It probes bark crevices with its long, slender bill to find insects and also feeds on nectar.

• Hairy-nosed Otter Lutra sumatrana

  The hairy-nosed otter has short fur across the nose pad. Records come from wetlands and shallow coastal waters in Southeast Asia, and fish are a common food.

• Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus

  The Glaucous Gull is a large gull with pale wing tips. Young birds have different plumage from adults.

• Dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas

  A gazelle of deserts and dry grassland that feeds on a variety of plants.

• Negros Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba keayi

  A ground-dwelling pigeon of forests on Panay and Negros. It has a narrow red patch at the center of its white throat and breast, with green iridescence on the head and wings.

• Russian Myotis Myotis (Myotis) petax

  The Russian myotis has brown fur above and pale fur below. In Altai, bats were seen flying low over meadows and water, and cave roosts have been reported.