Meet the world’s animals.

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• Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis

  

  This resident species is endemic to China. Around Mount Taishan it occurs from mountain areas to suburban tree cover and moves in flocks through shrubs and small trees.

• Guenther's Vole Microtus (Microtus) guentheri

  Günther’s vole is distributed from Turkey through the Levant. It is recorded in meadows and on hill slopes with sparse vegetation.

• Fruithunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi

  The Fruithunter is endemic to Borneo’s montane forest. Males are glossy blue-black, while females are barred gray-brown; small groups may gather at fruiting trees.

• Herbert's Rock Wallaby Petrogale herberti

  Herbert's rock wallaby lives among rocky sites and woodland in southeastern Queensland, Australia. A comparison describes it as grayer and less shaggy-tailed than the brush-tailed rock-wallaby.

• Sahyadri Sunbird Aethopyga vigorsii

  The Sahyadri Sunbird is an approximately 11 cm sunbird endemic to the Western Ghats of southwest India. Males have a crimson breast with yellow streaks; females have olive-green upperparts.

• Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus

  The soprano pipistrelle is a small brown bat. After sunset it catches insects while flying near water and woodland.

• Giant Nuthatch Sitta magna

  The Giant Nuthatch is notable for a broad black eyestripe and rufous feathers under the tail. It occurs in southern China, Myanmar, and northwestern Thailand, using open hill forest with mature pines.

• Nyala Nyala angasii

  An African antelope whose males and females differ markedly in appearance.

• Maroon Oriole Oriolus traillii

  The Maroon Oriole lives in moist deciduous and evergreen forests. The nominate male is black and maroon, while the female has a grey back and a pale, streaked belly.

• Chestnut Short-tailed Bat Carollia castanea

  The chestnut short-tailed bat is a nocturnal fruit-eating bat. In a study, it relied on the scent of ripe Piper fruit when foraging and used more echolocation when that scent was absent.

• White-bellied Bush Chat Saxicola gutturalis

  The White-bellied Bush Chat lives on Timor and nearby islands. It uses open habitats with scattered trees, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Capped Langur Trachypithecus pileatus

  The capped langur has a cap-like tuft of hair on its crown. In one group studied in northeastern India, leaves made up most of the observed feeding time.

• Dusky Grasswren Amytornis purnelli

  A small bird of central Australian rocky areas and gorges, it has rusty-brown plumage with fine white streaks and moves around rocks and spinifex clumps near the ground.

• Indian Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista philippensis

  The Indian giant flying squirrel lives in tree cavities and canopies, gliding between trees on a membrane that stretches from its forelegs to its hind legs.

• Palau Fantail Rhipidura lepida

  This fantail occurs in the understory of the Palau Islands. In the 1951 account, it foraged through brush alone or in pairs.

• Antelope Rat Tatera indica

  This large gerbil has reddish fur and a black tail tip. It burrows in dry plains and eats plants and insects.

• Eye-ringed Flatbill Rhynchocyclus brevirostris

  The Eye-ringed Flatbill ranges from Central America to northwestern Colombia. It is greenish olive with a prominent white eye-ring and broad flat bill. It perches in the middle canopy of damp and cloud forest and feeds mostly on arthropods.

• Lyle's Flying Fox Pteropus lylei

  Lyle's flying fox is a Southeast Asian bat that roosts in large groups high in trees by day and flies out at night to find fruit and other foods.

• Sooty Barbet Caloramphus hayii

  Recorded in forests and forest edges of Peninsular Malaysia, this barbet is dark-backed with a rusty orange head and breast.

• Flavescent Colilargo Oligoryzomys flavescens

  This small rodent has a tail longer than its body and is recorded along grassland and wetland edges in Paraguay.

• Cauca Guan Penelope perspicax

  The Cauca Guan has dark brown to greenish plumage and a red throat patch. It is found in humid tropical forest remnants in Colombia's Cauca and Magdalena valleys.

• Malayan Bamboo Bat Tylonycteris malayana

  Tylonycteris malayana is a small bat associated with bamboo-rich forests. Its species account describes daytime roosting in bamboo cavities and feeding on insects at night.

• Oahu Elepaio Chasiempis ibidis

  The Oahu Elepaio is a small flycatcher found only on Oahu. Hawaiʻi and U.S. federal listings classify it as endangered.

• Derby Eland Taurotragus derbianus

  A large antelope of western and central Africa's savannas and sparse woodlands. Its sandy-gray coat has pale vertical side stripes, and it feeds in grassland during cooler mornings and evenings. The current MDD name is Tragelaphus derbianus.