Meet the world’s animals.

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• Four-striped Ground Squirrel Lariscus hosei

  

  The Four-striped Ground Squirrel has four black stripes on its back and orange underparts. It lives on Borneo and is active by day on the forest floor.

• Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa

  

  A Central American bird noted for its turquoise brow and racket-tipped tail feathers. It searches for insect prey in open dry woodland and scrub.

• Northern Pygmy Mouse Baiomys taylori

  

  This small mouse lives in grassy cover from the Mexican lowlands north into southern Texas.

• Rufous-throated Solitaire Myadestes genibarbis

  

  The Rufous-throated Solitaire is a year-round resident of Caribbean mountain forests. It is mostly gray, with a rufous throat and white outer tail feathers; plumage varies among islands.

• Natterer's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) nattereri

  

  A bat found across much of the British Isles. It flies slowly among trees and can glean small insects from leaves and branches.

• Painted Sandgrouse Pterocles indicus

  

  The Painted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry, open country in India and northern Pakistan. Males have bold black-and-white bands, while females are finely mottled.

• Domestic yak Bos grunniens

  A domestic yak kept on the Tibetan Plateau and elsewhere. Its long shaggy coat protects it from the cold.

• Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus

  This falcon is widespread in southern Africa. It hunts over open country and hilly terrain, often using rocks or roadside posts as perches.

• Western Naked-backed Fruit Bat Dobsonia peronii

  The Western naked-backed fruit bat occurs in Indonesia and Timor-Leste in the Lesser Sunda Islands. The life-history details here are mainly from field observations on Timor.

• Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis

  The Bar-shouldered Dove ranges across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It searches for seeds in short grass and is marked by a bronze patch on the hindneck.

• Fat Sand Rat Psammomys obesus

  The fat sand rat is a stocky gerbil-like rodent that burrows near desert shrubs and changes its activity with the heat.

• White-browed Purpletuft Iodopleura isabellae

  A small cotinga of the upper canopy in northern Amazonian and Andean foothill forests. The male's purple breast tufts may be hidden at rest.

• East Javan Langur Trachypithecus auratus

  The East Javan langur moves through trees with its long tail and mainly eats young leaves. Its coat occurs in black and reddish forms.

• Legge's Flowerpecker Dicaeum vincens

  This small flowerpecker is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is common in wet lowland forest, moves through the treetops and descends to feed on nectar, fruit, berries, and seeds.

• Geoffroy's Tailless Bat Anoura geoffroyi

  This bat is brown above and gray-brown below, sometimes with silvery gray on the neck and shoulders. It eats fruit, nectar, pollen, and insects.

• Madagascan Sparrowhawk Accipiter madagascariensis

  The Madagascan Sparrowhawk occurs on Madagascar. It is about 29–42 cm long and uses forest, dry thorn forest, and scrub.

• Guianan Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) aestuans

  A squirrel from the northeastern part of Amazonia, recorded in southern Venezuela, northern Brazil, and the Guianan region.

• White-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus mystaceus

  The White-throated Spadebill is a small bird with a broad, flat bill and a white throat. In Peru, it searches for food in the understory of humid montane forest.

• Southern Water Vole Arvicola sapidus

  The southern water vole is a semi-aquatic rodent. It eats plants along riverbanks and digs burrows in soft, vegetated banks.

• Western barn owl Tyto alba

  An owl with a heart-shaped face, seen over farmland and grassland in Britain.

• Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens orion

  This broad-nosed bat occurs in eastern Australia. Its back is dark brown and the underside is duller and paler. Records come from wet forests and more open woodland.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.

• Lichtenstein's Hartebeest Alcelaphus lichtensteinii

  Its horn bases are short and broad, and its horns curve inward before turning backward. A 1976–1977 study in south-eastern Zimbabwe found that it preferred tall grass habitat.

• Dovekie Alle alle

  A small Arctic seabird with a black breast and white belly in breeding plumage, and a white throat in nonbreeding plumage. It dives for small crustaceans and other marine prey.