Meet the world’s animals.

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• Green-tailed Jacamar Galbula galbula

  

  The Green-tailed Jacamar is a forest bird that catches flying insects with its long, slender bill.

• Little White-shouldered Bat Ametrida centurio

  

  This small bat has pale patches on its shoulders. Males are grayer than females and have a swollen area below each eye.

• Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola

  

  The Masked Gnatcatcher searches woodland and scrub for small insects. Males have a black facial mask; females have a white eye-ring and cheeks.

• Chinese Goral Naemorhedus griseus

  

  The Chinese goral is a goat-like animal that climbs rocky, steep slopes on broad hooves.

• Razorbill Alca torda

  

  In breeding plumage, this seabird is black above and white below. In Britain and Ireland, it breeds in colonies on coastal cliffs.

• Alexander's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus alexandri

  

  This small squirrel lives in lowland forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its back has orange, black, and cream stripes, and it searches for food on trees by day.

• Giant Ibis Pseudibis gigantea

  The world’s largest ibis now remains in lowland forest in northern and eastern Cambodia. It searches for food at secluded forest pools.

• Bunny Rat Reithrodon auritus

  Its back has mixed gray and black fur, its underside is pale gray, and its large rounded ears are furry. It lives in open grasslands and pampas, digging or using burrows and natural rock holes.

• Black-eared Oriole Oriolus bouroensis

  A large gray-brown oriole with a faint dark facial mask. It occurs in lowland and foothill forest, forest edge, mangroves, and woodland on Buru Island.

• Bolam's Pseudomys Pseudomys bolami

  This small mouse has yellow-brown fur and a long, heavily furred tail. It is nocturnal, shelters in burrows, and eats seeds, fruit, and small invertebrates. It occurs in southern Australia.

• Chinese Fulvetta Fulvetta striaticollis

  This 12–14 cm bird inhabits high mountains in China, including conifer forest, rhododendron scrub and low shrubs.

• Nathusius's Pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii

  Nathusius's pipistrelle is a migratory bat. In the UK it catches flying insects near lakes and rivers.

• Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus

  A coastal cormorant smaller than the Japanese Cormorant, with crests and white patches in breeding season.

• Mauritian fruit bat Pteropus niger

  The Mauritian fruit bat is a large fruit-eating bat with golden fur, endemic to Mauritius.

• Helmeted Curassow Pauxi pauxi

  This large black bird bears a blue-gray helmet-like casque on its forehead. Pairs and small groups walk the floor of mature mountain forest in search of fruit and seeds.

• Tana River Mangabey Cercocebus galeritus

  The Tana River mangabey lives only along the lower Tana River in southeastern Kenya, where riverine forest occurs in patches. Its pale gray-brown fur, black face, and white eyebrows stand out. It eats fruits and seeds and sleeps in forks of tall trees.

• Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus

  A black bird with a deeply forked tail. It lives in open areas such as farms and wetlands in India, perching at vantage points to chase insects.

• Leach's Single Leaf Bat Monophyllus redmani

  Leach's single leaf bat has a long muzzle and tongue. It roosts deep inside large, humid caves.

• Bold-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis bornensis

  This small babbler forages in the understory of lowland forest in Southeast Asia. Bold dark streaks on the underside and active insect foraging are noted as characteristic.

• Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes mearnsi

  The Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest, Connochaetes mearnsi, is restricted to the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It is a small, dark form with a longer tail and a hanging mane. Most of the population moves seasonally in the dry season.

• Undulated Tinamou Crypturellus undulatus

  The Undulated Tinamou lives in Amazonian lowlands, and its brown plumage varies among regional forms. It uses floodplain forest, seasonally flooded várzea forest, and secondary growth, and is known for its distinctive call.

• Gunnison's Prairie Dog Cynomys (Leucocrossuromys) gunnisoni

  Gunnison's prairie dogs have yellowish-buff coats and build connected burrow colonies in grasslands and high-desert country. They warn one another of danger with calls.

• Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens

  The Blue-billed Malimbe has a blue bill and a scarlet patch across the throat and upper breast. In lowland forest undergrowth, it climbs branches while searching for arthropods.

• Atlantic Forest Hocicudo Oxymycterus dasytrichus

  Oxymycterus dasytrichus is a rodent of eastern Brazil. Its account records it in seasonally flooded forest, moist openings in or near forest, and cultivated fields.