Meet the world’s animals.

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• Idaho Ground Squirrel Urocitellus brunneus

  

  This Idaho ground squirrel occurs in Adams and Valley Counties. It has a reddish-brown back with faint pale spots. Adult males emerge above ground first, followed by females and yearlings, and the animals later enter seasonal hibernation.

• Malabar Trogon Harpactes fasciatus

  

  The Malabar Trogon inhabits forests in India and Sri Lanka. The male has a blue bill and reddish belly; the female has an olive-brown head and golden belly.

• Heather Vole Phenacomys intermedius

  

  The Heather Vole has long, soft fur. It stays active all year, using burrows in summer and surface nests beneath the snow in winter.

• Western Parotia Parotia sefilata

  

  Males are black with a white forehead, an iridescent breast shield, and wire-like head plumes. They eat fruit and arthropods and perform courtship dances in mountain forest.

• Badger Bat Glauconycteris superba

  

  This African bat has conspicuous white markings. A 2016 study captured 10 individuals at two sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and reported individual variation in shoulder and belly patterns.

• African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata

  

  It is described with dark wine-red plumage, a grayish-red crown, and a dark bluish, cone-shaped bill.

• Bharal (blue sheep) Pseudois nayaur

  A mountain animal also known as the blue sheep, found in the Indian Himalaya.

• Bare-eyed Myna Streptocitta albertinae

  The Bare-eyed Myna has bare dark skin around the eyes, black-and-white plumage, and a long tail. It is restricted to Indonesia’s Sula Islands.

• Black-capped Fruit Bat Chironax melanocephalus

  This small bat has a dark head and yellow-to-orange hair on the sides of the neck and shoulders. It is recorded in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Halmahera Cuckooshrike Coracina parvula

  The Halmahera Cuckooshrike lives in forest and mountain habitat and searches trees for small invertebrates. The colour description is limited to one distant observation on Halmahera.

• Large Japanese Field Mouse Apodemus speciosus

  The large Japanese field mouse has a reddish-brown back and a white underside. It moves over the ground and fallen logs at night and sometimes stores food underground.

• Japanese Night Heron Gorsachius goisagi

  A heron of dim lowland forests that walks the forest floor in search of earthworms and other small animals.

• Moustached Guenon Cercopithecus cephus

  The moustached guenon is a monkey with a blue-white stripe below its nose and bright yellow whiskers. It mainly eats fruit and also takes seeds, leaves, and insects in the forest.

• Striated Grassbird Megalurus palustris

  A large brown warbler marked with black streaks, it shows a long trailing tail and flushes from fields, scrubby edges, and dense thickets.

• Pygmy Round-eared Bat Lophostoma brasiliense

  This small bat has rounded ears and a short tail enclosed by the flight membrane. It is active after dusk, feeds on insects, and has been reported roosting in arboreal termite nests.

• Chaco Sparrow Rhynchospiza strigiceps

  This sparrow uses dry grassland and scrub in South America. It breeds in north-central Argentina, and some birds move seasonally into Bolivia and Paraguay.

• Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica

  A large squirrel endemic to India that lives in forest canopies.

• Blue Korhaan Eupodotis caerulescens

  This bustard lives mainly in South Africa. The male stands out with a blue-grey neck and underparts and a black-and-white face.

• Chapman's Rice Rat Oryzomys chapmani

  Its back ranges from brown to dark with black hairs; its ears are smallish and blackish, and the tail is uniformly colored. It lives in Mexican cloud forest and grassy areas in pine-oak forest, and is nocturnal and terrestrial.

• Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis

  The Long-billed Pipit is brown above and pale buff below. In Namibia it is usually seen alone or in pairs among gullies and rocky slopes.

• Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat Murina ussuriensis

  The Ussuri tube-nosed bat is recorded from Hokkaido to Kyushu in Japan. It leaves its roost at dusk to catch flying insects and hibernates in winter.

• Silver-backed Tanager Stilpnia viridicollis

  The Silver-backed Tanager inhabits humid forest borders and remnant forest in the Andes. Its two subspecies look quite different; males of the nominate form are mostly dark blue to black with yellow to coppery cheeks and throat.

• Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia

  A wild sheep of the dry mountains of North Africa.

• Phoenix Petrel Pterodroma alba

  The Phoenix Petrel is a pelagic seabird with a dark brown head clearly set off from its white belly. It ranges over the central Pacific and takes squid and other prey near the sea surface.