Meet the world’s animals.

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• Big Brown Bat Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus

  

  The big brown bat has a robust build. The Texas account describes it using varied habitats and roosting in buildings as well as natural sites.

• Blyth's Frogmouth Batrachostomus affinis

  Blyth's Frogmouth has plumage ranging from rufous-brown to grey. It hunts insects at night from low perches in lowland and hill forests, including Borneo.

• Tamarisk Gerbil Meriones (Meriones) tamariscinus

  This gerbil lives in drylands from the Caspian region into Central Asia. It is active at night and feeds on plants.

• Long-billed Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus

  This small bird uses humid tropical forest and its edges, especially vine tangles in the mid to upper levels.

• Pig-tailed Langur Simias concolor

  The pig-tailed langur lives in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands. A study of wild groups on Siberut found that adult males were larger on average than females and that the three groups studied averaged about nine animals.

• Jabiru Jabiru mycteria

  A large wetland bird with a white body, bare black head and neck, and a broad bill. It wades in shallow water to find food.

• Anatolian Sheep Ovis gmelini

  This wild sheep inhabits mountains in the Caucasus and western Asia. It uses hills, grasslands, shrublands, and rocky terrain, and lives in groups.

• Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex

  This canary ranges through mountain areas from Eritrea to northern Malawi and western Angola. Adult males of the nominate form show conspicuous yellow on the head and underparts, and forage for seeds among the ground and vegetation.

• Red-tailed Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) granatensis

  The red-tailed squirrel is an arboreal squirrel with variable coat and tail colors; fruits, nuts and seeds make up much of its diet.

• Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii

  The Dusky-headed Parakeet is a green parrot with a grey head and white eye-ring. It uses forest edges and other partly open habitats in the western Amazon Basin.

• Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira parvidens

  This small fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to northern Costa Rica. It roosts in mature forest and is also often recorded in disturbed areas where pioneer plants grow.

• Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis

  This hummingbird has geographically separated subspecies; this entry focuses on zonura from northern Peru.

• Southern Blossom Bat Syconycteris australis

  This small bat lives in forests of eastern and north-eastern Australia and feeds on flower nectar and pollen. It may land on blossoms or hover in front of them while feeding.

• Carp's Tit Melaniparus carpi

  This tit inhabits dry woodland and savanna from southwestern Angola through western and central Namibia. It searches among mopane and acacia trees and shrubs for small invertebrates.

• Azara's Akodont Akodon (Akodon) azarae

  Azara's Akodont lives in grasslands and wetland vegetation, and may change the sheltered sites it uses with the seasons.

• Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Hydrobates monorhis

  Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel is a small, dark-brown seabird.

• Brazilian Brown Bat Eptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis

  This bat is recorded from Mexico south to southern South America. It catches insects while flying over tropical streams and habitat edges.

• Cocos Cuckoo Coccyzus ferrugineus

  This cuckoo occurs only on Cocos Island off western Costa Rica, where it uses humid forests and shrubland.

• Seurat’s Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) seurati

  Seurat’s spiny mouse lives in rocky desert in southern Algeria. It rests beneath rocks or in crevices by day and is active at night.

• White-browed Antpitta Hylopezus ochroleucus

  This antpitta occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has a white eyebrow and a second pale line below it, with rufous flanks, and searches for small invertebrates near the forest floor.

• Sabah Grizzled Langur Presbytis sabana

  The Sabah grizzled langur occurs in Sabah in northeastern Borneo. It is currently treated as Presbytis sabana, while some descriptions of its appearance and ecology were published under the older name Presbytis hosei sabana.

• Gibber Chat Ashbyia lovensis

  This small bird occurs in the arid interior of Australia. It has yellow cheeks, throat, and underparts, with a sandy-brown crown and upperparts.

• Blue Duiker Philantomba monticola

  A small antelope of forests and woodlands in central, eastern and southern Africa.

• Banded Wattle-eye Platysteira laticincta

  This small bird lives in the montane forests of western Cameroon. The male has a broad blue-black band across its white belly and a red bare wattle above the eye.