Meet the world’s animals.

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• Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami

  

  A large ground-dwelling bird with black-and-white wing markings. In South Africa and Eswatini, males inflate the neck and display white plumes.

• Cape Short-tailed Gerbil Desmodillus auricularis

  The Cape short-tailed gerbil is marked by a short tail and white patches behind its ears. It uses burrows in dry plains and pans.

• Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii

  This forest turaco has a black bill. A 2020 phylogenetic study treated the violet-backed T. schuettii and green-backed T. emini as separate species-level taxa.

• Queensland Tube-nosed Fruit Bat Nyctimene robinsoni

  A fruit-eating bat of eastern Australian forests, with tubular nostrils and pale spots scattered across its wings.

• Mongolian Finch Bucanetes mongolicus

  The Mongolian Finch lives in dry mountains from Central to East Asia. Breeding males show a rosy flush on the head and breast.

• Barbary Ground Squirrel Atlantoxerus getulus

  The Barbary ground squirrel is a striped, ground-dwelling squirrel of rocky northwestern Africa. It digs burrows and can live socially.

• Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala

  The Black-headed Heron is a large heron with a black head and gray-and-white body. The sexes look alike, though some birds have little or no white on the front of the neck.

• Tonkean Macaque Macaca tonkeana

  The Tonkean macaque is native to central Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands in Indonesia. It uses several kinds of tropical forest.

• Yunnan Nuthatch Sitta yunnanensis

  The Yunnan Nuthatch is a small bird with a blue-grey back and a bold black eyestripe. In mature pine forest in southern China, it searches for insects among pine needles.

• Canyon Deermouse Peromyscus crinitus

  The Canyon Deermouse is a small rodent of rocky, dry country. Its back can range from brown to gray, and it is active at night.

• Dwarf Jay Cyanolyca nanus

  This blue-gray jay has a black face, a narrow lavender eyebrow, and a lavender throat. It searches for arthropods in humid mountain forest in eastern Mexico.

• Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed Bat Murina hilgendorfi

  Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed Bat has a slightly projecting snout. A Kyoto Prefecture account says it usually hides in tree cavities by day, feeds on insects in the evening, and hibernates in winter.

• Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani

  The Sapphire-vented Puffleg is a hummingbird with white feathered leg puffs and a long, forked blue-purple tail. It lives in Andean cloud forest and may visit hummingbird feeders where they are available.

• Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) watsoni

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to Panama in Central America. Research published under the older name Artibeus watsoni records it modifying young palm leaves into day roosts.

• Southern Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus albivitta

  It occurs in montane forests of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The species-level name used here is Southern Emerald Toucanet; White-throated may refer only to the white-throated nominate subspecies and should not be generalized to every form.

• Peters’ Duiker Cephalophus callipygus

  Peters’ duiker is a small antelope of Central African forests. It is diurnal and is recorded in primary, old secondary, and logged forest.

• Flame-colored Tanager Piranga bidentata

  This tanager lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. Adult males are orange-red and females are yellow, and the birds search for food in the canopy.

• Littledale's Whistling Rat Parotomys littledalei

  A rodent of arid southern Africa. It feeds on fresh leaves and other green plants, and builds connected burrows beneath shrubs.

• Orange Dove Ptilinopus victor

  The male has an olive-yellow head and vivid orange body. It feeds on small fruits high in trees.

• Leschenault's Rousette Rousettus leschenaultii

  Rousettus leschenaultii is a fruit-eating flying fox ranging across South and Southeast Asia. Its dorsal fur is fulvous brown and the underside grey to brown-grey; it roosts by day in caves and some buildings.

• Southern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens

  The Southern White-crowned Shrike lives in open acacia and riverine woodland in southern Africa. It searches the ground for invertebrates; a South African field report also describes small groups.

• Franklin's Ground Squirrel Poliocitellus franklinii

  Franklin's ground squirrel prefers tall grass where prairie meets woodland and digs underground burrows. It eats both plant and animal foods. In Missouri, populations have declined with habitat loss and fragmentation.

• Dusky Fulvetta Schoeniparus brunneus

  The Dusky Fulvetta uses forests and grass-jungle in China and Taiwan. It has a rufous cap with a thin black line and grey-buff underparts.

• Zanzibar Red Colobus Piliocolobus kirkii

  The Zanzibar red colobus has a coat of red, black and white. It occurs on islands in the Zanzibar Archipelago off Tanzania and feeds often on young leaves.