Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ryukyu Flying Fox Pteropus dasymallus

  

  This flying fox roosts in forest trees and feeds mainly on fruit. Coat color and roosting patterns vary among subspecies.

• White-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus ensipennis

  

  This hummingbird occurs on Tobago and nearby areas. Males have a blue throat, while females are grayer, and both have conspicuous long white tail feathers. It hovers at flowers to take nectar and small insects.

• Australian Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes

  

  This Australian rat has rounded ears and a relatively short tail. It is nocturnal and uses the understorey, with burrows under logs or rocks.

• Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea

  

  The Little Corella is a mostly white cockatoo with a blue ring around each eye and a pale rose-pink patch between the eye and bill. It is widespread in Australia and feeds on grass seeds and grains in large flocks.

• Udzungwa Red Colobus Piliocolobus gordonorum

  

  The Udzungwa red colobus is found in forests of southwestern Tanzania. A black body contrasts with its red crown and white cheeks and underside; it feeds on leaves and other plant parts.

• Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea

  

  This flycatcher ranges widely from West to East Africa. It searches for insects in forest and woodland, along rivers and in farmland, and builds a low nest.

• Common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

  A bat from Mexico through much of South America that feeds on animal blood.

• Whooping Crane Grus americana

  A tall crane of North America. Adults have a white body, black wing tips, and a red crown.

• Round-tailed Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus tereticaudus

  The round-tailed ground squirrel lives on sandy desert flats, dunes, and wash edges. It mainly eats green vegetation, with seeds and insects added seasonally.

• Aripuana Antwren Herpsilochmus stotzi

  This antwren was described from the Aripuanã–Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil, where it occurs in campinarana forest on poor soils.

• Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus

  This stocky Arctic lemming has a thick coat that changes with the seasons, becoming white in winter.

• Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus

  The Little Bee-eater is a small bee-eater widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It catches flying insects from low perches.

• Taddei's Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) taddeii

  This medium-sized bat was described from the Atlantic Forest of southern and southeastern Brazil. The original description reports captures in forest and at forest edges.

• Scarlet-hooded Barbet Eubucco tucinkae

  Males have a red head and throat, green back, and yellow belly; females have a yellow throat. It occurs in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western Brazil, using riverine vegetation and bamboo-rich secondary growth.

• Black Duiker Cephalophus niger

  This small antelope is recorded from the Upper Guinea forest zone east to the Lower Niger area of western Nigeria. It has a dark body and legs, a grayish head and neck, and a reddish-brown crown tuft.

• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla

  The Semipalmated Sandpiper is a small shorebird with a short bill. It breeds on Arctic tundra and winters along coasts farther south in the Americas.

• Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus pusillus

  This fruit bat ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa. Males have conspicuous white tufts of fur at the shoulders; females do not.

• Rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus

  A colourful Australian parrot with a blue head, green wings and an orange-to-yellow breast.

• Ryukyu Mouse Mus (Mus) caroli

  The Ryukyu mouse has a dark grey back and pale underside. A Taiwan museum record describes it in lowland fields, feeding on seeds and plant roots.

• Purple-backed Fairywren Malurus assimilis

  The Purple-backed Fairywren inhabits dense inland Australian scrub and saltbush. It moves close to the ground and through grasses while searching for arthropods and seeds.

• Mandrill Mandrillus sphinx

  A monkey of equatorial African rainforests, with adult males known for brightly coloured faces.

• Pale-tailed Canastero Asthenes huancavelicae

  Pale-tailed Canastero occurs in central-southern Peru. The Apurimac form usheri has pale outer tail feathers, and the species account places it in arid valleys with scattered shrubs, cacti, and trees.

• Carriker's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma carrikeri

  Carriker's round-eared bat is recorded in Bolivia. A Bolivian species account reports insect feeding and termite mounds used as roosts.

• Fuscous Honeyeater Ptilotula fusca

  This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.