Meet the world’s animals.

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• Jungle Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) tristriatus

  

  This squirrel lives in India's Western Ghats. Three pale stripes run along its back, and its head is grayish or reddish brown. It uses moist forests and can also occur in plantations and pasture.

• White-browed Tit-warbler Leptopoecile sophiae

  

  This tiny bird is about 8–10 cm long and lives in high-mountain scrub. It eats insects and other invertebrates and may move between elevations.

• Swamp Rat Scapteromys tumidus

  

  This strong swimmer lives in wetlands in Uruguay and southern Brazil. Its partly webbed hind feet help it move around water.

• Hainan Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus hainanus

  

  This leaf-warbler occurs only on Hainan Island, China. Its deep yellow underparts and white outer tail feathers are described in the species paper.

• Ashy Tube-nosed Bat Murina feae

  

  This small bat is distributed in Cambodia, southern China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its soft gray coat is a useful field mark.

• Nubian Nightjar Caprimulgus nubicus

  

  The Nubian Nightjar was studied in salt marsh and open country in southern Israel. Its foraging times changed with moonlight, and moths were its main prey.

• Nile Lechwe Kobus megaceros

  An antelope of seasonally flooded wetlands and a capable swimmer.

• Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti

  A small brown bird that hides in reedbeds and dense scrub near water. It is difficult to see, but its loud, abrupt song can reveal its presence.

• Seychelles Flying Fox Pteropus seychellensis

  The Seychelles flying fox is a large bat endemic to the granitic islands of Seychelles. It roosts in trees by day and flies out at dusk.

• Red-masked Parakeet Psittacara erythrogenys

  This parakeet is leaf green with a red head, a heavy white eye-ring and a pale bill. It is native to dry forests in western Peru and Ecuador and roosts communally in large groups.

• Broad-toothed Mastacomys Mastacomys fuscus

  This Australian native rodent has a stout body and broad teeth. It lives in upland grasslands and forests, with a patchy distribution.

• Rufous-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus speciosus

  Rufous-breasted Wood-Quails inhabit humid forest on the eastern Andes and forage on the ground in family groups. Adult males have rufous underparts, while female plumage differs among the populations described.

• Collared Mangabey Cercocebus torquatus

  The collared mangabey has reddish hair on its crown and striking white eyelids against a dark face. It is active by day and spends much of its time on the ground, though it also climbs through trees.

• Meratus White-eye Zosterops meratusensis

  Zosterops meratusensis was described from the Meratus Mountains of southeastern Borneo. The paper suggests that its range may be confined to this mountain area.

• Fringe-lipped Bat Trachops cirrhosus

  The fringe-lipped bat has wart-like bumps on its lips and chin. It lives in lowland forests of Central and South America and roosts in hollow trees or caves.

• Collared Gnatwren Microbates collaris

  The Collared Gnatwren is a small forest bird with a long bill and a black breast band. It moves quickly through low growth in northern Amazonian forest while searching for insects and other arthropods.

• Red-cheeked Ground Squirrel Spermophilus erythrogenys

  The red-cheeked ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel marked by reddish cheeks. Regional records describe it as active by day, using burrows and feeding on grasses and other foods.

• Japanese Reed Bunting Emberiza yessoensis

  The Japanese Reed Bunting uses grassland, farmland, and dry riverbeds. This account focuses on the form that breeds in Honshu and Kyushu.

• Eva's deer mouse Peromyscus eva

  Eva's deer mouse occurs on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula and Carmen Island. Its coat varies, and the island population is darker.

• Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens

  The Glaucous-winged Gull is a large gull of Pacific shorelines. Adult wingtips are pale gray like the rest of the upperwing, and the bird searches coastlines for fish and crabs.

• Eurasian Particolored Bat Vespertilio murinus

  A bat ranging from Europe through Siberia to the Pacific coast, known for its frosted, two-coloured fur.

• Undulated Antpitta Grallaria squamigera

  The Undulated Antpitta lives in humid Andean forest and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Lelwel Hartebeest Alcelaphus lelwel

  Alcelaphus lelwel has a reddish coat, pale rump and narrow upright V-shaped horns. Its HMW species account describes grass-only feeding in savanna mixed with woodland, with feeding peaks late in the day.

• Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceus

  This diving duck lives on clear mountain rivers. It dives in fast-flowing water for fish and stays within river territories.