Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis

  

  The Northern Waterthrush is a streaked bird that walks along wetland edges in search of small aquatic animals.

• Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa pusilla

  The little yellow-eared bat is small, with yellow-edged ears and no tail. It roosts in leaf tents and mainly eats small fruits.

• Vogelkop Lophorina Lophorina superba

  The male spreads black plumage around an iridescent blue-green breast shield. It eats fruit and arthropods and performs a courtship display.

• L'Hoest's Monkey Allochrocebus lhoesti

  L'Hoest's monkey is recognizable by its dark coat and white beard. It spends more time on the ground than many monkeys.

• Chinspot Batis Batis molitor

  This small bird is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and favors woodland, savanna, and riverine thickets over evergreen forest. It searches for insects and spiders in trees and bushes.

• Western Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Hesperosciurus) griseus

  The western gray squirrel has a gray back, pale underside and bushy tail. In Washington, it occurs in scattered pine and oak woodlands.

• Red-chested Buttonquail Turnix pyrrhothorax

  The Red-chested Buttonquail walks through grassland to eat seeds and small insects. Females are larger than males and have richer chestnut coloring on the breast.

• Rudd's Bristle-furred Rat Uranomys ruddi

  This rat has a short tail and a white belly. In a Guinea survey it was recorded in escarpment forest, gallery forest, and near cultivated or fallow land.

• Philippine Spine-tailed Swift Mearnsia picina

  This Philippine spinetail has long wings and a short tail. It catches insects while flying above forest.

• 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.

• White-fronted Honeyeater Purnella albifrons

  This honeyeater lives in arid and semi-arid scrub and woodland. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects and honeydew.

• Reed Vole Microtus (Alexandromys) fortis

  A large vole associated with wet grasslands. Seasonal movements in the Dongting Lake area have been studied in relation to changing lake levels.

• Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps

  The Red-headed Bunting breeds in Central Asia and winters in India. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor; females and young can be difficult to identify because they resemble Black-headed Buntings.

• Cuban Evening Bat Nycticeius cubanus

  This Cuban bat is described with a short muzzle and thick brown fur. Records include roosts in buildings and wooden streetlight poles.

• Pygmy Bushtit Psaltria exilis

  This tiny bird occurs only in the mountains of western and central Java. It feeds on insects and moves actively through the lower forest in small flocks.

• Royal Antelope Neotragus pygmaeus

  This small antelope lives in West African forests. Its specialist account describes it using thickets along forest edges and in clearings.

• White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis

  The White-tailed Ant Thrush keeps to forest undergrowth and the forest floor. The East African account describes broad white tips on the outer tail feathers and records the species in western Uganda and Kenya's Kakamega Forest.

• Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum

  This small fruit-eating bat occurs in South America. It has no tail, brown tricolored fur, a short nose, and white patches on its shoulders. Local migration records are kept to the populations where they were documented.

• Copper-throated Sunbird Leptocoma calcostetha

  Males stand out for their copper-red throat. The species feeds on flower nectar in coastal mangroves, and an observation also recorded it eating an arthropod.

• Germain's Langur Trachypithecus germaini

  This langur has a silvery gray coat, a black face, and a crown-like crest. A study in Vietnam's karst region found that leaves were its main food.

• Blue Nuthatch Sitta azurea

  The Blue Nuthatch is a small bird that moves along trunks and branches in mountain forest.

• Mutable Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus mutabilis

  The Mutable Sun Squirrel occurs in forests and savannas of eastern Africa. It is active by day and forages both in trees and on the ground.

• Dusky-brown Oriole Oriolus phaeochromus

  The Dusky-brown Oriole, also called the Halmahera Oriole, is a uniformly brown oriole from the North Moluccas. It uses upper forest and edges and gives a fluty call.

• Golden Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) russatus

  The golden spiny mouse has a golden-brown back and uses crevices in dry, rocky places. When alarmed, it raises its stiff hairs to look larger.