Meet the world’s animals.

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• Flame-fronted Barbet Psilopogon armillaris

  

  The Flame-fronted Barbet lives in humid forests on Java and Bali. Its green body contrasts with blue and reddish colors on the head.

• Merriam's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga mutica

  This bat has brown back fur with whitish bases, and its tongue tip may show even at rest. It ranges from Mexico through Central America to northern and western Colombia.

• White-necked Puffbird Notharchus hyperrhynchus

  The White-necked Puffbird occurs in Costa Rican tropical forest, including edges and clearings. It has a short rounded body and a thick, straight bill; its black cap and breast band stand out against white markings. It waits quietly on a perch before taking insects or small lizards.

• Coke's Hartebeest Alcelaphus cokii

  Coke's Hartebeest occurs in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Its coat is pale tawny, the rump patch is only slightly paler, and only the tail tuft is black. It selects grasses in grassland with scattered acacia scrub.

• Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi

  Bates's Sunbird is a small sunbird of African forests and forest edges. Its dark olive upperparts contrast with a pale eyebrow and yellow-edged wings.

• Cleft-headed Juliomys Juliomys rimofrons

  This small rodent is known from southeastern Brazil. It has long ochre-brown fur and an orange rump; known specimens came from ground-level traplines.

• Balearic Warbler Curruca balearica

  The Balearic Warbler is endemic to the Balearic Islands and has a long tail and red eye-ring. It feeds on small invertebrates in dense Mediterranean scrub.

• Jentink's Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) jentinki

  Jentink's squirrel has pale-speckled brown upperparts, a creamy underside, and a long, thin tail. It is active by day and uses the crowns of small trees in montane forest.

• Lesser Florican Sypheotides indicus

  The Lesser Florican is a small bustard of Indian grasslands. A breeding-season study recorded males making wing-fluttering display flights in open country.

• Mona Monkey Cercopithecus mona

  The mona monkey is an arboreal monkey of West and Central African forests. It searches for food in the middle and upper parts of trees.

• White-winged Robin Peneothello sigillata

  The White-winged Robin has velvety black plumage and white patches in the wings. In New Guinea's mountains it forages in the lower forest levels for insects and also takes fruit and seeds.

• Fijian Monkey-faced Fruit Bat Mirimiri acrodonta

  The Fijian monkey-faced fruit bat has been recorded in upland cloud forest on Taveuni Island. It has bright orange eyes, and records of its ecology remain limited.

• Golden Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster

  Males are conspicuously yellow with black wings. The species uses dry, semi-open country and forest edges, where it eats seeds, insects, and fruit.

• Camiguin Forest Mouse Apomys camiguinensis

  This mouse is recorded from Camiguin Island in the southern Philippines. Its species account describes a russet-brown back with fine dark-and-pale hairs and a pale underside.

• Kilombero Cisticola Cisticola bakerorum

  This cisticola is restricted to reedbeds in Tanzania's Kilombero Swamp. Its rufous cap and tail-tip bands help identify it.

• 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.

• Guadalupe Murrelet Synthliboramphus hypoleucus

  This small seabird is dark above and white below. It nests on islands off western Baja California and differs from Scripps's Murrelet by having more white around the eye.

• Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) cinereus

  It has a dark noseleaf and pale cream ear margins. It was also captured in Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil.

• Gray Swiftlet Aerodramus vanikorensis

  Long wings and gray-brown plumage identify this swiftlet. It glides through the air and builds a nest using moss.

• Dama gazelle Nanger dama

  A gazelle that feeds on shrubs and grasses in arid country.

• Palau Fantail Rhipidura lepida

  This fantail occurs in the understory of the Palau Islands. In the 1951 account, it foraged through brush alone or in pairs.

• Atlantic Forest Nectomys Nectomys squamipes

  The 2015 species account records this rodent in eastern Brazil’s Atlantic Forest region and cites primary forest near streams as habitat.

• Philippine Cockatoo Cacatua haematuropygia

  The Philippine cockatoo is a white parrot found only in the Philippines. Orange-red feathers beneath the tail, with pale yellow and pink on the cheeks and underwings, help identify it.

• Junín Red Squirrel Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pyrrhinus

  The Junín red squirrel is an arboreal squirrel recorded in Peru. Its back is reddish brown, while the underside ranges from white to more reddish shades.