Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spotted Wood Quail Odontophorus guttatus

  

  The Spotted Wood Quail lives in forests from southeastern Mexico into Central America. It walks on the ground searching for seeds and insects.

• Hairy-legged Vampire Bat Diphylla ecaudata

  A tailless, dark brown bat that mainly lives in forests. It roosts in caves and other shelters and is known for feeding on bird blood.

• Torrent Flyrobin Monachella muelleriana

  This bird is recorded along rivers in New Guinea and New Britain. A survey on Fergusson Island documented the appearance and behaviour of 2 birds beside a fast-flowing stream.

• Oaxaca giant deer mouse Megadontomys cryophilus

  This large deer mouse lives in the highland forests of Oaxaca, with a dark back, ocher sides, and a slate-gray belly. It uses the dense understory of high-elevation forest.

• Elegant Pitta Pitta elegans

  The Elegant Pitta is notable for its blue rump and cinnamon-colored underparts. It occurs on islands from the Lesser Sundas to the Moluccas and eats beetles and small snails.

• Madagascan Flying Fox Pteropus rufus

  The Madagascan flying fox is a large fruit bat found only on Madagascar. It mainly takes juice from fruit and spits out the dry pulp and seeds, helping disperse seeds.

• Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva

  This swallow catches insects in flight and nests at cave entrances and under bridges. Its chestnut rump and forehead help distinguish it from other swallows.

• Common Malacomys Malacomys longipes

  The Common Malacomys has long hind feet and a tail longer than its head and body. An identification key that includes records from Rwanda's forests summarizes it as often found near water.

• Cinnamon-vented Piha Lipaugus lanioides

  A cotinga endemic to southeastern Brazil, inhabiting humid montane Atlantic Forest, mainly at about 500–1,000 m.

• Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica

  A sturdy wild goat of the Iberian mountains, with large horns. Its horns and coat differ by sex and season.

• Red-headed Tanager Piranga erythrocephala

  This tanager inhabits mountain forests in western Mexico. Males have a red head and throat; females lack the red areas.

• Evening Bat Nycticeius humeralis

  The evening bat has dark brown to black fur and broad ears. It roosts in tree hollows and under loose bark, and sometimes uses buildings.

• Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea

  The Blue Chaffinch uses its short, strong bill to eat seeds. Around Teide it forages from Canary pine woods to high-elevation retama scrub.

• Southern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca nemestrina

  This macaque lives in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is a major part of its diet, and it also forages on the ground. Its short tail is partly upright, and its crown is dark.

• Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba

  In breeding plumage, the Pigeon Guillemot is black with white wing patches and bright red feet. It dives for food near rocky shores.

• Guayaquil Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) stramineus

  This squirrel lives in forests from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. Its coat has different forms in lowland and highland areas.

• Mountain Caracara Phalcoboenus megalopterus

  The Mountain Caracara lives in open grasslands of the Andes. It hunts small animals and also feeds on carrion.

• Schmidt's Big-eared Bat Micronycteris (Leuconycteris) schmidtorum

  Schmidt's big-eared bat is a small bat with conspicuous ears and a leaf-like nose feature. It gleans insects from leaves at night and roosts in tree hollows.

• Black-breasted Buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon

  This large raptor lives mainly in inland Australia. It takes prey on the ground and eats carrion; it is known for dropping stones to break eggs.

• Perote Deermouse Peromyscus bullatus

  The Perote deermouse has tawny upperparts, a pale underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is recorded in a highland basin of central Mexico.

• Sri Lanka Gray Hornbill Ocyceros gingalensis

  The Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill is a small hornbill endemic to Sri Lanka, with a grey body and pale underparts.

• Little Red Flying Fox Pteropus scapulatus

  The little red flying-fox occurs across varied forests and wetlands in northern and eastern Australia. It mainly eats flower nectar and moves in search of flowering trees. It is the Australian flying-fox species that regularly roosts in tight clusters.

• Giant Ibis Pseudibis gigantea

  The world’s largest ibis now remains in lowland forest in northern and eastern Cambodia. It searches for food at secluded forest pools.

• Western Pseudomys Pseudomys occidentalis

  This mouse from Western Australia has a rounded snout and a long, marked tail. By day it stays in a group burrow and feeds mainly on plants.