Meet the world’s animals.

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• Underwood's Long-tongued Bat Hylonycteris underwoodi

  

  Underwood's long-tongued bat is a small bat with a narrow muzzle and an extensible tongue. It leaves forest roosts at dusk to search for nectar.

• Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus

  The Indian Cuckoo occurs in Asia. A breeding study on a university campus in Bangladesh recorded it laying an egg in a Black Drongo nest.

• South China Field Mouse Apodemus draco

  The South China Field Mouse lives in southern Chinese forests, where its seed-hoarding behavior has been studied.

• White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis

  The White-rumped Sandpiper is a small shorebird that breeds in the Arctic and migrates to South America. In flight, white feathers covering the base of the tail stand out.

• Prairie Vole Microtus (Pedomys) ochrogaster

  This vole lives in grasslands. Its back is grizzled brown, its underside is pale tan, and it makes runways through grass to reach food.

• Western Bowerbird Chlamydera guttata

  The Western Bowerbird is an inland Australian bird with reddish spots and a yellowish underside. Males build avenue-like bowers from sticks, decorate them with objects such as bones and shells, and display to attract females.

• Bonnet Macaque Macaca radiata

  The bonnet macaque is a monkey native to southern India. The hair on its head spreads like a bonnet.

• Great Tinamou Tinamus major

  A large ground-dwelling bird of tropical lowland forest. It is hard to see but known for a haunting double whistle at dawn and dusk.

• Thomas's Flying Squirrel Aeromys thomasi

  Thomas’s Flying Squirrel lives in Borneo’s forests. Its coat has no conspicuous markings, and it is nocturnal and eats forest fruits.

• Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara

  The male is deep red and black, while the female is red and olive brown. It searches for small seeds on the ground and uses savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.

• Island flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus

  The island flying fox is a flying fox occurring on islands from South Asia to the southwest Pacific.

• Red-legged Cormorant Poikilocarbo gaimardi

  The Red-legged Cormorant is a coastal South American cormorant. A white neck patch, red legs, and yellow bill stand out. It occurs on the Pacific coast from Peru to Chile and along southernmost Argentina on the Atlantic.

• Nathusius's Pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii

  Nathusius's pipistrelle is a migratory bat. In the UK it catches flying insects near lakes and rivers.

• Elegant Tit Pardaliparus elegans

  The Elegant Tit lives in Philippine forests and edges, searching among trees for small invertebrates.

• Arabian Gazelle Gazella arabica

  A slender gazelle with a white underside, living in deserts and other dry open habitats.

• Twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise Seleucidis melanoleucus

  The male has a black head and body, yellow underside, and wire-like flank plumes. It lives in lowland swamp forest and eats fruit and small animals.

• Greater Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris nivalis

  This cave-dwelling bat migrates seasonally to Mexico. In the United States, it is recorded in southwestern New Mexico and western Texas during summer.

• Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans

  The Crimson Rosella lives in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia. Alongside red adults, yellow and orange color forms occur in parts of its range.

• Hamiguitan Batomys Batomys hamiguitan

  The Hamiguitan Batomys is known from Mount Hamiguitan in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. The original survey recorded it in the transition between lowland and montane forest and in primary montane forest.

• Violaceous Quail-Dove Geotrygon violacea

  This quail-dove often uses trees, but it also visits the ground to eat fallen fruit. The Cotinga paper reports records from humid lowland forest in Peru.

• West Siberian Brown Lemming Lemmus sibiricus

  The West Siberian brown lemming is a compact rodent with a short tail. It feeds on tundra plants and makes burrows in the ground or snow.

• Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.

• Booted Macaque Macaca ochreata

  The booted macaque lives on southeastern Sulawesi. Its gray limbs stand out against its darker coat. It is active by day and eats mainly fruit.

• Crimson-fronted Barbet Psilopogon rubricapillus

  The Crimson-fronted Barbet is a small forest barbet in Sri Lanka. A male of the nominate subspecies has a red forehead and orange-golden throat, and visits fruiting trees.