Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cape Springbok Antidorcas marsupialis

  

  An antelope of open southern African savannas that can raise a crest of white hair when excited.

• Malagasy Sacred Ibis Threskiornis bernieri

  This ibis lives in western Madagascar and on Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles. Its pale blue-white eye is distinctive, and it probes tidal mud for crustaceans and other prey.

• Northern flying squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus

  The northern flying squirrel lives in northern coniferous forests and has white-and-gray belly fur and reddish fur along its back.

• Keel-billed toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus

  A toucan of Central America and nearby regions, with a black body, yellow throat and cheeks, and a large multicoloured bill.

• Northern Hairy-legged Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) pilosatibialis

  A 2014 study supported treating this former subspecies of Myotis keaysi as a distinct species. Its coat is buffy-brown, with hair on the hind feet and uropatagium.

• Sao Tome Thrush Turdus olivaceofuscus

  The São Tomé Thrush lives in forests on São Tomé. It searches among leaf litter, where beetles, snails, worms, and fruit have been recorded in its diet.

• Bolivian Akodont Akodon (Akodon) boliviensis

  This akodont ranges from southern Peru through central Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. Records include dry Puna and humid grasslands, with dense grass tussocks and small woodland patches.

• Pavonine Cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus

  The Pavonine Cuckoo is a forest cuckoo with a rufous head and neck and a long tail. On the ground it spreads its wings and tail to flush insects, then chases and catches them.

• Barbary Macaque Macaca sylvanus

  This macaque lives in the mountains of Morocco and Algeria and has a very short tail that is barely visible.

• East Amazonian Fire-eye Pyriglena leuconota

  The East Amazonian Fire-eye lives in evergreen forests of north-central and northeastern Brazil. Males are glossy black and females are reddish brown; both have a white patch on the back.

• Mesoamerican Round-eared Bat Lophostoma nicaraguae

  This bat has dark brown fur on its back and dark brown ears, paler brown fur on the belly, and a bare V-shaped area on the lower lip divided into wart-like projections. In Colombia, it is recorded in dry and moist tropical forests of the Caribbean and Pacific regions.

• Brown-throated Barbet Psilopogon corvinus

  The Brown-throated Barbet has a brown head and throat with green upperparts. It is usually solitary in Java's mountain forests, but may feed with other birds at fruiting trees.

• Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus

  This flying-fox has straw-colored fur around the eyes that looks like spectacles. It searches for fruit, nectar, pollen, and leaves at night and roosts in large camps.

• Red-flanked Lorikeet Hypocharmosyna placentis

  The Red-flanked Lorikeet is a small parrot that searches flowering trees and epiphytes for nectar and pollen. The nominate subspecies male has red flank feathers.

• Lakeland Downs Leggadina Leggadina lakedownensis

  This small mouse occurs in grassy habitats in central and northern Australia. The available account describes shared traits of its genus, including forward-projecting upper incisors and a short tail.

• Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis longicaudatus

  This small bird has a restricted range in northeast India. It lives mostly on the forest floor among mossy rocks and crevices.

• Damara Dik-dik Madoqua damarensis

  Madoqua damarensis ranges from northern and northwestern Namibia into southwestern Angola. In the northern Namibian population recorded under the former name M. kirkii damarensis, males had forehead crests reaching between the horns and browsed leaves and twigs in dense shrub thicket.

• Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis

  The Saddle-billed Stork is a large African stork of wetlands. It catches fish and small animals in shallow water.

• Abert's Squirrel Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti

  A U.S. Forest Service species review depicts a gray-and-white squirrel with long, pointed ear tufts. It is closely associated with ponderosa pine forests.

• Eye-ringed Parrotbill Suthora ricketti

  The Eye-ringed Parrotbill is a small mountain bird of Yunnan, China. It has a dark eye-ring bordered by pale skin and is treated as a species separate from the Brown-winged Parrotbill.

• Sardinian Long-eared Bat Plecotus sardus

  This long-eared bat occurs in forests on Sardinia. Its 2002 original description highlights brown dorsal fur and a notably long, broad tragus.

• Halmahera Paradise-crow Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

  This bird-of-paradise is easy to notice by its grey back and white wing patch. It eats fruit and arthropods in forests of the North Moluccas.

• Campbell's hamster Phodopus campbelli

  A small hamster with a narrow dark stripe down its back that lives in dry steppes and deserts.

• Philippine Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus olivaceus

  The Philippine Leaf Warbler is a small warbler of Philippine forests and forest edges. It has olive upperparts and a pale yellow eyebrow, and gleans small invertebrates from foliage. Species accounts place it in forest from lowlands to about 1,400 m.