Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bale Monkey Chlorocebus djamdjamensis

  

  The Bale monkey lives in forests of the Ethiopian highlands. Bamboo makes up an important part of its diet, and it has distinctive facial and hand-and-foot coloring.

• Nicobar Megapode Megapodius nicobariensis

  The Nicobar Megapode is a ground-dwelling bird of the Nicobar Islands. It makes large mounds of leaves and sand, using the heat of decomposition to incubate its eggs.

• Gray Short-tailed Bat Carollia subrufa

  The gray short-tailed bat is a small bat recorded in the dry-forest region of northwestern Nicaragua. A local field survey found both males and females in March.

• Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius

  The Orange Weaver has an orange throat and bright yellow plumage in the male, while the female is duller greenish-yellow. It nests colonially around wetlands.

• Peters's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus crypturus

  Peters's epauletted fruit bat flies through southern African savanna and riverine forest, feeding on fruit. It travels to fruiting trees at night.

• Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti

  The Grey-headed Bushshrike lives in sub-Saharan Africa. In a southern African atlas it was recorded as a large, brightly coloured bird that often hides in foliage and gives far-carrying calls.

• Mount Kilimanjaro Vlei Rat Otomys zinki

  This vlei rat is recorded on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Its dark coat has ochre bands and black hair tips.

• Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker Dicaeum trochileum

  Males have a bright red head, breast, and back, while females are mostly brown. The species also occurs in lowland gardens, farms, and forest edges.

• Dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas

  A gazelle of deserts and dry grassland that feeds on a variety of plants.

• Purplish Jacamar Galbula chalcothorax

  This jacamar lives in forests of western Amazonia. It has a blackish-green crown and head sides, with reddish upperparts and tail.

• Round-tailed Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus tereticaudus

  The round-tailed ground squirrel lives on sandy desert flats, dunes, and wash edges. It mainly eats green vegetation, with seeds and insects added seasonally.

• Cuban Gnatcatcher Polioptila lembeyei

  This Cuban endemic lives in coastal scrub. An older specimen account records a fine black line from the eye toward the ear-coverts, bluish-grey upperparts, and ashy-white underparts.

• Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat Chalinolobus morio

  The Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat is an Australian bat with brown fur and short, rounded ears. It roosts in tree hollows and other structures and catches moths below the canopy.

• White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis

  The White-bellied Heron is a large waterbird with a long neck and legs. In Bhutan, it occurs in temperate and mixed broadleaf forests in three major river basins.

• Crested Rat Lophiomys imhausi

  This East African rodent has fur with white stripes or spots. It is active at night and feeds on fruits and roots.

• Sudan Golden Sparrow Passer luteus

  The Sudan Golden Sparrow is notable for the male's yellow head and underparts and chestnut back. Females are sandy brown. The species uses dry savanna and scrub, and forms flocks and nests in groups during the breeding period.

• Ursine Colobus Colobus vellerosus

  The ursine colobus is marked by a white ring around its face, white thighs, and a long pale tail. It moves through West African forests by day and eats leaves and seeds.

• Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes

  A bird with a thick bill that can crack hard seeds.

• Southern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat Tonatia maresi

  Tonatia maresi is a bat distributed in South America. The adult female used as the holotype reference in the paper had dark gray-brown fur above and a grayer, paler underside. The species roosts in hollow trees.

• Scarlet-hooded Barbet Eubucco tucinkae

  Males have a red head and throat, green back, and yellow belly; females have a yellow throat. It occurs in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western Brazil, using riverine vegetation and bamboo-rich secondary growth.

• Lesser Naked-backed Fruit Bat Dobsonia minor

  The lesser naked-backed fruit bat is a fruit bat recorded on New Guinea and nearby islands. Its wing membranes are visible across the back; the treatment considers a Sulawesi record uncertain.

• Grey-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera modesta

  The Grey-breasted Spiderhunter lives in Southeast Asian woodland. Its olive back and fine streaks on the throat and chest are useful field marks.

• Southern Luzon Phloeomys Phloeomys cumingi

  This rodent lives in forests on several Philippine islands. Its coarse, dark coat and long-haired tail stand out. Accounts also describe it using spaces near the forest floor and holes in trees.

• Silvery-cheeked hornbill Bycanistes brevis

  A forest bird with silvery facial feathers and a large bill.