Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

  

  The Southern Rough-winged Swallow catches insects in flight over open country and near water in Central and South America.

• Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata

  Seba's short-tailed bat is a small leaf-nosed bat with a short tail. It becomes active after sunset and roosts in groups in caves and tree hollows.

• Dulit Frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti

  The Dulit Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird of a few Bornean mountain areas. Its cryptic colors blend with branches, and it nests on branches in Sarawak.

• Sooty Mangabey Cercocebus atys

  The sooty mangabey is a monkey of West African forests. It has dark fur and uses both the ground and trees in groups.

• Eurasian Rock Pipit Anthus petrosus

  The Eurasian Rock Pipit is a coastal bird with gray-brown plumage and dark streaks. It walks among rocks and along the tide line, searching for small invertebrates.

• Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista leucogenys

  The Japanese giant flying squirrel is a large nocturnal squirrel of Japan's forests. It glides between trees on a membrane stretched between its fore and hind limbs and rests in tree hollows by day.

• Bare-throated Whistler Pachycephala nudigula

  The Bare-throated Whistler lives in forests and mountains on Sumbawa and Flores in Indonesia. Males have a bare red patch low on the throat.

• Smoky Pseudomys Pseudomys fumeus

  The smoky mouse lives in isolated populations in southeastern mainland Australia. Its dark grey fur and long pink tail are easy to distinguish.

• White-tufted Grebe Rollandia rolland

  This small grebe dives for food. Breeding adults have a bold white fan of feathers on each side of the dark head.

• Greater Musky Fruit Bat Ptenochirus jagorii

  This fruit-eating bat is endemic to the Philippines. It feeds in forests and was frequently captured in a lowland forest survey on Mount Makiling, Luzon.

• Anthony's Nightjar Nyctidromus anthonyi

  The male has a white throat but no white wing or tail patches, even in flight. In dry Pacific lowlands from western Ecuador to Peru, it catches flying insects at night.

• Arctic Lemming Dicrostonyx torquatus

  The Arctic lemming is a small rodent of the Eurasian tundra. Its coat is grayish in summer and white in winter, and it may store foods such as willows.

• Galapagos Hawk Buteo galapagoensis

  The Galapagos Hawk is a large raptor of the islands. Adults are dark, juveniles are paler, and females are larger than males.

• Badger Bat Glauconycteris superba

  This African bat has conspicuous white markings. A 2016 study captured 10 individuals at two sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and reported individual variation in shoulder and belly patterns.

• 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.

• Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum

  An antelope of water-rich grasslands in central and southern Africa; only males have horns.

• Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus haemorrhous

  This cacique is presented here through the affinis subspecies of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It has a black body and red rump, and colonies build hanging nests high in trees.

• Brock's Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus brocki

  This small bat lives in South American rainforests east of the Andes. It eats fruit and prefers primary and riverine forests.

• American Barn Owl Tyto furcata

  The American Barn Owl occurs across the Americas. It flies over open ground at night, searching for small mammals.

• Delacour's Langur Trachypithecus delacouri

  Delacour's langur lives in remnant forests among the limestone mountains of northern Vietnam. Its black-and-white coat, crest, and long tail stand out, and leaves form most of its diet.

• Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi

  Saunders’s Tern is a small seabird that breeds on African and Asian coasts and islands bordering the northern Indian Ocean. At the Farasan Islands, parents spent more time at the nest when temperatures moved away from the range suitable for the eggs.

• Boehm's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus boehmi

  Boehm's bush squirrel is a small squirrel with orange and dark side stripes. It moves through trees and eats fruit and insects.

• White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera

  The White-ruffed Manakin lives in evergreen forests from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia. Adult males are glossy blue-black, with white feathers on the throat and under the tail.

• Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni

  The grassland melomys has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside. In a Halmahera survey, it was caught in ground-level traps in secondary growth, including near rivers.