Meet the world’s animals.

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• Heller's Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus helleri

  

  This broad-nosed bat is recorded from Mexico through Central America to northern South America west of the Andes. A 2010 revision separated species from the older broad P. helleri complex.

• White-fronted Manakin Lepidothrix serena

  This small manakin inhabits humid forest north of the Amazon and in the Guianas; it also occurs at forest edges.

• Afroalpine Vlei Rat Otomys orestes

  The Afroalpine Vlei Rat occurs on Mount Kenya and the Aberdare Range in central Kenya. It has shaggy tawny-brown fur and creamy-buff patches behind the ears, and lives in open heath and grassland above the tree line.

• American Barn Owl Tyto furcata

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

• Oldfield Deermouse Peromyscus polionotus

  This nocturnal mouse lives in grassland and dunes in the southeastern United States. It digs underground burrows and stores seeds. Coastal animals tend to have paler coats than inland populations.

• White-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis ruficeps

  This parrotbill ranges from northeast India east of Sikkim to Bhutan and adjacent Tibet. It uses bamboo near broadleaf evergreen forest and may be seen in small groups.

• White-fronted Langur Presbytis frontata

  The white-fronted langur is a Bornean monkey with gray-brown fur and a white bare patch on its forehead. It is active by day, but its detailed ecology is poorly known.

• Wrinkled Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

  A lowland-forest hornbill known for the male's red wrinkled casque; it often feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Cream-coloured Giant Squirrel Ratufa affinis

  The cream-coloured giant squirrel is a large squirrel active by day in the upper canopy. It eats fruit and other plant matter, as well as insects.

• Inambari Gnatcatcher Polioptila attenboroughi

  This gnatcatcher is documented in the canopy of western Amazonian forest. Its original description reported specimens and recordings from a small number of sites in Amazonas, Brazil.

• Lesser Dawn Bat Eonycteris spelaea

  The Lesser Dawn Bat has a long, narrow muzzle and large eyes. It feeds on nectar and pollen and roosts in large colonies in caves and other sheltered places.

• Red-crowned crane Grus japonensis

  A crane of East Asian wetlands, recognized by a white body and a red patch on the head.

• Painted Woolly Bat Kerivoula picta

  This small bat has bright orange fur and black wings. It hunts spiders and insects while flying through cluttered spaces close to the ground.

• Swallow Tanager Tersina viridis

  In Bolivia, the Swallow Tanager is seen in forest canopies and feeds mainly on fruit. Females have a dark facial mask and barred flanks.

• Chinese Goral Naemorhedus caudatus

  The Chinese goral is a goat relative that lives on steep, rocky mountains. It also uses forested slopes and exposed grassy ridges.

• Spot-billed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maculirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher uses rocky slopes and lake margins in the high Andes. It searches for arthropods on the ground and also uses gravelly river edges during the Southern Hemisphere winter.

• Western Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga morenoi

  This bat has pale-based, dark-tipped fur and a long muzzle and tongue for reaching nectar. It is recorded in dry forests and scrub across parts of Mexico.

• Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila

  In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and back and a yellow belly. It breeds in the Russian Far East and northeastern China, then migrates to southern China and Southeast Asia for winter.

• Delicate Pseudomys Pseudomys delicatulus

  The Delicate Pseudomys is a small mouse recorded from northern to eastern Australia. It eats grass seeds and has been reported digging simple burrows in grassy habitat.

• Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilis

  This small bird lives in forests around Tasmania. It has an olive-brown back and pale, gray-streaked underparts, and searches for insects near the ground in moist forest.

• Drylands Laucha Calomys musculinus

  The drylands laucha is a small mouse recorded around grassland and farmland in Argentina. It eats seeds and is mainly nocturnal, though daytime activity has also been reported.

• Orange-breasted Fruiteater Pipreola jucunda

  A CERO report recorded an adult male foraging along a humid forest edge in Ecuador. A possibly different bird was reported to have a larger orange chest patch, and the reason for the difference is unresolved.

• Black-and-white Langur Presbytis bicolor

  This langur occurs in central Sumatra. Field visits from 2016 to 2022 recorded it in forest and rubber-growing landscapes and documented feeding on rubber-tree and leaves of mango (Mangifera sp.).

• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser rufoscapulatus

  The Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver has a stocky body, chestnut back, and striped head. Small groups stay together year-round in miombo woodland and search the ground for seeds and insects.