Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda

  

  This weaver lives in and around Tanzania’s Serengeti. Its brown plumage looks scaly where pale feather edges overlap, and a dry-season study found it using open grassland.

• Whitehead's Sundaic Maxomys Maxomys whiteheadi

  Whitehead's Sundaic Maxomys ranges from the Malay Peninsula through Sumatra to Borneo. It is mainly nocturnal and terrestrial, and has short spines mixed into the fur on its back.

• Whinchat Saxicola rubetra

  The Whinchat is a small migratory bird found in grassland and scrub. In Britain it breeds in summer and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Island flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus

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

• Auckland Rail Lewinia muelleri

  The Auckland Rail is a small, secretive rail remaining on two islands in New Zealand’s Auckland Islands.

• Maritime Striped Squirrel Tamiops maritimus

  The maritime striped squirrel is a small squirrel with bold black stripes along its back. The traits described here are for the subspecies found in Taiwan.

• Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi

  Willard’s Sooty Boubou was described from a small series of specimens from the western Albertine Rift. The description reports collection localities in Uganda and Burundi, but the few specimens do not establish a complete range.

• Silvered Langur Trachypithecus cristatus

  The silvered langur feeds on leaves and fruit in trees; its orange young gradually develop the silver coat of adults.

• Barred Puffbird Nystalus radiatus

  This puffbird occurs from central Panama through western Colombia to western Ecuador, in wet forest and its edges. Its reddish-brown body is barred with black, and it waits quietly on a perch for prey. Its diet includes large insects and small lizards.

• White-ankled Deermouse Peromyscus pectoralis

  The White-ankled Deermouse occurs in the Mexican highlands and mountains. It is active at night and eats seeds, fruits, and other foods.

• Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea

  The Cinereous Bunting uses rocky, scrub-covered slopes and nests on the ground. Its underparts range from whitish gray to yellowish between the western and eastern subspecies.

• Madeira Pipistrelle Pipistrellus maderensis

  The Madeira pipistrelle is a small bat found in the Madeira and Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to towns and catches flying insects.

• Flame-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris solaris

  The male has a glossy blue-green throat and forehead with a vivid orange breast and belly. The species lives alone or in pairs in open woodland and scrub of lowlands and low hills.

• Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira tildae

  Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat is a fruit-eating bat found from northern South America into Brazil and neighboring countries. Its coat varies, and it has ochre shoulder patches and dark fur around the eyes.

• Crescent-faced Antpitta Grallaricula lineifrons

  The Crescent-faced Antpitta lives in humid montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador. Few localities are known, and it quietly forages near the forest floor.

• Soemmerring's gazelle Nanger soemmerringii

  Soemmerring's gazelle is a gazelle of the dry grasslands and scrub of the Horn of Africa.

• Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis

  A stork with a red face and long yellow bill that forages in shallow African wetlands.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

  This striped grass mouse was common at a savanna study site in Ethiopia. Broken pale stripes run along its flanks.

• White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis

  This large petrel ranges widely over the Southern Ocean and breeds in burrows on vegetated island slopes.

• Kai Flying Fox Pteropus keyensis

  This flying fox occurs on Indonesia’s Kai Islands. Its coat is nearly all yellow. It is active at night and roosts in forested areas with little disturbance.

• Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus

  The Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry country. It eats seeds and flies daily to water, where large flocks gather; males and females differ in plumage.

• Fire-footed Rope Squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus

  This squirrel lives in forests of western and central Africa. It has a reddish face and limbs and a bushy tail, and feeds by day on fruits, seeds, and other foods.

• Black-girdled Barbet Capito dayi

  A small barbet of lowland forest in central Amazonian Brazil and eastern Bolivia. The male’s red crown and black band across the white underside are distinctive.

• Laos Langur Trachypithecus laotum

  The Laos langur lives in limestone forest in central Laos. At the study site, young animals showed varied coat colors, and groups were observed eating young leaves.