Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brants's Whistling Rat Parotomys brantsii

  

  This rodent occurs in southern Africa. It is mainly active around dawn and dusk and uses consolidated sandy ground in sparsely vegetated semidesert. An 1849 description records a pale yellow-brown back finely flecked with dark brown and a pale belly.

• Fawn-breasted Bowerbird Chlamydera cerviniventris

  The Fawn-breasted Bowerbird occurs on New Guinea and in northern Australia. The male builds a stick bower and uses it in courtship.

• Bornean Spotted-winged Fruit Bat Balionycteris maculata

  This small fruit bat has yellow spots on its wings. It lives in forests in Thailand, Malaysia, and Borneo and is usually active at night.

• Black-fronted Wood-quail Odontophorus atrifrons

  This wood-quail lives in montane forests of northern Colombia. It is marked by a black forehead and red bill and searches the ground for insects and seeds. It is shy, so its calls may be heard before the bird is seen.

• Florida Deermouse Podomys floridanus

  The Florida deermouse lives in dry sandy uplands and scrub in peninsular Florida. It may dig a small nest burrow inside a gopher tortoise burrow.

• Black Bee-eater Merops gularis

  This African bee-eater lives in forests and at forest edges. It can look black from a distance, but red and blue stand out in good light.

• Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Ictidomys tridecemlineatus

  The thirteen-lined ground squirrel has alternating dark and light stripes, with spots in the dark stripes. In Texas it uses underground burrows in grassland and pasture, and its food changes with the season.

• Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus

  The Brown-headed Gull develops a brown head in breeding plumage. It moves between its breeding range and wintering areas with the seasons.

• Gould's Wattled Bat Chalinolobus gouldii

  Gould's wattled bat has brown fur on the rear and underside, with darker fur on its head and shoulders. In southern Australia, it hibernates through winter.

• Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans

  The Laughing Falcon has a pale head with a black mask around the eyes. It feeds mainly on snakes, and pairs may exchange laughter-like calls at dawn and dusk.

• Pallas's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina

  A bat that probes flowers with a long, extendable tongue. It visits flowers at night and eats nectar, pollen, fruit, insects, and other foods.

• Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo

  This small batis occurs in dry parts of East Africa. It uses acacia scrub, woodland, and wooded grassland.

• Kinda Baboon Papio kindae

  The Kinda baboon lives in miombo woodland in south-central Africa. It is smaller and more slender than related baboons, with notably long legs.

• Olive-backed Flowerpecker Prionochilus olivaceus

  The Olive-backed Flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippines. Clements v2024 moves it from Prionochilus olivaceus to Pachyglossa olivacea. Throat and breast-side colour varies among subspecies.

• Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus

  The northern bushbuck is an antelope ranging from the Sahel to eastern and parts of central-southern Africa. Its white spots and stripes vary by region, and males have spiralled horns.

• American Black Duck Anas rubripes

  A duck of shallow wetlands in eastern North America. It is dark brown overall and can be hard to distinguish among Mallards.

• Common Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster

  The common water rat is a large rodent adapted to life near water. It has webbed feet and a thick tail with a white tip.

• Yellow-knobbed Curassow Crax daubentoni

  This large curassow ranges through northern Venezuela and adjacent parts of Colombia. The male is black with an erect crest and a yellow knob on its bill; both sexes have a crest. It feeds on the ground and in trees on plant matter and small animals.

• Pemba Flying Fox Pteropus voeltzkowi

  The Pemba flying fox is a large bat found on Pemba Island off Tanzania. Its tawny fur can look orange, its ears are black, and it forages for fruit at dusk.

• Mealy Amazon Amazona farinosa

  This large green parrot has pale, powdery-looking markings on the head and neck. It occurs in tropical forest from Central into northern South America.

• Long-tailed Colilargo Oligoryzomys longicaudatus

  A small rice rat found in Chile and Argentina. It has a long tail and is mostly nocturnal and terrestrial, though it climbs well.

• Samoan Whistler Pachycephala flavifrons

  This whistler is found on Samoan islands. Males have yellow underparts, while females are paler above with a gray throat.

• Least Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) minimus

  This small chipmunk lives in North America. It has a striped face, an orangish-brown back, and a grayish-white underside. It often uses forest edges and openings.

• Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi

  A bird photographed at Lake Manyara in Tanzania in 2017 was recorded as the boehmi form, noted for a dark breast band. The species account summarizes its habitat as acacia woodland, savanna, and open woodland.