Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus nanus

  

  This small woodpecker searches tree bark for invertebrates in forests and more open woodland.

• Common Grammomys Grammomys dolichurus

  

  This small, narrow-footed rodent has been described as nocturnal and arboreal in older references. Its ecology in the wild remains poorly known.

• Yellow-eared Toucanet Selenidera spectabilis

  

  This toucanet lives in humid forest from Honduras to Panama and searches for fruit and small animals in high branches.

• Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens orion

  

  This broad-nosed bat occurs in eastern Australia. Its back is dark brown and the underside is duller and paler. Records come from wet forests and more open woodland.

• Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus

  

  The Oriental Cuckoo is a migratory cuckoo that breeds in forests. Females include both grey and rufous plumage forms.

• Selangor Silvery Langur Trachypithecus selangorensis

  

  The Selangor Silvery Langur occurs along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Adults have dark gray fur with a silvery sheen, black facial skin, hands and feet, and long straight gray whiskers. Its classification within the silvered langur group has changed and remains treated differently by some authors.

• Striated Heron Butorides striata

  A small waterside heron found in Brazil around lakes, rivers, estuaries, and mangroves.

• Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira parvidens

  This small fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to northern Costa Rica. It roosts in mature forest and is also often recorded in disturbed areas where pioneer plants grow.

• Black-fronted White-eye Zosterops minor

  The Black-fronted White-eye lives in hill forests and other wooded areas on New Guinea, where it searches the canopy for insects and fruit. Several regional subspecies are described, with differences in plumage.

• Walia Ibex Capra walie

  A wild goat of the Simien Mountains in northern Ethiopia.

• Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei

  This barbet is known from Cordillera Azul in Peru. During the original description study, birds were observed taking fruit in the canopy of high-elevation cloud forest and moving in loose groups.

• Collie's Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) colliaei

  A tree squirrel from Mexico’s Pacific slope. A study in Jalisco recorded it in tropical dry forests, where it also ate fruit.

• Santa Marta Antpitta Grallaria bangsi

  The Santa Marta Antpitta occurs only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia. It is a ground-dwelling bird recorded in humid montane forest and forest edges.

• Watson's Climbing Rat Tylomys watsoni

  Watson's climbing rat has a long, white-tipped tail and large ears. It uses trees at night but is also recorded on the ground around rocks and fallen logs.

• Russet Sparrow Passer rutilans

  A sparrow ranging from the Himalayas across East Asia. Western populations use open woodland and terraced fields, while eastern populations use woodland edges and cultivated land; winter flocks sometimes forage together.

• Highveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) brantsii

  Brants's gerbil lives in southern African grasslands and has a white-tipped tail.

• Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum

  This forest bird ranges from Central America into northwestern South America and catches insects and small animals.

• Common Asiatic Myotis Myotis (Myotis) horsfieldii

  Horsfield's Myotis has brown fur that is lighter underneath and long ears with rounded tips. It roosts in caves, abandoned tunnels, and buildings.

• Pohnpei Broadbill Myiagra pluto

  Myiagra pluto is confined to Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. It also occurs at forest edges and village gardens, catching insects from low perches.

• Hamadryas baboon Papio hamadryas

  A baboon of dry grasslands and rocky areas; the adult male’s long mane looks like a cape around the shoulders.

• Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher Alcedo euryzona

  The Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher is a kingfisher recorded on the Indonesian island of Java. A report describes observations along rocky rivers in Central Java.

• 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.

• White-eared Catbird Ailuroedus buccoides

  White-eared Catbirds live in forests in northwestern New Guinea and nearby islands. Their green backs and white ear patches stand out, and they eat fruit and insects.

• Thomson's gazelle Eudorcas thomsonii

  An African grassland gazelle with a bold dark stripe along each side.