Meet the world’s animals.

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• Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli

  

  This sandgrouse feeds on seeds in dry grassland around the Kalahari. Flocks gather at waterholes, and adults carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Cuban Fruit-eating Bat Brachyphylla nana

  The Cuban fruit-eating bat roosts in caves in Cuba. This account focuses on its Cuban cave habitat and appearance.

• Thick-billed Grasswren Amytornis modestus

  This profile focuses on the Grey Range subspecies, A. m. obscurior, in New South Wales. The state government page describes it in bluebush shrubland in arid and semi-arid country.

• Siberian ibex Capra sibirica

  A wild goat of Central Asian mountain ranges, both sexes have horns, but those of males grow especially long and large.

• Wood Stork Mycteria americana

  The Wood Stork is a large wetland bird with a white body and black flight feathers. It snaps up fish when they touch its bill underwater.

• Woolly Giant Rat Kunsia tomentosus

  The woolly giant rat is a large rodent of savannas and grasslands in Brazil and Bolivia. Its strong forefeet and long claws help it dig.

• Pale Batis Batis soror

  The Pale Batis is a small bird of miombo woodland and coastal forest.

• Black Flying Squirrel Aeromys tephromelas

  A nocturnal flying squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. Its coat differs between two subspecies, one mainly black and the other orange-red.

• Yucatan Wren Campylorhynchus yucatanicus

  The Yucatan Wren is restricted to coastal lowlands in the northern Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It lives in pairs or small family groups among scattered shrubs and cacti.

• Ashy Red Colobus Piliocolobus tephrosceles

  The ashy red colobus is a red colobus monkey of Uganda and Tanzania that uses riverine and moist forests among other woodland types.

• Little Pratincole Glareola lactea

  The little pratincole is a small bird that catches insects while flying over water and farmland. It is also recorded along Thai rivers and lakeshores.

• Great Flying Fox Pteropus neohibernicus

  The great flying fox is a large fruit bat found on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is nocturnal and roosts in large groups high in trees.

• Madagascar Red Owl Tyto soumagnei

  The Madagascar red owl is nocturnal, with reddish-brown plumage marked by black spots. It also occurs near forest edges and farmland on Madagascar.

• King Jird Meriones (Parameriones) rex

  The King Jird is a large gerbil known from rocky highlands in southwestern Saudi Arabia, including the Asir Mountains. Its behavior in the wild is still poorly known.

• 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.

• Beelzebub Tube-nosed Bat Murina beelzebub

  This tube-nosed bat is recorded in Vietnam. Silver guard hairs run through its dark coat, and its belly hairs have white tips.

• Souza's Shrike Lanius souzae

  Souza's Shrike is a small shrike of broad-leaved woodland in central and southern Africa. It often watches from a high perch and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Underwood's Long-tongued Bat Hylonycteris underwoodi

  Underwood's long-tongued bat is a small bat with a narrow muzzle and an extensible tongue. It leaves forest roosts at dusk to search for nectar.

• Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla

  Adults have black-and-white plumage. In the nominate subspecies, males have red to reddish-orange eyes and females orange to yellow-orange eyes. It searches for insects in the canopy.

• Four-horned Antelope Tetracerus quadricornis

  The four-horned antelope is a solitary bovid of open, dry deciduous forests in India. Four horns are present only in adult males.

• Curl-crested Jay Cyanocorax cristatellus

  The Curl-crested Jay is a social bird marked by blue wings and tail and a curled crest.

• Tres Marías Deer Mouse Peromyscus madrensis

  This mouse is known from the Islas Marías off Mexico’s Pacific coast. Its records are tied to islands separated from the mainland.

• Yungas Warbler Basileuterus punctipectus

  A warbler of humid Andean forests, ranging from southeastern Peru to central Bolivia.

• Mexican Prairie Dog Cynomys (Cynomys) mexicanus

  The Mexican prairie dog is a squirrel relative that burrows in dry grasslands of northern Mexico. It comes above ground by day and lives in social groups.