Meet the world’s animals.

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• Forest Batis Batis mixta

  

  This small bird lives in forests from south-eastern Kenya into Tanzania. Males show blue-gray, black, and white markings; females are marked mainly with chestnut.

• 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.

• Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava

  The Tawny-flanked Prinia is a small bird with a long graduated tail and short, rounded wings. In northern Namibia it uses grass and waterside shrubs, searching for insects on the ground and in bushes.

• Ceram Flying Fox Pteropus ocularis

  The Ceram flying fox is known from only a small number of recorded individuals in the Moluccas. A 2015 study reported a new record from western Seram.

• Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus

  A nocturnal nightjar of East African woodland and savanna. It has a slender body and slightly elongated central tail feathers.

• Western Dwarf Squirrel Microsciurus mimulus

  This small squirrel has reddish or olive tones mixed into its dark back. It is active by day, uses trees and the ground, and feeds on tree sap and insects.

• Riverside Wren Cantorchilus semibadius

  The Riverside Wren is recorded in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica. It has rufous-chestnut upperparts and fine barring across its pale underside.

• 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.

• New Caledonian Goshawk Tachyspiza haplochroa

  The New Caledonian Goshawk is endemic to New Caledonia. It has a bluish-black head, wings, and back, a gray throat, and a white body below.

• Long-snouted Bat Platalina genovensium

  The Peruvian long-snouted bat has a greatly elongated muzzle. It feeds on nectar and fruit from columnar cacti in desert areas west of the Andes.

• Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus

  The Village Weaver is a bird whose breeding males split leaves and bark into strips and weave hanging nests. It occurs across Africa outside desert regions.

• Sonoran Woodrat Neotoma (Teanopus) phenax

  The Sonoran Woodrat is a medium-sized rodent with large ears and a fully furred tail. In northwestern Mexico it is reported to build nests from brush and to store plant food.

• Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus

  The Plaintive Cuckoo is a small cuckoo with a gray head and breast and reddish underparts. It uses habitats from forest to parks, and brood parasitism on Ashy Tailorbirds is recorded in Singapore.

• Arabian Gazelle Gazella arabica

  A slender gazelle with a white underside, living in deserts and other dry open habitats.

• Grey-crowned Crocias Laniellus langbianis

  The Grey-crowned Crocias is confined to a small area around Vietnam's Da Lat Plateau. It has a gray crown and long tail and searches the middle and upper forest layers for small invertebrates.

• Tonkean Macaque Macaca tonkeana

  The Tonkean macaque is native to central Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands in Indonesia. It uses several kinds of tropical forest.

• Brown Noddy Anous stolidus

  A tern that breeds in colonies on small islands in tropical and subtropical seas. Adults are dark brown, with a white forehead fading to grey at the nape, and take fish and squid near the ocean surface.

• Balkan Long-eared Bat Plecotus kolombatovici

  The Balkan long-eared bat has fur on its face and chin. It lives in rocky areas along the Mediterranean and catches moths while flying through confined spaces.

• Golden-whiskered Barbet Psilopogon chrysopogon

  The Golden-whiskered Barbet lives in forests from the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It forages mainly for fruit in the canopy.

• Veldkamp's Epauletted Fruit Bat Nanonycteris veldkampii

  This small fruit bat lives across West African forest and savanna zones. Records show seasonal movements north and south as the rains change.

• Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus

  This dark bird has a long forked tail and red eyes. It catches flying insects in the high canopy and may hunt at dusk.

• Alpine Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) alpinus

  This chipmunk lives high in California's Sierra Nevada, among rocky slopes and subalpine forest.

• Chestnut-capped Babbler Timalia pileata

  The Chestnut-capped Babbler is a small, skulking bird. A field study in southern West Bengal recorded it in grasslands along the Rupnarayan and Damodar rivers.

• Indochinese Forest Rat Rattus andamanensis

  The Indochinese forest rat has brown upperparts, a white underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is nocturnal and omnivorous in forest settings.