Meet the world’s animals.

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• Siberut Macaque Macaca siberu

  

  The Siberut macaque lives only on Siberut Island in Indonesia. It eats mainly fruit and travels both in trees and on the ground.

• Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa

  The Marbled Godwit probes mud and sand with its long upturned bill to find small aquatic animals. Its plumage changes between breeding and nonbreeding seasons.

• White-winged Vampire Bat Diaemus youngii

  This bat has records from the southern Amazon region of Brazil. Reports describe tree cavities and caves as roosts, although cave records are relatively uncommon.

• Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus

  The Double-banded Sandgrouse lives in dry grassland and open woodland in southern Africa, feeding for seeds on the ground. The sexes differ in breast and forehead markings.

• Black-bearded Flying Fox Pteropus melanopogon

  A colony of black-bearded flying foxes was recorded roosting in mangroves on Pulau Marsegu, off Seram Island, Indonesia.

• Dartford Warbler Curruca undata

  A long-tailed warbler that moves through low shrubs and feeds on small insects. In Britain it is found on heathland.

• Western Mediterranean Mouse Mus (Mus) spretus

  The western Mediterranean mouse is a wild mouse of the western Mediterranean. It was once treated as a subspecies of the house mouse but is now recognized separately.

• Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis

  A widespread African shrike that searches for prey from exposed perches in open country.

• Royal Antelope Neotragus pygmaeus

  This small antelope lives in West African forests. Its specialist account describes it using thickets along forest edges and in clearings.

• Hellmayr’s Pipit Anthus hellmayri

  Dark streaks on its ochre back mark this pipit. It uses grassy places near water and Patagonian grassland, moving close to the ground.

• Gray-collared Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) cinereicollis

  This chipmunk occurs in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States. It mainly uses conifer forests and mature woodlands and gathers and stores seeds.

• Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia

  This plover occurs along coasts from the southern United States to South America. It searches beaches and tidal flats for crabs and other prey.

• South American Hoary Bat Aeorestes villosissimus

  The South American hoary bat is an arboreal bat recorded in Argentina in forests and mountain environments.

• Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella

  The Australian Pratincole uses dry, open grasslands and other bare-ground habitats, and some populations move seasonally.

• Atlantic Forest Hocicudo Oxymycterus dasytrichus

  Oxymycterus dasytrichus is a rodent of eastern Brazil. Its account records it in seasonally flooded forest, moist openings in or near forest, and cultivated fields.

• Eastern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes filholi

  This penguin breeds on subantarctic islands around New Zealand and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, then spends much of the non-breeding season at sea. It is treated as distinct from related rockhopper penguins.

• Celebes Crested Macaque Macaca nigra

  A macaque of the humid tropical forests of northeastern Sulawesi and nearby islands in Indonesia.

• Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta

  The Atlantic Petrel breeds on South Atlantic islands and spends the non-breeding season at sea. A study of birds at sea found cephalopods such as squid among their main foods.

• Guianan Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus latifolius

  This small-to-medium spear-nosed bat occurs in the Guianas and northern Amazonia. It has dark smoky-brown fur, large rounded ears, and a short, broad noseleaf.

• Trilling Tapaculo Scytalopus parvirostris

  This tapaculo forages in the understory of humid Andean forest and bamboo patches. Adult males are dark gray; females have rufous-brown and black bars on the lower back, rump, and vent.

• 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.

• Ruwenzori Turaco Gallirex johnstoni

  This turaco occurs in montane forest along the Albertine Rift in East Africa. Its green and violet-blue body contrasts with red flight feathers, and it mainly eats fruit.

• Black-tailed Thallomys Thallomys nigricauda

  The Black-tailed Thallomys is an arboreal rodent with a black tail, living in dry Acacia savanna.

• Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler Napothera epilepidota

  The Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler is a 10–11 cm bird that searches for food in the undergrowth and near the ground in evergreen forest.