Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus

  

  This vole lives in mountain meadows surrounded by pine-oak forest and changes its plant foods with the seasons.

• African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis

  This stork occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It has a fluffy white neck and black body. The bill is black with red on the tip and upper ridge. It walks through wetlands and pastures to find visible prey such as frogs and fish.

• Southern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca nemestrina

  This macaque lives in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is a major part of its diet, and it also forages on the ground. Its short tail is partly upright, and its crown is dark.

• Fulvous Parrotbill Suthora fulvifrons

  This parrotbill inhabits dense bamboo in or near forest in the Himalaya. A buff head and breast, dark crown stripe, and rufous wings and tail help identify it; it feeds on buds, seeds, and insects.

• Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus waterhousii

  Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat is a medium-to-large bat with large ears and a noseleaf. Bahamian records describe cave roosts and insect gleaning from surfaces such as the ground.

• Crinkle-collared Manucode Manucodia chalybatus

  This bird-of-paradise lives in forests on New Guinea and Misool. Its blue-black plumage has a blue-green sheen, and the feathers on the throat and upper breast look crinkled.

• Little Indian Field Mouse Mus (Mus) booduga

  The little Indian field mouse is a small mouse with a gray-brown back and white underside. It is widely recorded in South Asia, but the central Myanmar population may represent a separate species.

• Mountain Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus trivirgatus

  The Mountain Leaf Warbler is a small bird that searches among leaves for insects in Borneo's montane forests. Pale lines bordering its dark crown are a useful field mark.

• Daghestan Tur Capra cylindricornis

  The Daghestan Tur is a wild goat of the rugged eastern Caucasus. Males carry large horns that sweep back, and the goats feed on grasses and shrubs.

• Red Bishop Euplectes orix

  The Red Bishop is a southern African bird whose breeding males turn red and black. It gathers in grassland and waterside reed beds and feeds on seeds and insects.

• Relict Ground Squirrel Spermophilus relictus

  The relict ground squirrel is a terrestrial squirrel of the Central Asian Tian Shan. It inhabits mountain steppe and semi-desert and has a long hibernation.

• Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi

  Willard’s Sooty Boubou was described from a small series of specimens from the western Albertine Rift. The description reports collection localities in Uganda and Burundi, but the few specimens do not establish a complete range.

• Asian parti-colored bat Vespertilio sinensis

  A bat whose dark brown fur has white tips, giving it a frosted appearance.

• Red-capped Flowerpecker Dicaeum geelvinkianum

  The Red-capped Flowerpecker is a small bird of New Guinea and adjacent islands. Males often show red on the crown and rump, and it eats fruit and seeds.

• Pine Vole Microtus (Pitymys) pinetorum

  A small vole that moves through leaf litter and soil in deciduous forests. In autumn it stores roots and shoots in burrows for winter shortages.

• Bluish-fronted Jacamar Galbula cyanescens

  The Bluish-fronted Jacamar has a metallic blue-green crown and rufous underparts. It lives in riverine forest, and its only known nest is a tunnel in a stream bank.

• Gray-cheeked Mangabey Lophocebus albigena

  The nominate subspecies of the gray-cheeked mangabey is recorded from Cameroon’s Atlantic coast to central Uganda. It mainly eats fruit, along with leaves, flowers, and animal matter.

• Cinnamon Bittern Botaurus cinnamomeus

  The Cinnamon Bittern is a small heron with cinnamon-colored plumage. It has been recorded breeding in reedbeds in Hong Kong.

• Lesser Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus elongatus

  A large spear-nosed bat recorded in the lowland Amazon. Its back and belly fur differ in color, and its wing tips are white.

• Abd al-Kuri Sparrow Passer hemileucus

  This sparrow is endemic to Abd al-Kuri Island. A 2008 study documents plumage differences from the related Socotra sparrow, while noting that published information on its habits is sparse.

• 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-faced Siskin Spinus yarrellii

  The Yellow-faced Siskin is a small finch about 10 cm long. Adult males have a black crown and bright yellow face and underparts, while females are more yellowish olive.

• Alpine ibex Capra ibex

  A wild goat of high meadows and rocky slopes in the Alps.

• Lemon-throated Barbet Eubucco richardsoni

  This barbet occurs in Amazonian floodplain and várzea forest. It is about 15 cm long, and the colors of its crown and breast vary among subspecies and between sexes.