Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus

  

  The male Tiger Shrike has a gray head, a black facial mask, and a reddish-brown, barred back. Most individuals migrate seasonally.

• Bicolored Arboreal Rice Rat Oecomys bicolor

  The Bicolored Arboreal Rice Rat is a tree-using rodent of Central and South American forests. Its back is ochre to reddish brown, its belly is white, and its tail has a short tuft.

• Rufous-headed Tanager Hemithraupis ruficapilla

  This tanager occurs in southeastern and eastern Brazil, in moist lowland and montane forest, second growth, and plantations.

• Bechstein's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) bechsteinii

  This long-eared bat occurs in Europe. It uses mature deciduous woodland and tree holes, including old woodpecker holes, for breeding roosts.

• Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer

  This large stork lives south of the Sahara in Africa. It scavenges in grasslands and savannas and may also search for food around villages and rubbish dumps. Sparse head and neck feathers and a large throat pouch give it a distinctive profile.

• Günther's Dik-dik Madoqua guentheri

  Günther’s dik-dik is a small antelope of the drylands of East Africa. It selects leaves and other plant parts from shrubs and trees.

• White-thighed Swallow Atticora tibialis

  The White-thighed Swallow flies near the canopy above humid Amazonian forest. The appearance and range described here are those documented for subspecies griseiventris.

• Buffy Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus infuscus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs in several countries of northwestern South America. One diet study was conducted in montane forest in central Peru.

• Sunda Frogmouth Batrachostomus cornutus

  It is active at night. On Bangka Island, parents take turns warming the chick and bring it insects.

• Black-cheeked White-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus ascanius

  This monkey is marked by a white nose spot and pale cheek fur on a black face; chestnut fur beneath its tail is another distinctive feature.

• African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus

  The African Pipit is a ground-dwelling bird with streaked brown plumage and a pale eyebrow. It walks through grassland in search of small invertebrates.

• Particolored Flying Squirrel Hylopetes alboniger

  This squirrel glides among trees and uses tree hollows. A Phu Quoc Island survey found four animals—an adult female and male and two young males—in one hollow.

• Black-chinned Whistler Pachycephala mentalis

  The Black-chinned Whistler is a whistler of the North Maluku islands. This account is limited to the subspecies Pachycephala mentalis obiensis, described from Obi and Bisa islands in Indonesia.

• Cape Spiny Mouse Acomys (Subacomys) subspinosus

  The Cape spiny mouse is a small spiny mouse of rocky areas and fynbos in southwestern South Africa. Seeds make up most of its recorded diet.

• Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus

  The Hoary-headed Grebe is a diving bird of fresh and brackish waters in Australia. Breeding adults show fine pale streaks on the head.

• California Deermouse Peromyscus californicus

  The California deermouse is a relatively large mouse with a white underside and feet. It is active at night and often eats California bay seeds in woodland.

• Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

  The Indian Nightjar is a night bird with a complex mottled pattern.

• Finlayson's Cave Bat Vespadelus finlaysoni

  Finlayson's cave bat is a small species widespread across Australia. It occurs from deserts to high-rainfall coastal areas, often near rocky outcrops or hills.

• Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar

  The Gabar Goshawk is a small hawk with a pale gray-and-white form and an all-dark form.

• Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia

  A wild sheep of the dry mountains of North Africa.

• Black-girdled Barbet Capito dayi

  A small barbet of lowland forest in central Amazonian Brazil and eastern Bolivia. The male’s red crown and black band across the white underside are distinctive.

• 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.

• Venezuelan Troupial Icterus icterus

  The Venezuelan Troupial is a large bird with black and bright orange plumage and a long wedge-shaped tail. It lives mainly in Venezuela and northern Colombia, in dry woodland and savanna.

• Hooded Leaf Monkey Semnopithecus johnii

  The Nilgiri langur lives in the Western Ghats of southern India and mainly eats leaves. Its coat is usually glossy black, with a yellowish-brown head.