Meet the world’s animals.

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• Taiwan Liocichla Liocichla steerii

  

  The Taiwan Liocichla is endemic to Taiwan and uses the understory of mid-elevation forest. In winter it also moves into lower forests.

• Tufted Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus whiteheadi

  The tufted pygmy squirrel is a small squirrel with long white ear tufts. It moves along tree trunks in Borneo's mountain forests, feeding on bark and lichens.

• Blyth's Frogmouth Batrachostomus affinis

  Blyth's Frogmouth has plumage ranging from rufous-brown to grey. It hunts insects at night from low perches in lowland and hill forests, including Borneo.

• Gerenuk Litocranius walleri

  The gerenuk is a long-necked, long-legged antelope of East Africa. It sometimes stands on its hind legs to reach leaves on shrubs.

• Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis

  A North American diving duck. Males are mainly black and white, females are brown, and the back of the head has a small peak.

• Greater Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris nivalis

  This cave-dwelling bat migrates seasonally to Mexico. In the United States, it is recorded in southwestern New Mexico and western Texas during summer.

• Purple-crowned Fairywren Malurus coronatus

  In breeding plumage, the male of the western subspecies has a purple crown and blue tail. The subspecies lives in thick river-edge vegetation from the Victoria River catchment to the northern Kimberley.

• Sela macaque Macaca selai

  This macaque is reported from western and central Arunachal Pradesh, India. An official ZSI announcement describes its heavy build, long dorsal hair, brown coat, pale face, and variation in how troops respond to people.

• Northern Fantail Rhipidura rufiventris

  The Northern Fantail searches for insects in forests and along forest edges in northern Australia. A regional field guide describes a gray bird with a fine pale eyebrow and white throat, and notes that its tail is less fanned than that of other fantails.

• Cleft-headed Juliomys Juliomys rimofrons

  This small rodent is known from southeastern Brazil. It has long ochre-brown fur and an orange rump; known specimens came from ground-level traplines.

• Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata

  The Great Blue Turaco is a large bird with blue feathers and a red-and-yellow bill. It moves deftly through rainforest canopy and occurs in Central and West Africa.

• Indian Bush Rat Golunda ellioti

  The Indian bush rat is a medium-sized rodent with a stocky body and short, thick tail. It lives in varied habitats from forests to grasslands and eats grass stems and roots, seeds, and fruit.

• Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii

  Retz's Helmetshrike lives in woodland south of the Sahara and forages in cohesive groups of several to more than a dozen birds.

• Small Woolly Bat Kerivoula intermedia

  This woolly bat was surveyed in lowland tropical rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. A morphological comparison says it is slightly larger than the closely related Kerivoula minuta, with size serving as a main distinction.

• Green-and-black Fruiteater Pipreola riefferii

  The Green-and-black Fruiteater eats fruit in the canopy and middle levels of Andean montane forest. Males in northern Peru show striking green and black plumage.

• Yellow-bellied Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) flaviventris

  The yellow-bellied marmot has a yellowish belly and reddish-brown back. Yellowstone National Park's account describes it feeding on plants in rocky grassland and hibernating.

• African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus

  This African swallow has a glossy blue-black back, a chestnut nape, and an orange-rufous rump. The color of the underparts varies by region.

• Markhor Capra falconeri

  A wild goat of the mountains of Central Asia. The traits here follow a zoo account for the Tadjik markhor subspecies.

• Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula

  The Common Grackle is a North American bird with a long tail and glossy plumage. It searches for food on lawns and fields and sometimes gathers high in trees.

• Heller's Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus helleri

  This broad-nosed bat is recorded from Mexico through Central America to northern South America west of the Andes. A 2010 revision separated species from the older broad P. helleri complex.

• Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis

  The Australian Bustard is a large bird of dry plains, grassland, and open woodland. It eats both plant and animal foods.

• Bengal Sacred Langur Semnopithecus entellus

  A large monkey found mainly in the northern Indian plains south of the Ganges and north of the Godavari.

• Grey-backed Cisticola Cisticola subruficapilla

  This small cisticola occurs in southern Africa. It searches for insects among low grass and shrubs, from dry scrub to coastal vegetation.

• Cauca Climbing Mouse Rhipidomys caucensis

  The Cauca climbing mouse is a small rodent known from the Andes of western Colombia. It has been collected in high-elevation cloud forest.