Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Fulvous Colilargo Oligoryzomys fulvescens

  The fulvous colilargo is a small rodent. A night survey recorded animals moving among ground-level weeds and climbing among the dry leaves of a felled tree.

• Gray-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps

  The Gray-headed Chachalaca has a gray head and neck and a brown body. It lives in groups in secondary woodland and along forest edges in Central America.

• Goitered Gazelle Gazella subgutturosa

  The goitered gazelle lives in dry grasslands and deserts across a broad area from Central Asia to the Middle East. Its social grouping changes with the season.

• Greater Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus cupido

  This entry describes the Attwater's subspecies of the Greater Prairie-Chicken. Males perform courtship displays, and females nest in prairie grass.

• Silver-haired Bat Lasionycteris noctivagans

  The silver-haired bat is a North American bat with silver-white tips on black fur. It flies at night and may roost alone under loose bark or in tree cavities.

• Madagascar Bee-eater Merops superciliosus

  Despite its English common name, the Madagascar Bee-eater occurs across Africa and Asia. The nominate subspecies found on Madagascar and nearby islands is mainly olive green.

• Pagai Island Macaque Macaca pagensis

  This macaque has dark brown fur on its back, paler fur underneath, and cheek pouches. It is active by day and uses both the ground and trees.

• New Zealand Robin Petroica australis

  The South Island robin lives on New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands and often forages on the forest floor.

• Great Stripe-faced Bat Vampyrodes major

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. Its back is dark brown, and long hairs fringe the rear edge of its tail membrane.

• Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus

  The Bright-rumped Attila is a tyrant flycatcher marked by a yellow rump. Its plumage varies among subspecies and color morphs, and it searches for insects and small animals in the middle forest layers.

• Hamiguitan Batomys Batomys hamiguitan

  The Hamiguitan Batomys is known from Mount Hamiguitan in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. The original survey recorded it in the transition between lowland and montane forest and in primary montane forest.

• Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors

  A small duck of shallow ponds and wetlands in North America. Breeding males have blue-grey heads; females and nonbreeding males are patterned brown.

• 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.

• Double-toothed Barbet Lybius bidentatus

  This barbet ranges from West to East Africa. Two prominent tooth-like projections mark the upper bill. It eats flying termites as well as fruit and nuts.

• Field Vole Microtus (Microtus) agrestis

  A small vole that makes runways through grass.

• Green-backed Trogon Trogon viridis

  Males have a green back, black throat and chest, and yellow-orange belly; females have a gray head and back with a yellow belly. The nominate subspecies occurs from Amazonian Brazil through parts of eastern Brazil and areas east of the Andes.

• Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx

  The Arabian oryx is a white antelope with dark markings on its face and legs.

• White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus

  The White-breasted Waterhen also lives around freshwater wetlands and park waters in Singapore. Adults have a white face and breast against a dark body.

• Zenati Myotis Myotis (Myotis) zenatius

  This bat has a small number of records from Morocco and Algeria. Adults have dark gray-brown fur on the back and whitish flanks. Most identified individuals were found at caves, including records of year-round cave use, but the species' ecology remains poorly known.

• Swallow-wing Puffbird Chelidoptera tenebrosa

  This puffbird occurs in Amazonian lowlands and forest edges. It is dark slate with a rufous lower belly and white vent and back; its broad wings and short tail show clearly in flight. It hawks passing prey from a perch.

• Tufted Gray Langur Semnopithecus priam

  The tufted gray langur lives in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is active by day and often uses trees, while also travelling on the ground.

• Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris

  This large pigeon is shaded in purple, pink, and blue-gray. It ranges through tropical deciduous forests and feeds on fruit and berries high in trees.

• 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.