Meet the world’s animals.

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• Naked-faced Spiderhunter Arachnothera clarae

  

  The Naked-faced Spiderhunter has a long, curved bill and orange bare skin at its base. It inhabits forest and scrub in the Philippines and favors plantain flowers.

• François' Langur Trachypithecus francoisi

  François' langur is a leaf-eating monkey that lives among limestone cliffs and caves. Infants have bright orange fur that turns black as they grow.

• Pygmy Nuthatch Sitta pygmaea

  The Pygmy Nuthatch is a small bird of pine forests in western North America. It has a gray back and pale underside and searches tree trunks and branches in flocks.

• Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum

  This small fruit-eating bat occurs in South America. It has no tail, brown tricolored fur, a short nose, and white patches on its shoulders. Local migration records are kept to the populations where they were documented.

• Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus

  A black bird with a deeply forked tail. It lives in open areas such as farms and wetlands in India, perching at vantage points to chase insects.

• Littledale's Whistling Rat Parotomys littledalei

  A rodent of arid southern Africa. It feeds on fresh leaves and other green plants, and builds connected burrows beneath shrubs.

• Plain Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus neglectus

  The Plain Leaf Warbler is a small warbler about 9–10 cm long. By day it searches among leaves for small invertebrates; Oman is one location where its calls have been recorded.

• Low's Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) lowii

  Low's squirrel is a small squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. It forages mostly on the forest floor, sometimes climbing into trees. Its thick tail and white underside are distinctive.

• Chinese Barbet Psilopogon faber

  This barbet is endemic to southern China. It lives in evergreen broadleaf and mixed conifer-broadleaf forests in middle and lower mountains, and also occurs at forest edges and in more open woodland.

• Singing Vole Microtus miurus

  The singing vole occurs in alpine tundra in Alaska. The state agency's general account of voles describes related species that eat grasses and seeds and use runways and burrows.

• Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

  The male Satin Bowerbird builds and decorates a stick avenue with blue objects to attract females. Mature males have glossy blue-black plumage.

• Mithun Bos frontalis

  Mithun, also called gayal, are cattle relatives kept in parts of northeastern India. A study in Arunachal Pradesh recorded free-ranging, semi-domesticated herds searching the forest for food plants.

• Grey-throated Ibon Lophozosterops javanicus

  This white-eye relative inhabits the mountains of Java and Bali, with records up to about 1,500 m.

• South American Hoary Bat Aeorestes villosissimus

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

• Red-necked Woodpecker Campephilus rubricollis

  The Red-necked Woodpecker has a red neck and chest and a rufous belly. In the Bolivian forests covered by the source, it occurs alone or in loose pairs and uses several forest levels.

• Toque Macaque Macaca sinica

  A macaque endemic to Sri Lanka; the shape of its crown tuft varies by region.

• Snares Penguin Eudyptes robustus

  It has a black face and back, white underparts, and a thick orange bill. It breeds only on the Snares Islands; tracked adults moved west in winter.

• Chestnut Short-tailed Bat Carollia castanea

  The chestnut short-tailed bat is a nocturnal fruit-eating bat. In a study, it relied on the scent of ripe Piper fruit when foraging and used more echolocation when that scent was absent.

• Malabar Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros coronatus

  The Malabar Pied Hornbill has a black body, white belly, and white wing edges. The male's large pale bill and casque stand out.

• Mound-building Mouse Mus (Mus) spicilegus

  The mound-building mouse is a brown wild mouse that resembles the house mouse. In autumn, young mice build mounds of soil and vegetation and spend winter underground.

• Gosling's Apalis Apalis goslingi

  An apalis recorded in Central African forests. Oiseaux.net associates it with montane forest and freshwater habitats and classifies it as an arboreal invertebrate gleaner.

• Borneo Black-banded Squirrel Callosciurus orestes

  The Borneo black-banded squirrel has a contrasting side stripe and a ringed tail. It occurs in Borneo's forests, and stomach contents have included fruits and ants.

• Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus fuscater

  The Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush has a pale eye-ring and orange bill. It searches for insects and fruit near the ground in wet mountain forest; underpart color varies among subspecies.

• Greater Wilfred's Mouse Wilfredomys oenax

  The greater Wilfred's mouse has long, soft fur, with orange on the nose, ears, and rump. A new record from Paraná, southern Brazil, includes captures in grassland and a photograph from riverine forest.