Meet the world’s animals.

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• Double-banded Courser Rhinoptilus africanus

  

  The Double-banded Courser lives in open arid country. Two black breast bands stand out, and it feeds by running a short distance before pecking at insects on the ground.

• Siberut Macaque Macaca siberu

  The Siberut macaque lives only on Siberut Island in Indonesia. It eats mainly fruit and travels both in trees and on the ground.

• Eared Quetzal Euptilotis neoxenus

  The Eared Quetzal lives in mountain forests of northwestern Mexico. Males have black ear tufts and a red belly, while females have grey-brown heads and breasts and a paler pink belly.

• Gray-headed Flying Squirrel Petaurista caniceps

  This flying squirrel ranges from the eastern Himalaya into southwestern China. Specialist accounts describe a gray head and an unspotted back.

• Western Rock Nuthatch Sitta neumayer

  The Western Rock Nuthatch forages on cliffs and rock faces and builds a mud nest in a crevice.

• Tailed Tailless Bat Anoura caudifer

  Anoura caudifer is a small bat ranging from northern South America through Brazil to northwestern Argentina. It has a long, narrow muzzle and an extendable tongue for taking nectar, and occurs in humid tropical forests.

• Unicolored Antwren Myrmotherula unicolor

  The Unicolored Antwren occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It searches leaves for food and also probes creases in dead foliage for small arthropods.

• El Carrizo Deer Mouse Peromyscus ochraventer

  This mouse has cinnamon-brown underparts. It burrows beneath large limestone blocks; the 1951 original description then knew it only from El Carrizo, Tamaulipas.

• Balicassiao Dicrurus balicassius

  A Philippine drongo. The white underparts and mimicry described here apply specifically to subspecies mirabilis.

• Korean Field Mouse Apodemus peninsulae

  This mouse has a reddish-brown back and white underside. It lacks the dark stripe seen in a close relative and has relatively long ears and hind feet.

• White-winged Brush Finch Atlapetes leucopterus

  The White-winged Brush Finch is a medium-sized brushfinch of the western Andes of Ecuador and northern Peru. It has a black mask, olive back, golden crest, and white underparts.

• Cape Grysbok Raphicerus melanotis

  The Cape grysbok is a small bovid from South Africa. It becomes active around dusk and eats grass and leaves from shrubs.

• Booted Warbler Iduna caligata

  The Booted Warbler breeds from central Russia to western China and moves to the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka for winter. It often uses low bushes and scrub.

• Chilean Red Bat Lasiurus varius

  The Chilean Red Bat occurs in Argentina and Chile and is solitary. Its long, narrow wings support fast flight, but make it less maneuverable along forest edges and in clearings.

• Rufous-chested Dotterel Charadrius modestus

  This plover breeds in grasslands and wetlands at the southern tip of South America. Some move north along the Pacific coast outside the breeding season, while others remain in the south throughout the year.

• Gelada Theropithecus gelada

  A grass-eating monkey of the Ethiopian highlands.

• Rufous-capped Nunlet Nonnula ruficapilla

  This nunlet is recognized by its rufous cap and grey sides of the head. It occurs in humid lowland forest and may remain motionless on a branch for long periods.

• Japanese squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) lis

  A squirrel of Japanese forests. It is active by day and continues foraging through winter without hibernating.

• Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum

  A fox-brown bird with dark streaks, bright yellow eyes, and a long bill.

• Common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

  A bat from Mexico through much of South America that feeds on animal blood.

• Imperial Amazon Amazona imperialis

  The Imperial Amazon is endemic to Dominica, with a green body, red eyes and violet underparts.

• Cerrado Red-nosed Mouse Wiedomys cerradensis

  This rodent occurs in the semiarid zone of northeastern Brazil. The 2017 HMW 7 account reported a few scattered localities; it has a grizzled brown back, orange rump, eye-rings, muzzle, ears, and upper feet, and a white underside.

• Dulit Frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti

  The Dulit Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird of a few Bornean mountain areas. Its cryptic colors blend with branches, and it nests on branches in Sarawak.

• Highveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) brantsii

  Brants's gerbil lives in southern African grasslands and has a white-tipped tail.