Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa io

  

  The southern little yellow bat is a small aerial insectivore. It has been recorded hunting flying insects along forest trails, in clearings, and over water, but the boundaries of this broadly defined taxon remain under review.

• Lanceolated Monklet Micromonacha lanceolata

  This puffbird has a large-looking head, a plump body, and a short tail. In Bolivia’s Río Paracti valley, one male was recorded in understory forest near a river.

• Djungarian hamster Phodopus sungorus

  A small hamster originating in Kazakhstan and southwestern Siberia. It carries material in large cheek pouches.

• Natewa Silktail Lamprolia klinesmithi

  This bird is known only from the Natewa Peninsula on Vanua Levu, Fiji. It searches for small invertebrates on the forest floor and in low vegetation.

• Stump-tailed Macaque Macaca arctoides

  A macaque with a very short tail and dark red facial skin. A zoo profile records it from Southeast Asia and northeastern India.

• Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush Ianthocincla sukatschewi

  This laughingthrush occurs around the Min Shan, from southern Gansu into northern Sichuan, China. BirdLife reports records at 2,000–3,500 m.

• Hairy Big-eared Bat Micronycteris (Xenoctenes) hirsuta

  The Hairy Big-eared Bat occurs in Central and South America. At a study site in Ecuador, bats carried prey to their roosts and ate mainly katydids and soft-bodied beetles.

• Shelley's Greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis

  A study in Ndundulu Forest, Tanzania, recorded seasonal changes in the feeding observations of Shelley's Greenbul. An older description of the nominate form has a green crown close in color to the back and pale yellowish-olive underparts.

• Great Gerbil Rhombomys opimus

  A large gerbil that burrows in dry parts of Central Asia, feeds on plants, and stores food in its burrows.

• Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata

  The Red-knobbed Coot is a dark waterbird. Its red frontal knobs become more conspicuous during the breeding season.

• 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.

• Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma chrysocephalum

  It occurs in scrub and open woodland on sandy soils from the Guianas to the northern Amazon. It is usually solitary and searches low vegetation for small fruits and insects.

• Yucatan Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) yucatanensis

  This squirrel lives around the Yucatán region and forages in trees and on the ground by day.

• Mangrove Pitta Pitta megarhyncha

  This pitta walks on mangrove floors and searches for small prey with its long bill. Its crown is a uniform buff-brown.

• Japanese pipistrelle Pipistrellus abramus

  A small bat that roosts in buildings and flies over familiar places after sunset.

• Long-tailed Starling Aplonis magna

  This starling is active by day and eats fruit in forests and open areas on Biak and Numfor.

• Big-eared Climbing Rat Ototylomys phyllotis

  The big-eared climbing rat has large ears and a long tail. It moves at night among trees and rocks in tropical forest, eating fruit and leaves.

• Chestnut-vented Conebill Conirostrum speciosum

  The male has a gray-blue back and chestnut vent and is found in forest canopy and along forest edges. Females have different brown and olive tones.

• Campbell's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus campbelli

  This arboreal monkey lives in coastal West Africa. It forms groups, eats fruits and leaves, and uses calls to signal danger and other cues.

• Black-chested Sparrow Peucaea humeralis

  This sparrow is locally distributed in inland southwestern Mexico. It moves in pairs or small groups through dry scrub on slopes and in valleys.

• Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) watsoni

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to Panama in Central America. Research published under the older name Artibeus watsoni records it modifying young palm leaves into day roosts.

• Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri

  This albatross has a white body, dark grey wings, and a yellow ridge on its bill. It breeds on subantarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean and ranges widely at sea.

• Striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius

  A small mouse marked by a dark stripe down its back. It lives in places ranging from grassy fields and farms to woodland.

• Salmon-crested cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis

  A cockatoo of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with a salmon-coloured crest raised when excited or threatened.