Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indian Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) palmarum

  

  A small squirrel with three white stripes along its back.

• Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua

  The Namaqua Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry southwestern Africa. It eats seeds, and males carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Visored Bat Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum

  The visored bat is small, with cinnamon-brown fur and fleshy growths on its face. Its behavior is undocumented; one examined stomach resembled yellow fruit pulp, but this single observation does not establish its usual diet.

• Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha

  The Hooded Wheatear is a flycatcher relative of bare desert valleys and canyons. Males are black and white; females and young birds are paler.

• Galapagos Rice Rat Aegialomys galapagoensis

  This rice rat lives in open habitats of the Galápagos. Its known living population and records from other islands need to be described separately.

• Fischer's lovebird Agapornis fischeri

  A small East African parrot with an orange face, green body and conspicuous white eye-rings.

• Japanese pipistrelle Pipistrellus abramus

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

• Short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus

  An albatross with long, narrow wings that searches for food at the sea surface.

• Highveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) brantsii

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

• Black-faced Warbler Abroscopus schisticeps

  This small warbler occurs from the Himalayas to southern China and parts of Indochina. It has a black face, grey head, and yellow eyebrow and throat. It searches for tiny insects in the canopy of subtropical broadleaf forest, often with bamboo.

• Lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus

  A monkey of India's Western Ghats forests, recognized by its gray face mane and tufted tail.

• Limestone Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus calciatilis

  This leaf-warbler was described from limestone karst mountains in Vietnam and Laos. The paper records it in evergreen and semi-evergreen broadleaf forest.

• Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii

  An animal of the high Tibetan Plateau with a fine, soft undercoat.

• D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii

  D'Arnaud's Barbet lives in open woodland and savanna in East Africa. Its orange head spots and black, yellow, and orange pattern stand out.

• Perote Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus perotensis

  This ground squirrel lives in the highlands of eastern Mexico. It is active by day and retreats to underground burrows at night.

• East Brazilian Chachalaca Ortalis araucuan

  This chachalaca occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has an ochraceous-cinnamon crown and hindneck with a white belly, and uses humid forest and scrubby woodland where it feeds on fruit.

• Mexican Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma scopaeum

  This Mexican bat has records along the Pacific side of the country and as far east as Veracruz. It uses dry forest and riparian forest.

• Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea

  A stork with a white body, long legs and a long bill. It breeds in parts of Southeast Asia and forages in groups in wetlands such as mangroves and tidal flats.

• Montane Vole Microtus (Mynomes) montanus

  This vole lives in grasslands and alpine meadows of western North America and remains active beneath snow in winter.

• Yellow-collared Chlorophonia Chlorophonia flavirostris

  The Yellow-collared Chlorophonia is a small bird whose male has a green head and yellow eye-ring. It forages in the canopy of humid forest, mainly for small fruits.

• Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus

  The soprano pipistrelle is a small brown bat. After sunset it catches insects while flying near water and woodland.

• Gray-hooded Parakeet Psilopsiagon aymara

  The Gray-hooded Parakeet lives in Andean scrub and farmland. It has a brownish-gray head and yellow-green flanks.

• Fea's Tree Rat Chiromyscus chiropus

  Fea’s Tree Rat is an arboreal murine with a broad orange pattern on its back and a bicolored or mottled tail. The 2014 study examined specimens from several forested localities in southern Vietnam.

• Dot-eared Coquette Lophornis gouldii

  The Dot-eared Coquette is a small hummingbird recorded from northern Brazil and along the Amazon. Gould’s account extended its range to the upper Amazon in Peru.