Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gee's Golden Langur Trachypithecus geei

  

  Gee's golden langur occurs in Assam, India, and neighbouring Bhutan. It lives in trees in forested habitats.

• Rufous-naped Tit Periparus rufonuchalis

  This tit lives in mountain regions from the western Himalayas into Central Asia. The male is marked by a black head and white cheeks.

• Chinkara Gazella bennettii

  The chinkara is a small gazelle of dry parts of South Asia. It can go for a long time without water, an adaptation to arid environments.

• Moluccan Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis aeruginosus

  The Moluccan Brush Cuckoo has a dark gray head and throat, with chestnut underparts extending onto the breast. It is recorded in hill forest on the Maluku Islands.

• Utah Prairie Dog Cynomys (Leucocrossuromys) parvidens

  The Utah prairie dog is a diurnal squirrel relative of southwestern Utah that forms colonies with extensive underground burrows.

• Chestnut-crowned Antpitta Grallaria ruficapilla

  The Chestnut-crowned Antpitta forages near the ground in Andean forest. Its chestnut-colored head and olive upperparts contrast with a white throat.

• Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae

  The lesser long-nosed bat ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States and farther south in Central America. It feeds at flowers such as cacti and agaves.

• Yellow-browed Honeyeater Melidectes rufocrissalis

  It has a long tail and a long, down-curved bill. It uses lower and middle levels of New Guinea's montane forest and gardens, feeding on insects, nectar, and fruit.

• White-footed Vole Arborimus albipes

  This small vole has white feet and a two-toned tail. It lives in humid coastal forests and eats plants at night both in trees and on the ground.

• Angola Batis Batis minulla

  This small batis occurs mainly in western Central Africa. Males have a black facial mask and breast band, while females have a rufous breast band; the species uses forest and woodland.

• Finlayson's Cave Bat Vespadelus finlaysoni

  Finlayson's cave bat is a small species widespread across Australia. It occurs from deserts to high-rainfall coastal areas, often near rocky outcrops or hills.

• Menetries's Warbler Curruca mystacea

  Menetries's Warbler is a small migrant that breeds in scrub in Southwest Asia. In breeding plumage, the male has a dark head while the female is brownish gray.

• Brants's Whistling Rat Parotomys brantsii

  This rodent occurs in southern Africa. It is mainly active around dawn and dusk and uses consolidated sandy ground in sparsely vegetated semidesert. An 1849 description records a pale yellow-brown back finely flecked with dark brown and a pale belly.

• White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis

  The White-bellied Heron is a large waterbird with a long neck and legs. In Bhutan, it occurs in temperate and mixed broadleaf forests in three major river basins.

• Sooty Mangabey Cercocebus atys

  The sooty mangabey is a monkey of West African forests. It has dark fur and uses both the ground and trees in groups.

• Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali

  The Mountain Oriole lives in East African montane forest. Its head, neck, and upper breast are glossy black, with yellow and olive-green across the back and wings.

• Kafue Flats lechwe Kobus kafuensis

  Male Kafue Flats lechwe have a distinct shoulder patch that joins the foreleg stripe and longer horns than the typical red lechwe. The form is restricted to Zambia’s Kafue Flats.

• Knysna Turaco Tauraco corythaix

  The Knysna Turaco is an arboreal bird of southern African forests. It moves through the canopy while feeding on fruit.

• Mexican Prairie Dog Cynomys (Cynomys) mexicanus

  The Mexican prairie dog is a squirrel relative that burrows in dry grasslands of northern Mexico. It comes above ground by day and lives in social groups.

• Palawan Scops Owl Otus fuliginosus

  The Palawan Scops Owl is a small owl of lowland forest on Palawan. It has a dark brown back and warmer, paler underparts marked with black, and it is nocturnal.

• Leach's Single Leaf Bat Monophyllus redmani

  Leach's single leaf bat has a long muzzle and tongue. It roosts deep inside large, humid caves.

• Blue-throated Bee-eater Merops viridis

  This green bird is marked by a blue throat and long tail streamers. It watches from a perch and catches flying insects in the air.

• Common Pericote Graomys griseoflavus

  The common pericote is a mouse broadly distributed in dry parts of Argentina. It has a gray-yellow back, pale underside, and a long tail ending in a brush-like tuft.

• Elegant Crested Tinamou Eudromia elegans

  The Elegant Crested Tinamou has a long backward-swept crest and dark streaks on gray plumage. It searches the ground for seeds, fruit, and small animals.