Meet the world’s animals.

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• Olive-headed Weaver Ploceus olivaceiceps

  

  The Olive-headed Weaver lives in montane miombo woodland in southern Tanzania and nearby regions. Males have a bright yellow crown and rusty breast.

• Fulvous Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) fulvescens

  This small mouse lives in grassland and riparian habitats and is active at night. Its tail is differently coloured above and below, while its coat and diet vary by place and season.

• 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.

• Kinabalu Rat Rattus baluensis

  The Kinabalu rat lives above 2,000 m in Sabah, northern Borneo. It has been observed licking nectar from a pitcher plant and leaving droppings inside its pitchers.

• Willow tit Poecile montanus

  In Japan it occurs in mountain woodland from Kyushu northward. A black cap on the head is conspicuous.

• Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia

  A wild sheep of the dry mountains of North Africa.

• Inagua Woodstar Nesophlox lyrura

  This hummingbird is restricted to Great and Little Inagua in the Bahamas. Males have an iridescent rose-purple forehead and throat and a deeply forked tail.

• Dinelli's Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) dinellii

  This small bat has yellow-brown fur with yellow tips. It eats insects. In Batiruana, Tucumán, colonies of more than 50 have been found in the roofs of houses.

• Yellow-crested Manakin Heterocercus flavivertex

  This manakin occurs in the lowlands of northern South America. At one study site in northern Venezuela it was observed in seasonally flooded forest and white-sand scrub woodland.

• Agile Mangabey Cercocebus agilis

  The agile mangabey lives in forests of central Africa, mostly north of the Congo River. Its back is darker gray-brown and its underside is lighter. It favors the forest understory and often uses the ground while feeding or travelling.

• Plain-tailed Wren Pheugopedius euophrys

  This large wren uses humid Andean montane forest, often around bamboo patches.

• Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista alborufus

  The red and white giant flying squirrel is a large forest squirrel. It forages in trees at night and glides using the membrane between its limbs.

• Volcano Swiftlet Aerodramus vulcanorum

  The Volcano Swiftlet is a swiftlet of Java's high mountains. It is seen over volcanic craters and the surrounding montane forest.

• Cuban Fruit-eating Bat Brachyphylla nana

  The Cuban fruit-eating bat roosts in caves in Cuba. This account focuses on its Cuban cave habitat and appearance.

• Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

  The Galapagos Penguin is a small penguin found only on the Galapagos Islands. It lives and breeds there year-round in the tropics.

• Chiapan Deermouse Peromyscus zarhynchus

  The Chiapan deermouse is a forest mouse from Chiapas in southern Mexico. It has large ears and a long tail, and has also been recorded as a host for a beetle.

• Whiskered Yuhina Yuhina flavicollis

  A small bird with a brown crest and orange nape. It uses hilly broadleaf forest and may move with other bird species.

• Crete Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) minous

  This spiny mouse lives on Crete. It has a gray back, reddish-yellow flanks with fine spines, and uses dry scrub and rocky crevices.

• Great Black-headed Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus

  Great Black-headed Gulls breed from the Black Sea region east to Mongolia and move south for winter. In Hong Kong, they have been recorded on an estuary mudflat during winter and passage periods.

• Sable antelope Hippotragus niger

  An antelope with backward-curving horns and a mane along the neck.

• Pink-spotted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus perlatus

  The Pink-spotted Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea and nearby islands. Pink spots on its wings stand out.

• Seminole Bat Lasiurus seminolus

  This bat has rich chestnut-brown fur with pale tips. It catches insects in flight at dusk and occurs mainly in the southeastern United States.

• Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus superciliaris

  This babbler has a long, sharply downcurved bill. It uses bamboo thickets in montane forest and feeds on insects and plant foods.

• Black Crested Mangabey Lophocebus aterrimus

  The black-crested mangabey has a black coat, grey cheek whiskers, and a narrow crown tuft. It searches for fruit and seeds in the middle and upper forest canopy and seldom descends to the ground.