Meet the world’s animals.

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• Zebra Duiker Cephalophus zebra

  

  This small bovid lives in West African forests. It has striped markings on its back and short horns; the account records it in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire.

• White-chinned Thistletail Asthenes fuliginosa

  The White-chinned Thistletail occurs in the Andes. A Bogotá bird guide describes it foraging among foliage and branches, alone or in pairs.

• Desert Pseudomys Pseudomys desertor

  The Desert Pseudomys is a medium-sized rodent. Its chestnut fur is overlaid by long, dark guard hairs, and pale orange rings surround its eyes. The tail is brown above and lighter along the sides and below.

• Fire-tufted Barbet Psilopogon pyrolophus

  The Fire-tufted Barbet is a green forest bird with red bristles beside its bill, feeding on fruit and insects on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.

• Colorful Pericote Auliscomys pictus

  The colorful pericote occurs in the high Andes of central and southern Peru and western Bolivia. Its account reports high-elevation grassland and rocky habitats.

• Guadalupe Murrelet Synthliboramphus hypoleucus

  This small seabird is dark above and white below. It nests on islands off western Baja California and differs from Scripps's Murrelet by having more white around the eye.

• Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista leucogenys

  The Japanese giant flying squirrel is a large nocturnal squirrel of Japan's forests. It glides between trees on a membrane stretched between its fore and hind limbs and rests in tree hollows by day.

• Chatham Islands Snipe Coenocorypha pusilla

  The Chatham Island Snipe is a small shorebird with finely patterned upperparts. It now lives on a small group of Chatham Islands and probes soil for food.

• Eurasian Particolored Bat Vespertilio murinus

  A bat ranging from Europe through Siberia to the Pacific coast, known for its frosted, two-coloured fur.

• Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris

  The Roadside Hawk is a small raptor of forests and open areas in Central and South America.

• Little Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira lilium

  A fruit-eating bat studied in Brazil’s montane Atlantic Forest. Its back fur ranges from dark gray to reddish brown, with a paler underside; a study in Brazil's montane Atlantic Forest found a fruit-only diet, mostly Solanaceae.

• Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens

  The Fiscal Flycatcher is endemic to southern Africa. It uses open habitats with scattered trees or bushes, including grassland, fynbos, semi-arid scrub, and valley bushveld.

• North Sumatran Leaf Monkey Presbytis thomasi

  This arboreal monkey lives in forests of northern Sumatra. It has a mostly black body, a pale underside and a distinctive white V-shaped pattern around the eyes.

• Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis

  The Buff-bellied Hummingbird is notable for its red bill and throat that can look blue-green in the right light. It feeds in South Texas, and some birds move to Louisiana for winter.

• Oribi Ourebia ourebi

  The oribi is a small antelope with long, slender legs and neck. Its patchy range extends across parts of Africa, mainly in grassland.

• Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris

  This small montane flycatcher forages in vegetation overhanging streams on the eastern Andes. Chestnut on the breast and belly varies across the Marañón Valley.

• Greater Bandicoot Rat Bandicota indica

  It is the largest rat in Taiwan. It has coarse black hairs on its back and occurs in lowland farmland, including rice and sugarcane fields there.

• Blue Lorikeet Vini peruviana

  Adult Blue Lorikeets are dark blue-purple with white on the face and upper breast. They feed on nectar and soft fruit and move in small groups between flowering coconut palms.

• Southern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys torridus

  Its back ranges from gray to cinnamon, while the underside and tail tip are pale. At night it uses burrows in dry grassland and scrub and hunts insects and scorpions.

• Spotted Thrush-Babbler Illadopsis turdina

  A babbler of damp African woodland and streamside thickets, foraging close to the ground. Its white breast is spotted rufous.

• Taurus Ground Squirrel Spermophilus taurensis

  The Taurus ground squirrel is restricted to the Taurus Mountains of Turkey. It inhabits montane areas above 1,000 m and is active by day.

• Japanese pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki

  A small woodpecker with black-and-white markings, seen throughout the year in Japan from lowlands to low mountains.

• Escalera's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) escalerai

  This bat occurs mainly across the Iberian Peninsula. Its dorsal fur ranges from brownish to grayish, with a paler underside, long ears, and a pointed tragus. It roosts in caves and mines and is believed to eat insects and spiders.

• Purple-backed Fairywren Malurus assimilis

  The Purple-backed Fairywren inhabits dense inland Australian scrub and saltbush. It moves close to the ground and through grasses while searching for arthropods and seeds.