Meet the world’s animals.

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• Penan Bulbul Alophoixus ruficrissus

  

  This bulbul-family bird is endemic to Borneo. Adults are olive-brown with a conspicuous puffy white throat. It uses lowland and montane forest and feeds on fruit.

• Nile Lechwe Kobus megaceros

  

  An antelope of seasonally flooded wetlands and a capable swimmer.

• Gorgeous Bushshrike Telophorus viridis

  

  This bushshrike inhabits thickets in sub-Saharan Africa. Adult males have green upperparts, a red throat and upper breast, and a yellow belly; females have a narrower black breast band. It searches for arthropods in dense vegetation.

• Andean Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) pucheranii

  

  The Andean Squirrel lives in mountain forests of Colombia. It is active by day and searches for tree seeds and fruits on the ground and in the canopy.

• Black-billed Seed Finch Sporophila atrirostris

  

  This small bird is recorded locally in the eastern Andean foothills. In Peru, it has been found in tall grass along rivers and oxbow lakes, and males and females have different plumage.

• Long-clawed Mole mouse Geoxus valdivianus

  

  The long-clawed mole mouse is a small rodent with tiny eyes and ears and long foreclaws. The forest-dwelling nominate form in southern Chile is nocturnal and uses both underground spaces and leaf litter.

• Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca

  Fox Sparrows vary from rusty red to gray among their geographic groups. They scratch through leaf litter to find food.

• Common Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster

  The common water rat is a large rodent adapted to life near water. It has webbed feet and a thick tail with a white tip.

• Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera

  The Blue-winged Warbler is a small bird with a yellow belly and bluish wings. It searches for insects in shrubland and along forest edges.

• Diminutive Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) diminutus

  The Argentine biodiversity profile treats this bat as Neoeptesicus diminutus. Its back is golden chestnut, its underside gray-yellow to ochre, and the profile lists forests, pampas, and humid savannas as habitats.

• Nilgiri Flowerpecker Dicaeum concolor

  The Nilgiri Flowerpecker occurs in the Western Ghats of southwestern India and feeds on nectar and fruit in forest canopies.

• Black-footed Gray Langur Semnopithecus hypoleucos

  This langur lives in southern India. It is active by day and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi

  The Long-tailed Fiscal ranges from southern Somalia through Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. It perches in open country and dives to the ground for prey.

• Pacific Tent-making Bat Uroderma convexum

  This bat ranges from southern Mexico through Panama to western South America. It has white facial stripes and a white line down the middle of its back. In Panama, it was recorded using tent-like roosts made from modified American oil-palm leaves.

• Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris

  It breeds in reedbeds and grassland; males give complex songs that include imitations of many other birds.

• Cape Springbok Antidorcas marsupialis

  An antelope of open southern African savannas that can raise a crest of white hair when excited.

• Rufous-necked Puffbird Malacoptila rufa

  This puffbird lives in Amazonian lowland forest. Its gray head, rufous neck, and white crescent on the chest stand out; it is recorded most often in the understory of várzea forest.

• Jungle Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) tristriatus

  This squirrel lives in India's Western Ghats. Three pale stripes run along its back, and its head is grayish or reddish brown. It uses moist forests and can also occur in plantations and pasture.

• Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis

  This sandgrouse feeds on seeds in dry, open country. The black belly belongs to the male; females have fine barred and speckled plumage.

• White-footed Deermouse Peromyscus leucopus

  The white-footed deermouse has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside and feet. The Texas account describes it as mostly nocturnal and living in woodlands and river bottoms.

• Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca

  The Rock Partridge is a mountain-dwelling pheasant relative with a white throat patch bordered in black. Its range is limited to European mountain regions.

• Giant White-tailed Uromys Uromys (Uromys) caudimaculatus

  The Giant White-tailed Uromys is a large rat with a gray-brown back, pale underside, and long tail with a white tip. It is active at night, climbs well, and eats fruit, nuts, insects, and other foods.

• Superb Pitta Pitta superba

  This pitta is endemic to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Its glossy black plumage has bright red feathers beneath the tail and pale blue on the upperwing. A 1990 survey observed it calling from forest perches.

• Whitehead's Woolly Bat Kerivoula whiteheadi

  Whitehead's woolly bat is a small bat with a broad distribution in the Philippines. Its reddish-brown back and banded hairs are distinctive.