Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-shanked douc langur Pygathrix nemaeus

  

  The red-shanked douc langur is a tree-dwelling monkey of the tropical forests of Vietnam and Laos.

• Cinereous Tinamou Crypturellus cinereus

  The Cinereous Tinamou is a dark, nearly unpatterned ground bird of the Amazonian lowlands. It is commonly recorded in floodplain and várzea forest.

• Red Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista petaurista

  The red giant flying squirrel spreads a membrane between its limbs to glide from tree to tree. It is nocturnal and lives among forest trees.

• Yellow-mantled Whydah Euplectes macroura

  The Yellow-mantled Widowbird lives near wet grassland and swamps in Africa. It searches for seeds on the ground. Breeding-plumaged males display on the ground or on low vegetation; their black bodies carry yellow shoulder patches whose extent varies among subspecies.

• Bicolored Arboreal Rice Rat Oecomys bicolor

  The Bicolored Arboreal Rice Rat is a tree-using rodent of Central and South American forests. Its back is ochre to reddish brown, its belly is white, and its tail has a short tuft.

• Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus

  The Isabelline Shrike breeds in Mongolia and nearby parts of Central Asia, then winters on the Arabian Peninsula and in northeastern Africa. It hunts from shrubs in dry open country and may impale spare prey on thorns for later.

• Bifax Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus bifax

  It has large ears, a simple noseleaf, a brown back, and paler underparts. It roosts by day under bark or in tree hollows.

• Golden-bellied Gerygone Gerygone sulphurea

  The Golden-bellied Gerygone is a small bird with a gray-brown back and yellow underparts. It occurs in many tree-filled places, including cities, across parts of Southeast Asia.

• Coke's Hartebeest Alcelaphus cokii

  Coke's Hartebeest occurs in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Its coat is pale tawny, the rump patch is only slightly paler, and only the tail tuft is black. It selects grasses in grassland with scattered acacia scrub.

• Mount Victoria Babax Pterorhinus woodi

  A babbler recorded from northeastern India and western Myanmar. Its 1902 original description is of one specimen from Kanpetlet, and the authors were cautious about distinguishing it without comparative specimens.

• 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.

• Chestnut-tipped Toucanet Aulacorhynchus derbianus

  This green toucanet occurs in Andean mountain forest. The male has chestnut tips on the central tail feathers, and the birds may move in small groups high in the forest.

• Hatinh Langur Trachypithecus hatinhensis

  The Hatinh langur has a black body and a white stripe running from the cheeks toward the neck. By day it feeds in forest trees and rests at night in limestone holes and caves.

• Black Solitaire Entomodestes coracinus

  The Black Solitaire occurs in humid forests of the Chocó region of Colombia and Ecuador. Its black plumage contrasts with white cheek and breast tufts and red eyes.

• Shrew-faced Squirrel Rhinosciurus laticaudatus

  This squirrel is recognized by its long snout and pale sides. It searches the forest floor for insects and earthworms.

• Seychelles Kestrel Falco araeus

  This small falcon lives on islands in the Seychelles. It hunts insects and small vertebrates, including skinks and geckos.

• Blackish Grass Mouse Thaptomys nigrita

  The blackish grass mouse is a small rodent that uses tunnels beneath leaf litter. A survey in southern Brazil recorded it in deciduous forest with pitfall traps.

• Purple Quail-Dove Geotrygon purpurata

  This dove occurs only in western Colombia through northwestern Ecuador, in the wet rainforests of the Chocó. Adults show purple, blue, and iridescent colors, with a dark blue stripe across a white face. Females and juveniles are duller than males.

• Alpine Long-eared Bat Plecotus macrobullaris

  This long-eared bat occurs in mountains of the southwestern and central Palearctic. Most individuals have an inverted triangular pad below the lower lip and the species mainly eats moths. Reports of foraging habitat differ by region.

• Black-tailed Tityra Tityra cayana

  The Black-tailed Tityra is widespread in Amazonia; in Peru, the account records it up to about 700 m in the Andean foothills.

• Markhor Capra falconeri

  A wild goat of the mountains of Central Asia. The traits here follow a zoo account for the Tadjik markhor subspecies.

• Olive-capped Flowerpecker Dicaeum nigrilore

  This flowerpecker is recorded in the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines. The Mt. Kitanglad survey also records the colors of the eyes, bill, and legs in males.

• Long-tailed Pseudomys Pseudomys higginsi

  It has grayish-brown fur above, a white underside, and a slender tail longer than its body. It makes tunnels beneath the mossy floor of Tasmania’s wet forests.

• Eastern buzzard Buteo japonicus

  A raptor with a brown back and paler brown underside, distributed from Siberia through Mongolia and China to Japan.