Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chusquea Tapaculo Scytalopus parkeri

  

  The Chusquea Tapaculo is associated with dense stands of Chusquea bamboo. Its original description covered a population studied at 2,250–3,150 m in southeastern Ecuador.

• Slender Yellow Bat Rhogeessa gracilis

  The Slender Yellow Bat is a small bat recorded in Mexico. Current taxonomic references use Baeodon gracilis for the taxon previously called Rhogeessa gracilis.

• Speckled Mourner Laniocera rufescens

  This forest bird is reddish brown with fine markings. It perches within humid forest or second growth and may be seen alone.

• Lowe's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus lowei

  This monkey lives in the trees of lowland forests in West Africa. It mainly eats fruit, along with leaves, seeds, flowers, bark, and insects.

• Azure-naped Jay Cyanocorax heilprini

  The Azure-naped Jay is a large jay of lowland northern South America. Its blue-grey body contrasts with a pale sky-blue nape and white-tipped tail feathers.

• Gerenuk Litocranius walleri

  The gerenuk is a long-necked, long-legged antelope of East Africa. It sometimes stands on its hind legs to reach leaves on shrubs.

• Ethiopian Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata

  The Ethiopian Firefinch, Lagonosticta larvata, occurs in southeastern Sudan, eastern South Sudan and western Ethiopia. This account follows the nominate population.

• Mentawai Flying Squirrel Iomys sipora

  The Mentawai Flying Squirrel has dark brown fur on its back and paler gray underparts. It occurs on Sipora and North Pagai islands west of Sumatra, in mature forest below 500 m.

• Salim Ali's Swift Apus salimalii

  This swift breeds on the eastern Tibetan Plateau and in adjacent western Sichuan. Its wintering range remains unknown.

• Flavescent Colilargo Oligoryzomys flavescens

  This small rodent has a tail longer than its body and is recorded along grassland and wetland edges in Paraguay.

• Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis

  This honeyeater is endemic to Tasmania. It moves through the canopy of wet and dry sclerophyll forest while looking for food.

• Korean Field Mouse Apodemus peninsulae

  This mouse has a reddish-brown back and white underside. It lacks the dark stripe seen in a close relative and has relatively long ears and hind feet.

• Bluish-fronted Jacamar Galbula cyanescens

  The Bluish-fronted Jacamar has a metallic blue-green crown and rufous underparts. It lives in riverine forest, and its only known nest is a tunnel in a stream bank.

• Pacific Townsend's big-eared bat Corynorhinus townsendii

  This bat folds its large ears back over its head while resting. It flies at night and catches moths and other insects.

• Dovekie Alle alle

  A small Arctic seabird with a black breast and white belly in breeding plumage, and a white throat in nonbreeding plumage. It dives for small crustaceans and other marine prey.

• Gabon Talapoin Miopithecus ogouensis

  The northern talapoin is one of Africa's smallest monkeys and lives in lowland forest near rivers and lakes. It is active by day and forages for fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Andean Ibis Theristicus branickii

  The head is rufous, paling toward the neck, and the back is blue-grey. It has a long, downcurved bill and occurs in flocks in highland wetlands and open grassland.

• Addax Addax nasomaculatus

  A desert antelope with spiraling horns that feeds on grasses and shrubs.

• Maroon Oriole Oriolus traillii

  The Maroon Oriole lives in moist deciduous and evergreen forests. The nominate male is black and maroon, while the female has a grey back and a pale, streaked belly.

• Allen's Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) alleni

  Allen's squirrel occurs in northeastern Mexico. A winter study in Nuevo León recorded it active in cold weather and caching nuts in scattered locations.

• Black-throated Parrotbill Suthora nipalensis

  An orange parrotbill with a black eyebrow and throat that forms flocks in bamboo-rich mountain forest.

• Mongolian Mountain Vole Alticola (Alticola) semicanus

  The Mongolian mountain vole lives in mountain areas from Mongolia into northern China. Its gray-brown back contrasts with a pale underside.

• Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens

  This cormorant inhabits southern Australian coasts. Adults have a black face and back with white underparts, and dive for fish.

• Rock Karroo Rat Myotomys sloggetti

  Myotomys sloggetti lives in high-altitude parts of South Africa and Lesotho. It has a rounded body, short legs and tail, and dense fur. A museum account describes it as strictly diurnal and sun-basking.