Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yungas Manakin Chiroxiphia boliviana

  

  The Yungas Manakin is recorded in humid Andean montane forest in southeastern Peru. Males are mostly black with a sky-blue back and ruby crown; females are olive green.

• Yucatan Yellow Bat Rhogeessa aenea

  This small bat is recorded mainly in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican biodiversity profile describes sex-related ear features and records from forests, farmland, and built-up places.

• Varied Triller Lalage leucomela

  It occurs in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on insects and fruit along edges between open and closed forest and in riparian woodland.

• Davis's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma evotis

  Davis’s Round-eared Bat is recorded in lowlands from southern Mexico to northeastern Honduras. It flies in the forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.

• Plain Flowerpecker Dicaeum minullum

  At a study site in southern Taiwan, Plain Flowerpeckers fed mainly on nectar and fruit of Taxillus pseudochinensis and dispersed the seeds of several mistletoes. The Taiwanese subspecies is described with a thin, pointed bill and pale underparts.

• Suni Neotragus moschatus

  This small antelope has a speckled gray-to-chestnut back and a whitish underside. Only males have horns; it occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Manchurian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus tangorum

  The Manchurian Reed Warbler breeds in northeastern China and the Russian Far East and migrates to Southeast Asia. A wintering study in Thailand found it mainly in mature reed beds.

• Red Spiny Rat Maxomys surifer

  This nocturnal rat lives in Southeast Asian forests and nearby areas. Short, stiff, reddish-brown hairs stand out among the fur on its back.

• Princess Stephanie's Astrapia Astrapia stephaniae

  Stephanie’s Astrapia is a bird-of-paradise of Papua New Guinea’s mountain forests. The male stands out for iridescent blue-green and copper-red plumage and a long tail.

• Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel Callospermophilus saturatus

  This ground squirrel lives in the Cascade Mountains. It has a white-striped back and russet shoulders, and the current taxonomy places it in Callospermophilus.

• Brown-chested Martin Progne tapera

  This swallow has a brown chest and white throat and belly. It feeds on insects while flying by day.

• Sabah Grizzled Langur Presbytis sabana

  The Sabah grizzled langur occurs in Sabah in northeastern Borneo. It is currently treated as Presbytis sabana, while some descriptions of its appearance and ecology were published under the older name Presbytis hosei sabana.

• Brown-throated Fulvetta Fulvetta ludlowi

  This fulvetta lives in Eastern Himalayan forests. Its head is chocolate-brown, and its pale cream throat is marked by dark brown streaks; it uses low bushes and bamboo in rhododendron forest.

• Brush Deermouse Peromyscus boylii

  The brush deermouse has a brown back, a pale underside, and a long tail with a tufted tip. It is active at night and uses trees and rock crevices.

• Bulwer's Pheasant Lophura bulweri

  A pheasant whose male has a blue face and large white tail. It lives in Borneo's montane tropical and highland rain forests.

• Silver-tipped Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) albescens

  This small bat ranges from Mexico into South America and catches insects while flying over forests and water.

• Purple-bellied Lory Lorius hypoinochrous

  This large parrot has a red body and green wings. Its head is black with a purple gloss, and its thighs and lower abdomen are blue-purple. It feeds on flowers and fruit in the mid-canopy.

• Damara Dik-dik Madoqua damarensis

  Madoqua damarensis ranges from northern and northwestern Namibia into southwestern Angola. In the northern Namibian population recorded under the former name M. kirkii damarensis, males had forehead crests reaching between the horns and browsed leaves and twigs in dense shrub thicket.

• Grace's Warbler Setophaga graciae

  This warbler inhabits mature pine forests from western North America into Central America. It searches for insects in the upper parts of trees.

• Paulina’s Limestone Rat Saxatilomys paulinae

  Paulina’s limestone rat was described from a karst region in Khammouane Province, central Laos. The original account records captures on rocky forested slopes among degraded deciduous forest, scrub and bamboo.

• White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali

  The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver has a bold white eyebrow stripe. It lives in dry woodland and forms year-round colonies with other birds.

• Richardson's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus richardsonii

  Richardson's Ground Squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of the northern Great Plains. It digs underground burrows and hibernates through the cold season.

• White-bellied Shortwing Myiomela major

  This shortwing occurs in the hills of southern India. Its account describes a slaty-blue back and breast, white belly, and rufous-brown flanks; birds are met singly or in pairs among undergrowth and small trees.

• Cat Ba Langur Trachypithecus poliocephalus

  The Cat Ba langur is recognizable by its golden head and dark body. It lives in forest on the limestone hills of Cat Ba Island in Vietnam and feeds mainly on leaves.