Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-throated Jacamar Brachygalba albogularis

  

  A jacamar with a white throat and facial markings and a long, pale-yellow bill; it catches flying insects along riverside forest.

• Grant's gazelle Nanger granti

  A long-legged gazelle with a conspicuous pale rump patch.

• Crescent-faced Antpitta Grallaricula lineifrons

  The Crescent-faced Antpitta lives in humid montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador. Few localities are known, and it quietly forages near the forest floor.

• Big-footed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) macrodactylus

  The big-footed myotis roosts in caves and unused tunnels in Japan. Its back is grayish to blackish brown, with paler fur underneath.

• Olive-backed Flowerpecker Prionochilus olivaceus

  The Olive-backed Flowerpecker is endemic to the Philippines. Clements v2024 moves it from Prionochilus olivaceus to Pachyglossa olivacea. Throat and breast-side colour varies among subspecies.

• Germain's Langur Trachypithecus germaini

  This langur has a silvery gray coat, a black face, and a crown-like crest. A study in Vietnam's karst region found that leaves were its main food.

• Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri

  This bush-shrike lives in East African papyrus wetlands. Adults have black upperparts, a yellow crown, a white wing bar, and orange-red underparts.

• Asian Red-cheeked Squirrel Dremomys rufigenis

  The Asian red-cheeked squirrel ranges from southern China across parts of northern South and Southeast Asia. It forages both on the ground and in trees.

• Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis

  The Buff-throated Warbler is a small leaf warbler with an olive-brown back and pale buff eyebrow and throat. It breeds in the mountains of China and moves to lowlands as far south as northern Indochina for winter.

• Gray Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga leachii

  The gray long-tongued bat is a small bat that feeds on nectar, pollen, fruit, and insects.

• Turquoise Parakeet Neophema pulchella

  A parakeet of southeastern Australia. Males show a turquoise-blue face and red shoulder patch, and the birds forage near the ground for grass seeds.

• 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.

• Puff-throated Bulbul Alophoixus pallidus

  The Puff-throated Bulbul is a bulbul of the forest understory. Its rufous crest and conspicuous, puffy white throat stand out.

• Small Japanese Field Mouse Apodemus argenteus

  The Small Japanese Field Mouse uses its long tail to move along branches and stores acorns in the soil in autumn for later food.

• Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata

  The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown crown, and a streaked pale underside. It searches branches for insects in southeastern Australian eucalypt woodland.

• Royal Antelope Neotragus pygmaeus

  This small antelope lives in West African forests. Its specialist account describes it using thickets along forest edges and in clearings.

• Souimanga Sunbird Cinnyris sovimanga

  A small sunbird found on Madagascar and nearby western Indian Ocean islands. Males are metallic green, while females are much duller brown and yellow.

• Serotine Bat Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) serotinus

  The serotine is a medium-sized bat found across Europe and east through the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, and China. It roosts in crevices and hawks insects over wooded farmland.

• Visayan Fantail Rhipidura albiventris

  The Visayan Fantail is a resident fantail of the central Philippines. It occurs in forest and semi-open habitats, and molecular taxonomic work treats it as a distinct species.

• Lesula Cercopithecus lomamiensis

  This monkey lives in lowland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and eats fruit and leaves.

• Burchell's Courser Cursorius rufus

  This bird walks through open, dry country to find food. Its sandy back and blue-gray hind-crown help identify it, and it eats mainly insects.

• American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

  A squirrel of North American coniferous forests. In summer it collects spruce cones and stores them for winter.

• Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus

  Gartered Trogons use forest edges, lighter woodland, and clearings with large trees in lowlands and foothills. Males are green and violet-blue, while females are mostly grey above and on the throat and chest; both have orange-yellow lower underparts. They eat insects and fruit.

• Schulz's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma schulzi

  Schulz's round-eared bat occurs on the Guiana Shield. It was recorded in high forest at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.