Meet the world’s animals.

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• Goytaca Cerradomys Cerradomys goytaca

  

  This rodent is recorded in coastal restinga in southeastern Brazil. Its back is orange-brown, its head grey, and its tail is bicolored. The original habitat study recorded it most often in low shrub patches and also caught it on branches.

• South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea

  This tern lives along the coasts of South America. Adults have pale gray bodies, a black cap, and red bills and legs.

• Four-striped Ground Squirrel Lariscus hosei

  The Four-striped Ground Squirrel has four black stripes on its back and orange underparts. It lives on Borneo and is active by day on the forest floor.

• Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis

  The Aplomado Falcon lives in open country from Mexico through South America. It has a long tail and sometimes hunts with another falcon.

• Cape Serotine Laephotis capensis

  The Cape serotine sometimes roosts in the roofs of houses and buildings. Records span arid semi-desert, montane grassland, forest and savanna; it forages at medium height along cluttered edges.

• Dark Batis Batis crypta

  The Dark Batis occurs in evergreen upland forest from the mountains of eastern Tanzania to northwestern Malawi. Males have a black facial pattern and broad chest band, plus a white wing stripe.

• Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) jamaicensis

  The Jamaican fruit-eating bat has pale facial stripes and a leaf-shaped noseleaf. It is active at night, eats fruit, and may fold leaves into a tent-like roost.

• Buzzing Flowerpecker Dicaeum hypoleucum

  This small flowerpecker uses forests and scrub. Its dark upperparts, pale underparts, and slender, slightly curved bill help distinguish it.

• Mantled guereza Colobus guereza

  An African forest monkey with long white fringes that feeds mainly on leaves.

• Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys

  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American wetlands and ponds, with different facial patterns in males and females.

• Blue Duiker Philantomba monticola

  A small antelope of forests and woodlands in central, eastern and southern Africa.

• Red-faced Guan Penelope dabbenei

  The Red-faced Guan is a large bird of mountain forests in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has red bare facial skin and a red throat wattle.

• Fat-tailed Gerbil Pachyuromys duprasi

  The fat-tailed gerbil has a round body and a short, thick, club-shaped tail. It lives in sandy areas with vegetation and digs burrows.

• Gray-hooded Parakeet Psilopsiagon aymara

  The Gray-hooded Parakeet lives in Andean scrub and farmland. It has a brownish-gray head and yellow-green flanks.

• Bristly Mouse Neacomys spinosus

  The bristly mouse occurs in Amazonian forests of South America, from lowland evergreen forest to montane forest.

• White-vented Whistler Pachycephala homeyeri

  This whistler occurs in the southern Philippines and on Malaysia's Siamil Island. The sexes look alike, with rufous-brown upperparts and white underparts.

• Fire-footed Rope Squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus

  This squirrel lives in forests of western and central Africa. It has a reddish face and limbs and a bushy tail, and feeds by day on fruits, seeds, and other foods.

• African Hill Babbler Sylvia abyssinica

  This babbler occurs in scattered African highlands. It searches near the ground in forest understory and dense scrub.

• Northern Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) septentrionalis

  The Northern Bat is a North American bat with long ears. It forages in forests during the warmer months and hibernates in caves or mines in winter.

• Yellow-faced Siskin Spinus yarrellii

  The Yellow-faced Siskin is a small finch about 10 cm long. Adult males have a black crown and bright yellow face and underparts, while females are more yellowish olive.

• Cuban Fig-eating Bat Phyllops falcatus

  The Cuban fig-eating bat is a medium-sized bat recorded in Cuba and on Hispaniola. It has white shoulder patches, while information about its food comes from only a few observations of fruit and seeds.

• Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia

  The Black-and-white Warbler is a small songbird with bold black-and-white stripes. It creeps along trunks and branches, searching bark for insects.

• Golden-bellied Mangabey Cercocebus chrysogaster

  The golden-bellied mangabey is notable for orange fur on the front of its body. In forests and wetlands of the central Congo Basin, groups travel through trees and on the ground to find food.

• Yellow-faced Myna Mino dumontii

  The Yellow-faced Myna is a starling of New Guinea's forest canopy. Its yellow face and white rump are easy to notice.