Meet the world’s animals.

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• Alpine marmot Marmota (Marmota) marmota

  

  An alpine marmot that eats grasses and roots in summer, then spends the long winter underground with its family.

• Chestnut-headed Tesia Cettia castaneocoronata

  The Chestnut-headed Tesia is a round, nearly tailless bird with a white eye-ring, chestnut head, and yellow throat. It searches for insects close to the ground.

• Oaxaca giant deer mouse Megadontomys cryophilus

  This large deer mouse lives in the highland forests of Oaxaca, with a dark back, ocher sides, and a slate-gray belly. It uses the dense understory of high-elevation forest.

• Kamchatka Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus examinandus

  This leaf-warbler moves seasonally between eastern Russia and Japan and parts of East and Southeast Asia. Its habitats vary with season, from high-elevation shrubland to lowland forest.

• Lesser Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) blythii

  The lesser mouse-eared bat has a narrow, pointed muzzle and brown-grey fur on its back. It hunts insects over warm, open grassland and other open places.

• Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata

  This 16–17 cm barbet uses upland bushland and acacia woodland and eats fruit. Sound recordings include Lake Langano in Ethiopia.

• Indian Long-tailed Tree Mouse Vandeleuria oleracea

  This small mouse has a long tail and digits suited to climbing. In eastern Indochina it has been recorded in dense shrubs and at forest edges with tangled vines and grasses.

• Band-tailed Guan Penelope argyrotis

  This large guan lives in humid forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a dark rufous back and an olive-brown breast.

• Angolan colobus Colobus angolensis

  This monkey has a striking black-and-white pattern and a long tail. It moves among trees using its tail for balance and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis

  A stork with a red face and long yellow bill that forages in shallow African wetlands.

• Urial Ovis vignei

  Urials are wild sheep of Asian grasslands and hills; males carry large spiraling horns.

• Yellow-browed Seedeater Crithagra whytii

  This canary occurs from Tanzania west to Zambia and northern Malawi. It has a long, slightly notched tail and feeds on small seeds and other foods along woodland edges and in open country.

• Yucatan Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) yucatanensis

  This squirrel lives around the Yucatán region and forages in trees and on the ground by day.

• Caica Parrot Pyrilia caica

  Adults have a dark head and a broad yellowish collar. Juveniles do not yet have the adult’s black facial mask.

• Meadow Vole Microtus (Mynomes) pennsylvanicus

  The meadow vole occurs widely in North American grasslands and wetlands and favors places where grass remains.

• Inagua Woodstar Nesophlox lyrura

  This hummingbird is restricted to Great and Little Inagua in the Bahamas. Males have an iridescent rose-purple forehead and throat and a deeply forked tail.

• Canyon Bat Parastrellus hesperus

  The canyon bat is a small gray-brown bat of dry western North America. It uses rocky and arid habitats and begins foraging soon after sunset.

• Marsh Tit Poecile palustris

  The Marsh Tit is a small bird with a glossy black cap and dark bib. In the UK it can be confused with the similar Willow Tit.

• Cape Short-tailed Gerbil Desmodillus auricularis

  The Cape short-tailed gerbil is marked by a short tail and white patches behind its ears. It uses burrows in dry plains and pans.

• Buff-headed Coucal Centropus milo

  The Buff-headed Coucal is a large coucal of the Solomon Islands' humid forests. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black body with a buff head and chest.

• Blue Monkey Cercopithecus mitis

  The blue monkey is a forest-dwelling tree monkey. Adult females studied in Kenya's Kakamega Forest ate much fruit and shifted foods as availability changed.

• Sierra Nevada Antpitta Grallaria spatiator

  Known from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia, this antpitta has been found in dense forest understory at 2,200-2,900 m, with abundant mosses and epiphytes.

• Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica

  A sturdy wild goat of the Iberian mountains, with large horns. Its horns and coat differ by sex and season.

• Mao Gymnomyza samoensis

  The Mao is a large honeyeater with a long, curved black bill. It forages for nectar, fruit, and insects in the canopy and upper parts of Samoan forests.