Meet the world’s animals.
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- White-browed Tapaculo Scytalopus superciliaris
Photo: Nick Athanas · CC BY-SA 2.0 It lives in moist montane forest in northwestern Argentina and favors dense understory on slopes and in ravines.
- Siskiyou Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) siskiyou
Neotamias siskiyou ranges from the northern California coast to central Oregon. Coastal and inland populations differ in coat colour, including the back stripes and underside.
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
A small North American bird whose plumage varies from grey to brown by region, with white outer tail feathers that flash in flight.
- Red Veld Aethomys Aethomys chrysophilus
The Red Veld Aethomys has a reddish-brown back and white belly. It is nocturnal and mainly terrestrial, eating mostly plant foods along with insects and other animal matter.
- Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius
A migratory bird with a dark cap and sandy plumage that travels between Central Asia and regions including South Asia.
- Jamaican Flower Bat Phyllonycteris (Reithronycteris) aphylla
This Jamaican endemic bat has short, pale fur and dark wing membranes. It eats nectar and fruit, and roosts in hot caves, sometimes in mixed colonies with other bats.
- Regent Honeyeater Anthochaera phrygia
The Regent Honeyeater has a black head and chest set against pale yellow plumage and yellow wing markings. It moves through southeastern Australia in search of flowering eucalypt woodland.
- Azara's Broad-headed Oryzomys Hylaeamys megacephalus
Short ochre, yellow or orange fur with dark ticking covers its back, while the underside is gray. It is mainly ground-dwelling and ranges through forested parts of northern and central South America.
- Upland Antshrike Thamnophilus aroyae
This antshrike ranges along the eastern Andes from southeastern Peru to central Bolivia. It lives at montane-forest edges and in tall secondary growth.
- Beisa Oryx beisa
An antelope of dry East African habitats. Both sexes have long horns, and it eats grasses and leaves.
- Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia
The Stripe-tailed Hummingbird lives in Central American mountains and feeds by darting among flowers. White stripes show when it spreads its tail.
- 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.
- Brown-breasted Barbet Lybius melanopterus
This East African barbet occurs in coastal and riverine woodland and savanna. It has a red cap and throat, a brown upper breast, and white lower parts.
- Greater Broad-nosed Bat Scoteanax rueppellii
The Greater Broad-nosed Bat is a large bat of eastern Australia. It is active at night, catches insects, and roosts in places such as tree hollows.
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
A waterbird with red eyes and a slender, slightly upturned bill.
- Barbary Ground Squirrel Atlantoxerus getulus
The Barbary ground squirrel is a striped, ground-dwelling squirrel of rocky northwestern Africa. It digs burrows and can live socially.
- Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons
The Rufous Fantail is a small bird with a reddish-brown rump and a tail it often spreads into a fan.
- Tristram's Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) tristrami
Tristram’s jird lives in dry steppe from the eastern Mediterranean into the Middle East. Its boundary from a close relative remains debated.
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
The black crown and white eyebrow stand out on this tchagra, which occurs widely across sub-Saharan Africa. It uses dry thorn woodland, miombo woodland, and some gardens.
- Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus
This large fruit-eating bat has fur ranging from light to dark brown. It flies among trees at night and forages with other bats for fruit.
- Maroon-breasted Philentoma Philentoma velata
This small bird lives in Borneo's forests, from lowland dipterocarp, peat-swamp and kerangas forest to lower montane forest.
- Atlantic Forest Nectomys Nectomys squamipes
The 2015 species account records this rodent in eastern Brazil’s Atlantic Forest region and cites primary forest near streams as habitat.
- Blue-banded Toucanet Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis
This green toucanet has a blue breast band and a chestnut-red rump. It forages for fruit and other food in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes.
- Banteng Bos javanicus
A wild cattle species also called tembadau on Borneo. Its appearance differs by sex and age.