Meet the world’s animals.

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• Carpentarian Grasswren Amytornis dorotheae

  

  This bird inhabits spinifex grassland and rocky areas in northern Australia, around the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

• Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum

  An antelope of water-rich grasslands in central and southern Africa; only males have horns.

• Southern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus xanthopterus

  The Southern Brown-throated Weaver builds its nest in reedbeds by water. The breeding male is bright yellow with a chestnut face and throat.

• Argentine Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis

  Its back hairs have dark bases and brown to yellowish-brown tips, with color varying by season and habitat. The species catches insects in flight over treetops, streams, and ponds.

• Bonaparte's Parakeet Pyrrhura lucianii

  Bonaparte's Parakeet is mostly green, with dark red on the forehead, around the eyes, and on the abdomen. It inhabits lowland humid and semi-humid forest and nests in abandoned woodpecker holes. Older classifications included it within the Pyrrhura picta complex.

• Mona Monkey Cercopithecus mona

  The mona monkey is an arboreal monkey of West and Central African forests. It searches for food in the middle and upper parts of trees.

• Plain-colored Tanager Tangara inornata

  A small tanager that moves through the canopy and forest edges. In Costa Rica it occurs in Caribbean lowlands, including along streams.

• Australian Long-haired Rat Rattus villosissimus

  This rat lives in arid Australia. Its numbers can rise after wet periods and then fall as food and water decline.

• Pallas' Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi

  Pallas' Reed Bunting is a small bunting that breeds in northern Asia. In Hong Kong it is rarely recorded as an autumn passage migrant.

• Pallas's squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus

  Pallas’s squirrel is a tree-dwelling squirrel native from Taiwan and southern China through parts of Southeast Asia.

• Scarlet-chested Parakeet Neophema splendida

  The Scarlet-chested Parakeet has a blue head and yellow underbody; the male has a scarlet chest. It forages for seeds on the ground in dry inland scrub.

• White-throated Montane Forest Rat Drymoreomys albimaculatus

  This rodent occurs in the Serra do Mar of southeastern Brazil. Its back is orange-toned, with white areas on the throat and chest. It is recorded in humid montane Atlantic Forest; the account describes it as nocturnal, with most study captures on the ground.

• Round-tailed Manakin Ceratopipra chloromeros

  The male is black with a red head, while the female is green. Both have a rounded tail and forage in the understory of unflooded forest.

• West African savanna buffalo Syncerus brachyceros

  This is the West African savanna form of the African buffalo. In W Regional Park, seven breeding herds were tracked; late in the dry season they used areas near permanent rivers, and six shifted southwest as the rains began.

• Wilson's Bird-of-paradise Diphyllodes respublica

  Wilson's Bird-of-paradise is a bird whose adult male has vivid colors and curved central tail feathers. It lives in hill forest on Waigeo and Batanta in Indonesia.

• Savi's Pipistrelle Hypsugo savii

  Savi's pipistrelle is a bat whose long back fur is dark brown at the base and golden at the tips, with a pale underside. In the Mediterranean region, it catches insects while flying.

• White-bearded Hermit Phaethornis hispidus

  This widespread Amazonian hummingbird has gray underparts and a white stripe down the throat. A Colombian account adds forest, edge, secondary growth and seasonally flooded forest as habitats.

• Kinda Baboon Papio kindae

  The Kinda baboon lives in miombo woodland in south-central Africa. It is smaller and more slender than related baboons, with notably long legs.

• Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris

  The Brown-hooded Kingfisher has a blue back and red bill and hunts insects from low branches.

• Common Metad Millardia meltada

  The common metad has a finely grizzled gray back and a tail that is dark above and pale below. Nepal's account describes life in lowland fields and grasslands.

• Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella

  The Crested Auklet breeds on rocky islands in the Bering Sea and dives underwater for crustaceans and other prey.

• Perny's Long-nosed Squirrel Dremomys pernyi

  The Taiwan subspecies, Dremomys pernyi owstoni, has a yellow belly and long snout. It searches the ground by day for fallen fruit and seeds.

• Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus

  A long white eyebrow, cinnamon plumage and often upturned tail distinguish the Carolina Wren. It lives in woods and dense vegetation; pairs stay in the same territory year-round.

• Patagonian Chinchilla Mouse Euneomys chinchilloides

  With long, dense grey-brown fur, it lives in sandy areas with rocky shelter and patches of grass or shrubs. Records are from central and southeastern Chile and adjacent Argentina.