Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-footed Colilargo Oligoryzomys nigripes

  

  The black-footed colilargo is a small rodent with a tail longer than its head and body combined and relatively short, broad hind feet. A southern Brazilian forest study found it associated with dense scrub.

• Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus

  A rufous crown, white eyebrow, dark eye-stripe, gray face and breast, and yellow belly make this small bird recognizable.

• Angolan Talapoin Miopithecus talapoin

  The southern talapoin occurs in southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Angola, south of the Congo River. It spends much of its time in riverside trees but also comes down to search for food. Its face is black, and its greenish-yellow coat is speckled with gray.

• Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Weaver is a bird whose breeding males show a black head and yellow body and build woven grass nests. It lives in open country and wetlands across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Mexican Fox Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) nayaritensis

  The Mexican fox squirrel lives in pine-oak forests from southeastern Arizona into western Mexico. It often uses tree-rich canyon bottoms.

• Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor

  A uniformly gray turaco with a tall crest and long tail, it often perches in small groups in trees and bushes. It occurs in open woodland and scrub in southern Africa.

• Common Desert Long-eared Bat Otonycteris hemprichii

  This large-eared bat occurs from North Africa into the Middle East. A study tracking reproductive females in the Negev Desert found that they mainly roosted in rock cracks.

• Rouget's Rail Rougetius rougetii

  This rail lives in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea and walks through grassland and marshy ground.

• Oribi Ourebia ourebi

  The oribi is a small antelope with long, slender legs and neck. Its patchy range extends across parts of Africa, mainly in grassland.

• Black-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus chinensis

  The Black-throated Laughingthrush lives in forests from southern China through Indochina. It usually moves in pairs or small groups and searches for food in the lower parts of trees and shrubs.

• Tamarisk Gerbil Meriones (Meriones) tamariscinus

  This gerbil lives in drylands from the Caspian region into Central Asia. It is active at night and feeds on plants.

• Common Smoky Honeyeater Melipotes fumigatus

  Orange-yellow skin around the eyes and on the ear-wattle contrasts with the smoky brown back. In New Guinea's highlands, it feeds on small fruits and insects in the canopy and middle storey.

• Rock Mouse Peromyscus difficilis

  The Rock Mouse is listed from Mexico in the current mammal database. A 2010 species account describes large ears and a bicolored tail slightly longer than the head and body.

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Southern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca nemestrina

  This macaque lives in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is a major part of its diet, and it also forages on the ground. Its short tail is partly upright, and its crown is dark.

• Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata

  The Black-capped Petrel is a seabird of the northwestern Atlantic. It breeds in highlands on Hispaniola and searches near the sea surface for fish and squid, mostly at night.

• Bhutan Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista nobilis

  The Bhutan giant flying squirrel is a large gliding squirrel reported from the eastern Himalaya. It has a deep reddish-brown body and a lighter gliding membrane; its tail tip is often black.

• New Zealand little penguin Eudyptula minor

  A small penguin of New Zealand coasts, with a blue-toned back and white underparts.

• Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat Chalinolobus morio

  The Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat is an Australian bat with brown fur and short, rounded ears. It roosts in tree hollows and other structures and catches moths below the canopy.

• Siberian Nuthatch Sitta arctica

  A 2006 taxonomic study examined the Siberian form arctica within the Eurasian Nuthatch group and supported treating it as a separate species. That form has dark bluish-grey upperparts, a white belly centre and chestnut flanks. A current species account lists forest habitat and invertebrates as food, but the taxonomic study says ecological information about arctica remains fragmentary.

• Wild Yak Bos mutus

  A wild yak of the high Tibetan Plateau, it is a species distinct from the domestic yak.

• Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei

  This slender thrasher lives in dry areas of the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has sandy-brown plumage and a relatively short, curved bill, and searches for prey on the ground.

• Sand-colored Metad Millardia gleadowi

  This small rodent is reported from northwestern India. It is sand-brown above and white below, and the account describes it as nocturnal and burrow-dwelling.

• Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha

  The Hooded Wheatear is a flycatcher relative of bare desert valleys and canyons. Males are black and white; females and young birds are paler.