Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-fronted Langur Presbytis frontata

  

  The white-fronted langur is a Bornean monkey with gray-brown fur and a white bare patch on its forehead. It is active by day, but its detailed ecology is poorly known.

• Razor-billed Curassow Mitu tuberosum

  It has a bluish-black body, a chestnut lower belly, white tail tips, a red bill and legs, and a crest. It searches for fallen fruit on the forest floor.

• Prevost’s Squirrel Callosciurus prevostii

  Prevost’s squirrel is a diurnal, tree-dwelling squirrel whose main food is fruit. Its species account records it in lowland and secondary forest as well as plantations.

• White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi

  The White-faced Ibis probes wet mud with its long bill for food. Its plumage can shine green and purple.

• Long-clawed Mole mouse Geoxus valdivianus

  The long-clawed mole mouse is a small rodent with tiny eyes and ears and long foreclaws. The forest-dwelling nominate form in southern Chile is nocturnal and uses both underground spaces and leaf litter.

• Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus

  A coastal cormorant smaller than the Japanese Cormorant, with crests and white patches in breeding season.

• 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.

• White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali

  The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver has a bold white eyebrow stripe. It lives in dry woodland and forms year-round colonies with other birds.

• Kuban Tur Capra caucasica

  The Kuban tur is a wild goat of the western Caucasus. Above the forest belt, it uses alpine meadows and rocky slopes.

• Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis

  A large pheasant-family bird of high mountains from Central Asia to the Himalaya.

• 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.

• Bushy-crested Hornbill Anorrhinus galeritus

  A hornbill that lives in groups in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is its main food, but it also searches the canopy for insects and small animals.

• Lesula Cercopithecus lomamiensis

  This monkey lives in lowland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and eats fruit and leaves.

• Violet turaco Tauraco violaceus

  A deep-purple bird that moves through trees by hopping along branches.

• Plantain Squirrel Callosciurus notatus

  The plantain squirrel lives in tree-rich habitats of Southeast Asia and is marked by black-and-white side stripes and a reddish belly.

• Great Tinamou Tinamus major

  A large ground-dwelling bird of tropical lowland forest. It is hard to see but known for a haunting double whistle at dawn and dusk.

• Marsh Rice Rat Oryzomys palustris

  This semiaquatic rat uses wetlands and watersides. The balance of plant and animal foods in its diet varies by region.

• Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus

  The Village Weaver is a bird whose breeding males split leaves and bark into strips and weave hanging nests. It occurs across Africa outside desert regions.

• Black-winged Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa tumida

  The black-winged little yellow bat ranges from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The edges of its range remain uncertain.

• Magpie Shrike Lanius melanoleucus

  The Magpie Shrike is an African shrike with a long tail and black-and-white plumage. It watches for prey from savanna branches and may breed cooperatively in family groups.

• Nilgai Boselaphus tragocamelus

  A large antelope of the Indian subcontinent that is active by day in grassland and woodland.

• Rufous Fieldwren Calamanthus campestris

  This rusty-brown ground bird inhabits arid southern Australia. A 2009 NSW Government determination treated it as a full species separate from the Striated Fieldwren and restricted its NSW range to the far-west arid zone.

• Namaqua rock mouse Micaelamys namaquensis

  The Namaqua rock mouse is a rodent of southern Africa. It is often recorded in rocky settings, where it uses grass nests in crevices and similar shelters.

• Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus

  This laughingthrush is marked by long legs and tail and a black pattern around the eyes. In Hong Kong, small flocks live among vegetation in parks and villages.