Meet the world’s animals.

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• François' Langur Trachypithecus francoisi

  

  François' langur is a leaf-eating monkey that lives among limestone cliffs and caves. Infants have bright orange fur that turns black as they grow.

• Black-throated Toucanet Aulacorhynchus atrogularis

  This toucanet occurs along the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A study of the former broad Emerald Toucanet complex describes black throat and cheek markings and a two-colored band at the bill base for the atrogularis form.

• Woodchuck Marmota (Marmota) monax

  A North American squirrel relative that eats plants near fields and woodland edges and digs an underground burrow.

• Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum

  The Grey-backed Thrush is a common winter visitor in Hong Kong, occurring in forests, wooded areas, and urban parks. Males show grey and orange, while females are brown and spotted.

• Common Pericote Graomys griseoflavus

  The common pericote is a mouse broadly distributed in dry parts of Argentina. It has a gray-yellow back, pale underside, and a long tail ending in a brush-like tuft.

• American Kestrel Falco sparverius

  A small falcon found in North America. It hunts insects and other small prey in open country, perching on posts or hovering into the wind.

• Greater Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) myotis

  The greater mouse-eared bat is a large bat found in western, central and southern Europe and Asia Minor.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

  The Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove is a forest pigeon endemic to the Cook Islands, where it occurs on Rarotonga and Atiu.

• Lechwe Kobus leche

  A wetland antelope that grazes while standing in shallow water.

• Brazilian Laniisoma Laniisoma elegans

  This bird inhabits humid forests in southeastern Brazil and forages from the understory into the subcanopy.

• Wagner’s Gerbil Dipodillus (Petteromys) dasyurus

  Wagner’s Gerbil is currently listed as Gerbillus dasyurus. A Saudi Arabian field guide describes it in rocky terrain and limestone escarpments, where it shelters among rocks or under bushes and feeds mainly on seeds and succulent plants.

• Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum

  At Gunung Merapi National Park on Java, a male was recorded visiting a nest and feeding two chicks. This was an observation of one nest and does not establish the species' general breeding behaviour.

• Sabah Grizzled Langur Presbytis sabana

  The Sabah grizzled langur occurs in Sabah in northeastern Borneo. It is currently treated as Presbytis sabana, while some descriptions of its appearance and ecology were published under the older name Presbytis hosei sabana.

• Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus

  An eagle with a large head and broad wings. It hovers to search for snakes and lizards on the ground.

• Western Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Hesperosciurus) griseus

  The western gray squirrel has a gray back, pale underside and bushy tail. In Washington, it occurs in scattered pine and oak woodlands.

• Crested Black Tyrant Knipolegus lophotes

  It has a high crest, and a broad white patch shows on the open wings in flight. It launches from a perch to catch flying insects and returns to a favored perch. A separate nest account has records from one area in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

• Golden hamster Mesocricetus auratus

  A hamster with wild populations in a small part of the Middle East, including Syria. Wild animals burrow and are usually solitary.

• Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher Alcedo euryzona

  The Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher is a kingfisher recorded on the Indonesian island of Java. A report describes observations along rocky rivers in Central Java.

• South American Hoary Bat Aeorestes villosissimus

  The South American hoary bat is an arboreal bat recorded in Argentina in forests and mountain environments.

• Brünnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia

  An Arctic seabird. In Svalbard, it breeds on narrow cliff ledges; chicks head to sea with a parent before they can fly.

• Klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus

  A small antelope that lives among rocks and leaps across rocky ground.

• Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps

  This babbler lives in central African mountain forests. It was formerly included with the African Hill Babbler but is now treated as a separate species.

• Hog-nosed Shrew Rat Hyorhinomys stuempkei

  This rodent was recorded on a mountain in northern Sulawesi. Its nose ends in a flat pink pad with nostrils that face forward. In the 2015 description, all five known specimens were captured on the forest floor at night; stomachs of three contained earthworm remains and other prey.

• Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla

  This small fulvetta occurs in central and southern China. It has a brown to gray-brown crown, a dark side crown stripe, a broad pale-gray eyebrow, and rufous wings. It eats invertebrates and seeds.