Meet the world’s animals.

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• Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi

  

  A small hornbill of West Africa and lands west of the Congo River, marked by a broad gray-white eyebrow stripe.

• Bunny Rat Reithrodon auritus

  Its back has mixed gray and black fur, its underside is pale gray, and its large rounded ears are furry. It lives in open grasslands and pampas, digging or using burrows and natural rock holes.

• Gadwall Mareca strepera

  The male has fine gray patterning and a distinctive black rear.

• Big-footed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) macrodactylus

  The big-footed myotis roosts in caves and unused tunnels in Japan. Its back is grayish to blackish brown, with paler fur underneath.

• White-bibbed Babbler Stachyris thoracica

  This babbler lives in the forest understory of Java. A white patch from throat to breast is distinctive, and it searches for insects in shaded thickets.

• Gaur Bos gaurus

  A large wild cattle species of forests and hills in India and Southeast Asia.

• Black-crowned Barwing Actinodura sodangorum

  This barwing is documented in high-elevation forest around Mount Ngoc Linh in central Vietnam. The account here is limited to the documented locality.

• Southern African Mastomys Mastomys coucha

  The Southern African Mastomys is a rodent recorded in southern Africa. A South African study trapped it more often in natural and agricultural areas than in villages.

• Baudo Oropendola Psarocolius cassini

  This large oropendola lives in the lowlands of Chocó, northwestern Colombia. Records place it in humid forest and forest edge up to about 365 m.

• Ruwenzori Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus ruwenzorii

  The Ruwenzori sun squirrel lives in mountain forests of the Albertine Rift. It uses the lower forest vegetation and eats mainly fruit.

• White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis

  Most of its body is white, while the upper wings and tail are black. By day it searches for prey from a forest-edge perch or while circling above the canopy.

• Moor Macaque Macaca maura

  The Moor macaque occurs in southwestern Sulawesi. It is mainly fruit-eating and also eats leaves and arthropods.

• Greater Thornbird Phacellodomus ruber

  This 19–21 cm thornbird occurs in wetland-edge thickets and other scrub. It searches on the ground and in dense vegetation for insects and other invertebrates.

• European Snow Vole Chionomys nivalis

  A gray vole with long, dense fur and a tail about half as long as its body. It remains active beneath snow in winter.

• Grey-chested Greenlet Hylophilus semicinereus

  This small bird occurs in forests of northern South America and the Amazon region. It uses the canopy, forest borders, and secondary woodland, where it feeds on small insects.

• Zenati Myotis Myotis (Myotis) zenatius

  This bat has a small number of records from Morocco and Algeria. Adults have dark gray-brown fur on the back and whitish flanks. Most identified individuals were found at caves, including records of year-round cave use, but the species' ecology remains poorly known.

• Chilean Tinamou Nothoprocta perdicaria

  Its streaked grey-brown plumage blends into the ground; it feeds on plant material and small animals in grassland and fields.

• Bontebok Damaliscus pygargus

  An antelope of coastal plains in southwestern South Africa. This entry describes the bontebok subspecies, Damaliscus pygargus pygargus.

• Sykes's Lark Galerida deva

  This lark ranges from pale to warm buff and is relatively unmarked. It has a short, thick bill and a complex song, and lives on the ground in dry stony and scrubby country in India.

• Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii

  This small mouse of Australia’s dry country has a sandy to rufous back, white underside, and a dark tail tuft. It uses burrows or fallen timber and eats plant material, seeds, fungi, and insects.

• Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea

  The Whiskered Auklet is a small seabird with a crest and white plumes that stand out in the breeding season.

• Bangs's Mountain Squirrel Syntheosciurus brochus

  Bangs's mountain squirrel is a tree squirrel reported from the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama. A study in Costa Rica observed it feeding on flowers, sap, and bromeliads.

• Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris

  The Long-billed Corella is a white cockatoo with a long upper bill and red-orange chest markings. It often forages in large flocks on the ground in southeastern Australia.

• Nepal Gray Langur Semnopithecus schistaceus

  The Nepal gray langur lives in Himalayan forests and rocky areas. Its back and limbs are dark gray, its belly is creamy white, and the bare skin of its face, hands, and feet is black.