Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northeast African Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) cahirinus

  

  The Northeast African Spiny Mouse has a yellow-brown back with stiff, spine-like hairs from the shoulders to the rump and a white underside. It uses rocky shelters; along Egypt's Nile Valley it has also been recorded in buildings and tombs.

• Blue-cheeked Jacamar Galbula cyanicollis

  The Blue-cheeked Jacamar has glossy green upperparts and chestnut underparts, with blue cheeks and crown. In humid lowland forest, it feeds on beetles, wasps, bees, and ants.

• Weyns's Duiker Cephalophus weynsi

  This small antelope is recorded in forest areas of Central and East Africa. It is brown, with grayish shoulders and no dark back stripe. A small reddish tuft sits on its head.

• Goliath Heron Ardea goliath

  A large heron that waits for fish in shallow water. Its grey body contrasts with its chestnut head, neck, and belly.

• 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.

• Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey

  A breeding male is deep chestnut from head to body, while the female is paler brown with chestnut on the rump and wing coverts. The sparrows feed on grass seeds on the ground and occur in small groups.

• Blanford's Bat Hesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) blanfordi

  Blanford's bat is a medium-sized forest bat from South and Southeast Asia, including Borneo. It roosts in hollow trees or foliage and hunts flying insects at night.

• Brown Bullfinch Pyrrhula nipalensis

  This bullfinch has a gray-brown head and mantle, gray underparts, a long tail, and a narrow white rump. In Great Himalayan National Park it uses high-elevation forest and rhododendron thickets.

• Greater Wilfred's Mouse Wilfredomys oenax

  The greater Wilfred's mouse has long, soft fur, with orange on the nose, ears, and rump. A new record from Paraná, southern Brazil, includes captures in grassland and a photograph from riverine forest.

• Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis

  This sunbird occurs in the Zambezian miombo region. Males have blue-green upperparts and a red breast band. The species tends to build a grass ball nest attached among branches or leaves.

• Greater spot-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus nictitans

  The greater spot-nosed monkey is a West and Central African guenon with a conspicuous white spot on its nose and dark fur. It eats fruit and seeds and spends much of its time in trees.

• 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.

• Verreaux's White-footed Rat Myomyscus verreauxii

  This mouse lives in South Africa's Western Cape. It has a buff-brown back, pale underside, large naked ears, white feet, and a long scaly tail.

• Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica

  This apalis ranges from eastern to southern Africa and is recorded in evergreen forest, valley woodland, and scrub.

• Roan antelope Hippotragus equinus

  An antelope with long ears and contrasting pale and dark facial markings.

• Southern Shrikebill Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides

  The Southern Shrikebill occurs in New Caledonia and Vanuatu, using moist tropical forest, including heavily altered forest. It searches vegetation and bushes for invertebrates.

• Long-clawed Ground Squirrel Spermophilopsis leptodactylus

  The long-clawed ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of Central Asian drylands. It is active by day and uses its long claws to dig.

• Chestnut-naped Antpitta Grallaria nuchalis

  This antpitta lives in humid Andean forest. In the account of its northeastern Peruvian form, it is also associated with bamboo thickets.

• Brazilian Brown Bat Eptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis

  This bat is recorded from Mexico south to southern South America. It catches insects while flying over tropical streams and habitat edges.

• 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.

• Small-toothed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) microdon

  The small-toothed harvest mouse is a small rodent with reddish fur and a long tail. It is among the more arboreal members of its genus and inhabits cool, moist mountain forests.

• Great Eared Nightjar Lyncornis macrotis

  The Great Eared Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forests and forest edges in the Indo-Malay region. Its ear-like tufts and upright resting posture are distinctive.

• Ashy Red Colobus Piliocolobus tephrosceles

  The ashy red colobus is a red colobus monkey of Uganda and Tanzania that uses riverine and moist forests among other woodland types.

• Swallow-tailed Cotinga Phibalura flavirostris

  This cotinga has a patchy range in eastern South America. Its black head, yellow throat, and long forked tail stand out.