Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Olive Manakin Xenopipo uniformis

  It occurs in Venezuela’s tepui highlands and nearby uplands at the Brazil–Guyana border. Its plumage is uniformly olive, with slightly paler, greyer underparts.

• Red Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista petaurista

  The red giant flying squirrel spreads a membrane between its limbs to glide from tree to tree. It is nocturnal and lives among forest trees.

• Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques

  The Western Bronze-naped Pigeon inhabits forests in tropical Africa. It feeds on fruit and uses habitats including riparian evergreen forest.

• Greater Broad-nosed Bat Scoteanax rueppellii

  The Greater Broad-nosed Bat is a large bat of eastern Australia. It is active at night, catches insects, and roosts in places such as tree hollows.

• White-bellied Wren Uropsila leucogastra

  A resident wren of Mexico and Central America, it searches forest thickets for insects and spiders.

• Moustached Guenon Cercopithecus cephus

  The moustached guenon is a monkey with a blue-white stripe below its nose and bright yellow whiskers. It mainly eats fruit and also takes seeds, leaves, and insects in the forest.

• Antarctic Shag Leucocarbo bransfieldensis

  This seabird breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, and Elephant Island. Its upperparts are glossy black and its throat and belly white; it feeds on fish and benthic animals near coasts and pack ice.

• Bharal (blue sheep) Pseudois nayaur

  A mountain animal also known as the blue sheep, found in the Indian Himalaya.

• Northern Fantail Rhipidura rufiventris

  The Northern Fantail searches for insects in forests and along forest edges in northern Australia. A regional field guide describes a gray bird with a fine pale eyebrow and white throat, and notes that its tail is less fanned than that of other fantails.

• 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.

• Short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus

  An albatross with long, narrow wings that searches for food at the sea surface.

• Paraná Akodont Akodon (Akodon) paranaensis

  This small rodent occurs in southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. Its back is grayish olive and its underside gray to creamy; it uses forests and grasslands.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Mexican Ground Squirrel Ictidomys mexicanus

  This ground squirrel has rows of white spots along its back. Records from Mapimí Biosphere Reserve in Mexico showed it active during the hottest part of the day.

• Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala

  This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.

• Finlayson's Cave Bat Vespadelus finlaysoni

  Finlayson's cave bat is a small species widespread across Australia. It occurs from deserts to high-rainfall coastal areas, often near rocky outcrops or hills.

• White-streaked Honeyeater Trichodere cockerelli

  This honeyeater lives in northeastern Australia. Field reports describe feeding at flowering eucalyptus and banksia in two Queensland locations.

• Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes mearnsi

  The Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest, Connochaetes mearnsi, is restricted to the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. It is a small, dark form with a longer tail and a hanging mane. Most of the population moves seasonally in the dry season.

• Black-breasted Puffbird Notharchus pectoralis

  This puffbird lives in humid forest from eastern Panama to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It takes centipedes and scorpions among other prey and excavates a nest hole in an arboreal termite mound.

• Common Oenomys Oenomys hypoxanthus

  The common Oenomys has a red nose and a white-to-orange underside. At Mount Kupe in Cameroon it was also caught in a village and fallow land; its coat color and body size vary geographically.

• Andaman Cuckoo-shrike Coracina dobsoni

  The Andaman Cuckooshrike is endemic to India's Andaman Islands and uses moist lowland and mangrove forest canopies. Males and females differ in their underpart pattern.

• Transcaucasian Mole Vole Ellobius (Afganomys) lutescens

  A burrowing rodent recorded in eastern Turkey's semiarid areas, grasslands, and high-elevation cultivated fields. Field observations report family groups, complex tunnels, and a diet of vegetation.

• Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens

  This vireo occurs in coastal parts of Mexico and Central America and on Providencia Island, Colombia. It searches leaves and branches for small invertebrates in mangroves and scrub.