Meet the world’s animals.

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• Agulhas Long-billed Lark Certhilauda brevirostris

  

  This lark is restricted to South Africa's Agulhas Plain. It is a drab brown bird, but has a longer bill than other larks. It nests on the ground, mainly in Renosterveld vegetation.

• Indian Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista philippensis

  The Indian giant flying squirrel lives in tree cavities and canopies, gliding between trees on a membrane that stretches from its forelegs to its hind legs.

• Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata

  The Great Blue Turaco is a large bird with blue feathers and a red-and-yellow bill. It moves deftly through rainforest canopy and occurs in Central and West Africa.

• Romanian Hamster Mesocricetus newtoni

  The Romanian hamster occurs along the Danube in northern Romania and Bulgaria. In examined animals, researchers recorded a grayish back, a dark line from the ears to the shoulders, and black stripes on the cheek pouches. It is active around dusk and at night, storing seeds and fruit in its burrow.

• Bearded Guan Penelope barbata

  The Bearded Guan is a large forest bird with a small red throat wattle and gray speckles. It lives in montane forests of southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Scimitar-horned Oryx Oryx dammah

  The scimitar-horned oryx is an antelope of arid lands, with a pale coat and long, backward-curving horns.

• Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge Arborophila javanica

  The Chestnut-bellied Hill Partridge is a ground-dwelling pheasant of Java’s mountain forests. A study in fragmented forest found it more often inside natural high-elevation forest than near the edges.

• Northern Hairy-legged Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) pilosatibialis

  A 2014 study supported treating this former subspecies of Myotis keaysi as a distinct species. Its coat is buffy-brown, with hair on the hind feet and uropatagium.

• Blue-throated Bee-eater Merops viridis

  This green bird is marked by a blue throat and long tail streamers. It watches from a perch and catches flying insects in the air.

• Panay Crateromys Crateromys heaneyi

  A large tree-dwelling rodent found only on Panay Island. It has long, thick fur and a bushy tail longer than its body.

• Lemon-bellied Flyrobin Microeca flavigaster

  This small bird occurs in northern Australia. Its belly is pale lemon except in the Kimberley subspecies, and it often calls from high perches.

• Asian Red-cheeked Squirrel Dremomys rufigenis

  The Asian red-cheeked squirrel ranges from southern China across parts of northern South and Southeast Asia. It forages both on the ground and in trees.

• Sooty-headed Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseiceps

  The Sooty-headed Tyrannulet forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest. Peru Aves says its range is poorly understood and lists records in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.

• Merriam's Piñon Mouse Peromyscus gratus

  This mouse has brown fur with ochre tones on its back. It ranges from the southwestern United States into interior Mexico, with records in high-elevation pine forest.

• Radjah Shelduck Radjah radjah

  The Radjah Shelduck stands out for its white head and breast and chestnut breast band. It feeds in shallow wetlands, mainly at night.

• Golden Takin Budorcas bedfordi

  The golden takin lives in the Qinling Mountains of central China. Adult males have long, shaggy coats ranging from creamy white to golden yellow, with especially golden hair on the neck and chest.

• Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa

  This African barbet is marked by a yellow eye and spotted flanks. In damp highland woodland of eastern Africa, it feeds on figs, berries, and insects.

• Taddei's Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) taddeii

  This medium-sized bat was described from the Atlantic Forest of southern and southeastern Brazil. The original description reports captures in forest and at forest edges.

• Sumatran Trogon Apalharpactes mackloti

  This trogon lives in montane forest on Sumatra. The male has metallic green and blue plumage, a yellow throat, and a red bill; females are similarly colored.

• Striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius

  A small mouse marked by a dark stripe down its back. It lives in places ranging from grassy fields and farms to woodland.

• Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata

  The Red-gartered Coot is a waterbird marked by a red band on each leg. It swims in lakes, ponds, and slow rivers and feeds on aquatic plants.

• Siberian chipmunk Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus

  A chipmunk of northern Asian forests that uses both the ground and trees.

• Chestnut-capped Puffbird Bucco macrodactylus

  The Chestnut-capped Puffbird is marked by a chestnut crown, a pale eyebrow, and a white stripe across its dark face. It waits quietly in waterside thickets before darting out for prey.

• White-footed Vole Arborimus albipes

  This small vole has white feet and a two-toned tail. It lives in humid coastal forests and eats plants at night both in trees and on the ground.