Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bolivian Pericote Auliscomys boliviensis

  

  The Bolivian Pericote is a robust-bodied rodent of the Andean highlands. It is mainly active by day and feeds on plants.

• Tomtit Petroica macrocephala

  This small bird has a large head, short bill, and short tail. It lives in New Zealand forest and scrub and has five subspecies restricted to different islands or island groups.

• Nilgiri Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Vandeleuria nilagirica

  This mouse is recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India. In Coorg, specimens were captured in a banana plantation and nests were found in one patch of a coffee estate.

• Sind Woodpecker Dendrocopos assimilis

  The Sind Woodpecker lives in dry lowlands of Iran and Pakistan. It searches trunks and branches for food, and males and females differ in crown color.

• 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.

• Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex

  This canary ranges through mountain areas from Eritrea to northern Malawi and western Angola. Adult males of the nominate form show conspicuous yellow on the head and underparts, and forage for seeds among the ground and vegetation.

• Jaliscan Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) mascotensis

  The Jaliscan Cotton Rat occurs in western Mexico. It has coarse brown fur above and a pale underside, and it is commonly associated with grasslands and farmland.

• Grey-eyed Bulbul Iole propinqua

  Its grey-to-white eye with a dark rim is conspicuous. It feeds mainly on fruit and insects, foraging in forest canopies and mid-storeys.

• Persian Jird Meriones (Parameriones) persicus

  The Persian jird lives in dry parts of western Asia, using rocky hills and grasslands. A tuft of fur marks the tip of its tail.

• Regent Bowerbird Sericulus chrysocephalus

  The Regent Bowerbird lives in rainforests and gullies of eastern Australia. Males build a decorated bower, and the birds eat fruit and insects.

• Utah Prairie Dog Cynomys (Leucocrossuromys) parvidens

  The Utah prairie dog is a diurnal squirrel relative of southwestern Utah that forms colonies with extensive underground burrows.

• Nocturnal Curassow Nothocrax urumutum

  The Nocturnal Curassow lives in lowland forest of upper and middle Amazonia. Despite its name, it searches for food on the ground by day and is also active around dawn and dusk.

• White-bellied Akodont Akodon (Akodon) albiventer

  The white-bellied akodont is a small rodent of the Andean highlands. Its grizzled-grey back contrasts with a white belly, and most records come from 3,000–4,500 m.

• Roseate spoonbill Platalea ajaja

  A pink waterbird with a large spoon-shaped bill.

• Sandy Inland Pseudomys Pseudomys hermannsburgensis

  The sandy inland pseudomys is an Australian mouse that rests in a burrow by day and searches for seeds and small invertebrates at night. Its back ranges from pale ginger to gray-brown, and its tail is longer than its body.

• Brandt's Cormorant Urile penicillatus

  This skilled diver pursues fish in the Pacific waters of North America. In breeding plumage it shows a blue throat patch and wispy white head feathers.

• Vancouver Island Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis

  The Vancouver Island marmot lives in mountain meadows on Canada's Vancouver Island. It has brown fur with white patches and hibernates underground.

• Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius

  The Sociable Weaver has pale brown plumage with dark feather edging and a black chin. Around the Kalahari, groups build and use large communal nests.

• Goytaca Cerradomys Cerradomys goytaca

  This rodent is recorded in coastal restinga in southeastern Brazil. Its back is orange-brown, its head grey, and its tail is bicolored. The original habitat study recorded it most often in low shrub patches and also caught it on branches.

• Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema

  This francolin occurs on mountaintops in the Ethiopian highlands, in Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine environments.

• Greater Bandicoot Rat Bandicota indica

  It is the largest rat in Taiwan. It has coarse black hairs on its back and occurs in lowland farmland, including rice and sugarcane fields there.

• Black Hornbill Anthracoceros malayanus

  The Black Hornbill has a black body with white tips on the outer tail feathers. It forages in the upper and middle canopy of lowland forests.

• Least Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) minimus

  This small chipmunk lives in North America. It has a striped face, an orangish-brown back, and a grayish-white underside. It often uses forest edges and openings.

• Schalow's Turaco Tauraco schalowi

  Schalow’s Turaco lives in forests of south-central Africa. It climbs and hops through the canopy and eats fruit, especially figs.