Meet the world’s animals.

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• Woodchuck Marmota (Marmota) monax

  

  A North American squirrel relative that eats plants near fields and woodland edges and digs an underground burrow.

• Rufous-crowned Emu-wren Stipiturus ruficeps

  This small bird lives in stony spinifex habitat in the southern deserts of Australia’s Northern Territory. It has a blue face and wispy tail, and flits between tussocks.

• Eastern Mole Vole Ellobius (Ellobius) tancrei

  The eastern mole vole is a burrowing rodent recorded in Mongolia's dry steppes and semideserts. Its short tail and other features are shared within the genus and do not identify this species by themselves.

• Brown Trembler Cinclocerthia ruficauda

  The Brown Trembler inhabits forests of the Lesser Antilles. Its rounded body is rufous-brown, and it searches for food while tossing leaves.

• Southwestern Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) auriculus

  This small bat has brown fur and long ears. It becomes active after sunset and uses sound to find moths and other insects.

• Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis

  This thrush breeds in montane areas of eastern Siberia and Mongolia, then moves to lower areas for winter. Adult males show a red throat against gray and white plumage.

• Red Veld Aethomys Aethomys chrysophilus

  The Red Veld Aethomys has a reddish-brown back and white belly. It is nocturnal and mainly terrestrial, eating mostly plant foods along with insects and other animal matter.

• Paramo Seedeater Catamenia homochroa

  The Paramo Seedeater occurs in the Andes and on tepuis in southern Venezuela. It searches near the ground in humid scrub near the tree line, often among Chusquea bamboo.

• Buffon's Kob Kobus kob

  The kob is an African antelope of grasslands and wetlands, feeding on grasses and reeds.

• Nelicourvi Weaver Ploceus nelicourvi

  This weaver is endemic to Madagascar and is associated especially with humid forest in the east and north. It is usually alone or in pairs and eats insects and spiders as well as some fruit and nectar.

• Belding's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus beldingi

  Belding's ground squirrel is active by day in mountain meadows. It eats grasses and seeds and spends the winter hibernating in burrows.

• Gray Vireo Vireo vicinior

  Gray Vireos breed in dry scrub of the southwestern United States. Many winter in Mexico and use similar scrub as well as desert stream areas.

• Alfaro's Rice Rat Oryzomys alfaroi

  The current scientific name is Casiomys alfaroi. A 1946 description from Costa Rica reports an ochraceous back mixed with black hairs and a buff-white underside. A survey in Chiapas recorded it at Bird Friendly shade-coffee farms under its former combination, Handleyomys alfaroi.

• Black-throated Robin Poecilodryas albonotata

  This robin inhabits montane forest on New Guinea. The male has bluish-gray plumage with a black face and throat.

• Asian parti-colored bat Vespertilio sinensis

  A bat whose dark brown fur has white tips, giving it a frosted appearance.

• Brown-bellied Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla gutturalis

  In Guyana, it has been recorded foraging in the understory of moist lowland forest, taking insects hidden among leaves. It may join mixed flocks of other antbirds.

• Hairy-footed Gerbil Gerbillurus (Progerbillurus) paeba

  This small gerbil has fur on the soles of its feet. It lives in dry parts of southern Africa and uses burrows beneath grass or shrubs.

• 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.

• European Ground Squirrel Spermophilus citellus

  The European ground squirrel is a small ground squirrel that lives where grass is short. It comes out of underground burrows during the day.

• Rufous-fronted Prinia Prinia buchanani

  The Rufous-fronted Prinia is a small bird of dry grassland and scrub. A 2005 field note from Dive Ghat in Maharashtra, western India, recorded birds singing from low bushes.

• 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.

• Masked Water Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta

  This small bird has a white head and a black stripe through the eye. It searches muddy river and pond edges for small arthropods.

• Savi's Pipistrelle Hypsugo savii

  Savi's pipistrelle is a bat whose long back fur is dark brown at the base and golden at the tips, with a pale underside. In the Mediterranean region, it catches insects while flying.

• Brown-rumped Tapaculo Scytalopus latebricola

  This small tapaculo occurs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia. It moves on the ground near leaf litter in dense understory of humid montane forest.