Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brush Deermouse Peromyscus boylii

  

  The brush deermouse has a brown back, a pale underside, and a long tail with a tufted tip. It is active at night and uses trees and rock crevices.

• Chilean Tinamou Nothoprocta perdicaria

  Its streaked grey-brown plumage blends into the ground; it feeds on plant material and small animals in grassland and fields.

• Indomalayan Leopoldamys Leopoldamys sabanus

  The Indomalayan Leopoldamys has a dark back, pale belly, and long tail. It is mainly ground-dwelling but can climb, and eats fruit, vegetation, and insects.

• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.

• Mindanao Flying Squirrel Petinomys mindanensis

  This flying squirrel occurs in the southern Philippines. It is nocturnal and moves among trees in wet tropical and subtropical forests.

• Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator

  A small African shrike of savanna and shrubland that catches ground-dwelling invertebrates by day.

• Brazilian Marsh Rat Holochilus brasiliensis

  The Brazilian marsh rat lives in wetlands and has webbed hind feet. It eats plant material and is adapted for swimming.

• Grey Thornbill Acanthiza cinerea

  A small thornbill with grey upperparts and a white underside, active in the canopy of montane forest.

• Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat Rhabdomys pumilio

  The Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat has stripes along its back. In South Africa's Succulent Karoo, it was studied foraging alone while living in groups that share a nest.

• White-whiskered Laughingthrush Trochalopteron morrisonianum

  This large laughingthrush lives in Taiwan's central mountains, using scrub, bamboo and forest edges. Winter records occur at lower elevations.

• Merriam's Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) merriami

  Merriam’s chipmunk occurs in central and southern California, including chaparral and oak woodland.

• White-throated Toucan Ramphastos tucanus

  The white-throated toucan is a toucan with a strikingly large bill. It eats fruit and spends time in pairs or flocks in the canopy.

• Big-eared Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) macrotis

  The Big-eared Woodrat is a nocturnal rodent of woodland and scrub from California into northern Mexico. It builds stick nests and feeds on plant material.

• Amami Thrush Zoothera major

  A large thrush found on Amami-Oshima, with records also from nearby Kakeroma Island. It searches for animal prey and fruit in mature evergreen forest around humid valleys.

• 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.

• Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides

  The Nankeen Kestrel is a small falcon with a rufous back and pale, dark-streaked underparts. It hunts in open country such as grassland and farmland.

• Mearns's Squirrel Tamiasciurus mearnsi

  This squirrel is restricted to the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, Mexico. It lives in high-elevation conifer forest and uses tree hollows for nests.

• Bare-eyed Pigeon Patagioenas corensis

  The Bare-eyed Pigeon has a gray body, a pale throat and chest, blue bare skin around the eyes, and a red bill. It uses dry scrub, acacia thickets, mangroves, and farmland.

• 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.

• Buff-throated Purpletuft Iodopleura pipra

  This small bird inhabits Brazil’s eastern Atlantic Forest. Field observations report male flank tufts and feeding and nesting activity at forest edges.

• 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.

• Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile

  The Thick-billed Flowerpecker ranges from the Indian subcontinent into Southeast Asia. This small bird takes fruit and nectar with its thick bill and forages in tree canopies and village groves.

• Harris' antelope squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii

  A ground squirrel with a white side stripe, white belly, and bushy black tail. It gathers food during hot desert days.

• Solitary Eagle Buteogallus solitarius

  The Solitary Eagle is a large raptor of tropical forests. Adults are almost entirely black with a white band across the middle of the tail. An Argentine regional account records mammals as prey and trees as nesting sites.