Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cheesman's gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) cheesmani

  

  This gerbil blends into dry country with its sandy coat. It digs burrows in sand or rocky ground and stores food in them.

• Fire-tailed Myzornis Myzornis pyrrhoura

  The Fire-tailed Myzornis has green-and-gold plumage, a dark face mask, and a red tail. It searches flowering shrubs for food in the Himalayas.

• Tamarau Bubalus mindorensis

  The tamaraw is a wild bovid found only on Mindoro in the Philippines. Accounts describe it using grassland and secondary forest, with adults usually living alone.

• Wilson's Bird-of-paradise Diphyllodes respublica

  Wilson's Bird-of-paradise is a bird whose adult male has vivid colors and curved central tail feathers. It lives in hill forest on Waigeo and Batanta in Indonesia.

• Black-eared Squirrel Nannosciurus melanotis

  A juvenile found in West Kalimantan had a pale-gray back with black, buff, and whitish facial stripes. A nest was found among branches in nearby lowland heath forest.

• Green-crowned Warbler Seicercus burkii

  A migratory leaf warbler of the lower Himalayan belt. It searches evergreen forest and bamboo for small invertebrates and moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed Bat Murina hilgendorfi

  Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed Bat has a slightly projecting snout. A Kyoto Prefecture account says it usually hides in tree cavities by day, feeds on insects in the evening, and hibernates in winter.

• Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens

  This widowbird inhabits grasslands and other open areas south of the Sahara. The breeding male is striking, with a black body, red collar, and elongated tail feathers.

• Keen's Mouse Peromyscus keeni

  Peromyscus keeni occurs along the coast from southeastern Alaska through western British Columbia to western Washington. It is recorded in forests and young growth; on small islands, beach logs and rocks provide shelter.

• Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni

  This large forest bird is recorded in closed-canopy forest in Sierra Leone. It has a gray head and yellow-and-black wings, and feeds on flying insects and other invertebrates in the canopy of lowland forest.

• 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.

• Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker Dicaeum anthonyi

  The Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker of Luzon's mountain forests. Current checklists treat the Mindanao Flame-crowned Flowerpecker as a separate species.

• Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii

  An animal of the high Tibetan Plateau with a fine, soft undercoat.

• Lava Heron Butorides sundevalli

  Endemic to the Galápagos Islands, this small heron lives on rocky shores, in mangroves, and at salt lagoons. Plumage varies, and bill and leg colors change with season.

• 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.

• Tibetan Snowfinch Montifringilla adamsi

  White wings stand out on this high-altitude sparrow. It searches for food in meadows and pastures and may gather near people.

• Eastern Cave Bat Vespadelus troughtoni

  This small bat is recorded across eastern Australia. It occurs in dry open forest and woodland and roosts in caves, rock crevices, and similar shelters.

• Atlantic Canary Serinus canaria

  This is the wild canary of the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. The profile covers the island species, not domestic canary breeds.

• Rock Vole Microtus chrotorrhinus

  The rock vole has a yellow-orange nose. It uses moist forests and rocky sites and feeds on herbs and leaves.

• Socotra Sunbird Chalcomitra balfouri

  The Socotra Sunbird lives in places with trees or bushes on Socotra. Both sexes have brown upperparts, a black throat, and a white cheek stripe.

• Little Chinese Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) meridianus

  The Little Chinese Jird lives in deserts and grasslands, and the color of its back varies.

• Northern Rufous Hornbill Buceros hydrocorax

  The Northern Rufous Hornbill is a large hornbill with a red bill and casque. It searches the forest canopy for fruit and seeds.

• Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes albojubatus

  It occurs from central Kenya to northern Tanzania, with its western range reaching the Gregory Rift. Its pale gray coat, creamy beard, and drooping mane are distinctive.

• Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris

  This small bird lives in humid lowland forests in western and central Africa, including Ghana. It is resident and searches foliage for small invertebrates.