Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sanborn’s Akodont Abrothrix sanborni

  

  This small mouse is uniformly blackish brown, including its tail and feet, with little contrast between the upper and lower sides. It has been recorded in coastal rainforests of southern Chile and in Argentina.

• Little Rock Thrush Monticola rufocinereus

  The Little Rock Thrush lives around rocky hills and wooded ravines. Its blue-gray throat extends onto the breast, and its tail is rufous.

• Long-clawed Ground Squirrel Spermophilopsis leptodactylus

  The long-clawed ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of Central Asian drylands. It is active by day and uses its long claws to dig.

• Steely-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia saucerottei

  This hummingbird ranges from Central America to Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It has a green body and a blue-black tail and feeds on flower nectar. It is recorded in secondary growth, scattered-tree savanna, coffee plantations, gardens, and edges of evergreen gallery forest.

• Zena's Brush-furred Rat Lophuromys (Lophuromys) zena

  In the Mount Kenya sample, the tail was shorter than the head-and-body length. The study treated this population as Lophuromys zena, although its taxonomy remains debated.

• Spotted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum maculatum

  In northern Bolivia, this small flycatcher occurs in Amazonian river- and lake-edge forest and tall second growth.

• Alston's Brown Mouse Scotinomys teguina

  This small mouse lives in Central American mountain forests. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates on the forest floor.

• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot Loriculus galgulus

  The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot is a small parrot of Southeast Asian forests. The sexes differ in their blue and red head markings, and the bird may rest hanging upside down from a branch.

• Red-cheeked Rope Squirrel Funisciurus leucogenys

  The Red-cheeked Rope Squirrel lives in forests of West and Central Africa. It has a red back with mottling across the shoulders; belly and head colours vary among subspecies.

• Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens

  The Brown Illadopsis is a brown-toned bird that searches for insects and other invertebrates in the forest undergrowth of western and central Africa. It is often seen in pairs or small family groups.

• Common Metad Millardia meltada

  The common metad has a finely grizzled gray back and a tail that is dark above and pale below. Nepal's account describes life in lowland fields and grasslands.

• Yucatan Woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus

  This woodpecker occurs on the Yucatán Peninsula and nearby areas. It inhabits dry lowland scrub and deciduous forest and feeds on insects under bark.

• Korean Red-backed Vole Myodes regulus

  Craseomys regulus occurs south of the Gaema Plateau on the Korean Peninsula. A National Institute of Biological Resources account describes a reddish-brown back, brown sides, and dark-grey underside.

• Kalkadoon Grasswren Amytornis ballarae

  This grasswren lives on rocky hills near Mount Isa, moving on the ground through spinifex clumps. Its range and biology remain incompletely studied.

• 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.

• Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris

  The Long-billed Corella is a white cockatoo with a long upper bill and red-orange chest markings. It often forages in large flocks on the ground in southeastern Australia.

• Chestnut Pogonomys Pogonomys macrourus

  The chestnut pogonomys is a small rodent of New Guinea. Recorded specimens with observation data were seen moving through low vegetation at night.

• Western Thornbill Acanthiza inornata

  The Western Thornbill is a small bird of southwestern Western Australia that searches for insects in the undergrowth. It has an olive-gray back and creamy-buff underparts.

• 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.

• Whiskered Yuhina Yuhina flavicollis

  A small bird with a brown crest and orange nape. It uses hilly broadleaf forest and may move with other bird species.

• Jungle Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) tristriatus

  This squirrel lives in India's Western Ghats. Three pale stripes run along its back, and its head is grayish or reddish brown. It uses moist forests and can also occur in plantations and pasture.

• Germain's Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron germaini

  Germain's Peacock-Pheasant is a pheasant of forests in southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. Males have blue-green ocelli on their plumage and forage on the forest floor.

• Buxton's Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) sacramenti

  Buxton's jird is a large gerbil of coastal dunes and sparsely vegetated semidesert. It is nocturnal and digs burrows in soft soil.

• Indian Gray Hornbill Ocyceros birostris

  The Indian Gray Hornbill is a grayish-brown hornbill with a casque above the bill. The male's casque is larger than the female's.