Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mandarin Vole Lasiopodomys mandarinus

  

  The Mandarin vole is a vole that lives in underground tunnels and occurs in northeastern and central China and other parts of East Asia.

• Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum

  The Mistletoebird is widespread across Australia. Males have striking black, red, and white markings, and the birds use high tree canopies where mistletoe grows.

• Barbary Ground Squirrel Atlantoxerus getulus

  The Barbary ground squirrel is a striped, ground-dwelling squirrel of rocky northwestern Africa. It digs burrows and can live socially.

• Shikra Tachyspiza badia

  A small, long-tailed hawk whose adult males and females differ in eye and upperpart color.

• Contreras' Juliomys Juliomys pictipes

  This mouse lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America and uses lower and middle levels of the vegetation.

• Wing-barred Piprites Piprites chloris

  A small forest bird of South America. It has a pale eye-ring and yellow forehead and throat, and searches for insects and some fruit in the upper middle levels and canopy.

• Striped Bush Squirrel Paraxerus flavovittis

  A squirrel found in southern Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and northern Mozambique. It is active by day and nests in tree hollows.

• Banded Kingfisher Lacedo pulchella

  Males are blue, while females show orange-and-black barring, making the sexes look quite different. It perches and waits for prey in lowland and hill forests.

• Northern Rock Deermouse Peromyscus nasutus

  This mouse has white feet and a long, two-colored tail. It is recorded in rocky mountain areas of western Texas and northwestern New Mexico.

• Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume

  The Japanese Murrelet breeds on islands of Japan. Adults have a prominent crest during the breeding season.

• Alaska Marmot Marmota (Marmota) broweri

  The Alaska marmot is a large squirrel relative that makes burrows among rocky areas in northern Alaska. It eats grasses, flowers, and roots in summer and hibernates in its burrow in winter.

• Layard's Warbler Curruca layardi

  This warbler ranges from western Namibia through South Africa to Lesotho. Adult males have grey upperparts and a white throat marked with black streaks. It forages low in shrubs, alone or in pairs.

• Lesser Long-tailed Hamster Cricetulus longicaudatus

  This small hamster lives in dry grasslands and foothills, feeding mainly on seeds and also on insects.

• Rufous-tailed Babbler Moupinia poecilotis

  This babbler occurs in a small area of southern China. It searches for invertebrates in undergrowth among streamside grass, thickets, and scrub.

• Franklin's Ground Squirrel Poliocitellus franklinii

  Franklin's ground squirrel prefers tall grass where prairie meets woodland and digs underground burrows. It eats both plant and animal foods. In Missouri, populations have declined with habitat loss and fragmentation.

• White-necked Puffbird Notharchus hyperrhynchus

  The White-necked Puffbird occurs in Costa Rican tropical forest, including edges and clearings. It has a short rounded body and a thick, straight bill; its black cap and breast band stand out against white markings. It waits quietly on a perch before taking insects or small lizards.

• Labrador Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx hudsonius

  This lemming changes coat color with the seasons: white in winter and gray to brown in warmer seasons. It burrows in the tundra of northeastern Canada and eats grasses and shrub buds.

• Malabar Woodshrike Tephrodornis sylvicola

  The Malabar Woodshrike is endemic to India's Western Ghats. It is found at evergreen-forest edges and clearings, often in pairs or small groups.

• Redwood Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) ochrogenys

  This chipmunk lives in coastal mountains of northern California. It occupies redwood and mixed-conifer forests, forages on the ground, and also climbs low branches.

• Malabar Lark Galerida malabarica

  This lark lives in western India. It has reddish-brown plumage with dark streaks and a white belly, and uses open country, farms, and scrub to find seeds and insects.

• Field Vole Microtus (Microtus) agrestis

  A small vole that makes runways through grass.

• Moustached Babbler Malacopteron magnirostre

  The Moustached Babbler forages in small groups in the middle levels of Southeast Asian forest. It is brown above and whitish below, with a dark moustachial stripe.

• Low's Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) lowii

  Low's squirrel is a small squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. It forages mostly on the forest floor, sometimes climbing into trees. Its thick tail and white underside are distinctive.

• Red-throated Barbet Psilopogon mystacophanos

  The Red-throated Barbet lives in moist forests of Southeast Asia and feeds mainly on fruit, especially figs. Males have a red throat and crown with blue cheeks; females have a green head.