Meet the world’s animals.

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• Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita

  

  Zenaida Doves use low-elevation fields, forests, dense vegetation, and some suburban or urban habitats.

• Woolly Giant Rat Kunsia tomentosus

  The woolly giant rat is a large rodent of savannas and grasslands in Brazil and Bolivia. Its strong forefeet and long claws help it dig.

• Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus

  The Loggerhead Shrike hunts in open brushy country. It scans from exposed perches and may impale captured prey on thorns or barbed wire.

• Southern Amazon Red Squirrel Sciurus (Urosciurus) spadiceus

  The Southern Amazon red squirrel lives in lowland Amazonian forest. It eats nuts, and its coat varies among individuals.

• Javan Black-capped Babbler Pellorneum capistratum

  The Javan Black-capped Babbler has a black head and chestnut-brown back. On Java, it searches for small prey among leaf litter in moist forest.

• Golden Mouse Ochrotomys nuttalli

  This small mouse has golden upper fur, a white underside and feet, and a tail it can use while climbing.

• Common Woodshrike Tephrodornis pondicerianus

  The Common Woodshrike lives in scrub and open woodland in southeastern India and feeds mainly on insects.

• 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.

• Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon

  The Northern House Wren is a small brown bird found even around homes and parks in North America. It searches for insects in low branches and shrubs and often gives a lively, bubbling song.

• Big-eared Climbing Rat Ototylomys phyllotis

  The big-eared climbing rat has large ears and a long tail. It moves at night among trees and rocks in tropical forest, eating fruit and leaves.

• Grey-hooded Warbler Phylloscopus xanthoschistos

  This leaf warbler is recorded in montane forest in southern Tibet. Its grey head, yellow-toned body, and facial markings help distinguish it.

• Asia Minor Ground Squirrel Spermophilus xanthoprymnus

  The Asia Minor Ground Squirrel lives in steppes and alpine meadows from Anatolia in Turkey to Armenia and northwestern Iran. It is active by day and hibernates in winter.

• Black-breasted Barbet Lybius rolleti

  A bird of woodland and tree-studded country in Central Africa. Males have a black head and breast, a red belly and a white patch on the lower back. It mainly eats fruit.

• Atlantic Forest Oecomys Oecomys catherinae

  Oecomys catherinae is an arboreal rodent. Specimens from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and Cerrado showed differences in skull form between the two biomes.

• Vanikoro Flycatcher Myiagra vanikorensis

  The male Vanikoro Flycatcher is a small flycatcher with a bluish-black head and orange underparts. It uses forests as well as gardens and cultivated places with scattered trees, where it takes insects and other small food.

• Siskiyou Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) siskiyou

  Neotamias siskiyou ranges from the northern California coast to central Oregon. Coastal and inland populations differ in coat colour, including the back stripes and underside.

• Ituri Batis Batis ituriensis

  Males have a gray head, black band, and white underparts. Females are paler gray with a white eyebrow. It uses lowland rainforest canopy in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

• Campbell's hamster Phodopus campbelli

  A small hamster with a narrow dark stripe down its back that lives in dry steppes and deserts.

• Mountain Pygmy Owl Glaucidium gnoma

  This small owl has a long tail, rounded head and yellow eyes. It is active by day as well as at other times, waiting on a perch to surprise small birds and other prey; it ranges through mountains of western North America.

• Forrest's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias (Rupestes) forresti

  Forrest's rock squirrel is a squirrel relative of rocky mountains in Yunnan, China. The taxonomic revision also describes traits shared by its genus, including a squirrel-like build and a long, bushy tail.

• Oriental Plover Charadrius veredus

  This migratory plover searches for insects in dry, open country. The breeding male has broad orange and black breast bands, while nonbreeding plumage is mottled brown.

• 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.

• Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca

  The Sooty Albatross is a large seabird with dusky plumage that ranges over the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean.

• Junín Red Squirrel Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pyrrhinus

  The Junín red squirrel is an arboreal squirrel recorded in Peru. Its back is reddish brown, while the underside ranges from white to more reddish shades.