Meet the world’s animals.

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• Malayan Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus malayanus

  

  The Malayan horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat. Its back ranges from brown to reddish brown, and studies report geographic variation in the frequency of its echolocation calls.

• Spot-breasted Oriole Icterus pectoralis

  

  The Spot-breasted Oriole ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. It is marked by black breast spots and builds a long hanging nest from grasses or fine roots.

• Hoary Fox Lycalopex vetulus

  

  The hoary fox is a small fox of open landscapes in central and eastern Brazil, with gray fur and a dark stripe along its back and tail.

• Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis

  

  This grass warbler occurs widely in tropical Africa. Its black moustache-like stripe and broad, rounded dark tail are distinctive. Records in southern Africa are localized to tall grass near streams and wetlands.

• Broad-toed Feather-tailed Glider Acrobates frontalis

  

  This small marsupial occurs in eastern Australia. A 2023 paper describes long hairs projecting from both sides of the tail in living Acrobates, including A. frontalis, giving it a feather-like edge.

• Black-legged Seriema Chunga burmeisteri

  

  A gray, ground-dwelling bird with long legs and tail, it often runs while searching for food.

• Atlas Gundi Ctenodactylus gundi

  The Atlas gundi is a rodent of rocky, dry places in North Africa. Its compact body, large eyes, and tiny tail are useful clues.

• Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus

  The Grey Butcherbird lives in Australian woodlands and urban areas. Adults are black, grey, and white, with a hooked bill; captured prey may be hung up for later.

• Southern Mountain Cavy Microcavia australis

  This rodent has a compact body and a pale ring around each eye. It is active by day and feeds on leaves beneath thornbushes.

• Rufous-throated Dipper Cinclus schulzii

  Its dark-gray body is marked by a rusty throat and breast. In fast mountain streams in northwestern Argentina, it wades and searches among stones for larvae and insects.

• Southern mountain viscacha Lagidium viscacia

  A member of the chinchilla family that lives among rocks, it has a tuft at the end of its long tail. It is most active in the morning and late afternoon and eats plants such as grasses and shrubs.

• Karoo Bustard Heterotetrax vigorsii

  The Karoo Bustard has a gray-brown body, a black throat, and a black patch on the nape. It walks through stony Karoo shrubland while foraging.

• Yunnan Hare Lepus comus

  The Yunnan hare lives in foothills near farmland and in hillside scrub or grassland. It forages at night on grasses and young shoots and leaves.

• Hispaniolan Spindalis Spindalis dominicensis

  This bird lives in broadleaf and pine forests on Hispaniola. The male has a black head with white stripes and a yellow underside. The female is mainly grayish-olive with darker streaks below.

• Eastern Mole Scalopus aquaticus

  The eastern mole digs underground tunnels and feeds on earthworms and beetle larvae. Its broad front feet are adapted for digging.

• Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla

  The Senegal Eremomela is recorded in open woodland and savanna in northern Ghana. A field study described it searching foliage and the ground for insects.

• Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lylei

  This bat has a large noseleaf. Small groups have been found in caves, and records from Vietnam include forest and secondary habitats in limestone country.

• Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni

  Naumann's Thrush is seen from autumn to spring in Koshimizu, eastern Hokkaido. It forms flocks in woodland and open areas, feeding on insects, earthworms, and rowan berries on the ground.

• Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata

  The Indian Pangolin has an elongated body covered with scales. It feeds on ants and termites, and the studbook describes it as mainly nocturnal and ground-dwelling.

• Streaked Scrub Warbler Scotocerca inquieta

  This small warbler lives in dry wadis and scrubby desert plains in the Middle East. It walks on the ground while searching for food, often in pairs or small groups.

• Common silky anteater Cyclopes didactylus

  A small anteater that lives in trees and feeds mainly on ants.

• Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus

  A bird of South Africa's mountains, marked by a silver-grey head and reddish rump, that searches rocky Fynbos for insects.

• Painted Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus forbesi

  Animals studied on Mt Dayman were described as having striking facial and head markings and a dark line down the back.

• Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus

  The Greater Yellow-headed Vulture lives mainly in the Amazon rainforest. It has a yellow head, a dark body, and feeds on animal carcasses.