Meet the world’s animals.

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• Père David's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias (Sciurotamias) davidianus

  

  Père David's rock squirrel is a diurnal squirrel of rocky habitats in China. Pale eye-rings are distinctive, and it burrows under rocks and stores seeds.

• Green-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus zambesiae

  It is widespread across southern Africa, with isolated populations in Ethiopia and Kenya. Its back and wings are olive green, and it mainly eats insects found on twigs.

• Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena

  A hyena with a mane-like ridge along its back and dark stripes across its coat.

• Tablas Fantail Rhipidura sauli

  This fantail is restricted to Tablas Island. The Philippine national fauna red-list account reports it in the understory of lowland forest and second growth, usually below 1,000 m.

• Helan Shan Pika Ochotona (Pika) argentata

  This pika lives in China's Helan Shan. Its coat changes with the seasons, appearing bright red in summer and silvery gray in winter.

• Orange-billed Babbler Argya rufescens

  The Orange-billed Babbler lives in flocks in Sri Lanka's wet-zone forests. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a bright orange bill and legs.

• Antarctic Minke Whale Balaenoptera bonaerensis

  The Antarctic minke whale is a baleen whale with a circumpolar Southern Hemisphere range. It feeds in Antarctic waters in summer and is described as moving north to warmer waters in winter.

• African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori

  This African bird spirals up trunks in open woodland while searching bark for insects; it has spotted and barred plumage and a thin down-curved bill.

• Senegal galago Galago senegalensis

  A small nocturnal primate of sub-Saharan Africa. It has large ears and searches for food in trees.

• Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris

  A black-and-white bird of Australia’s coast, the Pied Oystercatcher has a long red bill and legs and feeds on shellfish on beaches and mudflats.

• Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus

  A large sea lion of the cold North Pacific. It catches fish and other prey at sea and rests ashore.

• Yellow-eared Bulbul Pycnonotus penicillatus

  The Yellow-eared Bulbul is endemic to Sri Lanka's hills. Its black-and-white head markings and yellow ear tufts stand out, and it searches for fruit and insects in forests and gardens.

• Commerson's dolphin Cephalorhynchus commersonii

  A boldly patterned dolphin of shallow seas around southern South America and elsewhere.

• Black-banded Crake Rufirallus fasciatus

  The Black-banded Crake forages in river-edge thickets and fallow fields near water. A Peru account reports it as common in the northeast and rare in the southeast.

• Central American Silky Anteater Cyclopes dorsalis

  This small anteater ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. Its yellowish-brown body has more yellow on the tail and limbs, with a broad chest stripe. It is nocturnal and arboreal in mangroves and tropical rainforest.

• Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis

  The Red-capped Manakin is a small bird of the understory in humid forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males have red heads, females are green, and both may be found around fruiting trees.

• Southern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur meridionalis

  This small lemur was observed eating ground-level grasses in the bamboo-poor littoral forest of Mandena.

• Biak Hooded Pitta Pitta rosenbergii

  The Biak Hooded Pitta occurs on Biak Island. A local field guide notes the rosenbergii form’s deep blue flanks and lack of a glossy throat band. A record also documents it in secondary forest on Biak.

• Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas

  The golden-headed lion tamarin is a small monkey with a black body and a conspicuous golden mane. It lives in small groups in forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Livingstone's Flycatcher Erythrocercus livingstonei

  This small flycatcher occurs in south-eastern Africa. It moves through the middle and upper canopy for insects, usually in pairs or small family groups.

• Desert Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys deserti

  The desert kangaroo rat digs burrows among the dunes of arid southwestern North America and is mainly active at night.

• Rufous-headed Ground Roller Atelornis crossleyi

  The Rufous-headed Ground Roller searches for food on the damp forest floor of eastern Madagascar. Adults show a rufous head and underparts, a green back, and white streaks on the black throat.

• Common Yellow Bat Scotophilus heathii

  A bat recorded in forests, woodlands, plantations, and other cultivated land from lowlands to higher hills. The Kerala account describes it flying low while feeding on insects.

• Usambara Hyliota Hyliota usambara

  The Usambara Hyliota has a blue-black back and a white wing patch. A 1999 survey recorded it singly or in pairs, usually in the canopy of mature trees at forest edges in Tanzania’s East Usambaras. That paper used the older subspecies name Hyliota (australis) usambarae and said its status as a separate species was unresolved at the time.