Meet the world’s animals.

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• Short-billed Greenbul Xanthomixis zosterops

  

  This Xanthomixis is endemic to Madagascar and lives in humid evergreen forest. The source also uses names such as Spectacled Tetraka; this entry retains the pool label Short-billed Greenbul.

• Least Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus pusillus

  This small horseshoe bat has a broad noseleaf and brown fur on its back. It roosts in caves and similar places.

• Pied Lapwing Hoploxypterus cayanus

  The Pied Lapwing is a small South American lapwing found east of the Andes. Its red legs and bold black, white, and sandy-brown plumage stand out.

• Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat Pteronotus (Phyllodia) mesoamericanus

  An insect-eating bat studied in a Costa Rican dry-forest population in 2020, where researchers examined how wing shape related to diet.

• Tawny-breasted Myiobius Myiobius villosus

  This flycatcher ranges from Nicaragua and Panama south through the Andes to Bolivia. It lives in montane forest near streams and attends ant swarms.

• Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura monticola

  This bat has glossy brown fur and triangular ears. It hunts insects in tropical forests and roosts in caves or tree hollows.

• White-gaped Honeyeater Stomiopera unicolor

  The White-gaped Honeyeater is recorded in northern Australia. A 1977 Northern Territory account says it is common in dense vegetation and mangroves in the far north, while farther south it is confined to waterside vegetation.

• Reticulated giraffe Giraffa reticulata

  The reticulated giraffe has a network of white lines and occurs mainly in northern and northeastern Kenya.

• Wattled Broadbill Sarcophanops steerii

  The Wattled Broadbill is a resident bird of Mindanao and nearby Philippine islands. Males have a purplish back, rusty tail, pink underparts, and a pale blue wattle around the eye; females have white underparts.

• Red-handed Howler Alouatta belzebul

  This howler monkey occurs in Brazil. Its mostly black coat contrasts with red hands, feet, and tail tip; an Atlantic Forest study also documented how one group moved through its range.

• Common Loon Gavia immer

  A large waterbird that chases fish underwater and changes its plumage noticeably between summer and winter.

• Javan Chevrotain Tragulus javanicus

  This small ruminant is native to Java. It has no horns, and adult males have canines.

• Plumbeous Antvireo Dysithamnus plumbeus

  This antvireo lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Males are gray with a blacker chest, while females are olive-brown. It searches for small arthropods in the lower forest stratum.

• Domestic Pig Sus domesticus

  People keep domestic pigs as livestock. In the Kunekune breed, coat colors vary, and the pigs can graze on pasture.

• Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus

  A hummingbird of high mountain meadows. Males make metallic wing trills in flight, while females raise the young.

• Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus goodfellowi

  A climbing kangaroo of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.

• Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala

  The Black-throated Barbet lives in dry parts of eastern Africa. It uses trees and shrubs and eats fruit and insects.

• Arabian Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma cystops

  This long-tailed bat has also been recorded in southwestern Algeria. About half of its tail lies within the narrow membrane between the hind legs. A survey there found groups in rocky cavities and a cave.

• Scaly-breasted Cupwing Pnoepyga albiventer

  This small mountain bird has an almost absent tail and rounded wings. Nest observations in Sikkim found globular nests made mainly of moss and rootlets.

• Mexican Agouti Dasyprocta mexicana

  The Mexican agouti is a rodent of southern Mexican forests whose activity period varies by place.

• Silvery Grebe Podiceps occipitalis

  The southern form lives on lakes in Argentina and Chile, eating small aquatic animals.

• Rock Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus intermedius

  The rock pocket mouse is a small rodent of rocky areas in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its back is grey-brown, its underside is white, and its tail has a tuft at the tip.

• Silktail Lamprolia victoriae

  A forest bird of Taveuni in Fiji. Its dark body has bright blue speckling, and its white rump is conspicuous.

• Long-tailed chinchilla Chinchilla lanigera

  A chinchilla of dry rocky habitats in Chile, with dense soft fur and large ears. Rock crevices provide shelter.