Meet the world’s animals.

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• Greater Naked Bat Cheiromeles torquatus

  

  The greater naked bat is mostly hairless, with a ring of black bristles around its neck. It occurs in Southeast Asia and hunts insects at night.

• Kea Nestor notabilis

  

  The Kea is a parrot of the mountains of New Zealand’s South Island. It has olive-green feathers edged in black and orange-red underwings. It eats both plants and animals, and the elevations it uses vary by season.

• Southern Giant Pouched Rat Cricetomys ansorgei

  

  The Southern Giant Pouched Rat is a large rodent that carries food in its cheek pouches. It often lives alone in a burrow and may store food there.

• Speckle-breasted Antpitta Cryptopezus nattereri

  

  This antpitta occurs in southeastern South America, using low areas of humid montane forest and mature secondary woodland.

• Croslet Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus coelophyllus

  

  The croslet horseshoe bat occurs in Southeast Asia. A study in Malaysian rice-field landscapes examined its diet during the dry season.

• Albert's Lyrebird Menura alberti

  

  Albert's Lyrebird is a long-tailed, chestnut-colored bird of a small area of wet forest in southeastern Australia. A displaying male spreads its tail forward and mixes other birds' calls into its loud calls.

• Falanouc Eupleres goudotii

  The falanouc is a Malagasy carnivore with a narrow muzzle and a thick tail. It searches for earthworms and other small prey at night in humid lowland forests.

• American Black Oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani

  The American Black Oystercatcher has a black body, long red bill, and yellow eyes, and searches for shellfish in the intertidal zone.

• California Red-backed Mouse Myodes californicus

  This vole is recorded along the Pacific coast of northern California and Oregon. It lives among leaf litter and fallen logs in moist forest and searches for fungi at night.

• Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris

  The Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow lives in open woodland and savanna in eastern and southern Africa, where it may be seen in loose groups.

• Australian Long-haired Rat Rattus villosissimus

  This rat lives in arid Australia. Its numbers can rise after wet periods and then fall as food and water decline.

• Collared Crescentchest Melanopareia torquata

  This ground-dwelling bird has been studied in the Cerrado of southeastern Brazil. Individuals vary, including in the size of a white patch on the back.

• Small Woolly Bat Kerivoula intermedia

  This woolly bat was surveyed in lowland tropical rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. A morphological comparison says it is slightly larger than the closely related Kerivoula minuta, with size serving as a main distinction.

• Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus

  It moves through branches and brush like a mouse. It eats fruit, seeds, nectar, ants, and termites.

• Ethiopian Dwarf Mongoose Helogale hirtula

  A small mongoose of the Horn of Africa that is active in groups by day. At night it shelters in termite mounds, dens, or rock crevices.

• Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus

  In India's Great Himalayan National Park, this fantail is found in mid-elevation forests. It has a yellow belly, olive upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It flicks its tail while moving through the understory and mid-canopy in pursuit of small insects.

• Greater Hedgehog Tenrec Setifer setosus

  The greater hedgehog tenrec is a small mammal from Madagascar with short spines on its back. It is active at night and searches for invertebrates on the ground and in trees.

• Russet-crowned Motmot Momotus mexicanus

  This bird has a blue-green body, russet crown, and black facial mask. While perched quietly, it often swings its tail from side to side.

• Ethiopian wolf Canis simensis

  A wolf found only in Ethiopia's highlands, with a bright reddish coat and long legs.

• White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra

  Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.

• North American porcupine Erethizon dorsatus

  A rodent with quills among its fur that feeds on plants, including tree bark.

• Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina

  This whydah lives in dry savanna and bushy habitats in eastern Africa. Breeding males grow extremely long central tail feathers and search the ground for grass seeds.

• Kod-kod Leopardus guigna

  The kod-kod is a small wild cat of forests in central and southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. It climbs well and is mostly solitary.

• Moluccan Monarch Symposiachrus bimaculatus

  Symposiachrus bimaculatus is a monarch of the Moluccan Islands. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Australian Spectacled Monarch and recognizes three subspecies. On Obi and Bisa, observations of the diadematus subspecies place it in secondary growth and forest edge, often in mixed-species flocks.