Meet the world’s animals.

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• American flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber

  

  A flamingo of the Caribbean and nearby regions, with long legs and a curved bill.

• Coppery Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops cupreus

  The coppery ring-tailed possum lives in forests and scrub of interior New Guinea. It climbs and is active at night, feeding on leaves and other plant parts.

• Clarion Wren Troglodytes tanneri

  This wren is restricted to Clarion Island, Mexico. It lives in open habitats and nests in cavities among volcanic rock or sand, as well as holes in human-made structures.

• Hispaniolan Greater Funnel-eared Bat Natalus major

  This bat has yellowish or grayish fur and pointed-looking ear tips. It roosts in humid caves on Hispaniola and catches insects at night.

• Drakensberg Rockjumper Chaetops aurantius

  It lives in rocky mountain grassland and searches the ground for insects and other small invertebrates. The male has bold facial and chest markings.

• Highland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes nigriceps

  The highland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with black-and-yellow spines along its back. It searches leaf litter for earthworms at night.

• Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi

  Wahlberg's Eagle is a small African eagle, most often dark brown. It breeds in the south and moves within Africa seasonally, hunting across woodland and savanna habitats.

• Indonesian Porcupine Hystrix (Thecurus) pumila

  This porcupine lives on islands in the Palawan region and has dark bristles and rattling tail quills.

• Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni

  Ploceus pelzelni breeds in wetlands and also feeds in nearby trees and bushes. A breeding male has a black mask extending from the face to the throat, while the female lacks that mask.

• Chacoan Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous chacoensis

  A small armadillo of the dry Chaco that spends much of its time underground and mainly eats ants and termites.

• Red-breasted Coua Coua serriana

  The red breast and blue bare skin around the eyes stand out on this coua from northeastern Madagascar. It walks on the forest floor for insects and fallen fruit and runs for cover when alarmed.

• Turkestan Red Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rutila

  The Turkestan red pika is a pika of Central Asian mountains. Its coat is reddish brown in summer and gray in winter, and it stores grass among rocky slopes.

• Yellow-billed Babbler Argya affinis

  The Yellow-billed Babbler is a social bird of drier habitats in southern India and Sri Lanka. It has a pale crown, yellow bill, and blue eyes.

• Bangka Slow Loris Nycticebus bancanus

  A slow loris known from Bangka Island, Indonesia. The adult female described by Lyon has an ochre-buff coat and a dark back stripe that fades around the lower back.

• Cape Grassbird Sphenoeacus afer

  The Cape Grassbird uses dense grass, restio, and fern cover in southern Africa. The BDI species account describes adults' rusty head and long tail, as well as their ground foraging.

• Bemaraha Woolly Lemur Avahi cleesei

  The Bemaraha woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur recorded in the Bemaraha region of west-central Madagascar. Its published description of appearance is based on one adult male observed in the study.

• Hartlaub's Gull Chroicocephalus hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Gull is a small coastal gull of southern Africa. Its head and bill colors change as it matures.

• Western Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga morenoi

  This bat has pale-based, dark-tipped fur and a long muzzle and tongue for reaching nectar. It is recorded in dry forests and scrub across parts of Mexico.

• Golden-naped Barbet Psilopogon pulcherrimus

  This Bornean endemic has mostly green plumage and a golden-yellow patch on the nape. It eats fruit in the canopy of hill and montane forest.

• Woolly Dormouse Dryomys laniger

  The woolly dormouse is a small dormouse of rocky highlands in Türkiye. A 2025 study described an eastern lineage as a separate species, refining the range assigned to D. laniger.

• Andaman Drongo Dicrurus andamanensis

  The Andaman Drongo is a forest bird of the Andaman Islands. Its glossy black body has a deeply notched tail with curled outer feathers. It moves in groups and catches insects in flight.

• Blond Capuchin Sapajus flavius

  This capuchin lives in remaining Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. One group studied in a forest fragment in Paraíba ate fruit as well as sugarcane stalks and animal food.

• Grey-faced Tit-Babbler Mixornis kelleyi

  This small babbler lives in broadleaf evergreen forest and some secondary forest in Vietnam, Laos, and eastern Cambodia. The account records it up to 1,165 m.

• Javan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris javanica

  A 1993 study of Southeast Asian specimens recognized this bat as a distinct Nycteris species. It concluded that the species occurs mainly on Java and nearby islands.