Meet the world’s animals.

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• Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus

  

  This small grebe lives in shallow ponds and wetlands and swims underwater in search of food.

• Felou Gundi Felovia vae

  The Felou gundi is a West African rodent associated with rocky places. A habitat model found suitable sites more often on steep, rocky ground near water.

• Spectacled Longbill Oedistoma iliolophus

  This small honeyeater is about 11 cm long. It is grayish olive, with a short tail and yellowish eye ring, in New Guinea forest and forest margins.

• Pygmy Three-toed Sloth Bradypus pygmaeus

  The pygmy three-toed sloth is a small sloth from an island off Panama. It lives in coastal red mangroves, and its long head and shoulder fur can look like a hood.

• Rusty-capped Fulvetta Schoeniparus dubius

  The Rusty-capped Fulvetta occurs in Chinese forest and bamboo habitats. It has brown upperparts and flanks, a rusty cap, and a long white eyebrow edged in black.

• Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus

  A small marsupial with large eyes, long whiskers, and a grasping tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and pollen and nests in tree hollows and other sheltered places.

• Verdin Auriparus flaviceps

  The Verdin is a tiny bird with a yellow head and grey body. It lives mainly among thorny shrubs in deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico.

• Fierce Bonneted Bat Eumops ferox

  This bat is recorded in Cuba. Its historical description gives pale-based brown back fur and blackish-brown cheeks and chin. A capture inside a house in Cárdenas has also been reported.

• Sykes's Warbler Iduna rama

  This small warbler breeds in Central Asia and winters mainly on the Indian peninsula. It prefers dry, open habitats with a sparse tree canopy.

• Orange-sided Opossum Monodelphis (Monodelphiops) dimidiata

  This small opossum lives in grasslands of northern Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay. Its back is gray, its underside is yellowish, and males are larger than females.

• White-winged Fairywren Malurus leucopterus

  It lives in dry scrub and grassland; breeding males show a conspicuous white wing patch.

• Crowned Sifaka Propithecus coronatus

  A lemur of western Madagascar that moves through trees and feeds on leaves and fruit.

• Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense

  A woodpecker with a striking golden-looking back.

• Atlantic White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus

  This dolphin lives in the cool-temperate North Atlantic. It has a yellowish-tan flank streak and a white patch, and eats small fish, squid, and crustaceans. It tends to move north and inshore in summer and south and offshore in winter.

• Grey crowned crane Balearica regulorum

  An African crane with a golden crown of stiff feathers. Adults have a mainly grey body and prominent white cheeks.

• Colombian White-faced Capuchin Cebus capucinus

  White fur on the face, throat, and chest is distinctive. Its tail supports the body in trees but is not used to grasp objects.

• Double-striped Thick-knee Burhinus bistriatus

  This plover blends into dry grassland with pale brown plumage. Two dark head stripes and a white face pattern help identify it.

• Trowbridge's Shrew Sorex trowbridgii

  Trowbridge’s shrew tunnels through the forest litter. Its sooty back, paler underside, and long two-toned tail help distinguish it.

• Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae

  This small bird lives in moist lowland forest in West and Central Africa. It is also recorded at forest edges and clearings, in gardens, and on plantations.

• 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.

• Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea

  The Speckled Pigeon is an African pigeon with rows of white spots on its closed wings. It lives in savannas, open woodlands and gardens, and mainly eats seeds and grain.

• Deppe’s squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) deppei

  Deppe’s squirrel is a forest squirrel with a brown back, pale underside, and relatively short, narrow tail.

• Yellow-rumped Siskin Spinus uropygialis

  The Yellow-rumped Siskin is a small finch of the high Andes. Its black head and back contrast with a bright yellow rump; females and young birds are duller.

• 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.