Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys peguensis

  

  This small gymnure ranges across hills and mountains of Indochina. Records include forest-floor cover and sites beneath fallen logs.

• Lemur-like Ringtail Hemibelideus lemuroides

  

  The lemuroid ringtail possum is a marsupial of northeastern Queensland's rainforests. Its dark brown coat and pale rings around the eyes are easy to notice.

• Texas Pocket Gopher Geomys personatus

  

  This rodent digs burrows in sandy soil in southern Texas and feeds underground on grass roots and other plants.

• Ethiopian Highland Hare Lepus starcki

  

  This hare occurs in the Ethiopian Highlands. Reports describe a noticeable outer-ear pattern and often an entirely white upper surface of the tail. At the Bale Mountains study site, habitat use changed with the seasons.

• American Pika Ochotona (Pika) princeps

  

  The American pika is a small mammal of the mountains of western North America. It does not hibernate and gathers plants for winter food.

• Four-toed Elephant Shrew Petrodromus tetradactylus

  

  This sengi has a long, flexible snout and four toes on each hind foot. It follows runways through dense brush.

• Patagonian mara Dolichotis patagonum

  A long-eared, long-legged rodent of Argentina’s open country.

• Lesser Egyptian Jerboa Jaculus jaculus

  The lesser Egyptian jerboa is a small rodent that bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night in deserts and semi-deserts.

• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.

• Black-headed Marmoset Mico nigriceps

  This small marmoset lives in lowland forest and forest edges in the south-central Amazon. It eats gum, fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Juan Fernández Fur Seal Arctocephalus philippii

  The Juan Fernández fur seal lives on islands off Chile. It eats squid and fish and uses steep, rocky shores for resting and breeding.

• Urubamba Brown Titi Plecturocebus urubambensis

  A titi monkey treated as a distinct species in Peru. The 2025 update gives a type locality near the Río Sepa but questions some distant photo-based records.

• Cape genet Genetta tigrina

  A southern African genet with dark spots on a pale coat and rings on its tail. It is active at night and climbs well.

• California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi

  A North American ground squirrel that digs burrows and is active by day.

• Black-tailed Dasyure Murexia melanurus

  The black-tailed dasyure is a small marsupial from New Guinea. A 2020 study found variation in coat color; one illustrated specimen had bright ear patches, grey shoulders, a red rump and a black tail.

• Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lylei

  This bat has a large noseleaf. Small groups have been found in caves, and records from Vietnam include forest and secondary habitats in limestone country.

• Greater Bamboo Lemur Prolemur simus

  A bamboo-eating lemur, it moves among branches with long hind legs and tail and can be active both by day and at night.

• Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys microps

  A narrow face and small ears frame the gray-brown back and white underside of this kangaroo rat. It is semi-fossorial and nocturnal, with a range across dry country in the western United States.

• Black Capuchin Sapajus nigritus

  Its back ranges from brown to black and the underside from yellow to dark reddish brown. In one group studied at an urbanized park in Brazil, foraging was frequent and stone use to crack palm seeds was recorded.

• Alvarez's Mastiff Bat Molossus alvarezi

  This bat has brown dorsal fur, paler underparts and rounded ears. It is recorded in forests and dry scrub and catches mostly moths in flight.

• Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus

  This small rodent lives in rocky dry country in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Adults have gray-brown fur, and rocky outcrops provide places to shelter.

• Rüppell's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus fumigatus

  Rüppell's horseshoe bat is a nocturnal insect-eater. Caves and rock crevices are reported as roosts.

• Northern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys leucogaster

  The Northern Grasshopper Mouse is unusual among mice because most of its diet consists of animals, including insects and scorpions. It rests in burrows by day and is active at night.

• Pygmy Gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) henleyi

  This small gerbil is known mainly from North Africa and the Middle East, with records from parts of the Sahel. Its naked soles are distinctive.