Meet the world’s animals.

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• Philippine Tarsier Carlito syrichta

  

  The Philippine tarsier is a small primate with very large eyes and ears and long hind limbs. It moves through trees at night and catches insects and other prey.

• Campbell Islands Teal Anas nesiotis

  

  A small duck of islands south of New Zealand, Campbell Island Teal is wary and mainly active at night.

• Zulu Golden Mole Amblysomus hottentotus

  

  Its cylindrical body is covered in shiny fur ranging from reddish brown to dark brown, and its eyes are hidden beneath skin. It digs underground tunnels and eats worms and insects.

• Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni

  

  Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.

• Nubian Ibex Capra nubiana

  

  A wild goat of dry, rocky mountains in northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It moves along slopes by day to graze on grasses and leaves.

• Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida

  

  This small tern uses wetlands. In breeding plumage, its black head and dark grey underside stand out. It makes a nest from vegetation, floating or anchored, and both sexes care for the young.

• Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus

  The desert hedgehog is a hedgehog of dry country, including northwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Inambari Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae

  The Inambari Woodcreeper occurs in western Amazonia south of the Amazon River. Long pale streaks run from its throat to its vent, while the upperparts are nearly unmarked. It uses lowland and foothill forest, often high in the trees with mixed flocks.

• Shark Bay Bandicoot Perameles bougainville

  The Shark Bay bandicoot is a small marsupial native to islands off Western Australia. It makes a nest beneath shrubs for daytime shelter.

• Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus

  The Brown Skua is a large seabird that breeds on islands south of New Zealand and may pursue other seabirds at sea.

• Japanese Dormouse Glirulus japonicus

  The Japanese dormouse lives in forests on Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. A dark stripe down its back and a bushy, flattened tail help identify it.

• Sumatran Cochoa Cochoa beccarii

  The Sumatran Cochoa is a difficult-to-see bird of the mountain forests of Sumatra.

• Great-tailed Striped Possum Dactylopsila megalura

  The great-tailed triok is a nocturnal, arboreal marsupial of interior New Guinea forests. Its thick fur has dark stripes over a white or gray base.

• Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes

  This small bird was studied in populations of Colombia’s Magdalena Valley. It searches foliage in scrub and woodland for small invertebrates.

• Cape Blesmol Georychus capensis

  The Cape blesmol is a thick-furred underground mammal that feeds on roots, tubers and bulbs below ground.

• White-rumped Falcon Polihierax insignis

  A small falcon found from Myanmar across mainland Southeast Asia. It uses dry, open woodland and savanna and mainly takes large insects.

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator

  The Piping Hornbill has a black head and wings with white underparts. The account distinguishes three subspecies with differences in the extent of white on the wings and tail. Some taxonomies treat Bycanistes fistulator as a subspecies of the Trumpeter Hornbill.

• Dusky Bushbaby Galago matschiei

  Matschie's galago is a nocturnal primate of montane forests east of Lake Albert in central Africa. It is arboreal.

• Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris

  The Eurasian Treecreeper climbs tree trunks to find small animals in the bark. Its brown, white, and golden plumage blends into the tree.

• Southern California Pocket Gopher Megascapheus nigricans

  This pocket gopher ranges from southern California across the Baja California Peninsula, where four subspecies are recognized in a 2025 review. The male type specimen collected at Witch Creek, San Diego County, in 1893 was described with a dark brown back and tawny sides and chest.

• European Greenfinch Chloris chloris

  This finch flashes yellow and green in flight. In the UK it visits gardens and eats seeds and insects.

• Korean Hare Lepus coreanus

  The Korean hare has brown or grey-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. It uses vegetated areas from plains to mountains and is reported to feed in open places in the late afternoon or evening.

• Swamp Grass Babbler Laticilla cinerascens

  The Swamp Grass Babbler lives in wet grasslands from northeastern India to northern Bangladesh and searches for insects in pairs or family parties. It has a long tail, a pale spot in front of the eye, and a narrow pale eye-ring.