Meet the world’s animals.

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• American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus

  

  The American Dipper is a gray bird of fast-flowing streams. It dives underwater to find aquatic insects and other prey.

• Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys major

  The greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent recorded in northern Borneo rainforest. It is active mainly in the canopy at night and uses tree hollows and connections between trees.

• White-throated Tapaculo Scelorchilus albicollis

  This ground-dwelling bird is endemic to central Chile. It lives in semi-arid shrubland, and the two described subspecies occupy different parts of its range.

• Brewer's mole Parascalops breweri

  The hairy-tailed mole has eyes hidden by fur and a furry tail. It lives in underground tunnels and searches for worms and insects.

• Chiming Wedgebill Psophodes occidentalis

  The Chiming Wedgebill inhabits arid Australia. It uses mulga woodland and low shrubland in Shark Bay, picking insects from the ground and small trees.

• Common Shaggy Bat Centronycteris maximiliani

  This bat is recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guianas. In Pará, Brazil, a female was captured at a tree cavity used as a day roost.

• Red-backed Kingfisher Todiramphus pyrrhopygius

  The Red-backed Kingfisher is an Australian bird with blue-green and white plumage and a flame-colored rump. It hunts on the ground in dry woodland, taking insects and small reptiles.

• Silver-backed Chevrotain Tragulus versicolor

  The silver-backed chevrotain is endemic to Vietnam. Recent camera-trap surveys recorded it in dry and semi-dry forests in the south-central part of the country.

• Bornean Barbet Psilopogon eximius

  The Bornean Barbet is green, with a heavy bill and a blue bare patch around the face. It feeds on fruit in the canopy of hill and montane forests on Borneo.

• Bengal Slow Loris Nycticebus bengalensis

  This loris is active in trees at night. Its coat ranges from pale to strongly reddish, and its diet includes nectar and plant exudates.

• Western Bristlebird Dasyornis longirostris

  A secretive small bird of heathland in southwestern Australia. It searches for small foods while moving on the ground.

• Cape Long-eared Bat Nycteris thebaica

  This bat ranges across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Its large ears, divided noseleaf and T-shaped tail are distinctive, and it hunts insects and other small invertebrates.

• Black-crested Finch Lophospingus pusillus

  This small finch occurs in South American Chaco woodland, woodland edges and grasslands. Its usual range extends from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to west-central Argentina. A bird recorded near Mendoza city in 2024 may have escaped or been released.

• Gray Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur griseus

  This lemur lives in eastern Madagascar. In a rainy-season study at Maromizaha, the observed Hapalemur griseus griseus often ate young bamboo growth and used the lower forest layer.

• Crested Treeswift Hemiprocne coronata

  This swift is marked by a forehead crest and long wing tips that cross over its back when it perches.

• Domestic Pig Sus domesticus

  People keep domestic pigs as livestock. In the Kunekune breed, coat colors vary, and the pigs can graze on pasture.

• Meratus Blue-flycatcher Cyornis kadayangensis

  The Meratus Blue-flycatcher was described from the Meratus Mountains of southeast Borneo. The female has olive upperparts and a white belly; the study also recorded the species in montane forest and at lower sites in secondary woodland.

• Southern River Otter Lontra provocax

  A South American otter found in southern Chile and parts of Argentina.

• Wallace's Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles wallacii

  Wallace’s Owlet-nightjar is active at night. Its plumage is mottled with several colors, and it occurs on New Guinea and some surrounding islands.

• Blyth's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus lepidus

  Blyth's horseshoe bat has dense fur and a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It hunts insects in mature forests and roosts in hollows and tunnels.

• Little Wood Rail Aramides mangle

  The Little Wood Rail has a gray head and back, a reddish-brown breast and belly, and an orange-red base to the bill. It occurs in Brazilian coastal mangroves and nearby forests.

• Geoffroy's Marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's marmoset is a small monkey with dark ear tufts and a white face. It lives in Brazil's lowland rainforests, where group members help care for young.

• Abyssinian Catbird Sylvia galinieri

  This babbler is found in the Ethiopian highlands. Its sooty-gray body, black spot before the eye, whitish forehead, and chestnut lower belly are distinctive.

• Amboro Silky Anteater Cyclopes catellus

  This anteater has yellow-brown fur with more yellowish legs and tail. It is solitary and active in trees at night, and has been observed feeding in vine tangles. Confirmed records are limited to central Bolivia.