Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wild Camel Camelus ferus

  

  This wild camel lives in desert regions of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. Its humps are smaller than those of domestic Bactrian camels, and it browses salt-tolerant shrubs in the Gobi.

• Yellow-breasted Warbler Seicercus montis

  This small leaf warbler occurs in montane areas of the southern Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Palawan, Flores, and Timor, in forest and bamboo.

• Brown Antechinus Antechinus stuartii

  This small carnivorous marsupial has a gray-brown back and large, thin ears. It lives in forests and woodlands of northern and eastern Australia and searches for insects at night.

• Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni

  The Blue-bearded Bee-eater has a green body, long blue throat feathers and a large curved bill. It uses openings in forests, and the species account reports spring-to-summer breeding in India.

• Ashy Red Colobus Piliocolobus tephrosceles

  The ashy red colobus is a red colobus monkey of Uganda and Tanzania that uses riverine and moist forests among other woodland types.

• Fiordland Penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus

  The Fiordland Penguin breeds on islands and coasts in southwestern New Zealand. It has yellow crests and nests in places such as coastal forest, rock crevices, and caves.

• Ruddy Mongoose Urva smithii

  The ruddy mongoose is found in India and is marked by a dark, reddish coat and a black tail tip. It favors forests and is most active around dawn and dusk.

• Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Caprimulgus rufigena

  The Rufous-cheeked Nightjar lives in dry country and catches flying insects at dusk. Its back is finely marked, and adult males have white tips on the outer tail feathers.

• Flamarion's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys flamarioni

  Flamarion's Tuco-tuco is a rodent with sandy fur and long, stiff hairs on its digging fingers. It lives alone in burrows in coastal dunes of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.

• Cuzco Brush Finch Atlapetes canigenis

  This finch is known from the eastern Andean slope in Peru's Cuzco region. It forages in humid montane scrub and dwarf forest, sometimes in bamboo.

• Banded Palm Civet Hemigalus derbyanus

  The banded palm civet is a civet with dark bands across its back and stripes on its face. It is recorded in forests on Borneo and searches for food on the ground at night.

• Blue-headed Fantail Rhipidura cyaniceps

  A fantail of forest understory on Luzon and Catanduanes in the Philippines. It catches insects in the forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Round-eared Tube-nosed Bat Murina cyclotis

  A 2025 paper reported the first Bangladesh record of Murina cyclotis from Rema-Kalenga Forest Reserve. It was one male captured on a forest trail.

• Choco Toucan Ramphastos brevis

  This toucan lives in humid forests from western Colombia into Ecuador. Males and females differ in bill length.

• Potto Perodicticus potto

  This nocturnal primate inhabits West African forest and moves slowly along branches.

• Okarito Brown Kiwi Apteryx rowi

  The Okarito Brown Kiwi is a nocturnal kiwi of lowland forest on New Zealand's South Island. It has pale grey-brown, streaked feathers and a long bill.

• Greater Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata

  This bat is marked by two white lines on its back. It roosts by day under bridges, in caves, or in hollow trees, then hunts insects at night.

• Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi

  Richard's Pipit is a pipit recognized by its long hind claw. Hong Kong observations often record it in grassland.

• Cape Golden Mole Chrysochloris asiatica

  The Cape golden mole lives by digging underground tunnels. It has a pointed head and sturdy forefeet, and inhabits sandy areas of southwestern South Africa.

• Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus

  The Grey-backed Shrike has a grey back, a black facial mask, and a chestnut tail. It breeds at high elevations, and winter movements differ between subspecies.

• Cape Porcupine Hystrix (Hystrix) africaeaustralis

  A porcupine covered in long, stiff quills, native to central and southern Africa.

• Black Butcherbird Melloria quoyi

  The Black Butcherbird has deep bluish-black plumage and a large silver-grey bill. It occurs in rainforests, mangroves, and nearby open or settled areas.

• Huon tree kangaroo Dendrolagus matschiei

  The Huon tree kangaroo is a marsupial of the mountain forests of Papua New Guinea's Huon Peninsula. Its claws and long tail help it climb.

• White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni

  The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.