Meet the world’s animals.

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• Javan Cochoa Cochoa azurea

  

  A thrush relative of Java's mountain forests. Males are conspicuously blue, and the bird keeps to the middle and upper forest canopy.

• Chinese Red Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) erythrotis

  The Chinese red pika is a small pika found in the highlands of western China. It belongs to a closely related group associated with stony habitats.

• Cuban Gnatcatcher Polioptila lembeyei

  This Cuban endemic lives in coastal scrub. An older specimen account records a fine black line from the eye toward the ear-coverts, bluish-grey upperparts, and ashy-white underparts.

• Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

  An ape of northern Sumatra that moves through trees using its long arms.

• Rockwarbler Origma solitaria

  This small bird is restricted to the Sydney region of New South Wales. It occurs in sclerophyll forest and tall woodland associated with sandstone outcrops.

• Long-fingered Myotis Myotis (Myotis) capaccinii

  This medium-sized gray bat occurs around the Mediterranean and into West Asia. Its legs are noticeably hairy, its feet are large and strong, and it takes fish and aquatic insects from the water surface.

• Blue-throated Piping Guan Pipile cumanensis

  The Blue-throated Piping Guan is a large galliform bird of northern South American forests. It has a long crest and a blue-violet wattle on the throat.

• Yellow-footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes

  The yellow-footed antechinus is a small marsupial with a gray head and shoulders and a yellow-brown to reddish body. It searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• Shaft-tailed Whydah Vidua regia

  The breeding male is striking for its long black tail and buff-orange body. After breeding, the birds join other seedeaters and reproduce by laying eggs in a host's nest.

• Hispid Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus hispidus

  The hispid pocket mouse has an olive-buff back and a pale underside. It stores food in grassland burrows and mainly eats seeds.

• Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla

  This bird has brown plumage with bold streaking and stays near moving water. The Cornell Lab account describes it as one of the first signs of spring in eastern North America.

• 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.

• Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla

  This small fulvetta occurs in central and southern China. It has a brown to gray-brown crown, a dark side crown stripe, a broad pale-gray eyebrow, and rufous wings. It eats invertebrates and seeds.

• Palawan Tree Shrew Tupaia palawanensis

  This treeshrew occurs around Palawan. Its ochre back has a dark central stripe, and its species-specific diet has not been studied.

• Cape Verde Storm Petrel Hydrobates jabejabe

  This storm-petrel breeds on rocky sites and uses surrounding marine waters. The 2018 IUCN assessment treated the Cape Verde population, while a 2026 study described the São Tomé population as a subspecies of Hydrobates jabejabe.

• Allen's Olingo Bassaricyon alleni

  A member of the raccoon family found in forests east of the Andes. It is active in trees at night.

• Chestnut-rumped Babbler Stachyris maculata

  The Chestnut-rumped Babbler is a small bird studied in lowland forests of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. Researchers recorded it foraging among suspended dead leaves and showing bluish skin on the head while calling.

• Siau Island Tarsier Tarsius tumpara

  The Siau Island tarsier is a nocturnal primate from Siau Island, Indonesia. Its facial markings and a tuft at the end of its tail are described in the species account.

• Bar-tailed Treecreeper Certhia himalayana

  The Bar-tailed Treecreeper lives in mountain forests and searches for small food items on trunks and branches.

• Bornean White-bearded Gibbon Hylobates albibarbis

  This gibbon is active in trees by day and feeds mainly on fruit. Males have pale cheek fur, and the species occurs in southwestern Kalimantan.

• White-throated Toucan Ramphastos tucanus

  The white-throated toucan is a toucan with a strikingly large bill. It eats fruit and spends time in pairs or flocks in the canopy.

• Otter Civet Cynogale bennettii

  The Otter Civet is a Southeast Asian viverrid that lives near rivers and wetlands. It has long whiskers and webbed feet, and is nocturnal.

• Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis gayi

  This plover-like bird lives in the high Andes. Its back is reddish brown, and the pale rufous underparts have fine, scalloped markings.

• Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat Rhabdomys pumilio

  The Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat has stripes along its back. In South Africa's Succulent Karoo, it was studied foraging alone while living in groups that share a nest.