Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indomalayan Bamboo Rat Rhizomys sumatrensis

  

  This is a large, stocky bamboo rat that makes burrows. In Malaysia it emerges in the early evening to feed on fallen fruit and other plant matter.

• Tit Berrypecker Oreocharis arfaki

  

  The Tit Berrypecker is a fruit-eating bird of New Guinea’s montane forest. Males show bright yellow and orange, while females are mainly olive and gray.

• Hope Porcupine Coendou speratus

  

  This small, long-tailed porcupine was described from Atlantic Forest on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Its back appears fully spiny because it lacks long dorsal fur, and the quill tips are reddish brown against a dark background.

• Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris

  

  A sandpiper that breeds in northeastern Siberia and winters along coasts in Southeast Asia and Australia. Adults in breeding plumage have a breast band and orange-brown shoulder feathers.

• African White-bellied Pangolin Phataginus tricuspis

  

  The African white-bellied pangolin is a tree-climbing pangolin of Central African rainforests. It feeds on ants and termites.

• Indochinese Roller Coracias affinis

  

  Blue on the wings and tail becomes more visible in flight. A purple-blue breast and olive back help distinguish the Indochinese Roller.

• Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina

  The common dunnart is a small marsupial of eastern and southern Australia. It searches for insects at night and rests in a nest or shallow burrow by day.

• Cuckoo Weaver Anomalospiza imberbis

  The Cuckoo Weaver is a small bird of grassland and wet places. Its short, stout bill and short tail are distinctive, and it lays eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous centralis

  The northern naked-tailed armadillo has bands of armor on its back but no protective plates on its tail. It digs with large claws and feeds mainly on insects.

• Maleo Macrocephalon maleo

  The Maleo lives in Sulawesi forests. Adults have a hard black knob on the head, and eggs are buried in sand warmed by geothermal heat.

• Eastern Roe Deer Capreolus pygargus

  The eastern roe deer lives across northern Asia and parts of central Asia. It was once treated as a subspecies of the western roe deer, but the account treats it as a distinct species.

• Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens

  This large reed warbler lives in reedbeds. In northeastern Namibia it climbs papyrus stems while searching for insects and small frogs.

• Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus

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

• Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis

  The Northern Puffback is widespread south of the Sahara. Females have loose rump feathers that they puff up, grey rump and shoulders, and orange-red eyes. It searches woodland and thickets for insects and plant buds.

• Striped hog-nosed skunk Conepatus semistriatus

  A skunk with a white band that splits into two stripes along the back and a broad, hog-like nose.

• Streak-throated Barwing Actinodura waldeni

  This barwing lives in mossy forests of the eastern Himalayas. Its short tail and barred wings and tail are distinctive, while the color of the underparts varies among subspecies.

• Northern Common Cuscus Phalanger orientalis

  This nocturnal cuscus has a tail that grips branches. Males and females differ in coat and in how much of the tail is white; the species occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• South Island Saddleback Philesturnus carunculatus

  Adult South Island Saddlebacks are black, with a chestnut saddle and orange-red wattles. Their original range is South Island and Stewart Island, while conservation translocations have established populations on other islands.

• Common African Dormouse Graphiurus (Graphiurus) murinus

  A small African mammal with a gray back, pale belly, and bushy tail. It forages at night and hibernates during cold winters.

• Rufous Bristlebird Dasyornis broadbenti

  This ground-dwelling bird has a rufous head and a pale, scalloped breast. It occurs in coastal scrub and heath from South Australia to Victoria.

• Black Duiker Cephalophus niger

  This small antelope is recorded from the Upper Guinea forest zone east to the Lower Niger area of western Nigeria. It has a dark body and legs, a grayish head and neck, and a reddish-brown crown tuft.

• Comoro Blue Vanga Cyanolanius comorensis

  The Comoro Blue Vanga is a blue bird of woodland in the Comoros. It was formerly grouped with the Madagascar Blue Vanga but is now a separate species. Its current status on Grand Comoro is uncertain.

• Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii

  A seal of Antarctic coasts. It swims beneath sea ice and breathes through holes and cracks in the ice.

• Varzea Schiffornis Schiffornis major

  This Schiffornis occurs in lowland Amazonia. Its plumage is cinnamon-rufous; a 2024 study reported that head-color variation was not geographically structured. In 2015, one bird was trapped in várzea forest in Bolivia.