Meet the world’s animals.

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• Big hairy armadillo Chaetophractus villosus

  

  The big hairy armadillo lives in grasslands, forests and other habitats in South America. Flexible bony plates cover its back, with hair beneath the plates and along the sides of the body.

• White-edged Oriole Icterus graceannae

  This icterid ranges from western Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Adults are yellow-orange with a black bib, back, wings, and tail; white edging on the outer tail feathers is a useful mark.

• Little Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus australis

  The little long-fingered bat is small and has seasonal variation in coat color. It hunts insects at night and roosts in groups in caves and other sheltered places.

• Lafresnaye's Vanga Xenopirostris xenopirostris

  Lafresnaye's Vanga is endemic to southern and southwestern Madagascar. It searches dead wood with a thick, flattened bill and feeds on invertebrates and sometimes small chameleons.

• Daraina Sportive Lemur Lepilemur milanoii

  The Daraina sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur of northern Madagascar. It rests in tree holes by day.

• Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa

  The underside of the wings is white with dark tips and edges. It breeds on the Juan Fernández Islands and ranges over the open Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Giant Blind Mole Rat Spalax giganteus

  This large mole rat lives in underground burrows. It has pale silvery-gray fur and feeds on roots, bulbs, and tubers.

• Common Sunbird-Asity Neodrepanis coruscans

  This Madagascar-only asity is one of the species with a long, curved bill. Sunbird-asities mainly take nectar, and also eat fruit and insects.

• Coastal Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) australis

  This bat catches insects while flying near the coast. It occurs in a narrow coastal strip of northeastern Queensland.

• Ethiopian Oriole Oriolus monacha

  It occurs in the western and southeastern Ethiopian highlands, the Rift Valley, and southern Ethiopia, at about 1,200–3,200 m.

• Brown fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus

  A fur seal with separate subspecies in southern Africa and southern Australia. It lives at sea and comes ashore to breed.

• Whitehead's Broadbill Calyptomena whiteheadi

  Whitehead's Broadbill is a broadbill recorded in mountain forests on Borneo.

• Indian Gray Mongoose Urva edwardsii

  A mongoose of South Asia and Arabia, recognized by its silver-gray speckled coat and white-tipped tail.

• New Caledonian Storm Petrel Fregetta lineata

  The New Caledonian Storm Petrel has blackish-brown upperparts, a white rump and a white belly streaked with black. Breeding has been confirmed in New Caledonia.

• Dian's Tarsier Tarsius dentatus

  Dian's tarsier is a small primate of central Sulawesi's forests in Indonesia. Its very large eyes and long tail with a tuft of hair at the tip stand out.

• Tropical Boubou Laniarius major

  This bush-shrike lives in woodland, forest edges, savanna woodland, and thickets. It eats insects and small animals, and wing markings vary by region.

• Black Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysopygus

  The black lion tamarin is a small monkey of forests in São Paulo state, Brazil. Its mostly black coat has golden fur on the rump and at the base of the tail.

• Rufous-vented Laughingthrush Pterorhinus gularis

  The Rufous-vented Laughingthrush ranges from the eastern Himalayas into northern Indochina. It has a black facial mask, yellow throat and rufous-chestnut on the belly and outer tail feathers.

• Moroccan Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) grandis

  This jird occurs in Morocco. Moroccan samples form two lineages, and questions remain about the boundary between this species and the closely related Shaw’s Jird.

• Streaked Berrypecker Melanocharis striativentris

  In the population studied on the southern slope of Mt. Dayman in Papua New Guinea, birds foraged for insects and small fruits in the forest understory.

• Indian Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lankadiva

  This large leaf-nosed bat has fur ranging from pale cream through brown and orange to bright red. A Sri Lankan study included it among insect-eating bats recorded from natural cave populations.

• Little Spotted Kiwi Apteryx owenii

  The Little Spotted Kiwi is flightless and nocturnal, probing leaf litter and rotten logs for food. DNA confirmed a wild population on the West Coast of the South Island in 2025.

• Angolan Genet Genetta angolensis

  The Angolan genet inhabits open miombo woodland interspersed with savanna. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night with camera traps and night transects.

• African sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus

  A mainly white bird with a black head and neck and a long down-curved bill. The head and neck are bare in adults.