Meet the world’s animals.

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• Andean Mountain Cavy Microcavia niata

  

  The mountain cavy is a small rodent of high Andean grasslands. It may live in groups and eats plants.

• Schlegel's Asity Philepitta schlegeli

  

  Schlegel’s Asity is a forest bird restricted to northwestern and western Madagascar. It eats more fruit in the rainy season and also takes nectar and insects toward the end of the dry season.

• Yucatan Black Howler Monkey Alouatta pigra

  

  A monkey of forests in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. It feeds mainly on leaves in the trees, and groups use calls to signal their territories.

• Grey-lored Broadbill Serilophus rubropygius

  

  This bird occurs in parts of northeastern India and nearby countries. The 2023 eBird taxonomy update distinguishes it from the Silver-breasted Broadbill by its gray lores and rounded wing tips with only tiny white tips.

• Brazilian Porcupine Coendou prehensilis

  

  The Brazilian porcupine occurs in the northern Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Adults have three-banded quills along the back, giving a pale yellowish appearance with dark brown markings. In Pernambuco, a specimen was collected in lowland evergreen rainforest surrounded by sugar-cane fields.

• Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus

  

  The Isabelline Shrike breeds in Mongolia and nearby parts of Central Asia, then winters on the Arabian Peninsula and in northeastern Africa. It hunts from shrubs in dry open country and may impale spare prey on thorns for later.

• Palawan Pangolin Manis culionensis

  The Palawan pangolin has pale yellowish-white scales across its back. A Palawan study found greater use of primary forest among the habitats assessed and reported foraging searches at termite and ant mounds.

• Biak Gerygone Gerygone hypoxantha

  This small bird is confined to Biak Island, Indonesia. It has greyish-brown upperparts, a broken whitish eye-ring, and white lores, and uses lowland forest and forest edges.

• Northern Quoll Dasyurus hallucatus

  The northern quoll is a carnivorous marsupial from northern Australia. Its brown coat has white spots, and it is active at night.

• Grosbeak Starling Scissirostrum dubium

  This starling is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It lives mostly in tropical lowlands and lightly wooded forest and excavates nest cavities in rotting or dying trunks.

• Southern Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous unicinctus

  This armadillo is marked by a gray, banded shell and an unarmored tail. It lives mostly alone underground and feeds on ants and termites.

• Regent Bowerbird Sericulus chrysocephalus

  The Regent Bowerbird lives in rainforests and gullies of eastern Australia. Males build a decorated bower, and the birds eat fruit and insects.

• Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus

  The marsh deer is a deer of South American wetlands. Elastic tissue between its hooves is suited to muddy ground.

• Krüper's Nuthatch Sitta krueperi

  Krüper's Nuthatch lives in conifer forests around Anatolia. Males have a blue-gray back and chestnut breast, and its food changes with the seasons.

• Southern African hedgehog Atelerix frontalis

  The southern African hedgehog has a white band across its forehead and a range of separated populations in southern Africa.

• Black-throated Parrotbill Suthora nipalensis

  An orange parrotbill with a black eyebrow and throat that forms flocks in bamboo-rich mountain forest.

• Yucatán Spotted Skunk Spilogale yucatanensis

  This skunk occurs in forests of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Camera traps in a small urban vegetation fragment in Mérida recorded it at night.

• Southern Hyliota Hyliota australis

  A small bird of miombo woodland in southern Africa. The male is black, white and yellow, and searches for insects in the canopy.

• Small Sulawesi Cuscus Strigocuscus celebensis

  The small cuscus has pale buff fur and a partly bare tail. It lives on Sulawesi and nearby islands.

• Cinnamon Quail-thrush Cinclosoma cinnamomeum

  This ground-dwelling bird of central Australia has different breast and wing patterns in males and females. Family groups hold territories in dry scrub and stony plains.

• Woolly Dormouse Dryomys laniger

  The woolly dormouse is a small dormouse of rocky highlands in Türkiye. A 2025 study described an eastern lineage as a separate species, refining the range assigned to D. laniger.

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Tibetan gazelle Procapra picticaudata

  A small gazelle of the high Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it has a slender body and long legs. It is usually seen alone or in small herds.

• New Zealand Grebe Poliocephalus rufopectus

  The New Zealand Grebe is an endemic diving bird. In breeding plumage, the neck and breast become rich rufous red.