Meet the world’s animals.

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• Madeira Pipistrelle Pipistrellus maderensis

  

  The Madeira pipistrelle is a small bat found in the Madeira and Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to towns and catches flying insects.

• Sao Tome Weaver Ploceus sanctithomae

  

  This weaver is endemic to São Tomé Island. The sexes differ in plumage, and pairs or flocks forage in trees by searching leaves, holes, and epiphytes.

• Common Cusimanse Crossarchus obscurus

  

  The common cusimanse is a small mongoose relative of West African forests. It lives in groups and searches among leaf litter and rotting logs for small animals and fruit.

• Sand-colored Nighthawk Chordeiles rupestris

  

  The Sand-colored Nighthawk has sandy mottled plumage and occurs along rivers in the Peruvian Amazon region. It also forages above rivers during the day.

• Bengal fox Vulpes bengalensis

  

  A fox of India's grasslands and scrub. Its tail has a black tip, and its coat color changes with the condition of its fur.

• Tboli Sunbird Aethopyga tibolii

  

  This sunbird occurs in southern Mindanao. A 2021–2023 study in the montane forest of Mt. Melibengoy recorded visits to flowers of nine plant species and described plumage differences between males and females.

• Short-tailed Porcupine Coendou rufescens

  The short-tailed porcupine lives in Andean forests and has a relatively short tail. Colombian observations document it searching Cecropia trees and eating their fruit during the day.

• Leach's Storm Petrel Hydrobates leucorhous

  A small seabird with long wings and a deeply notched tail. It picks food from the ocean surface and nests in burrows on offshore islands.

• Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus

  A small wild cat recorded in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

• Common Tetraka Bernieria madagascariensis

  The Common Tetraka is a forest bird of Madagascar. It has dark brownish-green upperparts, a yellow throat, and a long bill. It gleans arthropods from branches and leaves, also eats seeds, and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Red-tailed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur ruficaudatus

  The red-tailed sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with a gray-brown body and reddish tail. It rests in tree holes by day and feeds on leaves.

• 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.

• Japanese weasel Mustela itatsi

  A weasel native to Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and nearby islands, with an elongated body, short legs and a dark mark from forehead to nose.

• Scarlet macaw Ara macao

  A parrot with vivid red, yellow and blue plumage and a large hooked bill.

• Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus wahlbergi

  Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat has a dog-like face and eats fruit. Males use white shoulder tufts in courtship, and groups rest by day in hollow trees or under large leaves.

• Turquoise Parakeet Neophema pulchella

  A parakeet of southeastern Australia. Males show a turquoise-blue face and red shoulder patch, and the birds forage near the ground for grass seeds.

• Ringtail Bassariscus astutus

  A raccoon relative with a long ringed tail that climbs nimbly over rocks.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

  The Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove is a forest pigeon endemic to the Cook Islands, where it occurs on Rarotonga and Atiu.

• Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus

  A gibbon that amplifies its loud calls with a throat sac and travels by swinging between branches.

• 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.

• Mountain Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus cunninghami

  This possum lives in cool, wet mountain forests. Its short rounded ears and bushy black tail, bare underneath, stand out.

• Gray-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyianus

  The Gray-breasted Seedsnipe lives on the ground in the high Andes. Males are gray, while females have mottled brown plumage.

• Chacoan Tuco-tuco Ctenomys conoveri

  Conover's Tuco-tuco is a fossorial rodent of the Gran Chaco in Bolivia and Paraguay. It has a robust cylindrical body and builds branching burrows.

• Racket-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus

  The Racket-tailed Roller has spatula-shaped tips on its outer tail feathers. It perches among the middle branches of trees and searches for insects and small animals.