Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus fuscus

  

  Lesson’s saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forest from southeastern Colombia to northwestern Brazil. It has a black head and face, a reddish throat and belly, and a mottled back.

• Neotropical Palm Swift Tachornis squamata

  The Neotropical Palm Swift has a deeply forked tail and uses palm groves for nesting and roosting.

• Olive-backed Pocket Mouse Perognathus fasciatus

  This small pocket mouse carries seeds in cheek pouches. It comes above ground at night and spends the day in a soil burrow.

• White-chinned Myzomela Myzomela albigula

  A myzomela of the Louisiade Islands. Nominate albigula on Rossell Island has dark grey-brown upperparts and a red chin-and-throat streak.

• Tricolored Bat Perimyotis subflavus

  Each hair of the tricolored bat has three color bands. It roosts among deciduous leaves during its active seasons and hibernates in winter.

• Monteiro's Storm Petrel Hydrobates monteiroi

  This small seabird is endemic to the Azores. It nests on rocky islets and feeds at sea on crustaceans, small fish, and other marine prey.

• Jolly's Mouse Lemur Microcebus jollyae

  Jolly's mouse lemur is a small nocturnal lemur recorded in southeastern Madagascar. Rainforest research has also studied its role in carrying seeds.

• 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.

• North Atlantic beaked whale Mesoplodon bidens

  This beaked whale lives in cold North Atlantic waters. Its reported diet is mainly squid and small fish, although its natural history remains poorly known.

• Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons

  A small bird centered in Mexican mountain forests, it is marked by a red face, black cap, and gray body. It occurs in the southwestern United States during breeding.

• Meadow Vole Microtus (Mynomes) pennsylvanicus

  The meadow vole occurs widely in North American grasslands and wetlands and favors places where grass remains.

• Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens

  A small black-and-white woodpecker of North America, often seen in woodlots, parks, and at backyard feeders.

• Japanese raccoon dog Nyctereutes viverrinus

  A member of the dog family living in and around Japanese forests.

• Great Iora Aegithina lafresnayei

  The Great Iora is a small bird with a yellow face and underparts and a black-edged yellow forecrown. It lives in lowland evergreen and semi-deciduous forests.

• Desert Spotted Skunk Spilogale leucoparia

  This skunk has black and white back stripes of nearly equal width in the Texas account. Most Texas capture records are from rocky bluffs, cliffs, or brush-lined canyon streams.

• Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii

  Bewick's Wren is a small bird that flicks its long tail as it moves from branch to branch. Its bold white eyebrow stands out, and its song strings together short whistles, warbles, and trills.

• Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat Otomops wroughtoni

  Wroughton’s free-tailed bat is poorly recorded in South and Southeast Asia. It is considered an open-space, high-flying forager, and a 2025 study recorded its calls in western India.

• Moluccan Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles crinifrons

  The Moluccan Owlet-nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forest in the northern Moluccas.

• Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes tricinctus

  This armadillo has a rounded shell and can curl into a ball by fitting its head and tail shields together when threatened.

• Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis

  Male and female Inland Thornbills look similar. They have olive-brown to gray-brown upperparts, cream-white underparts, dark throat and breast streaks, and red eyes. They range from dense eucalypt forest to arid mulga woodland and glean insects from branches and leaves.

• Greater Guinea Pig Cavia magna

  The greater guinea pig is a wild relative of the domestic guinea pig. It has webbed toes and lives in wetlands, with long fur forming a crest on its neck.

• Reunion Grey White-eye Zosterops borbonicus

  The Reunion Grey White-eye is endemic to Réunion. Highland populations contain grey and brown plumage morphs, and the species also uses gardens, cultivated areas, and savannas created by people.

• Southern Ningaui Ningaui yvonnae

  This small marsupial lives in semi-arid parts of southern Australia. It has short light-brown fur and a long, thin tail, and occurs in open heath and low mallee scrub.

• Australasian Figbird Sphecotheres vieilloti

  It lives in forests and parks in northern and eastern Australia and gathers at fruiting trees. Flocks eat soft fruit and berries, and also take insects.