Meet the world’s animals.

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• Transcaucasian Water Shrew Neomys teres

  

  The Transcaucasian Water Shrew is a semiaquatic shrew found in the Black Sea highlands of Turkey. It usually favors the edges of small streams and creeks.

• Woodwards' Batis Batis fratrum

  

  Batis fratrum lives on the coastal plain of southeastern Africa. Males have grey backs and a white wing-bar; females have a narrow pale eyebrow and rufous wing-bar. It searches for insects in forest understory.

• Markhor Capra falconeri

  

  A wild goat of the mountains of Central Asia. The traits here follow a zoo account for the Tadjik markhor subspecies.

• Plumbeous Ibis Theristicus caerulescens

  

  The Plumbeous Ibis is a grey ibis with a long, curved bill. In Argentina it uses wetlands with trees and nests in trees.

• Brazilian Bristle-spined Porcupine Chaetomys subspinosus

  

  This porcupine climbs trees in Brazilian forests. Most of its body has bristly hair, with stiffer spines around the head and forelegs.

• Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus

  

  The Grey-headed Lapwing has a grey head, yellow legs, and a dark breast band; it breeds in Japan and northeastern China.

• Greater Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus vittatus

  Platyrrhinus vittatus is a bat with bright white lines on its face and back. It eats fruit and other foods, and roosts in tree cavities or buildings.

• White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus

  The White-winged Becard shows regional variation in male plumage across Central and South America. It uses forest edges and second growth, alone or in pairs, and moves through middle tree levels.

• East Asian Tailless Leaf-nosed Bat Coelops frithii

  This bat ranges across South and Southeast Asia. A 2026 checklist added three female records from lowland mixed forest in southern Vietnam.

• Helmet Vanga Euryceros prevostii

  The Helmet Vanga is a large vanga of eastern Madagascar’s humid evergreen forests. It is notable for its huge blue bill; a field study recorded insects as its main prey and both parents sharing incubation.

• White-tailed mongoose Ichneumia albicauda

  A mongoose with long black-and-white hairs, it usually has a white tail tip and often uses dry areas with wooded cover.

• White-browed Fantail Rhipidura aureola

  The White-browed Fantail is a small bird with a white brow and a fan-shaped tail. It catches small flying insects in woodland and open places.

• Coppery Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops cupreus

  The coppery ring-tailed possum lives in forests and scrub of interior New Guinea. It climbs and is active at night, feeding on leaves and other plant parts.

• Mexican Yellow Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysopeplus

  The Mexican Yellow Grosbeak occurs in Mexico and Guatemala. A research paper describes it from open, dry forest at elevations of 300–1,850 m.

• Black-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta prymnolopha

  This agouti lives in Brazilian forests. One zoo photograph shows a dark rump, and a report from a museum park that observed it with another species recorded agoutis burying seeds.

• Black-breasted Buttonquail Turnix melanogaster

  The Black-breasted Buttonquail is a ground bird with white spots across its black breast. It forages through forest floors where a deep, moist layer of leaf litter is available.

• Diani Dwarf Galago Paragalago cocos

  This small nocturnal primate lives from coastal Kenya into northern Tanzania. It rests with others in tree holes by day and searches for fruit and invertebrates at night.

• Hall's Babbler Pomatostomus halli

  This bird has conspicuous white eyebrow and breast markings and lives in flocks in dry Acacia scrub of central-eastern Australia.

• Red Spiny Rat Maxomys surifer

  This nocturnal rat lives in Southeast Asian forests and nearby areas. Short, stiff, reddish-brown hairs stand out among the fur on its back.

• Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata

  The Waved Albatross is a large seabird with a white head and neck, brown-to-gray body plumage, and bluish legs. It nests on the ground on its breeding island and searches the open ocean for fish, squid, and other prey.

• Alston's Brown Mouse Scotinomys teguina

  This small mouse lives in Central American mountain forests. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates on the forest floor.

• Mongolian Short-toed Lark Calandrella dukhunensis

  The Mongolian Short-toed Lark is a small lark that breeds in dry sandy steppe in eastern Mongolia. It has brown upperparts and warm rufous-buff on the sides of the breast.

• Mozambican Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus mossambicus

  The Mozambican horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat recorded at six sites in Mozambique and northwestern Zimbabwe. The authors infer a lowland savanna distribution but say more records are needed to establish its full range.

• Yellowish Bulbul Hypsipetes everetti

  A Philippine bulbul of forests and forest edges that feeds on fruit.