Meet the world’s animals.

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• Whiskered Treeswift Hemiprocne comata

  

  The Whiskered Treeswift is a forest-dwelling treeswift with long, whisker-like white feathers and a long tail. Males and females differ in ear-patch color.

• Insular Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus keyensis

  This horseshoe bat varies in color among islands and subspecies. On Timor, subspecies parvus has a cinnamon-brown back and fawn underside. Four subspecies are recorded across the Moluccas and Lesser Sundas.

• 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.

• Northern Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops nanus

  This free-tailed bat has large, rounded ears joined above the forehead. Two specimens were recorded at a wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, amid sorghum crops and fragments of low deciduous forest.

• Rufous Wren Cinnycerthia unirufa

  The Rufous Wren lives in humid montane forest in the northern Andes. It is rich rufous with black lores and faintly barred wings and tail, usually moving in pairs or family groups.

• Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus

  A large sea lion of the cold North Pacific. It catches fish and other prey at sea and rests ashore.

• Black-breasted Gnateater Conopophaga snethlageae

  This forest bird ranges in the Amazon between the Tapajós and Tocantins Rivers. In 2023, the first nest observations were reported from the understory of primary terra firme forest in Brazil.

• Black Spider Monkey Ateles paniscus

  The black spider monkey moves through the canopy with its long arms and tail. Fruit is its main food, with other plant foods added when fruit is scarce.

• Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus

  This small leaf warbler has a yellow eyebrow and two wing bars. It breeds in the Siberian taiga and spends most of the winter in Southeast Asia.

• 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.

• Moustached Tinkerbird Pogoniulus leucomystax

  This small African barbet has a white moustache-like marking. It is usually seen alone or in pairs in montane forest.

• Asian Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus macrourus

  The Asian brush-tailed porcupine has a slender body with relatively short quills and a tuft of bristles at the end of its tail. It forages at night and rests with family members in holes during the day.

• Black Butcherbird Cracticus quoyi

  A black bird with a strong bill hooked at the tip. James Cook University's page documents a campus-area occurrence in Cairns.

• Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta

  The long-nosed bandicoot lives in forests and scrubland in eastern Australia. It probes the ground with its long snout and digs for insects and other small invertebrates at night.

• Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus

  The Blue-naped Mousebird is marked by a blue nape and long tail and lives in dry parts of Africa.

• Ladak Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) ladacensis

  The Ladak Pika is a large pika living in groups in open high-elevation habitats of Ladakh. A study in Changthang observed it gathering plants and storing them in haypiles.

• African Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini

  The African Oystercatcher is a black shorebird of southern Africa's coasts, with a bright orange-red bill and pink legs.

• African Linsang Poiana richardsonii

  The African linsang is a small carnivore with a slender, spotted body and a long ringed tail. It is active at night in trees and eats insects, fruit and other foods.

• Spot-winged Monarch Symposiachrus guttula

  The Spot-winged Monarch occurs on New Guinea. A guide to the Mimika region describes a black face and throat, grey back, white underparts and white wing spots, with records from lower and middle forest levels.

• Decken's Sifaka Propithecus deckenii

  Decken's Sifaka is a lemur of northwestern Madagascar's dry deciduous forests and limestone tsingy. Its ivory fur contrasts with dark skin.

• White-capped Dipper Cinclus leucocephalus

  This bird lives along mountain streams in the Andes. Its pale head and throat contrast with a dark back and belly, and it feeds on small animals near water.

• Demidoff's Dwarf Galago Galagoides demidoff

  This small galago has a white stripe from between the eyes down the nose. It moves among branches at night and rests in a leaf nest by day.

• Blue-winged Leafbird Chloropsis cochinchinensis

  In the Chinese subspecies C. c. kinneari, males have blue wings and a black throat, while females have a blue-green throat.

• Greater Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus hastatus

  The greater spear-nosed bat has a well-developed noseleaf and a V-shaped groove in its lower lip. It roosts in caves and eats mostly insects, along with fruit, nectar, and pollen.