Meet the world’s animals.

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• Crabeater Seal Lobodon carcinophaga

  

  This seal is widespread in pack ice around Antarctica. It feeds mainly on krill; despite its name, crabs are not its principal food.

• Common Loon Gavia immer

  A large waterbird that chases fish underwater and changes its plumage noticeably between summer and winter.

• Alaotran gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis

  The Alaotran gentle lemur is a small lemur with a long tail and dense fur. It lives only in the reed and papyrus wetlands around Lake Alaotra in Madagascar.

• White-throated Oxylabes Oxylabes madagascariensis

  A forest-floor babbler of humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches for small invertebrates on the ground and in the lower vegetation.

• Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus

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

• Tibetan Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes tibetanus

  A sandgrouse of dry highland plains. The male has a sandy back and white belly, while the female has more barred plumage.

• Ash-colored Oldfield Mouse Thomasomys cinereus

  This mouse has soft, dense gray fur and is active on the ground at night. The account notes that the name may cover a species complex.

• Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa

  The male has chestnut on the head, nape, and upper breast; the female is darker overall, with a paler chest and throat. It hides in dense wetland vegetation and searches for small prey on the ground.

• Mexican Cottontail Sylvilagus cunicularius

  The Mexican cottontail is a wild rabbit of Mexico. It is described as the largest rabbit native to the country, and it uses grassland patches from dusk into the night.

• Karoo Bustard Heterotetrax vigorsii

  The Karoo Bustard has a gray-brown body, a black throat, and a black patch on the nape. It walks through stony Karoo shrubland while foraging.

• Gerp's Mouse Lemur Microcebus gerpi

  This nocturnal mouse lemur lives in lowland forests and forest fragments in eastern Madagascar. It forages alone in trees in a heavily fragmented landscape.

• White-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes atacamensis

  This bird occurs in the high Andes along clear streams. It has white on the wings, throat, eyebrow, and outer tail feathers, and forages near shallow water and mud.

• Kalimantan Treeshrew Tupaia salatana

  Tupaia salatana is recorded in southern Borneo. The IUCN account reports reliance on natural forest as well as records from natural remnants within plantations.

• Yellow-fronted Barbet Psilopogon flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Barbet is often seen high in forest trees. Its blue face and throat and yellow forehead stand out against a green body.

• Tufted capuchin Sapajus apella

  A monkey that spends much of its time in trees but also comes down to forage on the ground.

• Elegant Crescentchest Melanopareia elegans

  The Elegant Crescentchest is recorded in dry forest and scrub in extreme northwestern Peru. Males have black heads, creamy eyebrows and throats, chestnut breasts, and broad black crescent bands; females have a reduced band and rufous underparts.

• Long-tailed Tuco-tuco Ctenomys fulvus

  This burrowing rodent lives in dry areas of northern Chile and adjoining Argentina. The Chilean assessment records different habitats for named subspecies, including desert and oasis settings.

• Brown dipper Cinclus pallasii

  A mountain-stream bird that dives underwater for insects and small fish.

• Leopardus tilcayo

  Leopardus tilcayo is a felid described as a new species in 2026. The paper gives its type locality near Arapata in Bolivia's Nor Yungas, and a UMSA report also describes records from the Yungas forests of La Paz.

• Scripps's Murrelet Synthliboramphus scrippsi

  This small seabird breeds on islands off California and Mexico. Outside the breeding period it stays at sea, diving for small fish and crustaceans.

• Neotropical Pygmy Squirrel Sciurillus pusillus

  The Neotropical pygmy squirrel is a very small tree squirrel. It uses the upper canopy of lowland rainforest, with a patchy range.

• Moustached Treeswift Hemiprocne mystacea

  Males are grey with long white eyebrow and moustache-like stripes, chestnut ear patches, and white underparts. They launch from high perches to catch flying insects.

• Walston's Tube-nosed Bat Murina walstoni

  This bat has its type locality in northeastern Cambodia, with additional specimen records from Vietnam. Its back is warm brown and its underside is white; the holotype was trapped on a dry streambed in semievergreen forest.

• Green Iora Aegithina viridissima

  The Green Iora is a small bird of forest canopies. The male is dark green with bold black-and-white wing stripes.