Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Woolly Lemur Avahi meridionalis

  

  The southern woolly lemur is nocturnal. Researchers studied its leaf-eating behavior in the lowland rainforest of Tsitongambarika in southeastern Madagascar. During the season with more young leaves, feeding time and daily travel distance increased.

• Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens

  This small, round-bodied bird has a very short tail and a slightly curved, relatively long bill. Its back is grey-brown, while the belly and flanks are cinnamon-buff.

• California sea lion Zalophus californianus

  It has small external ears and broad front flippers and lives along the Pacific coast of North America.

• Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus

  A large vulture with broad wings and a dark-brown body.

• Painted Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys pictus

  The painted spiny pocket mouse ranges from Mexico to northwestern Guatemala. It has a reddish-brown back, white underside, and spiny coat, and stores seeds in caches.

• White-browed Tit-warbler Leptopoecile sophiae

  This tiny bird is about 8–10 cm long and lives in high-mountain scrub. It eats insects and other invertebrates and may move between elevations.

• Black-and-rufous sengi Rhynchocyon petersi

  This small mammal probes leaf litter with its long snout and eats insects. Its reddish and black fur and white eye-rings are striking.

• Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster

  A survey of reserves in the Republic of the Congo recorded the species frequently in wooded grassland, especially at Idzoua Inkou. Males and females differ in upperpart color.

• Northern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur occidentalis

  The Northern Bamboo Lemur occurs in northeastern and northwestern Madagascar. It is said to show little difference in appearance between sexes, but field studies remain limited.

• Greater Green Leafbird Chloropsis sonnerati

  The male is green, with a black throat patch and blue moustachial stripe that can blend into the leaves. In the canopy it eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Marbled Polecat Vormela peregusna

  A mustelid found from southeastern Europe through parts of the Middle East and Asia, including grassland and semidesert.

• Papuan Pitta Erythropitta macklotii

  The Papuan Pitta inhabits forests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has a red belly, rusty nape, black throat, and a blue breast band edged in black. In the 2024 eBird taxonomy, the former northern and southern pittas are treated as one species.

• 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.

• Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis

  This small honeybird is about 10 cm long. It lives in the Afrotropical region and searches for invertebrates in trees.

• Thomas's Bushbaby Galagoides thomasi

  Thomas's bushbaby is a small primate that forages in trees at night.

• Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia

  The Rock Sparrow is a sparrow found mainly around the Mediterranean. It may gather near mountain villages and grasslands and nests in cavities in rocks or buildings.

• Spotted seal Phoca largha

  A spotted seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic. It lives around seasonal sea ice.

• Jamaican Tody Todus todus

  The Jamaican Tody is a small island endemic with a green back, red throat, and concealed pink flank tufts. It catches insects below the canopy and excavates nesting burrows.

• Przewalski's Gazelle Procapra przewalskii

  Przewalski's gazelle lives along the grassland-desert transition in China. Its current range is limited to isolated populations around Qinghai Lake.

• Cozumel Vireo Vireo bairdi

  This resident vireo occurs only on Cozumel Island, Mexico. It has chestnut-toned head and back, a white eye-ring, and two pale wing-bars, and forages in low to middle vegetation.

• Bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus

  A wild pig that forages in groups in forests and wetlands of eastern and southern Africa.

• Wattled Brush-turkey Aepypodius arfakianus

  The Wattled Brush-turkey is a large megapode of New Guinea’s mountain forests. Its reddish-brown body bears a red comb and wattle, and it incubates eggs using heat from a mound of leaves and twigs.

• Baturite Porcupine Coendou baturitensis

  This porcupine is recorded from Ceará in northeastern Brazil. Its back has white-and-brown spines. A nighttime thermal-drone survey recorded it in an Atlantic Forest fragment at Mulungu within the Caatinga.

• Red-billed Pied Tanager Lamprospiza melanoleuca

  This tanager is usually seen in groups of three to eight in the canopy of Amazonian forest.