Meet the world’s animals.

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• Turquoise Cotinga Cotinga ridgwayi

  

  Males are turquoise, with violet on the chin, throat, upper chest, and center of the belly. Females are dusky with white spots and buff patterning below.

• Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris

  

  This dolphin has no beak and a rounded, bulging forehead. It uses coastal, muddy, brackish river mouths and deltas; river populations are also recorded.

• Yellow-faced Parrotlet Forpus xanthops

  

  The Yellow-faced Parrotlet is a small parrot restricted to the upper Marañón drainage in northern Peru. Both sexes have a yellow face and breast; males show blue on the rump and wings.

• Emilio's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys emilianus

  

  Emilio's tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent known from dune areas in Neuquén, Argentina. Its pale fawn back contrasts with whitish sides and belly.

• Red-crested Bustard Lophotis ruficrista

  

  The Red-crested Bustard lives in dry parts of southern Africa. During courtship, the male makes a striking display by rising steeply and rolling his body backwards.

• Common Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas

  

  A monkey of savannas and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Ascension Frigatebird Fregata aquila

  The Ascension Frigatebird is a seabird with long wings and a deeply forked tail.

• Mentawai Squirrel Callosciurus melanogaster

  This dark squirrel is found only on the Mentawai Islands. It is active by day, mostly in trees, and eats fruit and young leaves.

• Rufous-breasted Antthrush Formicarius rufipectus

  This chunky, short-tailed bird walks on the forest floor to forage. Its underparts are rufous, and it sometimes gathers near army-ant swarms.

• Southern Mountain Cavy Microcavia australis

  This rodent has a compact body and a pale ring around each eye. It is active by day and feeds on leaves beneath thornbushes.

• Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis

  A small North American bird whose plumage varies from grey to brown by region, with white outer tail feathers that flash in flight.

• South-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) paraguayana

  The South-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum is a small climbing marsupial with long, dense fur. It eats insects and fruit, and occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern South America.

• White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster

  A large grey bird about 50 cm long, with a white belly and wing patch and a white band across the tail. It lives in East African woodland and savanna, often in small groups, and eats fruit and acacia buds and seeds.

• Korean Field Mouse Apodemus peninsulae

  This mouse has a reddish-brown back and white underside. It lacks the dark stripe seen in a close relative and has relatively long ears and hind feet.

• Hose's Broadbill Calyptomena hosii

  Hose's Broadbill is a bird of mountain forests on Borneo. The male is bright green with a blue area on the belly.

• Northern Tree Shrew Tupaia belangeri

  The northern tree shrew has grey-olive fur and a long snout and lives in moist forests across South and Southeast Asia.

• Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius

  A cuckoo of woodland and forest south of the Sahara. It eats hairy caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Mariana Flying Fox Pteropus mariannus

  The Mariana flying fox is a fruit bat with black or brown fur mixed with silver hairs and a golden-looking mantle. It rests in groups in trees during the day.

• Burchell's Courser Cursorius rufus

  This bird walks through open, dry country to find food. Its sandy back and blue-gray hind-crown help identify it, and it eats mainly insects.

• Southern California Pocket Gopher Megascapheus nigricans

  This pocket gopher ranges from southern California across the Baja California Peninsula, where four subspecies are recognized in a 2025 review. The male type specimen collected at Witch Creek, San Diego County, in 1893 was described with a dark brown back and tawny sides and chest.

• Chestnut-backed Chickadee Poecile rufescens

  This small bird lives along the Pacific coast of North America. Its rich brown plumage blends with coastal tree bark, and it travels with foraging flocks.

• Egyptian mongoose Herpestes ichneumon

  A ground-dwelling mongoose that uses wooded areas near water.

• Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus

  The Double-banded Sandgrouse lives in dry grassland and open woodland in southern Africa, feeding for seeds on the ground. The sexes differ in breast and forehead markings.

• Eastern Roe Deer Capreolus pygargus

  The eastern roe deer lives across northern Asia and parts of central Asia. It was once treated as a subspecies of the western roe deer, but the account treats it as a distinct species.