Meet the world’s animals.

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• Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli

  

  Coquerel’s Sifaka is a lemur with a mostly white coat and chestnut patches on its chest and limbs. It leaps between trees and eats mainly leaves.

• 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.

• Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius

  

  The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.

• Black Storm Petrel Hydrobates melania

  

  The black storm-petrel is a dark seabird with a long, forked tail. It flies buoyantly low over the water and picks food from the surface.

• Central American Least Shrew Cryptotis orophilus

  

  This small shrew occurs in Central America. Its original description notes different coat colors on the back and underside.

• Tanimbar Bush Warbler Horornis carolinae

  

  The 1987 original description called this bird Cettia carolinae and reported it from two sites in southern Yamdena. The author thought it might be widespread on the island, but the records available then were limited.

• Derby Eland Taurotragus derbianus

  A large antelope of western and central Africa's savannas and sparse woodlands. Its sandy-gray coat has pale vertical side stripes, and it feeds in grassland during cooler mornings and evenings. The current MDD name is Tragelaphus derbianus.

• Pink-backed pelican Pelecanus rufescens

  An African wetland pelican whose pale back can take on a pink tint.

• Black Dwarf Porcupine Coendou nycthemera

  The black dwarf porcupine has records from the Amazon region. Its dorsal quill pattern helps distinguish it from similar species, but its range is still poorly defined.

• Juba Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus

  This weaver was recorded along rivers in southern Ethiopia. Breeding males have black heads, red eyes, rufous chests, and yellow bellies; females and nonbreeding males are duller.

• Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus bidens

  The Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat is a small leaf-nosed bat recorded in South American forests. In Bolivia it has been observed in primary and secondary forest, with roosts under palm or banana leaves.

• Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii

  This forest turaco has a black bill. A 2020 phylogenetic study treated the violet-backed T. schuettii and green-backed T. emini as separate species-level taxa.

• Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lylei

  This bat has a large noseleaf. Small groups have been found in caves, and records from Vietnam include forest and secondary habitats in limestone country.

• Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca

  The Ruddy-breasted Crake is a rail that lives in waterside vegetation.

• Ethiopian Dwarf Mongoose Helogale hirtula

  A small mongoose of the Horn of Africa that is active in groups by day. At night it shelters in termite mounds, dens, or rock crevices.

• Little Spotted Kiwi Apteryx owenii

  The Little Spotted Kiwi is flightless and nocturnal, probing leaf litter and rotten logs for food. DNA confirmed a wild population on the West Coast of the South Island in 2025.

• Green Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops archeri

  The green ringtail possum has a lime-green-looking coat and a thick tail. It lives in trees in northeastern Queensland and mainly eats leaves.

• Grey-crowned Crocias Laniellus langbianis

  The Grey-crowned Crocias is confined to a small area around Vietnam's Da Lat Plateau. It has a gray crown and long tail and searches the middle and upper forest layers for small invertebrates.

• Central American Agouti Dasyprocta punctata

  The Central American agouti is a slender rodent with a short tail. A field study in Panama recorded it carrying fruit and seeds and burying them in scattered caches.

• Purple-gaped Honeyeater Lichenostomus cratitius

  A honeyeater of mallee heath in southern Australia. It feeds mainly on nectar, but also takes insects.

• Somali Bushbaby Galago gallarum

  This small nocturnal primate has a pale face, dark eye rings, black ears and tail, and a light buff back.

• White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata

  Its gray body contrasts with a black crest and wings and white on the belly and underside of the long tail. In eastern African montane evergreen forest and nearby scrub or bamboo, it feeds on flies, ants, and other small invertebrates.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

  This striped grass mouse was common at a savanna study site in Ethiopia. Broken pale stripes run along its flanks.

• Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris

  The Long-billed Corella is a white cockatoo with a long upper bill and red-orange chest markings. It often forages in large flocks on the ground in southeastern Australia.