Meet the world’s animals.

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• Osvaldo Reig's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys osvaldoreigi

  

  A burrowing rodent of the Argentine central highlands. Its back is ochre-brown, and the tail is darker above and paler below.

• Ivory-backed Woodswallow Artamus monachus

  Its white back and body contrast with a brown-grey head and dark wings. It catches flying insects over forest edges and openings.

• Binturong Arctictis binturong

  A civet relative of South and Southeast Asian forests, with long black fur and a long grasping tail.

• Cape Bunting Emberiza capensis

  The Cape Bunting forages on the ground for seeds, fruit, and small animals. The male has a gray streaked head and reddish wings.

• Silvery Gibbon Hylobates moloch

  The silvery gibbon lives in forests on Java. Its long arms help it swing from branch to branch.

• Black Bee-eater Merops gularis

  This African bee-eater lives in forests and at forest edges. It can look black from a distance, but red and blue stand out in good light.

• Chestnut Long-tongued Bat Lionycteris spurrelli

  The chestnut long-tongued bat is a small bat with chestnut to dark brown fur on its back. It roosts in caves and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Great Skua Stercorarius skua

  The Great Skua is a stout, dark seabird with white flashes on its wings. It sometimes steals food from other birds.

• Kayan River Slow Loris Nycticebus kayan

  This slow loris occurs in central and northern Borneo. The 2013 taxonomic study compared facial patterns and other traits when describing it as a distinct species. Species-specific information about its behavior and diet in the wild remains limited.

• Goldcrest Regulus regulus

  A very small woodland bird with a yellow crown stripe.

• Salim Ali's Fruit Bat Latidens salimalii

  This uncommon fruit bat lives in Tamil Nadu, southern India. It roosts in cave clusters and leaves to fly in the evening.

• Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler Ptilorrhoa castanonota

  The Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler has a chestnut back with blue eyebrows and underparts and forages on the forest floor in New Guinea's hills and mountains.

• Vangunu Giant Rat Uromys vika

  This rat has a cinnamon-brown back and creamy-white underside. The 2017 account describes a single subadult specimen found in a cut-down tree in lowland rainforest on Vangunu Island.

• Dulit Frogmouth Batrachostomus harterti

  The Dulit Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird of a few Bornean mountain areas. Its cryptic colors blend with branches, and it nests on branches in Sarawak.

• Eastern Forest Hedgehog Mesechinus orientalis

  This hedgehog was described from eastern China in 2023. Its short spines have bands of white, black, and pale color.

• Large-billed crow Corvus macrorhynchos

  A crow with a thick bill and a raised forehead. In Japan it occurs in forests, towns and other habitats.

• Paraguayan Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou spinosus

  This nocturnal porcupine moves among tree branches. Its fluffy fur can partly hide the spines, and it wraps its tail around branches as it moves.

• Choco Vireo Vireo masteri

  It is recorded in humid montane primary cloud forest in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It searches the upper forest for small invertebrates.

• Andohahela Sportive Lemur Lepilemur fleuretae

  A nocturnal lemur of southeastern Madagascar’s rainforests. It mainly eats leaves, and mature leaves make up more of its diet when young leaves are scarce.

• Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus

  This small flycatcher ranges from tropical Mexico through Central America and northern South America to central Bolivia. The account describes it as often still in the lower levels of humid forest.

• Vieira's Titi Plecturocebus vieirai

  Plecturocebus vieirai occurs in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Pará. Its original description reports a pale gray-brown coat and white facial markings, while the ICMBio species sheet describes humid forest and streamside sites with buriti palms.

• Sclater's Whistler Pachycephala soror

  This whistler inhabits montane forests in New Guinea. A study recorded a tendency for males to forage higher than females.

• Herbert's Rock Wallaby Petrogale herberti

  Herbert's rock wallaby lives among rocky sites and woodland in southeastern Queensland, Australia. A comparison describes it as grayer and less shaggy-tailed than the brush-tailed rock-wallaby.

• Peruvian Piedtail Phlogophilus harterti

  The Peruvian Piedtail is a hummingbird endemic to Peru. Its account places it in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes.