Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Pygmy Loris Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus

  

  A small slow loris that is active in trees at night and eats tree sap, nectar, and insects. Its behavior in the wild is still not well understood.

• Rockrunner Achaetops pycnopygius

  

  A small bird centered in west-central Namibia, with a marginal extension into Angola. It forages on the ground, and adults bring arthropods and caterpillars to nestlings.

• Golden-crowned Sifaka Propithecus tattersalli

  

  A sifaka with mostly white fur and a golden crown. It lives in limited forests in northeastern Madagascar and leaps between trees.

• Oak Titmouse Baeolophus inornatus

  

  The Oak Titmouse is a small bird with a crest that lives in dry oak woods of the western United States. Pairs defend territories year-round.

• Nosy Be Mouse Lemur Microcebus mamiratra

  

  Claire's mouse lemur has reddish-brown fur on its back and tail, with pale coloring on the muzzle and underside. Its current mapped range includes Nosy Be and adjacent mainland in northwestern Madagascar.

• Yellow-eared Barbet Psilopogon australis

  

  The Yellow-eared Barbet lives in forest on Java and Bali, is active by day, and eats fruit.

• Amazon Black Howler Alouatta nigerrima

  This howler monkey has mostly black fur and lives in the south-central Amazon of Brazil. It feeds on leaves and fruit in the trees and lives in groups.

• Double-striped Thick-knee Burhinus bistriatus

  This plover blends into dry grassland with pale brown plumage. Two dark head stripes and a white face pattern help identify it.

• Long-footed Tree Shrew Tupaia longipes

  The long-footed tree shrew is a small mammal of Borneo's forests. It moves quickly over leaf litter while searching for small prey.

• Blue-capped Manakin Lepidothrix coronata

  The Blue-capped Manakin occurs widely east of the Andes in forest. Males have regional color forms, while females are green.

• Greater Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous tatouay

  An armadillo whose tail lacks armor. At night it digs into soil and termite mounds with its large claws, feeding mainly on ants and termites.

• Blue Crane Grus paradisea

  This crane lives in southern African grasslands. Its bluish-grey body and long trailing display feathers stand out.

• Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii

  A seal of Antarctic coasts. It swims beneath sea ice and breathes through holes and cracks in the ice.

• Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria

  The Solitary Snipe occurs in mountain wetlands and along streams in valleys. It searches damp ground for small invertebrates.

• Cinereus Shrew Sorex cinereus

  The cinereus shrew is widespread in northern North America and is often found in moist places such as forests and river or lake edges. It is active at night and feeds mainly on invertebrates.

• Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilis

  This small bird lives in forests around Tasmania. It has an olive-brown back and pale, gray-streaked underparts, and searches for insects near the ground in moist forest.

• Nyala Nyala angasii

  An African antelope whose males and females differ markedly in appearance.

• Great Woodswallow Artamus maximus

  The Great Woodswallow is the largest woodswallow, marked by a dark grey head and white rump and belly.

• Brandt's Hedgehog Paraechinus hypomelas

  Brandt's hedgehog lives in dry regions. One female found in Saudi Arabia in 2024 was described as having a dark face and large ears.

• Bornean Leafbird Chloropsis kinabaluensis

  This leafbird inhabits mountain forests of Borneo. A 2003 taxonomic review treated Chloropsis kinabaluensis as a distinct species after it had long been included as a subspecies of C. cochinchinensis.

• Greater Glider Petauroides volans

  This nocturnal marsupial lives in forests of eastern Australia. It glides between trees using a membrane between its limbs and eats eucalyptus leaves.

• Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus

  The Eastern Marsh Harrier flies low over open areas such as grassland and marshes, and may perch close to the ground.

• Fulvous Pocket Gopher Megascapheus fulvus

  This pocket gopher ranges across the western and southwestern United States and Mexico. A specimen obtained by its describer near San Francisco Mountain had reddish-brown upperparts, a whitish underside, and long, flattened foreclaws.

• Black-billed Brush-turkey Talegalla fuscirostris

  The Black-billed Brushturkey lives in lowland forests of New Guinea. Its black bill helps distinguish it from the very similar Red-billed Brushturkey.