Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Ringtail Pseudocheirus peregrinus

  

  The common ringtail is a nocturnal Australian marsupial with a grasping tail that helps it move along branches.

• Satin Flycatcher Myiagra cyanoleuca

  

  Male Satin Flycatchers are blue-black and white; females combine bluish grey, rusty red, and white. They breed in southeastern Australia and move north for the non-breeding season.

• Antipodean fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri

  

  A fur seal breeding around New Zealand and nearby islands. It eats squid and small fish at sea.

• Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis

  

  The Little Shearwater is a small seabird that breeds on islands. It takes food at the surface and also dives for fish, crustaceans, and other prey.

• Dusky Dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus

  

  This dolphin is recorded widely in temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a blue-black back and a diagonal dark band along each side.

• Sri Lanka Swallow Cecropis hyperythra

  

  A swallow of Sri Lanka, it has a silvery purple-blue back and rusty rump and underparts. It catches insects in flight.

• Volcano Rabbit Romerolagus diazi

  The volcano rabbit is a small rabbit with short ears and a tiny, nearly invisible tail. It lives in the high mountains south and southeast of Mexico Valley.

• Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus

  A large, heavy-bodied seabird with broad wings. Breeding adults have long, twisted, spoon-shaped central tail feathers.

• Mongolian Pika Ochotona (Pika) pallasi

  The Mongolian Pika is a small pika whose coat is lighter in summer and darker in winter. It is active by day around its burrow and stores gathered grasses as food for winter.

• White-vented Whistler Pachycephala homeyeri

  This whistler occurs in the southern Philippines and on Malaysia's Siamil Island. The sexes look alike, with rufous-brown upperparts and white underparts.

• Francis's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus francisi

  Francis's horseshoe bat is a rarely recorded species known from Sabah and Kalimantan on Borneo. The 2015 paper listed six records available at that time.

• Andean Potoo Nyctibius maculosus

  Fine gray, brown, and black markings and yellow eyes stand out on this nocturnal bird of Andean cloud forest.

• Southern River Otter Lontra provocax

  A South American otter found in southern Chile and parts of Argentina.

• Crimson-hooded Manakin Pipra aureola

  The Crimson-hooded Manakin uses lowland wet forest and swampy woodland and feeds on fruit. One male collected in Suriname was recorded with green plumage and a few red feathers.

• Painted Tree Shrew Tupaia picta

  The painted treeshrew lives in lowland forest on Borneo. A faint stripe on its back helps distinguish it from similar plain-coated relatives.

• Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus

  The Hair-crested Drongo has black plumage, red irises and a forked tail.

• Andean mountain cat Leopardus jacobitus

  A high-Andes cat with dark body markings and a thick, ringed tail.

• Blue-cheeked Jacamar Galbula cyanicollis

  The Blue-cheeked Jacamar has glossy green upperparts and chestnut underparts, with blue cheeks and crown. In humid lowland forest, it feeds on beetles, wasps, bees, and ants.

• Bengal Slow Loris Nycticebus bengalensis

  This loris is active in trees at night. Its coat ranges from pale to strongly reddish, and its diet includes nectar and plant exudates.

• Red-crowned Barbet Psilopogon rafflesii

  The Red-crowned Barbet is green with a conspicuous red crown. It eats fruit and insects in lowland forests of Southeast Asia.

• Ruddy Mongoose Urva smithii

  The ruddy mongoose is found in India and is marked by a dark, reddish coat and a black tail tip. It favors forests and is most active around dawn and dusk.

• Jamaican Crow Corvus jamaicensis

  The Jamaican Crow has sooty grey-black plumage and a thick, heavy black bill. It gathers in small groups in forest trees and is also seen on farms, in gardens, and in towns.

• Rüppell's Fox Vulpes rueppellii

  Rüppell’s fox lives in deserts. Its large ears and white tail tip are distinctive.

• 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.