Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,768 · Stories: 19,540

• Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum

  

  This small songbird has a long, pointed bill and striped head. It searches for caterpillars and other insects in dense forest understory.

• Pagai Island Macaque Macaca pagensis

  This macaque has dark brown fur on its back, paler fur underneath, and cheek pouches. It is active by day and uses both the ground and trees.

• Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans

  The Tree Martin has a glossy blue-black head and back, a red-brown forehead, and a light gray rump. It catches insects in flight.

• Southern White-Breasted Hedgehog Erinaceus concolor

  The southern white-breasted hedgehog occurs in the Mediterranean region. Like other Erinaceus hedgehogs, it searches for food at night and protects itself with its spines.

• Peruvian Pelican Pelecanus thagus

  The Peruvian Pelican is a large pelican of the Pacific coast along the Humboldt Current. It catches fish near the surface and also uses areas around fishing ports.

• Black Crested Gibbon Nomascus concolor

  A gibbon of mountain forests in southwestern China and nearby areas. Adult males and females have very different coat colors.

• Wagler's Toucanet Aulacorhynchus wagleri

  This toucanet occurs in Mexico. Its yellowish-white forehead meets an olive crown, and the underparts are pale blue-green. Species accounts report fruit eating in montane forest and related wooded habitats.

• Philippine warty pig Sus philippensis

  The Philippine warty pig has one subspecies associated with the Greater Luzon Faunal Region and another with the Greater Mindanao Faunal Region. Their head hair differs, while many details of the species' diet and behavior remain unknown.

• Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus

  This small bird is bright yellow with an olive back. It occupies a range of savanna settings, from moist savanna to dry thorn scrub.

• Arfak Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus schlegeli

  The Arfak ring-tailed possum is a rare possum known from the Arfak Mountains in northwestern New Guinea. Its coat is orange-brown, without dorsal stripes or facial markings.

• Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile

  The Thick-billed Flowerpecker ranges from the Indian subcontinent into Southeast Asia. This small bird takes fruit and nectar with its thick bill and forages in tree canopies and village groves.

• Texas Pocket Gopher Geomys personatus

  This rodent digs burrows in sandy soil in southern Texas and feeds underground on grass roots and other plants.

• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola

  A large plover that breeds in the Arctic and feeds on coastal mudflats during migration and winter. Breeding-plumaged males show a sharp black-and-white pattern.

• Thick-tailed Three-toed Jerboa Stylodipus telum

  This jerboa occurs in a broken belt of dry country from the lower Dnieper to Lake Zaysan.

• Yellow-eared Barbet Psilopogon australis

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

• Black-bearded Flying Fox Pteropus melanopogon

  A colony of black-bearded flying foxes was recorded roosting in mangroves on Pulau Marsegu, off Seram Island, Indonesia.

• Brown-banded Puffbird Notharchus ordii

  It is black and white, with a dark brown-black band between the white throat and belly. It is patchily distributed in Amazonian lowlands and is described as generally rare in forest on poor soils such as sandy patches.

• Common Punaré Thrichomys apereoides

  This spiny rat is known from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Studies report insects and seeds in its diet and suggest it may help disperse some small seeds.

• Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa

  The Malachite Sunbird occurs in separate parts of East and southern Africa. It feeds mainly on nectar and has a slender body and long tail.

• Asian golden cat Catopuma temminckii

  A forest cat whose coat color and pattern vary among individuals.

• Eastern Orphean Warbler Curruca crassirostris

  A migratory warbler of open woodland and scrub, it feeds on small invertebrates.

• Asian Lesser White-toothed Shrew Crocidura shantungensis

  The Asian Lesser White-toothed Shrew is recorded across parts of East Asia. A study found size differences between island and mainland samples.

• King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa

  The King Vulture is a large scavenger of tropical lowland forests in Central and South America. It may wait for other birds to open a carcass.

• Temminck's Asian Trident Bat Aselliscus tricuspidatus

  Temminck's Asian Trident Bat has three projections on the rear edge of its noseleaf. It roosts in places such as caves and feeds on insects.