Meet the world’s animals.

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• Scarlet Robin Petroica boodang

  

  Scarlet Robins search near the ground for insects in open forest and woodland. Their breast colour differs by sex: males are vivid red, while females are more muted orange-red.

• Herbert River Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus herbertensis

  This marsupial has a black body with white markings on its chest and belly. It is mainly arboreal, active at night, and eats leaves.

• 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.

• California Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys californicus

  The California kangaroo rat has large hind feet for hopping and a long tail. It is active mainly at night and eats seeds and fruit.

• African Pitta Pitta angolensis

  Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.

• Southern Mountain Cavy Microcavia australis

  This rodent has a compact body and a pale ring around each eye. It is active by day and feeds on leaves beneath thornbushes.

• Sinaloa Martin Progne sinaloae

  This swallow breeds in the mountains of Mexico during summer. Breeding records describe nests in tree cavities; its wintering grounds remain unknown.

• Northern Smooth-Tailed Treeshrew Dendrogale murina

  The northern smooth-tailed treeshrew is a small arboreal mammal ranging from eastern India into Southeast Asia. It eats fruit and small animals.

• Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor

  This large cotinga searches for fruit in the canopy. A 1970 study in southern Guyana recorded males displaying at forest leks and feeding on fruit and insects.

• Panamanian White-faced Capuchin Cebus imitator

  A capuchin monkey of Central American forests. Its dark body contrasts with a pale face, and its hands and tail help it search for varied foods.

• Rothschild's Grosbeak Cyanocompsa rothschildii

  Rothschild's Grosbeak occurs in western Amazonian forest. The male is deep blue and the female chestnut; both are associated with the leafy forest understory.

• Milne-Edwards' Sifaka Propithecus edwardsi

  This sifaka lives in southeastern Madagascar. It clings to tree trunks and leaps between trees with its long hind legs.

• Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex

  This canary ranges through mountain areas from Eritrea to northern Malawi and western Angola. Adult males of the nominate form show conspicuous yellow on the head and underparts, and forage for seeds among the ground and vegetation.

• Lowe's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus lowei

  This monkey lives in the trees of lowland forests in West Africa. It mainly eats fruit, along with leaves, seeds, flowers, bark, and insects.

• Rhinoceros auklet Cerorhinca monocerata

  A seabird that develops a horn-like projection on its bill during breeding.

• Mendoza Tuco-tuco Ctenomys mendocinus

  This burrowing rodent is recorded in west-central Argentina and the high Andes of Chile, in grasslands and dry scrub.

• African Hobby Falco cuvierii

  The African Hobby is a small falcon found in sub-Saharan Africa. It has rufous underparts, and regional field material notes that much of its ecology remains poorly known.

• North-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) demerarae

  The North-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum is a small marsupial with long, soft fur and dark rings around the eyes. Its tail is longer than the body and furred only near the base.

• Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus

  A large vulture with broad wings and a dark-brown body.

• Giant Atlantic Tree-rat Phyllomys thomasi

  A spiny rat known only from São Sebastião Island off southeastern Brazil. Its back bears reddish-brown spines, and much of the island is Atlantic rainforest.

• Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata

  A hornbill with a large black casque that moves through forest trees in search of fruit.

• Large-eared Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) macrotis

  The large-eared pika lives among rocky high mountains in Central Asia. Its large ears and thick fur stand out, and it is active during the day.

• Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa

  This black bird is confined to Tasmania and nearby islands. White tips on its wings and tail and its yellow eye are distinctive; it feeds in forests and near towns.

• Euphrates Jerboa Allactaga (Paralactaga) euphratica

  Allactaga euphratica is a hopping rodent of Asia Minor and the Middle East. Its large hind feet and long tail support bounding; it has a sandy to reddish-brown back, a white underside, and lives in burrows while feeding on plants.