Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,673 · Stories: 19,540

• Diademed Tapaculo Scytalopus schulenbergi

  

  This tapaculo occurs on the eastern Andean slope. Adults are gray, with a pale forehead and variable rufous on the flanks and rump. It feeds near the ground in humid montane forest, scrub, and Polylepis woodland.

• Monk Saki Pithecia monachus

  Male and female monk sakis have different coat colors. In a study of seasonally flooded forest in northern Peru, seeds were their most frequent food, and they also ate arthropods.

• Grey-bellied Tesia Tesia cyaniventer

  This very small bird lives near the ground in grasses and shrubs of damp subtropical mountains. Its short tail and long legs are noticeable.

• Western Jumping Mouse Zapus princeps

  The western jumping mouse lives in western North America and hops on large hind feet. Its active season is short, and it hibernates through winter.

• Spotted Dikkop Burhinus capensis

  The Spotted Dikkop is a ground-dwelling bird with long legs and yellow eyes. It hunts insects by running, stopping, and jabbing at prey with its bill.

• Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus blasii

  Blasius’s horseshoe bat roosts in caves and similar shelters and has a distinctive nose shape.

• Stewart Island Shag Leucocarbo chalconotus

  In the Otago region of New Zealand, it hunts along the coast and has pied and dark bronze colour morphs.

• Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis

  The Big Free-tailed Bat roosts in rock crevices and eats large moths. It has vertical grooves on its upper lip.

• Rufous-capped Antshrike Thamnophilus ruficapillus

  The Rufous-capped Antshrike is about 15–17 cm long. It occurs in disjunct areas of Andean forest and Atlantic Forest; a study includes five subspecies.

• New Zealand Sea Lion Phocarctos hookeri

  A large sea lion endemic to New Zealand; adult males and females differ in size and coat color.

• Bali Myna Leucopsar rothschildi

  The Bali Myna is a white starling native to Bali, recognizable by its blue facial skin and white crest.

• Maranhão Red-handed Howler Alouatta ululata

  The Maranhão red-handed howler lives in open, dry vegetation in northeastern Brazil. Museum specimens have been described as showing sex-related coat differences, but the original study called for further research to confirm them.

• Plain-pouched Hornbill Rhyticeros subruficollis

  The Plain-pouched Hornbill lives in lowland forests from south-eastern Myanmar through Thailand to northern Peninsular Malaysia. Males and females differ in head and neck plumage.

• Cape Gray Mongoose Galerella pulverulenta

  This slender mongoose lives in southern Africa. It uses bushes and rocky areas and may dig for prey in the soil.

• Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceus

  This diving duck lives on clear mountain rivers. It dives in fast-flowing water for fish and stays within river territories.

• Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea

  A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

• Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Babbler is a small bird marked by a bright rufous crown. It works through forest undergrowth and often travels with mixed flocks of small birds.

• Pardine Genet Genetta pardina

  The Pardine Genet is a nocturnal genet of western African moist forests and riparian woodland. It is recorded as an omnivore that eats small mammals, insects, and fruit.

• Bar-throated Minla Actinodura strigula

  This laughingthrush relative lives in mountain forests from the Himalayas to the Malay Peninsula. Flocks move through the middle and upper trees, eating insects and plant foods.

• Eastern Woolly Lemur Avahi laniger

  The eastern woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of eastern Madagascar, marked by woolly back fur and a white stripe on the thighs.

• New Zealand Grebe Poliocephalus rufopectus

  The New Zealand Grebe is an endemic diving bird. In breeding plumage, the neck and breast become rich rufous red.

• Jamaican Flower Bat Phyllonycteris (Reithronycteris) aphylla

  This Jamaican endemic bat has short, pale fur and dark wing membranes. It eats nectar and fruit, and roosts in hot caves, sometimes in mixed colonies with other bats.

• Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula

  The Baltimore Oriole breeds in eastern North America and winters in Central America. The female weaves a pouch-like nest that hangs from a branch.

• North American Least Shrew Cryptotis parvus

  A small shrew of North America, recorded in tall grass, brush and fallen logs, and soft soils around wetlands.