Meet the world’s animals.

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• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.

• Ornate Tinamou Nothoprocta ornata

  

  The Ornate Tinamou has spots on the head and neck, an unspotted gray breast, and lower-belly plumage that grades from buff to rufous.

• Black-headed Marmoset Mico nigriceps

  

  This small marmoset lives in lowland forest and forest edges in the south-central Amazon. It eats gum, fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Aldabra Fody Foudia aldabrana

  

  This small bird lives on Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. Males have a bright red head, neck, and breast, sharply set off from a sulphur-yellow belly. Skerrett’s 1999 article also discusses the older name F. eminentissima aldabrana; this entry follows the pool name F. aldabrana.

• Juan Fernández Fur Seal Arctocephalus philippii

  

  The Juan Fernández fur seal lives on islands off Chile. It eats squid and fish and uses steep, rocky shores for resting and breeding.

• Tschudi's Nightjar Systellura decussata

  

  This nightjar uses dry open country, where its sandy plumage blends with the ground and sparse vegetation.

• Urubamba Brown Titi Plecturocebus urubambensis

  A titi monkey treated as a distinct species in Peru. The 2025 update gives a type locality near the Río Sepa but questions some distant photo-based records.

• Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda

  The male has long tail feathers and is longer than the female. This small bird feeds on nectar, small insects, and spiders.

• Cape genet Genetta tigrina

  A southern African genet with dark spots on a pale coat and rings on its tail. It is active at night and climbs well.

• Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Hydrobates monorhis

  Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel is a small, dark-brown seabird.

• California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi

  A North American ground squirrel that digs burrows and is active by day.

• White-throated Oxylabes Oxylabes madagascariensis

  A forest-floor babbler of humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches for small invertebrates on the ground and in the lower vegetation.

• Black-tailed Dasyure Murexia melanurus

  The black-tailed dasyure is a small marsupial from New Guinea. A 2020 study found variation in coat color; one illustrated specimen had bright ear patches, grey shoulders, a red rump and a black tail.

• Orange-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula canicularis

  The Orange-fronted Parakeet is a small parrot with an orange band across the forehead. In the wild it nests in arboreal termite mounds or cavities and eats fruit and seeds.

• Ridley's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros ridleyi

  Ridley's leaf-nosed bat has a broad noseleaf and large ears. Reports from Peninsular Malaysia describe small groups roosting in tree hollows and drainage structures.

• Crimson Shining Parrot Prosopeia splendens

  The Crimson Shining Parrot lives in forests and farmland on Fiji's islands. It has a red head and belly, with a broad blue band around the neck.

• Greater Bamboo Lemur Prolemur simus

  A bamboo-eating lemur, it moves among branches with long hind legs and tail and can be active both by day and at night.

• Dusky Pigeon Patagioenas goodsoni

  This medium-sized pigeon has gray to brown plumage with white wing marks. In Colombian Andean forests it forages for fruit and seeds in the canopy.

• Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys microps

  A narrow face and small ears frame the gray-brown back and white underside of this kangaroo rat. It is semi-fossorial and nocturnal, with a range across dry country in the western United States.

• Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotum

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in arid and semi-arid southern Australia. Males have a black face and breast with a white eyebrow; females have a gray throat and breast, and may show little chestnut on the rump.

• Black Capuchin Sapajus nigritus

  Its back ranges from brown to black and the underside from yellow to dark reddish brown. In one group studied at an urbanized park in Brazil, foraging was frequent and stone use to crack palm seeds was recorded.

• Azure Dollarbird Eurystomus azureus

  The Azure Dollarbird has dark purple-blue plumage and pale azure wing patches. It lives in forests of Indonesia's northern Moluccas.

• Northern Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops nanus

  This free-tailed bat has large, rounded ears joined above the forehead. Two specimens were recorded at a wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, amid sorghum crops and fragments of low deciduous forest.

• Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon

  The Northern House Wren is a small brown bird found even around homes and parks in North America. It searches for insects in low branches and shrubs and often gives a lively, bubbling song.