Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea

  

  This small gnatcatcher includes several regional forms. In Peru it has grey upperparts, whitish to greyish underparts, and a black-and-white tail that it often cocks.

• Common Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops bonariensis

  The common dwarf bonneted bat has a broad, flat muzzle and large rounded ears. It leaves its roost after sunset and catches insects in flight.

• Sulawesi Crow Corvus celebensis

  The Sulawesi Crow (Corvus celebensis) occurs on Sulawesi. Its glossy black plumage has a blue sheen, and small groups are reported at forest edges and farmland.

• Sechuran Fox Lycalopex sechurae

  This small fox lives in dry coastal areas from northwestern Ecuador to Peru. It is nocturnal; food records from northern Peru include fruit and small animals.

• Wattled Guan Aburria aburri

  The Wattled Guan is a large, all-black bird with a blue bill and a long red-and-yellow wattle hanging from its throat. It lives in humid Andean montane forest and eats fruit.

• Ruwenzori Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ruwenzorii

  The Ruwenzori horseshoe bat is recorded in mountain areas of central Africa. Its noseleaf and its use of caves and similar roosts are documented in the species account.

• White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

  A North American nuthatch that searches bark as it moves along trunks and branches.

• Coastal Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) australis

  This bat catches insects while flying near the coast. It occurs in a narrow coastal strip of northeastern Queensland.

• White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra

  Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.

• Geoffroy’s spider monkey Ateles geoffroyi

  A spider monkey that lives high in forest trees, using long limbs and a long tail.

• Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana

  The Wattled Jacana is a small wading bird that walks over floating vegetation on long, thin toes.

• Sulawesi Warty Pig Sus celebensis

  The Sulawesi warty pig is a wild pig native to Sulawesi. Its dark coat is mixed with yellowish or white hairs, and it is an omnivore that eats roots, fruit, and other foods.

• White-hooded Babbler Gampsorhynchus rufulus

  The White-hooded Babbler lives along forest edges and in bamboo in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, moving in noisy groups.

• Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica

  The red-legged pademelon is a small kangaroo relative that feeds within forests and along their edges.

• Jerdon's Courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus

  This lapwing-like bird has a large eye and short, two-toned bill. It lives in dry thorn scrub and is nocturnal, so it is rarely encountered in the field.

• Merriam's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys merriami

  Merriam's kangaroo rat is a rodent that is active at night in dry country. Its strong hind legs and long, tufted tail help it move in hops.

• Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum

  The Yellow-vented Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker found from the Indian subcontinent through Southeast Asia. It has yellowish-green upperparts, streaked white underparts, and orange-yellow undertail coverts.

• White-bellied Nesomys Nesomys audeberti

  The white-bellied nesomys has ventral hairs that are white to their bases. In a Madagascar field study, the animals were also active during daylight.

• Rufous-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma rufopileatum

  The Rufous-crowned Antpitta is reported from humid foothill forest on the Pacific slope of Colombia and into northwestern Ecuador. It has a rufous head and a dark band through the eye, and is described hopping on the ground to search for insects.

• Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas

  The golden-headed lion tamarin is a small monkey with a black body and a conspicuous golden mane. It lives in small groups in forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Feline Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles insignis

  The Feline Owlet-nightjar lives in New Guinea’s montane evergreen rainforests and eats beetles and other insects. Its fluffy rufous-to-brown plumage has two white head stripes and white bars on the tail.

• Andean Cottontail Sylvilagus andinus

  The Andean cottontail is known from Ecuador's highlands, and a 2022 study confirmed records at several sites in Peru. It has long, soft fur, a reddish rump, and a pale underside.

• Heard Island Shag Leucocarbo nivalis

  This shag lives on Heard Island. Museum specimens of adults show white cheek plumage extending above the gape. A diet study found that benthic animals, especially polychaetes, were common prey for much of the island population. Clements 2025 includes nivalis as a subspecies of Imperial Shag.

• Black lemur Eulemur macaco

  A northwestern Madagascar lemur whose males and females have different coat colours.