Meet the world’s animals.

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• Variable Limestone Babbler Gypsophila crispifrons

  

  The Variable Limestone Babbler is a medium-sized bird of limestone hills. Its dark back and broad gray-brown streaks across the breast and belly are distinctive.

• Brush Rabbit Sylvilagus bachmani

  The brush rabbit is a small rabbit of brushy places in California. It has brown fur, short ears and a small tail.

• Black-headed Penduline Tit Remiz macronyx

  The Black-headed Penduline Tit is a Central Asian migrant.

• Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura seychellensis

  The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat is a rare bat endemic to the Seychelles. A study on Silhouette Island found it roosting in small caves among boulders in lowland woodland.

• Australian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus australis

  The Australian Reed Warbler is a small olive-brown bird with a pale eyebrow. It moves south in summer to breed and nests among reeds in wetlands.

• Andean Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus leucogenys

  This saddle-back tamarin occurs in forests east of the Andes in Peru. Records include primary and secondary forest, forest edge, and riparian forest.

• Red-backed Fairywren Malurus melanocephalus

  Bright males have a black body and a red-orange back. Females and young are browner, and the species uses grassy habitats.

• Eastern Forest Hedgehog Mesechinus orientalis

  This hedgehog was described from eastern China in 2023. Its short spines have bands of white, black, and pale color.

• Red-stained Woodpecker Veniliornis affinis

  This woodpecker inhabits forests of the Amazon Basin. Males have red on the head, females lack red on the head, and both sexes have red wing spots.

• Greater Guinea Pig Cavia magna

  The greater guinea pig is a wild relative of the domestic guinea pig. It has webbed toes and lives in wetlands, with long fur forming a crest on its neck.

• Black-necked crane Grus nigricollis

  A crane that breeds in high mountain regions and descends to lower wintering areas.

• Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou melanurus

  The black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine ranges from eastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil. It is nocturnal and arboreal, using mainly the canopy of lowland rainforest.

• Indian Stone-curlew Burhinus indicus

  The Indian Stone-curlew is a ground-dwelling bird breeding from India into Southeast Asia and is mostly nocturnal.

• Fennec fox Vulpes zerda

  A small fox of sandy areas such as the Sahara. It has strikingly large ears and a pale coat.

• Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata

  This widespread South American dove has black spots on the neck and wings and reddish legs. It may gather in flocks in open areas and towns.

• Northern Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza zaza

  This large mouse lemur is active at night. It lives in northwestern Madagascar’s forests and has a dark tail and pale underside.

• Orange-crowned Euphonia Euphonia saturata

  In Peru's far north-west, it is rare along the edges of humid and semi-deciduous forest in Tumbes. The male's blue and orange-yellow plumage is distinctive.

• Small Sulawesi Cuscus Strigocuscus celebensis

  The small cuscus has pale buff fur and a partly bare tail. It lives on Sulawesi and nearby islands.

• Striated Antthrush Chamaeza nobilis

  This terrestrial antthrush is recorded in lowland Amazonian forest in Peru. PeruAves describes it as rare and associates it with terra firme, or relatively flood-free forest. This entry limits its account to Peruvian records.

• Antilopine wallaroo Osphranter antilopinus

  The antilopine wallaroo is a marsupial of northern Australian savanna woodlands. Adult males and females differ in coat color.

• Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii

  A bird that runs through dry grassland and open woodland and feeds on insects on the ground. It occurs across much of sub-Saharan Africa.

• Miller's Langur Presbytis canicrus

  Presbytis canicrus is a langur of East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. A field report identified it by its dark head, white forehead, and gray back, and recorded an individual active in a karst-forest tree while eating fruit.

• Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa

  A Central American bird noted for its turquoise brow and racket-tipped tail feathers. It searches for insect prey in open dry woodland and scrub.

• North-western Free-tailed Bat Ozimops cobourgianus

  This free-tailed bat occurs along the coast from Western Australia to the Northern Territory. Records associate it with mangroves in the west and woodland farther north.