Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-flanked Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis

  

  The black-flanked rock wallaby lives among rocky outcrops in western and south-central Australia. A dark flank stripe and use of rock crevices are characteristic.

• Forest Rock Thrush Monticola sharpei

  This thrush lives in forest and rocky habitats in Madagascar. The 2016 guide describes different settings for eastern and northern birds and the western form formerly called bensoni.

• Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis

  The tucuxi is a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon basin, separate from the marine Guiana dolphin.

• White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys

  A tiny warbler of montane forests in central and eastern Africa; the source treats several subspecies together.

• Kowari Dasyuroides byrnei

  The kowari is a small marsupial with grayish fur and a black brush on its tail. It hunts alone at night on Australia's rocky inland plains.

• Ruby Topaz Chrysolampis mosquitus

  The Ruby-topaz Hummingbird feeds on flower nectar, along with small insects and spiders. Males have a red crown and shining golden throat; females are bronze-green. Its range includes Caribbean islands and northern to central South America.

• Cape Elephant Shrew Elephantulus edwardii

  The Cape elephant shrew lives in rocky parts of South Africa and feeds mainly on ants and other insects. Its long, flexible snout is a notable feature.

• Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central American forest. At Guatemala's Laguna del Tigre National Park, it appears regularly in annual bird counts.

• Broad-eared Bat Nyctinomops laticaudatus

  The broad-eared bat has a brown back, a paler underside, and hairless, translucent wing membranes. It catches beetles in flight.

• Black-breasted Gnateater Conopophaga snethlageae

  This forest bird ranges in the Amazon between the Tapajós and Tocantins Rivers. In 2023, the first nest observations were reported from the understory of primary terra firme forest in Brazil.

• Silky Sifaka Propithecus candidus

  A sifaka known for its long, silky white fur. It moves among trees by day in mountain forest in northeastern Madagascar.

• Red-backed Buttonquail Turnix maculosus

  The Red-backed Buttonquail is a small ground bird marked by a rufous collar and a pale wing panel. Females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• Comoro Black Flying Fox Pteropus livingstonii

  This flying fox occurs on Anjouan and Mohéli in the Comoros. A 2006 species account reports that it eats fruit, leaves, nectar and pollen, and roosts in native evergreen forest.

• Double-eyed Fig Parrot Cyclopsitta diophthalma

  In the nominate subspecies, the adult male has a red forehead and cheeks, blue above and in front of the eye, and an orange-yellow band on the hindcrown. Ficus seeds are its main wild food.

• Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus

  This small rodent lives in rocky dry country in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Adults have gray-brown fur, and rocky outcrops provide places to shelter.

• 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.

• Southern Highland Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea comes

  This cavy is known from the southern Bolivian and northern Argentine Andes. Its back is mottled olive, brown, and tan, while its underside mixes yellow and white. At one Bolivian valley site, a colony was observed foraging by day near burrows.

• Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema

  An East African montane woodpecker. The 2023 Clements Checklist treats it as a distinct species based on plumage and genetic evidence.

• Hill's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus hilli

  This horseshoe bat is known from a very small area in Nyungwe National Park, southwestern Rwanda. The species treatment lists two localities.

• Thick-billed Grasswren Amytornis modestus

  This profile focuses on the Grey Range subspecies, A. m. obscurior, in New South Wales. The state government page describes it in bluebush shrubland in arid and semi-arid country.

• Spotted seal Phoca largha

  A spotted seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic. It lives around seasonal sea ice.

• Sulphur-crested cockatoo Cacatua galerita

  A large white cockatoo recognized by its yellow crest.

• 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.

• Papuan Scrubwren Aethomyias papuensis

  A scrubwren of New Guinea’s mountains that searches for insects in low bushes and forest undergrowth, often hidden in dense vegetation.