Meet the world’s animals.
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- Antilopine wallaroo Osphranter antilopinus
Photo: Howard Cheng · CC BY-SA 3.0 The antilopine wallaroo is a marsupial of northern Australian savanna woodlands. Adult males and females differ in coat color.
- White-browed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aeralatus
This shrike-babbler ranges from the eastern Himalayas across Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Male wing-panel colors vary by region.
- Chilean Dolphin Cephalorhynchus eutropia
The Chilean dolphin is a small dolphin found along Chile’s coast. Records are patchy, and it often uses sheltered shallow waters such as bays and fjords.
- Indian Roller Coracias benghalensis
A striking blue bird of open habitats in India. It scans for insects from exposed branches or power lines.
- Woolley's False Antechinus Pseudantechinus woolleyae
A small carnivorous marsupial from rocky, arid areas of Western Australia. It has chestnut fur behind the ears and a flat tail.
- Seychelles Bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris
This bulbul is endemic to the Seychelles. It lives in forests and secondary growth, and young birds differ from adults in bill and leg color.
- Rufous Dog-faced Bat Molossops neglectus
This bat has reddish dark-brown fur and feeds on flying insects. Its records are separated between northern and southeastern South America, and southern specimens have tended to be smaller than northern ones.
- Short-billed Greenbul Xanthomixis zosterops
This Xanthomixis is endemic to Madagascar and lives in humid evergreen forest. The source also uses names such as Spectacled Tetraka; this entry retains the pool label Short-billed Greenbul.
- Angolan Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus angolensis
This fruit bat has white shoulder tufts in males. It lives in riverine woodland and open woodland and is active at night.
- Crowned Sandgrouse Pterocles coronatus
The Crowned Sandgrouse lives in dry areas from the Sahara into western Asia. It visits water in flocks, and the adult male has a rufous crown and a black facial band.
- 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.
- Madagascar Flufftail Sarothrura insularis
This rail hides in dense vegetation around wet grassland and woodland edges in Madagascar. The male has a rufous head and breast and pale streaks on the dark back.
- Lowland Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea leucoblephara
This cavy occurs in southern South America. Argentina's National Parks biodiversity profile describes its dark, black-speckled back and pale eye rings, as well as a diurnal, ground-dwelling, group-living life in shallow burrows.
- Red-crested Bustard Lophotis ruficrista
The Red-crested Bustard lives in dry parts of southern Africa. During courtship, the male makes a striking display by rising steeply and rolling his body backwards.
- Formosan Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus formosae
This bat has silky, glossy fur and a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It is endemic to Taiwan, but much of its natural history remains unknown.
- Bay Hornero Furnarius torridus
This ovenbird is associated with river islands and floodplain forest along major Amazonian rivers. It forages on the ground and has a white throat sharply set off from rich rufous underparts.
- Red-bellied Lemur Eulemur rubriventer
The red-bellied lemur is a diurnal lemur whose facial and belly markings differ between males and females. It eats fruit, flowers, and leaves in eastern Madagascar’s rainforests.
- Blue-eared Barbet Psilopogon duvaucelii
This small barbet occurs in southern Thailand. It uses rainforest, secondary forest, and forest edges, and may gather at fruiting trees.
- Yucatan deer mouse Peromyscus yucatanicus
This mouse lives on the Yucatan Peninsula, where coat color differs between northern and southern populations. It is described as mainly eating grains, seeds, and fruit.
- Rhinoceros auklet Cerorhinca monocerata
A seabird that develops a horn-like projection on its bill during breeding.
- Korean Hare Lepus coreanus
The Korean hare has brown or grey-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. It uses vegetated areas from plains to mountains and is reported to feed in open places in the late afternoon or evening.
- Little Curlew Numenius minutus
A small wader with mottled brown and white plumage. It breeds in northern Eurasia and migrates to northern Australia for winter.
- Golden-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis
This is a small, golden-brown lemur. At study sites in northwestern Madagascar, it searched for food alone in trees at night and was recorded resting in tree holes and similar places.
- Siberian Accentor Prunella montanella
The Siberian Accentor has yellow eyebrows and a yellow throat; it breeds in Russia and winters in northern China and the northern Korean Peninsula.