Meet the world’s animals.

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• Siberian Weasel Mustela sibirica

  

  The Siberian weasel ranges across northern and eastern Eurasia and parts of South Asia. Its coat changes with the seasons, and it is most active at night or twilight.

• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus

  The Long-billed Dowitcher probes mud and shallow water with its long bill to find small aquatic animals.

• Beisa Oryx beisa

  An antelope of dry East African habitats. Both sexes have long horns, and it eats grasses and leaves.

• Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa

  This black bird is confined to Tasmania and nearby islands. White tips on its wings and tail and its yellow eye are distinctive; it feeds in forests and near towns.

• Humboldt's Squirrel Monkey Saimiri cassiquiarensis

  This squirrel monkey occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The population treated as the nominate subspecies has a reddish-tan back, golden-yellow bases to the crown hairs, and orange forearms. Brazilian records include seasonally flooded, riparian, and secondary forests.

• Eastern Barn Owl Tyto javanica

  This nocturnal owl lives in open country in eastern Australia. Its white heart-shaped face and sandy plumage with black spots help identify it. At night it searches for small animals on the ground.

• Pemba Flying Fox Pteropus voeltzkowi

  The Pemba flying fox is a large bat found on Pemba Island off Tanzania. Its tawny fur can look orange, its ears are black, and it forages for fruit at dusk.

• Verdin Auriparus flaviceps

  The Verdin is a tiny bird with a yellow head and grey body. It lives mainly among thorny shrubs in deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico.

• Amur Hedgehog Erinaceus amurensis

  The Amur hedgehog has spines along its back and sides and lives around forests, fields and orchards in East Asia.

• Black-fronted White-eye Zosterops minor

  The Black-fronted White-eye lives in hill forests and other wooded areas on New Guinea, where it searches the canopy for insects and fruit. Several regional subspecies are described, with differences in plumage.

• Honduran Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) inopinatus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs around Honduras. Honduran records include captures in several forest and waterside habitats, and Cecropia seeds have also been documented.

• Common Potoo Nyctibius griseus

  Its grey to brown plumage is finely patterned with black and buff, and its large orange iris is conspicuous. It occurs in varied habitats in Central and South America and feeds on insects, especially around dawn and dusk.

• Greater Naked Bat Cheiromeles torquatus

  The greater naked bat is mostly hairless, with a ring of black bristles around its neck. It occurs in Southeast Asia and hunts insects at night.

• Paradise Jacamar Galbula dea

  The Paradise Jacamar has dark upperparts and underparts and elongated central tail feathers. In Bolivia's Amazonian forest, pairs perch high in the canopy and may associate with mixed-species flocks.

• Muñoa's Pampas Cat Leopardus munoai

  A wild cat of South America’s Pampa grasslands. At Saicã in southern Brazil, a normally colored individual and a black-coated male were photographed in 2021.

• Lazuli Kingfisher Todiramphus lazuli

  The Lazuli Kingfisher lives in Indonesia's southern Moluccas. Males are blue and white, while females also have blue-purple on the breast and belly.

• Monk Saki Pithecia monachus

  Male and female monk sakis have different coat colors. In a study of seasonally flooded forest in northern Peru, seeds were their most frequent food, and they also ate arthropods.

• Yellow-legged Flyrobin Microeca griseoceps

  The Yellow-legged Flyrobin is recorded in New Guinea’s mid-montane rainforest and on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. The Birds Queensland account uses the name Kempiella griseoceps, while the pool lists Microeca griseoceps.

• Dong Bac Trident Bat Aselliscus dongbacanus

  This bat is known from limestone karst in northeastern Vietnam. The original description named it Aselliscus dongbacana; this entry uses the current Mammal Diversity Database spelling, Aselliscus dongbacanus.

• 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.

• Bolivian Red Howler Alouatta sara

  The Bolivian red howler is a large howler monkey of lowland tropical and subtropical forests in South America. It mainly eats leaves, fruit, and flowers, and gives loud calls.

• Madagascar Sandgrouse Pterocles personatus

  The Madagascar Sandgrouse feeds on seeds on dry open ground. Groups may fly to water, and males carry water to chicks in their soaked belly feathers.

• 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.

• Mexican Chickadee Poecile sclateri

  The Mexican Chickadee has a black cap and bib, white cheeks, and a gray back. It searches branches for insects and other food in high-elevation pine-oak forests.