Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,825 · Stories: 19,540

• Brazilian Gracile Opossum Gracilinanus microtarsus

  

  The Brazilian gracile opossum is a small marsupial from forests and savanna in southeastern Brazil. It uses branches and vines but also searches for food on the ground.

• Cryptic Warbler Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi

  This small bird lives in Madagascar. A species account lists montane forest as its habitat and describes it searching for small invertebrates on branches. A separate field account records the appearance of recently fledged young.

• Northern Tigrina Leopardus tigrinus

  The northern tiger cat is a small, slender wild cat with rosette-like spots. It lives alone and is active mainly at night.

• Pectoral-patch Cisticola Cisticola brunnescens

  This small bird occurs in open, moist highland grassland in East Africa and feeds on invertebrates. A Tanzania field note records nonbreeding plumage and uncertainty about the subspecies.

• Taiwanese Mole Shrew Anourosorex yamashinai

  The Taiwanese mole shrew has dark, short fur and a very short tail. It uses forest floors and natural cavities underground in middle- and high-elevation forests of Taiwan.

• Tenggara Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone floris

  Ecology Asia presents a male white morph of the Tenggara Paradise Flycatcher from Flores, Indonesia, and identifies hill forest as its habitat.

• Mountain Pocket Gopher Thomomys monticola

  A high-elevation rodent of California's Sierra Nevada. It occurs in meadows and open conifer forest, feeding on roots underground and herbaceous plants above ground.

• Spotted Antpitta Hylopezus macularius

  A ground-dwelling antpitta of humid Amazonian forest. This account follows the populations assigned to Hylopezus macularius in the taxonomic revision.

• Banteng Bos javanicus

  A wild cattle species also called tembadau on Borneo. Its appearance differs by sex and age.

• Slaty-breasted Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi

  The Slaty-breasted Tinamou searches for fruits, seeds, and ants on the floor of wet forest. Its breast is dark gray, its throat is white, and females have bars on their wings.

• Central American squirrel monkey Saimiri oerstedii

  The Central American squirrel monkey is a small primate restricted to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama. It lives in humid forest.

• Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto multipunctata

  The lesser sooty owl is a nocturnal owl with a sooty face and silvery-white spots. It hides by day and catches small mammals and other prey at night.

• Beech Marten Martes foina

  A marten found across much of Europe and Central Asia; many individuals have a pale streak on the chest.

• Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

  The Indian Nightjar is a night bird with a complex mottled pattern.

• Desmarest's Hutia Capromys pilorides

  This hutia lives in Cuba and nearby islands. Its back is often darker than its underside, and coat colors vary.

• Sikkim Treecreeper Certhia discolor

  The Sikkim Treecreeper is marked by pale spots on its brown back and an orange-brown rump. In China, it occurs in southern Tibet and breeds in subtropical forests.

• Thomas's Shaggy Bat Centronycteris centralis

  Thomas’s shaggy bat is a rare, long-furred bat found mainly in lowland forests from Central America to Peru. A Costa Rican specimen contained plant hoppers and other insects.

• White-cheeked Cotinga Zaratornis stresemanni

  The White-cheeked Cotinga has a black cap, white cheeks, dark spots and streaks, and a rusty central belly. It occurs on Peru's western Andean slope and forages in Polylepis woodland.

• Peruvian Spider Monkey Ateles chamek

  The Peruvian spider monkey uses its prehensile tail to move among tall trees in Amazonian forests. The Japanese name is listed by the Japan Monkey Centre.

• Biak Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera riedelii

  The Biak Paradise Kingfisher is found only on Biak Island, Indonesia. It has blue plumage and a long tail, and takes insects and spiders from the forest floor.

• 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.

• Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severus

  The Chestnut-fronted Macaw is a green macaw with a long tail and blue and red markings. It can be quiet and hard to spot in the canopy, and is usually in pairs or small flocks outside communal roosts.

• California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi

  A North American ground squirrel that digs burrows and is active by day.

• Chestnut-crowned Becard Pachyramphus castaneus

  This brown becard uses humid forest edges and floodplain forest. It feeds on fruit and insects.