Meet the world’s animals.

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• Southern Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys australis

  

  This pocket mouse ranges from eastern Panama through Colombia and western Venezuela to extreme northwestern Ecuador. It has dark-gray dorsal fur and lives in very wet evergreen forests.

• Ivory-backed Woodswallow Artamus monachus

  

  Its white back and body contrast with a brown-grey head and dark wings. It catches flying insects over forest edges and openings.

• Unstriped ground squirrel Xerus (Xerus) rutilus

  

  A ground-dwelling squirrel without stripes, it lives in dry grasslands and scrub in East Africa. It forages by day and uses burrows for shelter.

• Kashmir Nutcracker Nucifraga multipunctata

  

  The Kashmir Nutcracker lives in coniferous forests of the western Himalaya and eastern Hindu Kush. It eats seeds of blue pine and chilgoza pine, among other foods, and is reported mainly at 2,000–3,000 m.

• Parma wallaby Notamacropus parma

  

  A wallaby that rests in thickets by day and feeds on grasses at night.

• Christmas Boobook Ninox natalis

  

  This owl lives in the forests of Christmas Island, with reddish-brown plumage and yellow eyes, and hunts at night.

• Greater Egyptian jerboa Jaculus orientalis

  This North African jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night and spends the day in burrows dug in sand or clay.

• Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus

  The Snowy Plover is a pale, sand-colored shorebird that blends into beaches and salt flats. It searches for small invertebrates as it moves across the shore.

• Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata

  The fat-tailed dunnart is a small marsupial that stores fat in its tail. It searches for arthropods and small vertebrates at night.

• Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis

  A gray bird with a black cap and rusty feathers beneath the tail. It lives in dense thickets and weaves other birds' sounds into long songs.

• Orizaba Deermouse Peromyscus beatae

  The Orizaba Deermouse ranges from southeastern Mexico into Central America. It has been recorded in humid mountain forests.

• Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus

  The Green-backed Tit is a small bird found in mountain forests in northern India. Its green back, yellow underside, and black head with white cheeks stand out as it searches branches and trunks for food.

• Serval Leptailurus serval

  An African cat with long legs, large ears and black spots and stripes on a tawny coat.

• Red-eyed Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys imberbis

  Erythrogenys imberbis is a scimitar babbler of Myanmar and Thailand. Clements' 2024 checklist treats it as a species split from the Himalayan E. erythrogenys.

• Marsh Mongoose Atilax paludinosus

  The marsh mongoose has dark brown fur and favours wetlands beside rivers and lakes.

• Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus

  The Olive-backed Oriole lives in semi-open woodland and eucalypt forest. It has an olive back, red eye, and streaked pale underparts.

• Small Big-eared Brown Bat Histiotus montanus

  The small big-eared brown bat has large ears and gray-brown fur. Chile's biodiversity account reports winter torpor as temperatures fall and describes the ears folding.

• Scarlet-horned Manakin Ceratopipra cornuta

  A manakin of humid forests in northern South America. Males and females differ in head plumage, and males display in small groups.

• Owston’s Palm Civet Chrotogale owstoni

  Owston’s palm civet occurs in Vietnam, eastern Laos and a small part of southern China. It searches damp forest for small animals such as earthworms.

• Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone affinis

  It launches from high branches to catch insects in the air. Females and first-winter birds have conspicuous chestnut backs and tails.

• Horsfield's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros larvatus

  Horsfield's leaf-nosed bat is a medium-sized bat with relatively large ears and a complex noseleaf. It flies through forest understory and roosts in caves and buildings.

• Philippine Frogmouth Batrachostomus septimus

  The Philippine Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird found only in the Philippine archipelago. It catches large insects and lives in forests and at forest edges.

• Atlantic Humpback Dolphin Sousa teuszii

  The Atlantic humpback dolphin lives in shallow coastal waters of western Africa. Its grey body has a distinct hump beneath the dorsal fin and a short, rounded beak.

• Lantz's Brush-warbler Nesillas lantzii

  This brush-warbler occurs in southwestern Madagascar from sea level to about 500 m. It has a long graduated tail and searches for insects by day, alone or in pairs.