Meet the world’s animals.
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- Eastern Mindanao Gymnure Podogymnura intermedia
Photo: D.S. Balete · CC0 Podogymnura intermedia is a gymnure known from mountain sites in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Long black hairs and golden-tipped hairs give its back golden streaks or speckles.
- Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma
The Grey-headed Albatross has a bluish-gray head and neck and a white body. It breeds on subantarctic islands and forages in surrounding waters.
- Giant Atlantic Tree-rat Phyllomys thomasi
A spiny rat known only from São Sebastião Island off southeastern Brazil. Its back bears reddish-brown spines, and much of the island is Atlantic rainforest.
- Keel-billed Motmot Electron carinatum
The Keel-billed Motmot is a Central American motmot with a keel-like ridge along the upper bill.
- Tsimlyansk Birch Mouse Sicista cimlanica
The Tsimlyansk Birch Mouse is recorded around the Middle Don in western Russia and eastern Ukraine. A 2025 review shows a typical grassland habitat and one photographed individual from Tsimla Sands.
- Black-bellied Antwren Formicivora melanogaster
An antwren of woodland and dense scrub in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, feeding on insects and spiders.
- Smoky Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fumosus
The smoky pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent of the southern Mexican Plateau, where volcanic soils occur. Its large foreclaws help it dig underground.
- Black-capped Warbling Finch Microspingus melanoleucus
This small tanager ranges across the southern part of South America, from Bolivia to Argentina. It uses scrub and open woodland and forages from the ground into low vegetation.
- Bush dog Speothos venaticus
A wild canid found from Panama into South America. Short legs and a short tail give it a low, stocky outline.
- Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus
The Sooty Oystercatcher has a black body and a red-orange bill. Along Australian coasts it searches for shellfish and other small animals, and it may form flocks outside the breeding season.
- Beech Marten Martes foina
A marten found across much of Europe and Central Asia; many individuals have a pale streak on the chest.
- Long-billed Honeyeater Melilestes megarhynchus
The Long-billed Honeyeater occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has a long, strongly curved bill and feeds on insects, spiders, and nectar at several levels of forest.
- Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta
A macaque found in northern India, China and Myanmar that uses both trees and the ground.
- Sooty-capped Puffbird Bucco noanamae
Endemic to Colombia, this puffbird has a dark cap, white throat, and broad black breast band. It waits on a perch, then catches insects in the forest understory.
- Puku Kobus vardonii
A southern and central African antelope of grasslands and floodplains. It shifts away from flooded areas in the rainy season and stays closer to water during the dry season.
- New Caledonian Cuckooshrike Coracina analis
The New Caledonian Cuckooshrike lives in forests on New Caledonia. A local island guide records it eating insects and small fruits in forest.
- Trinidad Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis
The Trinidad dog-like bat catches flying insects in cluttered vegetation. Records list several roost types, including tree hollows, caves, and houses.
- Trilling Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aenobarbus
This small bird lives on Java. The male has chestnut on the forehead and throat, yellow-green upperparts and bold black-and-white wing bars; the female is more rufous and has paler wing bars.
- Cape Gray Mongoose Galerella pulverulenta
This slender mongoose lives in southern Africa. It uses bushes and rocky areas and may dig for prey in the soil.
- Purple-winged Roller Coracias temminckii
A roller of Sulawesi forests and woodlands, it is noted for its purple wings and catches invertebrates on the ground.
- Common marmoset Callithrix jacchus
A small monkey with conspicuous white ear tufts that feeds on tree sap and raises young with help from family members.
- Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus
In NParks' Singapore account, the yellow-orange head and rich voice stand out. The bird seeks fruit and insects in riverside woods and forest edges.
- Harvest Mouse Micromys minutus
A small mouse that climbs long grasses and reeds with its grasping tail.
- Madagascar Yellowbrow Crossleyia xanthophrys
The Madagascar Yellowbrow is endemic to eastern Madagascar's rainforest. It searches for insects in dense undergrowth, often near the ground.