Meet the world’s animals.

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• Souza's Shrike Lanius souzae

  

  Souza's Shrike is a small shrike of broad-leaved woodland in central and southern Africa. It often watches from a high perch and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Sri Lankan giant squirrel Ratufa macroura

  

  A large squirrel of southern India and Sri Lanka, with a grizzled tail marked by pale hairs. It spends almost all its time in trees.

• Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster

  

  This tyrant flycatcher has a bushy crest and yellowish lower belly. It catches insects by flying out from a perch and also eats fruit.

• Red-flanked Duiker Cephalophus rufilatus

  

  This small antelope is recorded along forest–savanna mosaics from the Sahel margin into north-eastern Central Africa. It is reddish-brown, with a dark face mark and a thin tufted tail. The gray back band can vary.

• African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus

  

  A small flycatcher of dry East African savanna and open woodland. It watches from exposed perches and makes short flights to catch insects.

• African Wildcat Felis lybica

  

  A wild cat found across much of Africa and parts of Asia, with coat color and markings that vary by region.

• Great Parrotbill Paradoxornis aemodius

  This large parrotbill occurs in the eastern Himalaya and neighboring regions. A bird photographed at Sela Pass, Arunachal Pradesh, in 2024 showed a robust body and large curved bill.

• Guianan Bearded Saki Chiropotes sagulatus

  The Guianan Bearded Saki occurs in the Guianas and northern Brazil. It has reddish-brown body fur, dark head, tail and lower limbs, a beard, and rounded crown tufts. Species accounts describe a seed-heavy diet that shifts seasonally toward insects, flowers, and fruit.

• Little Swift Apus affinis

  The Little Swift catches food in the air. In southern Africa it also nests in colonies on bridges and buildings.

• Pearson's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus pearsonii

  This horseshoe bat ranges across parts of South and Southeast Asia. Its back is brown and underside paler.

• Pale Batis Batis soror

  The Pale Batis is a small bird of miombo woodland and coastal forest.

• Swift Fox Vulpes velox

  A small fox of the North American grasslands, marked by black patches beside the muzzle and a black tail tip.

• Rufous-necked Puffbird Malacoptila rufa

  This puffbird lives in Amazonian lowland forest. Its gray head, rufous neck, and white crescent on the chest stand out; it is recorded most often in the understory of várzea forest.

• Dice's Cottontail Sylvilagus dicei

  This rabbit has a dark brown to black back and a pale underside. It occurs in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama; evening activity has been studied only in a preliminary survey at one reserve.

• Knysna Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus

  This secretive warbler hides in dense grass and scrub. Its plain brown plumage blends into the cover where it searches for spiders and other small invertebrates.

• Andersen's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros gentilis

  This bat occurs in Southeast Asia. At Sao La Hue Nature Reserve in central Vietnam, many were observed flying over streams. A morphology study describes its noseleaf as broader than that of the related H. pomona.

• Crimson-rumped Toucanet Aulacorhynchus haematopygus

  The Crimson-rumped Toucanet has a green body, red rump, and large reddish-brown and black bill. It feeds mainly on fruit and nests in old woodpecker holes.

• 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.

• Brown-capped Babbler Pellorneum fuscocapillus

  This babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It inhabits forest, well-wooded areas, and thick undergrowth, and is absent from the extremely dry north and southeast according to the local species account.

• Clymene Dolphin Stenella clymene

  The Clymene dolphin is a small dolphin of tropical and subtropical offshore waters in the Atlantic. It is known for leaping and spinning as it falls back into the water.

• Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola

  A relatively long, rounded tail and broad pale eyebrow distinguish the Paddyfield Warbler. It eats insects in reeds by lakes and rivers, breeding from Romania to Mongolia and wintering from Iran to China.

• Salvin's Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma salvini

  Salvin's big-eyed bat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It has pale stripes on the face and along the back.

• Yellow Weaver Ploceus subaureus

  A yellow weaver that nests among reeds near water. Males and females differ in eye and bill color, and it eats seeds, insects, and nectar.

• Great Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) major

  This five-toed jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It digs burrows in open steppe and semi-desert and eats plants and insects.