Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great Flying Fox Pteropus neohibernicus

  

  The great flying fox is a large fruit bat found on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is nocturnal and roosts in large groups high in trees.

• Yellow Oriole Icterus nigrogularis

  

  This oriole ranges across northern South America. Males are yellow with black wings and face markings; females are duller. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus

  

  The marsh deer is a deer of South American wetlands. Elastic tissue between its hooves is suited to muddy ground.

• White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps

  

  The White-headed Saw-wing is a small, stocky swallow with a short tail. It catches insects in flight around woodland and forest edges.

• Sechuran Fox Lycalopex sechurae

  

  This small fox lives in dry coastal areas from northwestern Ecuador to Peru. It is nocturnal; food records from northern Peru include fruit and small animals.

• Yucatan Wren Campylorhynchus yucatanicus

  

  The Yucatan Wren is restricted to coastal lowlands in the northern Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It lives in pairs or small family groups among scattered shrubs and cacti.

• Red-nosed Armored Tree-rat Makalata didelphoides

  A South American tree-dwelling rodent with a conspicuous red muzzle and spiny hairs on its back. It feeds in trees on plant material and fruit, and is recorded active from dusk into the night.

• Sao Tome Prinia Prinia molleri

  This prinia is endemic to São Tomé. The study reports it as common in disturbed and edge habitats such as savanna, plantations, farmland and gardens, but rare and locally distributed in the primary-forest sites surveyed. It feeds low in the vegetation, from leaf undersides or the ground.

• Hoffmanns's Titi Plecturocebus hoffmannsi

  Hoffmanns's titi is a monkey of the Brazilian Amazon. It has a gray back, yellowish-white underside, and black tail, and records show it eating fruit and seeds.

• Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi

  A small sunbird of tropical Africa. The male has metallic green on the head and back.

• Amazon Weasel Neogale africana

  This South American mustelid occurs in the Amazon Basin. In 2023, one individual was observed hunting a rodent and using a nearby burrow in a shade-grown coffee plot in Bolivia’s Yungas montane forest.

• Miombo Pied Barbet Tricholaema frontata

  This barbet is normally almost restricted to mature miombo woodland in south-central Africa. A paper reports a pair at an isolated site in Republic of the Congo and one captured bird there with more yellow underparts than southern specimens.

• Western Mediterranean Mouse Mus (Mus) spretus

  The western Mediterranean mouse is a wild mouse of the western Mediterranean. It was once treated as a subspecies of the house mouse but is now recognized separately.

• Northern Gannet Morus bassanus

  A large seabird that glides over the sea and catches fish.

• Common Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas

  A monkey of savannas and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.

• New Caledonian Streaked Fantail Rhipidura verreauxi

  This small bird often fans its long tail. It has an observation record from Mont Koghi, New Caledonia, and lives in forest and forest edge.

• Pallas's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina

  A bat that probes flowers with a long, extendable tongue. It visits flowers at night and eats nectar, pollen, fruit, insects, and other foods.

• Grand Comoro Drongo Dicrurus fuscipennis

  The Grand Comoro Drongo is a black bird found only on Grand Comoro in the Comoros. It launches from high perches to catch large insects in the air.

• Lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros

  A small bat with a horseshoe-shaped fold of skin around its nose. In Ireland, records are concentrated in six western counties.

• Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea

  This warbler has rich red-brown and creamy buff in summer, then becomes mostly green and white in fall. It searches lower branches of conifers on its breeding grounds.

• Gray Sac-winged Bat Balantiopteryx plicata

  A white edge on the wing membrane contrasts with this bat's pale-gray to dark-brown back. A diet study in a fragmented dry forest in Mexico found that its prey mix differed from that of two other bat species in the same community.

• Indian Courser Cursorius coromandelicus

  This bird walks across dry plains and fields, feeding on insects on the ground. Its rufous crown and black-and-white lines from bill to neck stand out.

• Eurasian Water Shrew Neomys fodiens

  A shrew that lives beside fresh water and dives to search for prey.

• Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea

  The Flame Robin is a small bird whose male has a bright orange-red breast. It breeds in high country in spring and summer, then moves to lower, more open areas in the cooler season.