Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-backed Buttonquail Turnix maculosus

  

  The Red-backed Buttonquail is a small ground bird marked by a rufous collar and a pale wing panel. Females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• Greater Stick-nest Rat Leporillus conditor

  

  The greater stick-nest rat is an Australian rodent that builds large nests from piled sticks.

• Ashy-headed Laughingthrush Argya cinereifrons

  

  This laughingthrush has a gray head and reddish-brown body and forms groups in damp forest.

• Big-footed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) macrodactylus

  

  The big-footed myotis roosts in caves and unused tunnels in Japan. Its back is grayish to blackish brown, with paler fur underneath.

• Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris

  

  A small lapwing that walks over dry savanna and short grass while looking for insects. White on the forehead and belly, plus a white wing patch in flight, helps identify it.

• Selous's Mongoose Paracynictis selousi

  

  Selous’s mongoose lives in southern African savanna and woodland and is usually solitary and active at night.

• Fiji Bush Warbler Horornis ruficapilla

  The Fiji Bush Warbler is endemic to Fiji and lives in dense undergrowth in mountain forest. General descriptions show a dark chestnut head, while the Kadavu form has a broad pale eyebrow.

• 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.

• Thick-billed Honeyguide Indicator conirostris

  This honeyguide is associated with forest in West Africa. A Cameroon tour report recorded one individual each on Mount Cameroon and Mount Kupe.

• Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus

  An Iberian lynx with a short black-tipped tail, tufted ears, and facial ruffs.

• Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus

  The Superb Fairy-wren lives in southeastern Australia. Breeding males show vivid blue plumage, and the species is known for living in small groups.

• European Mink Mustela lutreola

  This slender mustelid lives near water and is marked by brown fur and white areas on both lips.

• Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis

  The Great Shearwater breeds on South Atlantic islands and moves to the North Atlantic during boreal summer.

• Rodrigues Flying Fox Pteropus rodricensis

  The Rodrigues flying fox is a fruit-eating bat found on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean. Golden-looking fur may cover its head, neck, and shoulders, and males and females differ in their reported roosting patterns.

• Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Cacatua leadbeateri

  Major Mitchell's Cockatoo is a white and pink cockatoo with a large crest. When raised, the crest shows red-pink and orange bands. The bird lives in Australia's dry interior.

• Pantropical spotted dolphin Stenella attenuata

  A warm-water dolphin whose spots increase as it grows.

• White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

  A North American nuthatch that searches bark as it moves along trunks and branches.

• Common Brown Four-eyed Opossum Metachirus myosuros

  This opossum occurs in forests from Central America into central South America. It has brown fur, small pale eye spots and a long, nearly naked tail. It is nocturnal, solitary and mainly terrestrial.

• Furtive Flycatcher Ficedula disposita

  A small flycatcher recorded in northern Luzon. It searches among trees for small invertebrates in lowland forest.

• Roloway Monkey Cercopithecus roloway

  The Roloway monkey lives in groups in mature forests of West Africa. Its gray coat, red rump patch, pale chest fur, and long beard stand out.

• White-spotted Fantail Rhipidura albogularis

  Rhipidura albogularis is listed from southern India and the northern Eastern Ghats. A 2021–2023 breeding study followed 15 nests in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

• Chinese Water Deer Hydropotes inermis

  A deer whose males are notable for long canine teeth that project from the mouth.

• Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea

  The Scarlet Tanager is a migratory North American bird whose breeding male is red and black and whose female is yellow-green. It moves to northern South America for winter.

• Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura monticola

  This bat has glossy brown fur and triangular ears. It hunts insects in tropical forests and roosts in caves or tree hollows.