Meet the world’s animals.
Photos: 12,825 · Stories: 19,540
- Tres Marias Cottontail Sylvilagus graysoni
Photo: paleo · CC BY-SA 4.0 The Tres Marias cottontail is restricted to the Tres Marias Islands off Mexico. It has a brown throat patch and is usually active on the ground at night.
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
This stocky leaf warbler has a pale eyebrow. It breeds in southeastern Siberia and winters in southern China and Southeast Asia.
- Blond Capuchin Sapajus flavius
This capuchin lives in remaining Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. One group studied in a forest fragment in Paraíba ate fruit as well as sugarcane stalks and animal food.
- Meadow bunting Emberiza cioides
A bird of woodland edges, fields, riverbanks and other partly open habitats. It forages in grass and sings from exposed treetops.
- Garlepp's Pampas Cat Leopardus garleppi
A wild cat recorded in Peru’s Eten wetlands. It has reddish fur with spots; in 2019, an individual was filmed crossing a path and moving into tall vegetation.
- Black Catbird Melanoptila glabrirostris
This black bird with a blue gloss lives in woodland and scrub around the Yucatán Peninsula. At Sian Ka’an in Mexico it uses coastal vegetation with palms and shrubs and feeds on fruit and other foods.
- Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus
The rock squirrel lives among rocky sites and burrows, eating plant foods and small animals that vary with the season.
- Banded Broadbill Eurylaimus javanicus
The Banded Broadbill is about 21–23 cm long, and males and females differ in plumage. It eats invertebrates in lowland forest and secondary growth. Recording sites in Malaysia and Thailand show only part of its range.
- Painted Woolly Bat Kerivoula picta
This small bat has bright orange fur and black wings. It hunts spiders and insects while flying through cluttered spaces close to the ground.
- Hume's Treecreeper Certhia manipurensis
Hume’s Treecreeper has a brown back with pale streaks and spots and an orange-brown rump. In Yunnan, the shanensis form occurs in forest and searches bark for small prey.
- Atlantic Forest Red Brocket Mazama bororo
This deer lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Work around Intervales in São Paulo recorded activity from dusk into the night; two tracked females used well-preserved native vegetation.
- Javan Tesia Tesia superciliaris
This tiny bird hides in low thickets in Java's mountains. Its very short tail, black crown, and dark eye stripe are distinctive.
- Bailey's Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus baileyi
Bailey's pocket mouse is a small rodent of the Sonoran Desert. It is active at night and carries seeds and other food in its cheek pouches.
- Long-billed Cuckoo Chalcites megarhynchus
The Long-billed Cuckoo lives in lowland forest and has a long bill with a drooping tip. Adult males have a black head, while females show fine reddish-brown barring.
- Dark Four-eyed Opossum Philander melanurus
This opossum occurs in western Ecuador and nearby parts of northwestern South America. An older, broader classification described coastal populations as dark-coated, and a camera-trap study in one part of Ecuador suggested an association with permanent water.
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
The Tufted Titmouse is a small gray bird with a crest and large dark eyes. It moves through deciduous branches and also eats seeds and nuts.
- Yellow-handed Titi Cheracebus lucifer
This titi monkey lives in forests of the western Amazon. By day it moves through the trees in small family groups and feeds mainly on fruit. Hand color varies.
- Storm's Stork Ciconia stormi
A large stork of lowland freshwater swamp forest. Adults are black and white with a red bill; immature birds have brown where adults are black.
- Buffy Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus infuscus
This fruit-eating bat occurs in several countries of northwestern South America. One diet study was conducted in montane forest in central Peru.
- Nazca Booby Sula granti
The Nazca Booby is an eastern Pacific seabird with a white body and black tail. It plunges into the sea to catch fish.
- Northern Birch Mouse Sicista betulina
The northern birch mouse is a small rodent with a slender body and a long tail. It is most active around the start and end of the night and hibernates underground in winter.
- Sri Lanka Drongo Dicrurus lophorinus
This drongo is endemic to Sri Lanka and lacks the long bare-shafted tail rackets of the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo. One study observed nesting pairs removing foliage around their host tree.
- Hispid Pocket Gopher Heterogeomys (Heterogeomys) hispidus
The Hispid Pocket Gopher lives underground from southern Mexico into northern Central America. Its coat is coarse, and some individuals have a white band around the lower back.
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.