Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cotton-top tamarin Oedipomidas oedipus

  

  A small monkey of northwestern Colombia, distinguished by long white hair flowing from the head toward the shoulders.

• Black-and-yellow Tanager Chrysothlypis chrysomelas

  

  Males have yellow heads and underparts with black backs and wings. Females are olive above and yellow below; both use the canopy of wet forests to search for fruit and arthropods.

• Forest Rabbit Sylvilagus brasiliensis

  

  This rabbit was reassessed using a neotype from Pernambuco. Older, broad South American records are not carried forward as confirmed range for this taxon; this account stays with documented coastal-forest evidence.

• Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus mirandae

  

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northeastern Brazil. A 2025 study describes it in the humid understory of semideciduous forest and reports solitary insect foraging.

• Coastal Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) australis

  

  This bat catches insects while flying near the coast. It occurs in a narrow coastal strip of northeastern Queensland.

• Socotra Bunting Emberiza socotrana

  

  The Socotra Bunting is restricted to Socotra Island. Adults show a black-and-white striped head, chestnut wing coverts, and a richer cinnamon breast in breeding plumage.

• 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.

• Buff-faced Scrubwren Aethomyias perspicillatus

  A field guide to the Mimika region of Papua records this species under its older name, Sericornis perspicillatus. The account describes olive upperparts and a pale buff-orange face, and records it in shrubs and the midstory at montane forest edges.

• Brazilian Gracile Opossum Gracilinanus microtarsus

  The Brazilian gracile opossum is a small marsupial from forests and savanna in southeastern Brazil. It uses branches and vines but also searches for food on the ground.

• Sichuan Treecreeper Certhia tianquanensis

  The Sichuan Treecreeper is associated with old fir forest in the mountains of Sichuan. It has a long tail and very short bill, and forages on fir trunks.

• Tufted Deer Elaphodus cephalophus

  Its name comes from the tuft of hair on the forehead, which can hide the small antlers of males. Its upper canine teeth are also long and tusk-like.

• Red-banded Fruiteater Pipreola whitelyi

  This cotinga occurs in montane areas of southern Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil. Its diet is thought to consist mainly, perhaps entirely, of fruit; it sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Golden-faced Saki Pithecia chrysocephala

  The male has golden to reddish-brown fur framing a black face. This saki spends the day in trees and eats fruit and seeds.

• Russet Sparrow Passer rutilans

  A sparrow ranging from the Himalayas across East Asia. Western populations use open woodland and terraced fields, while eastern populations use woodland edges and cultivated land; winter flocks sometimes forage together.

• Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon plicatus

  The 2018 study describes a relatively narrow wing shape in bats reported as Chaerephon plicatus. In a 2018 study of two central Thailand roost caves, brown planthoppers were common in droppings during rice growing; other insects appeared during the fallow period.

• Wattled Guan Aburria aburri

  The Wattled Guan is a large, all-black bird with a blue bill and a long red-and-yellow wattle hanging from its throat. It lives in humid Andean montane forest and eats fruit.

• Japanese flying squirrel Pteromys momonga

  A Japanese forest squirrel that glides between trees. It is mainly active in the treetops at night.

• Bismarck Cicadabird Coracina remota

  A cicadabird of the Bismarck Archipelago. Females are described with a gray crown and chestnut back.

• Huon tree kangaroo Dendrolagus matschiei

  The Huon tree kangaroo is a marsupial of the mountain forests of Papua New Guinea's Huon Peninsula. Its claws and long tail help it climb.

• Pinnated Bittern Botaurus pinnatus

  This bittern has finely patterned buff-and-brown plumage on its crown and body. It hides in dense freshwater marshes and usually forages at night.

• Desmarest's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys desmarestianus

  Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse has fur-lined pouches beside its mouth. In Costa Rica's wet forests it forages on the ground at night; the Costa Rican diet records focus on palm nuts and other seeds.

• Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli

  The Grey Penduline Tit has a black-and-white face and head, with dark gray-brown upper wings and tail. In northeastern Namibia it occurs in broadleaf woodland and sometimes gardens, where it eats insects and probes flowers for nectar.

• Peale's Dolphin Lagenorhynchus australis

  Peale's dolphin occurs along the cold-temperate coast of southern South America. A study in the Strait of Magellan documented animals in a bay with kelp beds. The Mammal Diversity Database currently lists Cephalorhynchus australis and records Lagenorhynchus australis as an earlier name.

• Ashy Woodswallow Artamus fuscus

  This woodswallow ranges from India through Indochina to coastal China and often perches in open areas.