Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Whitethroat Curruca communis

  

  A small bird that darts through low scrub and often flicks its long tail.

• Ruidoso Pocket Gopher Megascapheus ruidosae

  

  This pocket gopher was described from Ruidoso, New Mexico. The original description records dark brown to nearly black fur above, ochre-brown sides and underside, and white feet and tail tip.

• Black-streaked Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys gravivox

  

  This scimitar babbler lacks a pale eyebrow and has brown cheeks; most subspecies show black breast spots or streaks. It uses open woodland, edges, scrub and bamboo.

• Mesopotamian fallow deer Dama mesopotamica

  

  A deer with wild populations remaining in southwestern Iran; males have antlers that do not flatten into a broad palm.

• Green-tailed Jacamar Galbula galbula

  

  The Green-tailed Jacamar is a forest bird that catches flying insects with its long, slender bill.

• Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus fuscus

  

  Lesson’s saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forest from southeastern Colombia to northwestern Brazil. It has a black head and face, a reddish throat and belly, and a mottled back.

• Palawan Hornbill Anthracoceros marchei

  The Palawan Hornbill is endemic to the Palawan island group. It mainly eats fruit, as well as recorded insects and lizards.

• Pacific Marten Martes caurina

  Martes caurina occurs in western North America and on Pacific coastal islands. Its coat varies in color; in Alaska it feeds mainly on voles and mice and is most often associated with mature and old-growth evergreen forest.

• Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens

  This small, round-bodied bird has a very short tail and a slightly curved, relatively long bill. Its back is grey-brown, while the belly and flanks are cinnamon-buff.

• Coues' Oryzomys Oryzomys couesi

  Coues' oryzomys uses wetland habitat. At the southern tip of Texas, it is recorded among cattails and aquatic grasses.

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Vieira's Titi Plecturocebus vieirai

  Plecturocebus vieirai occurs in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Pará. Its original description reports a pale gray-brown coat and white facial markings, while the ICMBio species sheet describes humid forest and streamside sites with buriti palms.

• White-bellied Antpitta Grallaria hypoleuca

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern side of the northern Peruvian Andes. It has reddish-brown upperparts, a gray breast, and a white central belly. A regional survey recorded it in dense forest, including bamboo-rich areas.

• Trinidad Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis

  The Trinidad dog-like bat catches flying insects in cluttered vegetation. Records list several roost types, including tree hollows, caves, and houses.

• Spotted Wood Owl Strix seloputo

  The Spotted Wood Owl lives in Southeast Asian forests. It is usually solitary or in pairs and feeds on rats, birds, and other animals.

• Corsac fox Vulpes corsac

  A large-eared fox of the grasslands and semi-deserts of Central Asia.

• Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis

  It breeds only on a plateau on Amsterdam Island and normally breeds every other year.

• Godman's Rock Wallaby Petrogale godmani

  Godman's rock-wallabies tend to have pale, silvery-white tails, but tail color varied widely in the studied hybrid colony, from almost black to pale silver and reddish.

• Shaft-tailed Whydah Vidua regia

  The breeding male is striking for its long black tail and buff-orange body. After breeding, the birds join other seedeaters and reproduce by laying eggs in a host's nest.

• Mexican Cottontail Sylvilagus cunicularius

  The Mexican cottontail is a wild rabbit of Mexico. It is described as the largest rabbit native to the country, and it uses grassland patches from dusk into the night.

• Silver-breasted Broadbill Serilophus lunatus

  The Silver-breasted Broadbill has a broad black eyebrow and a pale blue bill. It feeds on insects in the middle and upper levels of forest, where it often sits quietly on a high perch.

• Ashy Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cineraceus

  A small leaf-nosed bat. In records from southern China its back is buff-brown to grey, with a paler underside.

• Rufous-winged Cisticola Cisticola galactotes

  The Rufous-winged Cisticola is a small cisticola of grassland and wetland edges in southeastern Africa. Its rufous back feathers help identify it.

• Round-eared Tube-nosed Bat Murina cyclotis

  A 2025 paper reported the first Bangladesh record of Murina cyclotis from Rema-Kalenga Forest Reserve. It was one male captured on a forest trail.