Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons

  

  The Rufous Fantail is a small bird with a reddish-brown rump and a tail it often spreads into a fan.

• Long-tailed Planigale Planigale ingrami

  Ingram's planigale is a marsupial with a tiny body, flattened head, and long tail. It is active at night and uses cracks in the ground for shelter and foraging in the dry season.

• Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella

  The Australian Pratincole uses dry, open grasslands and other bare-ground habitats, and some populations move seasonally.

• Fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus

  A waterside cat of South and Southeast Asia, with a stocky body, short tail and dark spots and lines on grey-brown fur.

• Whitehead's Trogon Harpactes whiteheadi

  Whitehead's Trogon inhabits moist mountain forest on Borneo and has strongly different male and female plumage.

• Black-handed Titi Cheracebus medemi

  The black-handed titi occurs in the Colombian Amazon. Its species account describes dark hands, feet, tail, and underparts, with a white throat.

• White-cheeked Nuthatch Sitta leucopsis

  This nuthatch has a black crown and nape that contrast with its white face. It is resident in the conifer forests of Gilgit-Baltistan.

• Bornean Yellow Muntjac Muntiacus atherodes

  The Bornean yellow muntjac is a small deer with yellow-orange fur that lives in the forests and low hills of Borneo.

• Bertoni's Antbird Drymophila rubricollis

  The male has a black crown, a long white supercilium and a broad black band through the eye. The species ranges from southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to Misiones, Argentina, and searches for arthropods in bamboo thickets.

• Greater Red Musk Shrew Crocidura flavescens

  The greater red musk shrew is a large shrew of southern Africa, where it uses moist grassland and woodland. It has also been recorded in gardens and near settlements.

• 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.

• Cape Short-tailed Gerbil Desmodillus auricularis

  The Cape short-tailed gerbil is marked by a short tail and white patches behind its ears. It uses burrows in dry plains and pans.

• Sooty-faced Finch Arremon crassirostris

  This brushfinch occurs from Costa Rica to Panama. It is seen in pairs or family groups in low, dense growth in dark forest.

• 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.

• Clamorous Reed Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus

  The clamorous reed warbler lives in reedbeds and waterside scrub, calling loudly as it searches for insects and other small prey.

• African clawless otter Aonyx capensis

  An African otter that searches for crabs and handles prey with its clawless forepaws.

• Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor

  The Lesser Honeyguide occurs in wooded habitats in southern Africa. It searches for insects around bark and tree holes and may lay its eggs in the nests of other birds.

• Ruwenzori Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ruwenzorii

  The Ruwenzori horseshoe bat is recorded in mountain areas of central Africa. Its noseleaf and its use of caves and similar roosts are documented in the species account.

• White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps

  The White-crowned Lapwing has a white forehead and crown, gray face, brown back, and white underside. It walks along riversides looking for insects and other small invertebrates.

• Spix's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus fuscicollis

  A 2022 report describes orange-brown fur on the forehead, crown, and temples of L. f. fuscicollis. The tamarins were observed north of the Río Abujao in Peru, in terra firme forest that is not seasonally flooded.

• Rusty-breasted Nunlet Nonnula rubecula

  A small bird of the western Amazon. Its brown body has rusty markings on the throat and breast and a white eye-ring.

• Sinaloan Mastiff Bat Molossus sinaloae

  The Sinaloan mastiff bat has dark brown fur above and paler brown fur below. It hunts moths, beetles, and other insects in flight at night.

• Patagonian Mockingbird Mimus patagonicus

  About 23 cm long, this bird has grey-brown upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and an ochre belly. It uses shrub steppe and searches the ground for insects and worms.

• Black Wildebeest Connochaetes gnou

  A bovid of open grasslands and the Karoo in southern Africa. It mainly grazes short grass and uses open country.