Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-fronted Manakin Lepidothrix serena

  

  This small manakin inhabits humid forest north of the Amazon and in the Guianas; it also occurs at forest edges.

• Monk Saki Pithecia monachus

  Male and female monk sakis have different coat colors. In a study of seasonally flooded forest in northern Peru, seeds were their most frequent food, and they also ate arthropods.

• Black-billed Sicklebill Drepanornis albertisi

  Male black-billed sicklebills court by displaying the purple sheen and ornamental feathers on the head. They live in New Guinea's mountain forests and eat mainly insects.

• 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.

• Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis

  The Garden Emerald occurs in southwestern Costa Rica and Panama. A breeding study documented one nest found in La Amistad International Park, Costa Rica.

• Black-capped Marmot Marmota (Marmota) camtschatica

  The black-capped marmot burrows and lives in family groups in cold mountains and tundra, spending much of the year hibernating.

• White-throated Oxylabes Oxylabes madagascariensis

  A forest-floor babbler of humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches for small invertebrates on the ground and in the lower vegetation.

• Olive Grass Mouse Abrothrix olivaceus

  This small rodent varies in color across its range, from dark or olive brown to gray or pale ochre. It is partly active by day, builds grass nests, and climbs well.

• American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea

  It is the smallest kingfisher in Costa Rica, with a rufous neck and flanks, white belly, and dark green head and wings. It waits near water and catches small animals in shallow pools.

• Gray Sac-winged Bat Balantiopteryx plicata

  A white edge on the wing membrane contrasts with this bat's pale-gray to dark-brown back. A diet study in a fragmented dry forest in Mexico found that its prey mix differed from that of two other bat species in the same community.

• Brown Accentor Prunella fulvescens

  This highland bird has gray-brown plumage, a white eyebrow and belly, and a soft orange wash on the chest. It often searches for food on the ground, and the male's song is another feature.

• Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus

  A dolphin of Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters. It feeds mainly on fish in shallow waters.

• 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.

• Sulawesi Rousette Rousettus celebensis

  A fruit-eating bat recorded on Sulawesi. A 2021 phylogenetic study proposed placing the species formerly called Rousettus celebensis in Pilonycteris; a 2025 field study also used Pilonycteris celebensis.

• Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler Ptilorrhoa castanonota

  The Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler has a chestnut back with blue eyebrows and underparts and forages on the forest floor in New Guinea's hills and mountains.

• Red wolf Canis rufus

  Once widespread in the eastern United States, the red wolf now has a wild population in a limited area of northeastern North Carolina.

• Spectacled Guillemot Cepphus carbo

  In breeding plumage, this seabird stands out for white spectacles on its face and red legs. It nests in cliff crevices and dives for fish.

• Japanese badger Meles anakuma

  A badger native to Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and nearby parts of Japan. Thick, long foreclaws help it dig dens in the ground.

• Wing-banded Wren Microcerculus bambla

  A wren of Amazonian forest that forages alone on the forest floor. It also occurs outside Peru, including Ecuador and Brazil.

• Margay Leopardus wiedii

  A forest cat with large eyes, a long tail, and strong climbing skills.

• Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana

  A large waterbird with a white body, black flight feathers, and red legs; in Japan it lives around waters and wetlands.

• Lechwe Kobus leche

  A wetland antelope that grazes while standing in shallow water.

• African Grass Owl Tyto capensis

  The African Grass Owl is a nocturnal owl of wetlands and grasslands that roosts near the ground. It has a white heart-shaped facial disc and a brown back with white spots.

• 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.