Meet the world’s animals.

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• Greater Bonneted Bat Eumops perotis

  

  The greater bonneted bat is the largest molossid bat in North America. Its long ears meet above the head, and it launches from cliffs before hunting insects at night.

• White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis

  

  This honeyeater occurs in eastern and southern mainland Australia. It is common in dry eucalypt forest and woodland, where it searches mainly for insects beneath bark and in crevices.

• Slender Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) tenuis

  

  The slender squirrel has olive-brown upperparts and tail with gray underparts. It lives in trees and takes both plant and animal foods by day and night.

• Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii

  

  The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is a black parrot with a conspicuous red tail. The sexes differ in plumage, and the species includes several subspecies and disjunct populations.

• Grizzled Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus inustus

  

  The grizzled tree kangaroo is a marsupial with powerful forelimbs and curved claws suited to climbing. In the wild it eats leaves, fruit, and soft bark, and most records come from primary forest.

• Desertas Petrel Pterodroma deserta

  

  A seabird that breeds on Bugio Island in the Madeira archipelago. During incubation it can make long flights across the North Atlantic; after breeding it winters mainly in the South and West Atlantic.

• Baja California Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus rudinoris

  It has a yellowish gray-brown back, a white underside, and a tail longer than its body. It is active at night and carries seeds in cheek pouches to store in its burrow.

• Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

  The Galapagos Penguin is a small penguin found only on the Galapagos Islands. It lives and breeds there year-round in the tropics.

• Blanford's Fox Vulpes cana

  Blanford's fox is a small fox with large ears and a bushy tail. It can also climb among rocky slopes.

• Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla

  A tiny bird with a brown cap, blue-gray back, and whitish underparts. It lives year-round in mature pine forests of the southeastern United States.

• Caroline Flying Fox Pteropus molossinus

  This small flying fox lives on islands around Pohnpei. It has been recorded in tropical forest and mangroves and feeds on fruit and flowers.

• Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus

  This mockingbird has a grey back, pale underparts, and a long tail with a white tip. It lives in open lowlands and eats insects and fruit.

• Amazon Weasel Neogale africana

  This South American mustelid occurs in the Amazon Basin. In 2023, one individual was observed hunting a rodent and using a nearby burrow in a shade-grown coffee plot in Bolivia’s Yungas montane forest.

• Rufous-breasted Bush Robin Tarsiger hyperythrus

  The male Rufous-breasted Bush Robin has a blue back and chestnut underparts. It breeds in the Himalayas, uses mixed conifer forest, and searches the ground for insects.

• Sandhill Dunnart Sminthopsis psammophila

  The sandhill dunnart is a marsupial of arid Australia. Its back is gray to buff, its underside is white, and its tail has stiff black hairs near the tip. It has been recorded in patches of vegetation on sand dunes and sandplains.

• Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus percussus

  The Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker is a small bird of lowland forests in Southeast Asia. Males have conspicuous red patches on the head and breast, and the species feeds mainly on fruit.

• Allen's Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis

  This bat ranges through mountains from the southwestern United States to central Mexico. Its large ears and ear flaps reaching the forehead stand out.

• Black-throated Jay Cyanolyca pumilo

  A dark-blue jay with a black face and throat edged by a narrow whitish eyebrow. It inhabits humid mountain forests from Mexico into northern Central America.

• Leopardus tilcayo

  Leopardus tilcayo is a felid described as a new species in 2026. The paper gives its type locality near Arapata in Bolivia's Nor Yungas, and a UMSA report also describes records from the Yungas forests of La Paz.

• Yellow-throated Whistler Pachycephala macrorhyncha

  This whistler lives in forest and wooded areas of the Moluccas. Males have yellowish underparts, and throat color varies among island populations.

• North African White-toothed Shrew Crocidura pachyura

  The North African white-toothed shrew is native to North Africa. Populations on Mediterranean islands were introduced by people.

• Andean Siskin Spinus spinescens

  A yellowish finch of the Andes, often found in flocks at forest edges and in páramo. The black head marking of females varies between northern and southern populations.

• Cavendish's Dik-dik Madoqua cavendishi

  The current Mammal Diversity Database account places this dik-dik in eastern Uganda, southwestern Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania. A study at Mpala in central Kenya was conducted in semi-arid Acacia bushland.

• Short-tailed Scimitar Babbler Napothera danjoui

  This babbler occurs in evergreen forest in Vietnam and southern Laos. It searches for invertebrates on or just above the ground in dense cover.