Meet the world’s animals.

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• Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu

  

  The Alagoas Curassow is historically known from Alagoas in northeastern Brazil. It is classified as extinct in the wild (EW), but it is not globally extinct (EX): individuals survive in captivity. In September 2019, three pairs were released in Alagoas; follow-up monitoring reported the deaths of two males and one female.

• Geoffroy's Trident Leaf-nosed Bat Asellia tridens

  

  This bat has a short muzzle and a noseleaf with three rear projections. It inhabits desert and semidesert from North Africa through the Middle East, often near oases and dry riverbeds, and catches insects in flight.

• Tanimbar Monarch Carterornis castus

  

  This small monarch flycatcher lives in Tanimbar forest. Its black-and-white pattern is striking, and it searches for insects in trees.

• Cape Hairy Bat Myotis (Chrysopteron) tricolor

  

  A bat recorded widely in Africa. A southern African field guide describes reddish-brown fur and roosts in caves and old mine adits.

• Red-necked Aracari Pteroglossus bitorquatus

  

  The Red-necked Aracari here is the eastern species Pteroglossus bitorquatus, with a red rump, nape, and chest band against green and yellow plumage. It forages in forest canopies.

• 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.

• Blue-winged Leafbird Chloropsis cochinchinensis

  In the Chinese subspecies C. c. kinneari, males have blue wings and a black throat, while females have a blue-green throat.

• Common Shrew Sorex araneus

  The common shrew occurs from Europe east to Lake Baikal. It has a differently colored back, flanks, and underside, and searches woodland, grassland, and other habitats for invertebrates.

• Black Stilt Himantopus novaezelandiae

  The Black Stilt is a wader found only in New Zealand. Adults are marked by all-black plumage, long red legs and a thin black bill.

• Przewalski's Gazelle Procapra przewalskii

  Przewalski's gazelle lives along the grassland-desert transition in China. Its current range is limited to isolated populations around Qinghai Lake.

• Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni

  This weaver occurs in eastern Africa. The breeding male has a black head and throat with a yellow back, and the account records it in dry savanna and around acacia woodland.

• Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) cinereus

  It has a dark noseleaf and pale cream ear margins. It was also captured in Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil.

• Three-banded Plover Charadrius tricollaris

  The Three-banded Plover is a small shorebird with a red eye-ring and black-and-white breast bands that searches for prey beside inland water.

• Thomas's Mastiff Bat Molossus currentium

  This molossid bat lives in central and southern South America.

• Plain Laughingthrush Pterorhinus davidi

  This laughingthrush inhabits shrubs and low scrub in the mountains and nearby foothill plains of northern and central China. The nominate form is grey-brown and has a bright yellow down-curved bill. Birds answer one another’s calls.

• Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus blasii

  Blasius’s horseshoe bat roosts in caves and similar shelters and has a distinctive nose shape.

• Gray-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes

  This migrant breeds in Siberia and moves south, probing mud and rocks for food at estuaries and tidal flats.

• Phillips' Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys phillipsii

  Phillips' kangaroo rat is a small rodent of sandy ground and short grasslands on the Mexican Plateau. It emerges at night and carries food in its cheek pouches.

• Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Dicaeum chrysorrheum

  The Yellow-vented Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker found from the Indian subcontinent through Southeast Asia. It has yellowish-green upperparts, streaked white underparts, and orange-yellow undertail coverts.

• Gilbert's Dunnart Sminthopsis gilberti

  This small marsupial occurs in separated populations in Western Australia. It hunts insects at night and nests in vegetation or hollows.

• Rufous-capped Motmot Baryphthengus ruficapillus

  The Rufous-capped Motmot has a rufous head and blue-green eyebrow. It perches in the lower forest canopy and eats insects and small animals.

• Indochinese Gray Langur Trachypithecus crepusculus

  This leaf monkey lives in forests. In a study of one group in an evergreen broadleaf forest in Yunnan, China, the langurs spent most of their time in trees; ground visits included licking rocks.

• Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides

  The Southern Fulmar is a seabird with pale plumage and a pink bill tipped in black. It nests on cliffs on islands in the Southern Ocean and searches for food near the sea surface.

• Alaska Marmot Marmota (Marmota) broweri

  The Alaska marmot is a large squirrel relative that makes burrows among rocky areas in northern Alaska. It eats grasses, flowers, and roots in summer and hibernates in its burrow in winter.