Meet the world’s animals.

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• Arabian Warbler Curruca leucomelaena

  

  The Arabian Warbler is marked by its black hood and long black tail. It moves slowly through acacia canopies in dry scrub and along wadis.

• Lesser Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus elongatus

  

  A large spear-nosed bat recorded in the lowland Amazon. Its back and belly fur differ in color, and its wing tips are white.

• Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus superciliaris

  

  This babbler has a long, sharply downcurved bill. It uses bamboo thickets in montane forest and feeds on insects and plant foods.

• Least Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus pusillus

  

  This small horseshoe bat has a broad noseleaf and brown fur on its back. It roosts in caves and similar places.

• Yellow-billed Jacamar Galbula albirostris

  

  The male has a white throat, rich rufous underparts, and an iridescent green head and back. It waits on a forest perch and catches passing insects in flight.

• Desert Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys deserti

  

  The desert kangaroo rat digs burrows among the dunes of arid southwestern North America and is mainly active at night.

• Damara Hornbill Tockus damarensis

  This hornbill ranges from central and northeastern Namibia into southwestern Angola. It has black-and-white plumage and a long, slender red bill.

• Spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus

  A quoll with white spots extending onto its tail.

• Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis

  This grass warbler occurs widely in tropical Africa. Its black moustache-like stripe and broad, rounded dark tail are distinctive. Records in southern Africa are localized to tall grass near streams and wetlands.

• Greater spot-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus nictitans

  The greater spot-nosed monkey is a West and Central African guenon with a conspicuous white spot on its nose and dark fur. It eats fruit and seeds and spends much of its time in trees.

• Baudin's Black Cockatoo Zanda baudinii

  Baudin’s black-cockatoo is a dark cockatoo from south-western Western Australia, with white cheek patches and white panels on its tail. It uses a long, slender bill to remove seeds from eucalypts.

• Arctic Ground Squirrel Urocitellus parryii

  The Arctic ground squirrel lives in colonies in tundra and other northern habitats across Alaska, northern Canada and eastern Siberia, and overwinters underground.

• Tawny Antpitta Grallaria quitensis

  This antpitta occurs in the Andes from Colombia through Ecuador to northern Peru. Under the current treatment, Boyacá Antpitta and Atuen Antpitta, formerly included here, are separate species.

• Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin gaumeri

  The Yucatán Gray Mouse Opossum is a small opossum of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its original description gives a muted grayish-brown back and pale cream belly and cheeks. Specimens have also been collected in sub-evergreen forest in Quintana Roo.

• Long-eared owl Asio otus

  An owl with conspicuous long head tufts, using woods and dense cover near grassland.

• Red Veld Aethomys Aethomys chrysophilus

  The Red Veld Aethomys has a reddish-brown back and white belly. It is nocturnal and mainly terrestrial, eating mostly plant foods along with insects and other animal matter.

• Short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus

  An albatross with long, narrow wings that searches for food at the sea surface.

• Golden-crowned Flying Fox Acerodon jubatus

  The golden-crowned flying fox is a large fruit-eating bat found only in the Philippines. A 2026 record documented it in forest in Apayao Province.

• Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea

  This brood-parasitic finch occurs in southeastern Africa. Males are known to mimic the song of their host, the African Firefinch.

• Sika deer Cervus nippon

  The sika deer is native to East Asia, including Japan, and primarily inhabits forests.

• Black-and-yellow Broadbill Eurylaimus ochromalus

  The Black-and-yellow Broadbill is a small bird with a bright blue bill and bold black, white, yellow, and pink plumage. It catches insects by sallying from a perch in forest midlevels and canopy.

• Mottle-faced Tamarin Tamarinus inustus

  This tamarin was recorded in flooded forest during fieldwork in Brazil’s Amanã Reserve. The survey reported 11 new localities.

• White-eared Tailorbird Orthotomus cinereiceps

  This resident bird occurs in the Philippines. BirdLife lists moist lowland forest as its main habitat and records it up to 1,000 m.

• African Striped Weasel Poecilogale albinucha

  The African striped weasel has a long, slim body marked with black and white stripes. It is active around burrows at night and mainly eats small mammals.