Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lilac-crowned Amazon Amazona finschi

  

  A large green parrot native to Mexico. Adults show blue to lilac tones across the crown.

• Cleft-headed Juliomys Juliomys rimofrons

  This small rodent is known from southeastern Brazil. It has long ochre-brown fur and an orange rump; known specimens came from ground-level traplines.

• Blyth's Frogmouth Batrachostomus affinis

  Blyth's Frogmouth has plumage ranging from rufous-brown to grey. It hunts insects at night from low perches in lowland and hill forests, including Borneo.

• Comoro Black Flying Fox Pteropus livingstonii

  This flying fox occurs on Anjouan and Mohéli in the Comoros. A 2006 species account reports that it eats fruit, leaves, nectar and pollen, and roosts in native evergreen forest.

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Black-striped Wallaby Notamacropus dorsalis

  This wallaby is marked by a black stripe from its forehead down its back. It rests in dense vegetation by day and feeds on grasses and herbs at night.

• Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens

  This vireo occurs in coastal parts of Mexico and Central America and on Providencia Island, Colombia. It searches leaves and branches for small invertebrates in mangroves and scrub.

• Agile Antechinus Antechinus agilis

  The agile antechinus is a small marsupial of southeastern mainland Australia. It forages around leaf litter and fallen logs, eating insects and small vertebrates.

• Scarlet-hooded Barbet Eubucco tucinkae

  Males have a red head and throat, green back, and yellow belly; females have a yellow throat. It occurs in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western Brazil, using riverine vegetation and bamboo-rich secondary growth.

• Novaes' Bald Uakari Cacajao novaesi

  This uakari is restricted to western Amazonas, Brazil. Its back is white to yellow, while the belly and limbs are reddish orange. It has been recorded in both seasonally flooded and non-flooded forest.

• Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons

  A small bird centered in Mexican mountain forests, it is marked by a red face, black cap, and gray body. It occurs in the southwestern United States during breeding.

• Sika deer Cervus nippon

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

• Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius

  The Bush Stone-curlew lives in forests and open woodlands on mainland Australia. It walks on long legs and is active at night while searching for food.

• Crowned Shrew Sorex coronatus

  The crowned shrew is a medium-sized shrew with three areas of color on its back, sides, and underside. In northern Iberia, it searches for small invertebrates in forests and open places with moist soil.

• Southern Emu-wren Stipiturus malachurus

  The Southern Emu-wren is a small bird of low scrub in southern Australia. Males have blue on the throat, and the fine tail feathers look loose and wispy.

• Ricefield Rat Rattus argentiventer

  The ricefield rat uses rice paddies and grasslands in Southeast Asia and eats both plant and animal foods.

• Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala

  A large stork of wetlands on the Indian subcontinent. It has a white body with a pink tinge and searches shallow water for small fish.

• Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura seychellensis

  The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat is a rare bat endemic to the Seychelles. A study on Silhouette Island found it roosting in small caves among boulders in lowland woodland.

• Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus

  This weaver occurs in tropical Africa. Adult males have a chestnut crown and broad white eyebrow, and the assessment lists dry savanna and other habitats as suitable.

• Burmese Ferret-badger Melogale personata

  The Burmese ferret-badger has distinctive black-and-white facial markings and a white stripe down its back. It is mostly nocturnal and rests in burrows or other shelters by day.

• Greater Lophorina Lophorina latipennis

  It lives in montane forest on New Guinea, and the sexes look very different. The male has a black body with metallic green-blue ornaments; the female is brown and patterned.

• Insular Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus keyensis

  This horseshoe bat varies in color among islands and subspecies. On Timor, subspecies parvus has a cinnamon-brown back and fawn underside. Four subspecies are recorded across the Moluccas and Lesser Sundas.

• Tawny-faced Gnatwren Microbates cinereiventris

  The Tawny-faced Gnatwren lives in the lower levels of humid forest from Central America to northwestern South America. It forages near the ground and in leaf litter, and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Silvery-brown Bare-face Tamarin Oedipomidas leucopus

  A primate from northern Colombia. A 2025 study followed one group for a year in an isolated forest patch in Medellín.