Meet the world’s animals.

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• Least Storm Petrel Hydrobates microsoma

  

  About sparrow-sized, this seabird is entirely black with a short wedge-shaped tail. It flutters low over the sea to pick food from the surface and nests in colonies on rocky islands off western Mexico.

• Drylands Laucha Calomys musculinus

  The drylands laucha is a small mouse recorded around grassland and farmland in Argentina. It eats seeds and is mainly nocturnal, though daytime activity has also been reported.

• Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa

  This whydah inhabits woodland and grassland in eastern and southern Africa. It eats grass seeds on the ground; breeding males have a conspicuously long tail.

• Giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis

  A large otter of South American rivers and lakes. It lives in family groups and hunts fish mainly during the day.

• Scarlet Finch Carpodacus sipahi

  Adult males are bright scarlet from head to belly, while females are mainly olive and look very different. The finch feeds on plant matter in Himalayan mountain forests.

• Stripe-faced Dunnart Sminthopsis macroura

  The stripe-faced dunnart has a black stripe down its face and pale underparts. It is nocturnal, mainly terrestrial, and catches insects and small vertebrates.

• Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus

  The Black-rumped Buttonquail occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and lives on the ground in grassland and grassy savanna. Females are larger and brighter than males, with a rufous face and throat, pale belly and dark rump.

• Carpathian Chamois Rupicapra carpatica

  This chamois lives in Romania's Carpathian Mountains. It grazes in alpine areas in summer, rests in shade during the hottest part of warm days, and uses lower grassland and forest edges in winter.

• Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa

  The Yellow-rumped Thornbill occurs in open woodland and grassland in eastern and southeastern Australia. Its yellow rump is distinctive, and it often feeds for insects on the ground.

• Isabel's Saki Pithecia isabela

  A saki recorded in the Peruvian Amazon, including the Pacaya-Samiria area.

• 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.

• Sika deer Cervus nippon

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

• Lesser Florican Sypheotides indicus

  The Lesser Florican is a small bustard of Indian grasslands. A breeding-season study recorded males making wing-fluttering display flights in open country.

• Common Brown Four-eyed Opossum Metachirus myosuros

  This opossum occurs in forests from Central America into central South America. It has brown fur, small pale eye spots and a long, nearly naked tail. It is nocturnal, solitary and mainly terrestrial.

• Rock Kestrel Falco rupicolus

  This falcon is widespread in southern Africa. It hunts over open country and hilly terrain, often using rocks or roadside posts as perches.

• Sun-tailed Monkey Allochrocebus solatus

  The sun-tailed monkey lives only in the forests of central Gabon. It uses both the ground and trees and is associated with dense forest undergrowth.

• Iberian Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis

  This shrike occurs in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. It has a gray back, black eye mask, and white eyebrow, and watches open ground from a raised perch.

• Siberian Whiskered Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) sibiricus

  This is a small bat of Asian forests. A 2025 survey recorded it at 730 m and 1,810 m in Katon-Karagay National Park, Kazakhstan.

• Black-headed Whistler Pachycephala monacha

  The Black-headed Whistler feeds on invertebrates in forest and semi-open habitat. In a local Mt. Wilhelm survey, several birds were seen at 600–700 m, and an active nest was reported at about 850 m.

• Little Collared Fruit Bat Myonycteris torquata

  This fruit-eating bat lives in forests and other habitats in Central and East Africa. Its back is dark rusty brown to yellowish brown; adult males seasonally develop yellow-orange staining on coarse throat and chest hairs.

• Socotra Starling Onychognathus frater

  The Socotra Starling is a glossy black starling with reddish-brown wings, found only on Socotra Island. It feeds on fruit and insects and forages in small groups.

• Mexican Giant Shrew Megasorex gigas

  The Mexican giant shrew is known only from Mexico. A small number of collection records place it along damp streams and in forests with fallen logs and rocks.

• Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii

  The male Orange-bellied Leafbird has a green body, orange underparts and a purplish-blue throat. It feeds on insects and fruit in forest from the Himalaya toward Assam.

• Beddome's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus beddomei

  Beddome's woolly horseshoe bat is known from South Asia, and a 2010 paper added a specimen from Thailand. The Thai record is a single animal and may not represent the usual population there.