Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blue Pitta Hydrornis cyaneus

  

  The Blue Pitta lives in forests of South and Southeast Asia and searches for food on the forest floor. Males are vivid blue, while females are mainly brown.

• Calaby's Pademelon Thylogale calabyi

  

  Calaby’s Pademelon is a small pademelon recorded in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea. Yellow-tipped belly fur and a pale hip stripe help identify the individuals described in a field report.

• Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus

  

  The Forest Wagtail is an olive-brown bird with a long tail. It breeds in northeast Asia and winters as far south as Singapore.

• 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.

• Red-footed booby Sula sula

  

  A red-footed booby that nests in trees and shrubs on tropical islands.

• Atlantic Titi Callicebus personatus

  

  This monkey lives in Brazil's Atlantic coastal forests. It has black fur on the forehead and beside the cheeks, while coat patterns vary among subspecies.

• Slaty Gnateater Conopophaga ardesiaca

  The Slaty Gnateater is a short-tailed bird of the eastern Andean slopes of Bolivia, living close to the forest floor.

• Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel Belomys pearsonii

  A nocturnal flying squirrel that glides between trees in mountain forests of northeastern India.

• Hardhead Aythya australis

  The Hardhead is an Australian diving duck with a dark brown body and white belly.

• Fat-tailed False Antechinus Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis

  The fat-tailed false antechinus is a small marsupial that stores fat in its short, thick-based tail. It lives among the rocky landscapes of central Australia and has a reddish back and pale underside.

• Short-tailed Frogmouth Batrachostomus poliolophus

  The Sumatran Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird of mountain forest on Sumatra.

• Heermann's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys heermanni

  Heermann's kangaroo rat hops on long hind legs and carries seeds in cheek pouches to its burrow. It is active alone at night.

• Black-bellied Tern Sterna acuticauda

  Breeding adults have a black head and belly, an orange bill and a deeply forked tail.

• Arcuate Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus arcuatus

  The Arcuate Horseshoe Bat has slightly reddish-brown to dark-brown upperparts and buff to gray-brown underparts. In the Philippines it occurs in varied forests, from lowland to montane habitats.

• Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii

  This furnariid inhabits humid Andean forests. White neck tufts and a rufous tail stand out, and it forages from the midstory to the canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Hooper's Deermouse Peromyscus hooperi

  This deer mouse has records from a restricted part of north-central Mexico. It uses grassy foothills and mountain slopes, distinct from nearby desert scrub.

• Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum

  The Grey-backed Thrush is a common winter visitor in Hong Kong, occurring in forests, wooded areas, and urban parks. Males show grey and orange, while females are brown and spotted.

• Northern Luzon Phloeomys Phloeomys pallidus

  The northern Luzon phloeomys is a large rodent found in northern Luzon. It often uses trees but also moves on the ground.

• Dusky-capped Greenlet Hylophilus hypoxanthus

  This small bird forages in the canopy and subcanopy of Amazonian forest, often with mixed-species flocks. Its range spans several countries.

• Kuhl's pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii

  Kuhl's pipistrelle is a small bat found from the Mediterranean region through West Asia to South Asia. It also lives around farmland and towns, catching small insects in flight.

• Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus

  The Lanner Falcon hunts birds around rocky and open country. It uses long, pointed wings and a short tail to pursue prey in level flight.

• African clawless otter Aonyx capensis

  An African otter that searches for crabs and handles prey with its clawless forepaws.

• Mindanao Hornbill Penelopides affinis

  This hornbill has strongly different male and female plumage and lives in forests on Mindanao and nearby islands in the Philippines.

• White-winged Flying Fox Desmalopex leucopterus

  The white-winged flying fox is a large bat endemic to the Philippines, with pale markings on its wings.