Meet the world’s animals.
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- Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus
Photo: Dcrjsr · CC BY 3.0 Large ears and a black-tipped tail help identify this deer.
- Velvet-fronted Nuthatch Sitta frontalis
The Velvet-fronted Nuthatch moves along trunks and branches in Asian forests.
- Davis's Tent-making Bat Uroderma davisi
A 2026 study recorded one male at Tolapa in Nicaragua's León Department. The individual had clear facial stripes and was captured in an area the study classed among its lowland dry and arid-forest sites.
- Western Grasswren Amytornis textilis
In the Shark Bay area of Western Australia, this grasswren uses shrublands and is recorded foraging on the ground in pairs or family groups.
- Chuuk Flying Fox Pteropus pelagicus
The Chuuk flying fox lives in the Caroline Islands of Micronesia. The study treats the Mortlock population and the populations on Chuuk Lagoon and Namonuito as two subspecies of one species.
- Amazonian Motmot Momotus momota
The Amazonian Motmot has a green body, orange underparts, a black eye mask, and a blue crown. It sits on forest perches and may wag its tail from side to side.
- Kinabalu Rat Rattus baluensis
The Kinabalu rat lives above 2,000 m in Sabah, northern Borneo. It has been observed licking nectar from a pitcher plant and leaving droppings inside its pitchers.
- Malawi Batis Batis dimorpha
A small bird recorded in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Males and females have different patterns on the chest and wings.
- 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.
- White-breasted Wood-Swallow Artamus leucoryn
This bird has dark bluish-gray head, back, wings, and tail with white underparts. It ranges from northern and eastern Australia to New Guinea, Fiji, and the Philippines, and mainly catches insects in flight.
- Doria's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus dorianus
It has dark brown fur without silver tipping. It lives in montane forests of southeastern New Guinea and is described as especially adapted to life in trees.
- Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
The male Pine Bunting is notable for its white head and chestnut coloring. The species has separate breeding areas in Asia, and migration differs between subspecies.
- Trefoil Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus trifoliatus
The trefoil horseshoe bat is a nocturnal insect-eater of forest understories. Its noseleaf and wing membranes are yellowish brown, and its fur is long and soft.
- Blue-headed Bee-eater Merops muelleri
This bee-eater has blue-purple plumage with a dark brown back and wings. It catches insects by flying out from a high perch in humid forest. The extent of blue on the head differs between eastern and western parts of its range.
- 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.
- Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides
By day it rests on a branch, blending in with the tree; at night it drops to the ground to catch prey.
- Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula
The Greater White-toothed Shrew occurs throughout mainland Portugal. Its back changes from gray in winter to reddish brown in summer. It uses open places, shrub-rich woodland edges, gardens and farmland, and is mostly nocturnal but also active by day.
- Ratchet-tailed Treepie Temnurus temnurus
The Ratchet-tailed Treepie is a crow-family bird of Southeast Asian forests. Its long tail has deep notches at the tips.
- Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx
The Arabian oryx is a white antelope with dark markings on its face and legs.
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
The Yellow-green Vireo normally breeds in Mexico and Central America and winters in lowland tropical forest in South America. Nesting in Texas is rare, and a few fall records on the California coast are thought to be birds that went the wrong way.
- Tayra Eira barbara
A climbing mustelid with a dark body and a lighter-colored head.
- Bornean Whistler Pachycephala hypoxantha
The Bornean Whistler searches montane forest for insects and sometimes seeds. It has yellow underparts and olive-yellow upperparts.
- Tolai hare Lepus tolai
The tolai hare is a small hare with long ears and legs; it feeds on grasses and shrubs.
- Black-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis nigrivestis
A hummingbird of high-elevation forest in northwestern Ecuador. It is marked by white leg puffs and feeds on flower nectar.
