Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded Siskin Spinus magellanicus

  

  Male Hooded Siskins are conspicuous for their black caps and yellow-green bodies. They feed on small seeds from grasses and shrubs and form flocks.

• Ihering's Three-striped Opossum Monodelphis (Microdelphys) iheringi

  

  Ihering’s Three-striped Opossum is a small opossum with three dark lines on its back. It carries leaf litter to line a nest in soft soil and eats insects and small animals.

• Rufous-winged Fulvetta Schoeniparus castaneceps

  

  This fulvetta ranges from the Himalayas to southern China and northern Indochina. It has a chestnut crown and pale eyebrow, and searches the forest understorey for insects.

• Sanje Mangabey Cercocebus sanjei

  

  The Sanje mangabey is endemic to Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. The 2024 conservation plan reports it from two separated forest fragments.

• Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami

  

  Tristram's Bunting is a migratory bunting. In Hong Kong it is seen in winter and searches for food on the forest floor and quiet paths.

• Black Muntjac Muntiacus crinifrons

  

  A dark-coated muntjac with a reddish forehead tuft, it may raise its white-lined tail and give a deep bark when anxious or confronted.

• Lemon-browed Flycatcher Conopias cinchoneti

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope. The Peru account gives an elevational range of 800–1,950 m and notes that it also occurs in Colombia and Ecuador.

• Honduran Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira hondurensis

  This bat is recorded from Mexico to northern Nicaragua. Its fur is dark gray to dark brown, with a paler underside. Many individuals, especially adult males, have reddish or yellow shoulder patches. It mainly eats fruit.

• Ruspoli's Turaco Menelikornis ruspolii

  Prince Ruspoli's Turaco is a turaco of a restricted area in southern Ethiopia. Its green body and pale crest stand out, and red patches show on its wings in flight.

• Southern Short-tailed Shrew Blarina carolinensis

  The Southern Short-tailed Shrew is marked by small eyes and a long, mobile snout. It uses moist woodland floor habitat and burrows or surface nests.

• African Houbara Chlamydotis undulata

  A bustard of dry North African landscapes. It uses sandy or stony semi-desert with scattered plants and shrubs.

• Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum

  An antelope of water-rich grasslands in central and southern Africa; only males have horns.

• Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus

  This bird is endemic to Jamaica. Its black plumage has a blue gloss on the head and back. In montane forest with many epiphytes, it uses its long bill to search for food.

• Marsh Rabbit Sylvilagus palustris

  The marsh rabbit is a wetland rabbit of the southeastern United States that eats grasses and other marsh plants.

• Eared Quetzal Euptilotis neoxenus

  The Eared Quetzal lives in mountain forests of northwestern Mexico. Males have black ear tufts and a red belly, while females have grey-brown heads and breasts and a paler pink belly.

• Rothschild's Rock Wallaby Petrogale rothschildi

  Rothschild's rock wallaby occurs in Western Australia's Pilbara and Ashburton regions. It uses deep rocky crevices as refuge from daytime heat.

• Chestnut Wattle-eye Platysteira castanea

  Males are black and white while females are brownish; the species lives in wet habitats and lowland forest in central and eastern Africa and eats insects.

• Emilia's Marmoset Mico emiliae

  Emilia's Marmoset is a small monkey marked by a blackish crown, white brow, grayish-brown back, and black tail. A survey in the southern Brazilian Amazon recorded it in regenerating areas with many lianas.

• Palkachupa Cotinga Phibalura boliviana

  The Palkachupa Cotinga is endemic to Bolivia. It has deep yellow plumage with green streaks and bluish-black feather tips.

• Rio Mayo Titi Plecturocebus oenanthe

  This titi monkey is endemic to the San Martín region of Peru. Pale fur around the face is a characteristic feature, though it is faint in some individuals.

• Australian Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae

  The Australian Masked Owl lives in forests and woodland edges and hunts small mammals at night. Its plumage occurs in pale, intermediate, and dark forms.

• Panamint Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) panamintinus

  Neotamias panamintinus occurs in isolated mountain populations of southeastern California and southwestern Nevada. Its summer coat is tawny, while the winter fur is longer and paler.

• Red-chested Buttonquail Turnix pyrrhothorax

  The Red-chested Buttonquail walks through grassland to eat seeds and small insects. Females are larger than males and have richer chestnut coloring on the breast.

• Giles's Planigale Planigale gilesi

  Giles's planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened triangular head. It shelters in cracks in clay soil and eats arthropods.