Meet the world’s animals.

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• Arctic Shrew Sorex arcticus

  

  The Arctic shrew lives in moist grasslands and wetlands. Its winter coat has three distinct color zones.

• Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii

  The Square-tailed Nightjar is active at night in open woodland, savanna and scrub south of the Sahara. It catches flying beetles, grasshoppers and moths and lays its eggs in a shallow depression on the ground.

• Mitered Langur Presbytis mitrata

  Presbytis mitrata is a monkey of southern Sumatra. It feeds mainly on leaves and is arboreal. Its coat varies, so individuals do not all look alike.

• Striated Wren-Babbler Ptilocichla mindanensis

  A wren-babbler of the Philippines. The nominate form on Mindanao has a fulvous-brown head and back, a white eyebrow and throat, and heavy dark streaks on the breast and belly.

• White-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis leucopus

  The white-footed dunnart lives in southeastern Australia and Tasmania. It nests beneath leaf litter or fallen logs and mainly eats invertebrates.

• Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura

  A bulbul of western and central African forests. It eats fruit and other plant food and occurs in raffia-palm stands and damp forest near water.

• Javan Rusa Rusa timorensis

  A deer recorded in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

• 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.

• Cape Springbok Antidorcas marsupialis

  An antelope of open southern African savannas that can raise a crest of white hair when excited.

• Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus

  The Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker has three toes and taps dead trees to find insect larvae.

• Southern Four-eyed Opossum Philander quica

  The southern four-eyed opossum is a medium-sized marsupial of Brazil's Atlantic Coastal region. It feeds mainly on invertebrates, small vertebrates, and fruit, and is active at night.

• Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis

  The Northern Waterthrush is a streaked bird that walks along wetland edges in search of small aquatic animals.

• Prince Bernhard's titi Plecturocebus bernhardi

  Prince Bernhard's titi is a small monkey studied in forest in Rondônia, Brazil. Groups of two to four were observed at one remnant, and sampled animals had continuous orange fur across the chest and limbs.

• Black-backed Wood Quail Odontophorus melanonotus

  The Black-backed Wood Quail has a dark brown back and a rufous throat and breast. It forages on the forest floor in montane forests spanning northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia.

• Arrow Flying Squirrel Hylopetes sagitta

  This flying squirrel is reported from Java and Bangka. At Mount Ungaran in Central Java, a paper documented nighttime activity in October 2024; the three animals observed were mainly in trees.

• Chaetornis striata

  This grassland bird often remains hidden in cover. A Kerala sighting describes a fulvous-brown back with bold streaks, while a study in Nepal recorded it in riverine grasslands.

• Gaumer's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys gaumeri

  Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse is endemic to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Records show it eating land snails as well as seeds.

• Madagascar White-eye Zosterops maderaspatanus

  This small white-eye occurs on Madagascar and nearby islands in the western Indian Ocean. It searches for insects beneath tree crowns and in shrubs, and also takes nectar.

• Ursine Tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus ursinus

  This tree-kangaroo has a black back and a white tail tip. It lives in West Papua’s montane rainforest, but its wild diet is poorly known.

• Growling Riflebird Ptiloris intercedens

  The male has black plumage with blue-green iridescence, while the female is brown. This bird-of-paradise eats fruit and small animals in forests of eastern New Guinea.

• Underwood's Long-tongued Bat Hylonycteris underwoodi

  Underwood's long-tongued bat is a small bat with a narrow muzzle and an extensible tongue. It leaves forest roosts at dusk to search for nectar.

• Orange-breasted Trogon Harpactes oreskios

  The Orange-breasted Trogon lives in forests in Southeast Asia and eats fruit, insects, and other small prey. Males have an orange breast and chestnut back, while females are more muted grey-brown.

• Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx

  The short-nosed fruit bat occurs in Hong Kong woodlands and parks, feeds at night on fruit and nectar, and males make tent-like shelters beneath palm leaves.

• Crimson Finch Neochmia phaeton

  The Crimson Finch ranges from northern Australia to southern New Guinea. Much breeding takes place during the wet season, and nests are built among palm-like fronds or sometimes on artificial structures.