Meet the world’s animals.

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• Amazonian Trogon Trogon ramonianus

  

  A trogon of mature Amazonian rainforest. Males are strongly blue and green, while females are mostly gray, so the sexes look different.

• Hirola Beatragus hunteri

  

  The hirola is an antelope of dry grasslands in northeastern Kenya and adjacent areas. A white marking around the eyes resembles a mask, and it selectively grazes short grasses.

• Spotted Catbird Ailuroedus maculosus

  

  This bird is recorded in tropical rainforest in northern Queensland. A 2020 field note reported one bird feeding on Calliandra flowers in a garden at Lake Barrine; this is a single local feeding record.

• Novaes' Bald Uakari Cacajao novaesi

  

  This uakari is restricted to western Amazonas, Brazil. Its back is white to yellow, while the belly and limbs are reddish orange. It has been recorded in both seasonally flooded and non-flooded forest.

• Black-browed Tit Aegithalos bonvaloti

  

  A 2013 Indian BIRDS paper reports photographs of this tit near Namti and Walong in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. The observed group held six to seven birds and used an open area with ferns and scattered pines.

• Croslet Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus coelophyllus

  

  The croslet horseshoe bat occurs in Southeast Asia. A study in Malaysian rice-field landscapes examined its diet during the dry season.

• Plain Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus neglectus

  The Plain Leaf Warbler is a small warbler about 9–10 cm long. By day it searches among leaves for small invertebrates; Oman is one location where its calls have been recorded.

• Hewitt's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus saundersiae

  This hare occurs in mountainous parts of South Africa and Lesotho. Its coat is thick and dense, brown above and pale rufous below; the feet and tail are darker red, while the head is grey-brown with grey-white cheeks.

• 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.

• Southern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat Tonatia maresi

  Tonatia maresi is a bat distributed in South America. The adult female used as the holotype reference in the paper had dark gray-brown fur above and a grayer, paler underside. The species roosts in hollow trees.

• Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus

  The Red-rumped Tinkerbird lives in forest from southern Senegal to the western Congo Basin and western Uganda. It uses humid forest and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Common Brown Brocket Mazama gouazoubira

  This deer uses sparsely vegetated grasslands, savannas, and forest edges in South America. Its coat ranges from gray-brown to brown; the rump and upper tail are typically orange, while the underside of the tail is white. It rests in dense cover by day and emerges into open areas to feed at night.

• Eastern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes filholi

  This penguin breeds on subantarctic islands around New Zealand and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, then spends much of the non-breeding season at sea. It is treated as distinct from related rockhopper penguins.

• Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew Blarina hylophaga

  This stocky shrew has small eyes and ears hidden in its fur. It stays active year-round and searches for food under leaf litter and in the soil.

• Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus

  The Pyrrhuloxia lives in dry scrub from the southwestern United States into northern Mexico. Its reddish plumage and stout bill are distinctive, and it searches the ground for seeds and cactus fruit.

• Merriam's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys merriami

  Merriam's kangaroo rat is a rodent that is active at night in dry country. Its strong hind legs and long, tufted tail help it move in hops.

• White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus

  The White-winged Becard shows regional variation in male plumage across Central and South America. It uses forest edges and second growth, alone or in pairs, and moves through middle tree levels.

• Gray Mouse Opossum Tlacuatzin canescens

  This small opossum lives in Mexico. It is nocturnal and eats mainly insects, along with fruit and small animals.

• Griffon vulture Gyps fulvus

  A large, pale-brown vulture that feeds on animal carcasses.

• Booted Macaque Macaca ochreata

  The booted macaque lives on southeastern Sulawesi. Its gray limbs stand out against its darker coat. It is active by day and eats mainly fruit.

• Starred Wood-Quail Odontophorus stellatus

  This lowland Amazonian wood-quail has white spots on its breast and wings. It forages on the forest floor in family groups and is often heard before it is seen.

• Northern Nail-tail Wallaby Onychogalea unguifera

  The northern nail-tail wallaby is a small wallaby with a claw-like projection at the tip of its tail. It is nocturnal and lives in lightly wooded and grassy places near water in northern Australia.

• Sultan Tit Melanochlora sultanea

  A large, conspicuous tit that joins mixed-species flocks in lowland forest canopies.

• Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina

  The common dunnart is a small marsupial of eastern and southern Australia. It searches for insects at night and rests in a nest or shallow burrow by day.