Meet the world’s animals.
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- Small Mexican Small-eared Shrew Cryptotis mexicanus
Photo: Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0 This small-eared shrew lives in the mountains of Mexico. It has dark brown fur above and a slightly paler underside; the account lists damp montane forests as habitat.
- Sunda Warbler Seicercus grammiceps
This leaf-warbler lives in montane forest on Java and Sumatra. It has a reddish-brown head and a pale eye-ring.
- Siberut Macaque Macaca siberu
The Siberut macaque lives only on Siberut Island in Indonesia. It eats mainly fruit and travels both in trees and on the ground.
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachyphonus purpuratus
Adults have a red forehead, yellow bill, and pinkish or silvery streaks on the throat and breast. The bird uses forest undergrowth, and an adult was photographed near a nest excavated in a dead tree in Uganda.
- Woolley's False Antechinus Pseudantechinus woolleyae
A small carnivorous marsupial from rocky, arid areas of Western Australia. It has chestnut fur behind the ears and a flat tail.
- Wattled Guan Aburria aburri
The Wattled Guan is a large, all-black bird with a blue bill and a long red-and-yellow wattle hanging from its throat. It lives in humid Andean montane forest and eats fruit.
- Royal Antelope Neotragus pygmaeus
This small antelope lives in West African forests. Its specialist account describes it using thickets along forest edges and in clearings.
- Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni
Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.
- Gray Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) incanus
Males are larger than females, and coat color varies with age and region. It lives along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil and searches for insects on both the ground and in trees.
- Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola
The Masked Gnatcatcher searches woodland and scrub for small insects. Males have a black facial mask; females have a white eye-ring and cheeks.
- 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.
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
The Wood Stork is a large wetland bird with a white body and black flight feathers. It snaps up fish when they touch its bill underwater.
- Thomas's Flying Squirrel Aeromys thomasi
Thomas’s Flying Squirrel lives in Borneo’s forests. Its coat has no conspicuous markings, and it is nocturnal and eats forest fruits.
- Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica
This 9–10 cm bird is active by day and feeds on fruit.
- Columbia Plateau Pocket Mouse Perognathus parvus
The Columbia Plateau pocket mouse is a small North American rodent that carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches. Its back is pinkish buff with a dark overlay, and its tail is long and bicolored.
- Turquoise-winged Parrotlet Forpus spengeli
Forpus spengeli is a small parrot recorded in northern Colombia. A Colombian taxonomic and distribution review reports it from dry savanna, open woodland, and scrub.
- 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.
- Sooty-capped Hermit Phaethornis augusti
The Sooty-capped Hermit has olive plumage, strong white facial lines, and a distinctive orange-rufous rump. In Venezuela it uses forest edges and undergrowth, with records of nesting in buildings.
- White-throated Round-eared Bat Lophostoma silvicola
This leaf-nosed bat ranges through Central America and northern and eastern South America. On Barro Colorado Island in Panama, researchers recorded insect gleaning and males excavating roost cavities in active termite nests.
- Chestnut-bellied Tit Sittiparus castaneoventris
This tit is found in Taiwanese forests. It has a white face and deep rufous underparts, and takes seeds, nuts and caterpillars in mixed and bamboo forests on slopes and in valleys.
- Indonesian Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus titthaecheilus
The Indonesian Short-nosed Fruit Bat is described as the largest member of its genus and occurs in forests, plantations, and settlements.
- Black Storm Petrel Hydrobates melania
The black storm-petrel is a dark seabird with a long, forked tail. It flies buoyantly low over the water and picks food from the surface.
- Black Jackrabbit Lepus insularis
The Black Jackrabbit is native to Espiritu Santo Island, Mexico. It is recorded in dry valleys and lower slopes with shrubs and cacti, and its glossy black back is especially distinctive.
- Ash-throated Gnateater Conopophaga peruviana
The Ash-throated Gnateater feeds on small arthropods in humid lowland forest. The described male has brown upperparts and white tufts behind the eyes.