Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei

  

  This slender thrasher lives in dry areas of the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has sandy-brown plumage and a relatively short, curved bill, and searches for prey on the ground.

• Cape Bushbuck Tragelaphus sylvaticus

  

  A bushbuck studied in KwaZulu-Natal, eastern South Africa. The sexes differ in coat colour, and only males have horns.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• Urubamba Brown Titi Plecturocebus urubambensis

  

  A titi monkey treated as a distinct species in Peru. The 2025 update gives a type locality near the Río Sepa but questions some distant photo-based records.

• Malaysian Honeyguide Indicator archipelagicus

  

  The Malaysian Honeyguide has dark olive-brown upperparts. A Thai account records it in evergreen forest and notes that females lack a yellow shoulder patch.

• Brush Rabbit Sylvilagus bachmani

  

  The brush rabbit is a small rabbit of brushy places in California. It has brown fur, short ears and a small tail.

• 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.

• Little White-shouldered Bat Ametrida centurio

  This small bat has pale patches on its shoulders. Males are grayer than females and have a swollen area below each eye.

• Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus

  This sandgrouse lives in dry grassland and scrub in East Africa. Males have black markings across the face and throat, while females are plainer. It feeds on plant seeds on the ground.

• Central American Least Shrew Cryptotis orophilus

  This small shrew occurs in Central America. Its original description notes different coat colors on the back and underside.

• Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca

  Its long, downcurved bill and bare black head are distinctive. It forages in wetlands and floodplains, probing shallow water, mud and grassland.

• San Joaquin Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys nitratoides

  This small kangaroo rat has powerful hind legs and lives in valleys of central California.

• Marail Guan Penelope marail

  This arboreal guan ranges from the Guianas to northern Brazil. A diet study in French Guiana recorded fruit feeding in both the canopy and lower forest.

• Little Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) phaea

  It has a brown back, a cream-to-orange underside, and white spots at the tip of its tail. The appearance comes from one specimen report; recent taxonomic sources confirm specimens from the foothills of southwestern Colombia.

• Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum

  The Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl is a small owl that is active by day as well as at night. Small birds sometimes gather to mob it.

• Red-shanked douc langur Pygathrix nemaeus

  The red-shanked douc langur is a tree-dwelling monkey of the tropical forests of Vietnam and Laos.

• Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli

  This shrike occurs in dry scrub and savanna in East Africa. It moves in small groups and watches for prey from exposed perches.

• Brown Dorcopsis Dorcopsis muelleri

  The brown dorcopsis is a wallaby of New Guinea forests. A field study in West Papua also recorded its use of riverbank grassland.

• Cocos Tyrannulet Nesotriccus ridgwayi

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Cocos Island off Costa Rica. It has greyish olive plumage and a relatively long bill, and forages in the rainforest canopy and subcanopy. A breeding study recorded hidden nests on outer branch tips.

• 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.

• Humblot's Flycatcher Humblotia flavirostris

  This flycatcher is endemic to Grand Comoro. It is about 14 cm long, with grey-brown upperparts, pale dark-streaked underparts, and a yellow-orange bill and feet.

• Japanese weasel Mustela itatsi

  A weasel native to Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and nearby islands, with an elongated body, short legs and a dark mark from forehead to nose.

• Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla

  This small fulvetta occurs in central and southern China. It has a brown to gray-brown crown, a dark side crown stripe, a broad pale-gray eyebrow, and rufous wings. It eats invertebrates and seeds.

• Tres Marías Deer Mouse Peromyscus madrensis

  This mouse is known from the Islas Marías off Mexico’s Pacific coast. Its records are tied to islands separated from the mainland.