Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster

  

  The Black-bellied Bustard lives in African savanna and tall grassland. Males perform courtship displays during the breeding season.

• Massoia's Lutrine Opossum Lutreolina massoia

  This opossum lives in the South American Yungas montane forests. It is active at dusk and night, eats small mammals, fish, invertebrates, bird eggs, and fruit, and can climb and swim well.

• White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus

  This social bird has black-and-white plumage, a gray crest, and a yellow eye. It searches for insects in the middle and lower levels of trees.

• Ear-spot Squirrel Callosciurus adamsi

  The ear-spot squirrel lives on Borneo. A pale patch behind each ear is a useful identifying feature.

• Turkestan Short-toed Lark Alaudala heinei

  A small lark of open grassland from Turkey through Central Asia to southern Mongolia. It is partly migratory and is classified as an omnivore.

• Guadeloupe Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma improvisum

  The Guadeloupe big-eyed bat is a large big-eyed bat recorded on islands of the Lesser Antilles. It has white facial and dorsal markings, while detailed natural-history records remain sparse.

• Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus

  A small owl of forests in northern North America and Eurasia. At night it waits on a perch for small animals.

• Korean Hare Lepus coreanus

  The Korean hare has brown or grey-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. It uses vegetated areas from plains to mountains and is reported to feed in open places in the late afternoon or evening.

• Minahasa Masked Owl Tyto inexspectata

  A forest owl endemic to Sulawesi. Accounts describe a dark-edged facial disc and dark bars across its cinnamon-colored plumage.

• Arctic Lemming Dicrostonyx torquatus

  The Arctic lemming is a small rodent of the Eurasian tundra. Its coat is grayish in summer and white in winter, and it may store foods such as willows.

• Black-bellied Malkoha Phaenicophaeus diardi

  The Black-bellied Malkoha often moves alone among leafy parts of the canopy and feeds on insect larvae.

• Caroline Flying Fox Pteropus molossinus

  This small flying fox lives on islands around Pohnpei. It has been recorded in tropical forest and mangroves and feeds on fruit and flowers.

• Black-breasted Barbet Lybius rolleti

  A bird of woodland and tree-studded country in Central Africa. Males have a black head and breast, a red belly and a white patch on the lower back. It mainly eats fruit.

• Red kangaroo Osphranter rufus

  A kangaroo of dry inland grasslands and other habitats in Australia. It hops on powerful hind legs and uses its long tail for balance.

• Chapin's Apalis Apalis chapini

  This apalis was surveyed in Mdando Forest in Tanzania's Southern Highlands. A recent field survey recorded birds moving through the canopy in pairs or small parties.

• Subtropical Antechinus Antechinus subtropicus

  The Subtropical Antechinus is a small carnivorous marsupial from southeastern Queensland to northeastern New South Wales. Insects are its usual food.

• White-bellied Whistler Pachycephala leucogastra

  This whistler has a patchy range in New Guinea. The male has a black head and breast band, white throat, and brown-grey back.

• 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.

• Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor

  A slender heron with blue-gray, lavender, and white plumage and a white stripe down the neck. It searches for small fish in coastal wetlands, moving with quick turns.

• North American Least Shrew Cryptotis parvus

  A small shrew of North America, recorded in tall grass, brush and fallen logs, and soft soils around wetlands.

• Red-faced Liocichla Liocichla phoenicea

  This babbler was rediscovered in Nepal's Chitwan region. A 2018 report confirmed by photograph a bird with crimson markings on its body; birds moved quickly through dark thickets and the canopy.

• Baluchistan Gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) nanus

  Its upper body is sandy or grayish, its underside is white, and its tail ends in a dark tuft. In Qatar it is recorded widely on gravelly and rocky plains rather than dune sands.

• Fiji Woodswallow Artamus mentalis

  The Fiji Woodswallow lives on islands in Fiji. An older paper recorded it as the subspecies A. leucorhynchus mentalis and described aerial insect hunting and cooperative care of young.

• Smooth-coated Otter Lutrogale perspicillata

  The Smooth-coated Otter ranges across South and Southeast Asia. It has short, smooth brown fur and uses waterside habitats such as rivers, wetlands, and mangroves.