Meet the world’s animals.

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• Uganda Kob Kobus thomasi

  

  The Uganda Kob is an East African kob with a white underside, eye-rings, and a throat patch. It mainly eats grasses and reeds. Females and young males form groups, move along watercourses, and graze in valley bottoms.

• Indian Grassbird Graminicola bengalensis

  The Indian Grassbird is a ground-dwelling bird of freshwater wetlands and tall grass. It has a reddish-brown back and rump and a long tail with a white tip.

• Marca's Marmoset Mico marcai

  This small monkey has a white forehead patch, a reddish-brown back, and a dark tail. Small groups were recorded at a field site in Brazil.

• Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus

  An adult woodpecker with a bright red head and bold black-and-white wings that eats insects and nuts.

• Korean Field Mouse Apodemus peninsulae

  This mouse has a reddish-brown back and white underside. It lacks the dark stripe seen in a close relative and has relatively long ears and hind feet.

• Orange-crowned Fairywren Clytomyias insignis

  This small bird has an orange crown. It moves in small groups through mountain-forest thickets on New Guinea and gleans invertebrates from leaf undersides.

• Malayan Pygmy Shrew Suncus malayanus

  This small shrew occurs on the Thai-Malay Peninsula. A male captured in the Cameron Highlands had notably large ears and dark, fine fur.

• Galah Eolophus roseicapilla

  A widespread Australian cockatoo, with a pink face and breast contrasting with grey wings and back.

• Rothschild's Rock Wallaby Petrogale rothschildi

  Rothschild's rock wallaby occurs in Western Australia's Pilbara and Ashburton regions. It uses deep rocky crevices as refuge from daytime heat.

• Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca

  The Western Gerygone is a small bird about 10 cm long, and the sexes look alike. In Western Australia it gleans small insects from foliage in forests and woodlands.

• Giles's Planigale Planigale gilesi

  Giles's planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened triangular head. It shelters in cracks in clay soil and eats arthropods.

• African Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis

  A yellow face and belly, with a narrow white eye-ring, help identify this small bird. It searches leaves and flowers for insects, nectar, and fruit.

• Rodrigues Flying Fox Pteropus rodricensis

  The Rodrigues flying fox is a fruit-eating bat found on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean. Golden-looking fur may cover its head, neck, and shoulders, and males and females differ in their reported roosting patterns.

• Great Argus Argusianus argus

  The Great Argus is a large pheasant of Indo-Malayan lowland forests. Males have exceptionally long tail feathers.

• El Carrizo Deer Mouse Peromyscus ochraventer

  This mouse has cinnamon-brown underparts. It burrows beneath large limestone blocks; the 1951 original description then knew it only from El Carrizo, Tamaulipas.

• Three-toed Jacamar Jacamaralcyon tridactyla

  The Three-toed Jacamar occurs in southeastern Brazil. It has fine golden-buff markings on its head, a green gloss on its dark tail, and three toes on each foot.

• Abyssinian Hare Lepus habessinicus

  The Abyssinian hare lives in open parts of East Africa. Its coat differs somewhat between Somali and Ethiopian animals.

• Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus

  The Western Long-tailed Hornbill is a large hornbill of humid forests in West Africa.

• Calabrian Black Squirrel Sciurus meridionalis

  A squirrel restricted to Calabria in southern Italy. A 2017 study presented morphological and genetic differences supporting its treatment as a species distinct from the Eurasian red squirrel.

• Henderson Reed Warbler Acrocephalus taiti

  The Henderson Reed Warbler is found only on Henderson Island. A field study recorded it foraging in varied places and noted individual variation in patches of white plumage.

• Amber Bamboo Bat Tylonycteris fulvida

  This small bat was recorded in bamboo groves in Assam, India. It has golden-brown dorsal fur, a flattened head, and pale pads on its thumbs.

• American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea

  The American Tree Sparrow has a rounded body, long tail, and rusty cap. In winter, small flocks forage for seeds on the ground in fields and yards from southern Canada into the northern United States, then migrate to northern tundra as snow melts.

• Nelson's Coarse-haired Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus nelsoni

  Nelson's coarse-haired pocket mouse occurs in the Chihuahuan Desert of the Mexican Plateau. This long-tailed pocket mouse feeds on seeds and insects in rocky or sandy habitat.

• Panao Antpitta Grallaria oneilli

  This antpitta occurs on the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. It is dark reddish brown, with a whitish center to the belly; at least one recorded bird ate insects and similar invertebrates.