Meet the world’s animals.

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• Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans

  

  The Laughing Falcon has a pale head with a black mask around the eyes. It feeds mainly on snakes, and pairs may exchange laughter-like calls at dawn and dusk.

• Gray Monk Saki Pithecia irrorata

  The gray monk saki lives in South American forests. Its gray coat and white hands and feet stand out.

• Burmese Shrike Lanius collurioides

  The Burmese Shrike has a blue-grey head and upper back, with chestnut across the rest of the upperparts. Yunnan records also describe it taking insects and small animals such as lizards.

• Derby's Woolly Opossum Caluromys derbianus

  This tree-dwelling marsupial has a long, bushy tail, a reddish-brown back, a pale underside, and a dark stripe on its face.

• Sandstone Shrikethrush Colluricincla woodwardi

  The Sandstone Shrike-thrush lives among sandstone rocks in northern Australia. It walks between rocks while searching for small lizards, grasshoppers, and spiders.

• Greater spot-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus nictitans

  The greater spot-nosed monkey is a West and Central African guenon with a conspicuous white spot on its nose and dark fur. It eats fruit and seeds and spends much of its time in trees.

• Polynesian Starling Aplonis tabuensis

  The Polynesian Starling is a starling found widely across South Pacific islands. In Niue, it moves in family-like groups and searches branches and trunks for insects and fruit.

• Thomas's Big-eared Brown Bat Histiotus laephotis

  Thomas's Big-eared Brown Bat is a medium-sized bat with large ears. It is recorded in Argentina’s Yungas forests, eats insects, and roosts in buildings or natural caves.

• Green Catbird Ailuroedus crassirostris

  The Green Catbird is an Australian bird with a green, white-spotted body and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and flowers in the forest canopy and gives a cat-like call.

• Chuuk Flying Fox Pteropus pelagicus

  The Chuuk flying fox lives in the Caroline Islands of Micronesia. The study treats the Mortlock population and the populations on Chuuk Lagoon and Namonuito as two subspecies of one species.

• Boreal Chickadee Poecile hudsonicus

  A small bird of conifer forests in Alaska and northern Canada. It has a brown cap and hides food in autumn for winter.

• Day's Shrew Suncus dayi

  Day’s shrew is a small shrew from humid montane forests in southern India. Its back is dark brown and its underside has a silvery sheen.

• Martens's Warbler Seicercus omeiensis

  Martens’s Warbler (Seicercus omeiensis) breeds in China and winters in Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor to closed-canopy woodland and shrubland.

• Pretty-faced Wallaby Notamacropus parryi

  The pretty-faced wallaby is marked by a white cheek stripe and a very long tail. It lives in groups in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia.

• Brown-banded Antpitta Grallaria milleri

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits humid forests in Colombia's central Andes. It walks along the forest floor to forage and has a broad chestnut band across the breast.

• Plateau Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ornatus

  This kangaroo rat occurs in arid and semi-arid parts of Mexico. Its range forms a narrow belt from southeastern Durango toward southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca.

• Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

  A tiny bird with a long tail that searches for food on fine branches.

• Northern pygmy marmoset Cebuella pygmaea

  A very small tree-climbing monkey of the upper Amazon basin.

• Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus

  This small honeybird has a patchy range south of the Sahara. It searches leaves and branches for insects and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Antelope Rabbit Lepus callotis

  This jackrabbit lives in high plateau grasslands of southwestern New Mexico and northern and central Mexico. It mainly eats grasses, and its white flanks are a useful field mark.

• Lemon-spectacled Tanager Chlorothraupis olivacea

  The Lemon-spectacled Tanager is a tanager of humid tropical forest. Its yellow lores and eye ring are reported as useful distinctions from close relatives.

• Arrow Flying Squirrel Hylopetes sagitta

  This flying squirrel is reported from Java and Bangka. At Mount Ungaran in Central Java, a paper documented nighttime activity in October 2024; the three animals observed were mainly in trees.

• Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous

  The Hooded Pitohui lives in forests on New Guinea and Yapen Island. Its black head, wings, and tail contrast with its rufous-brown body.

• Cape York Rat Rattus leucopus

  The Cape York Rat is a small rodent from the Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Australia. A study found it active on the ground at night and nesting communally in burrows.