Meet the world’s animals.

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• Slate-throated Whitestart Myioborus miniatus

  

  The Slate-throated Whitestart lives in mountain forests and is marked by white edges on the tail and a reddish crown patch. Crown and belly colors vary by region.

• Pale-faced Bat Phylloderma stenops

  The pale-faced bat is a large bat recorded in humid forests of Ecuador. Reports include foods ranging from small vertebrates to fruit.

• Pied Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius flaviscapis

  The Pied Shrike-Babbler occurs on Java. Males and females differ in plumage, and the species searches for food in forest foliage.

• Bank Vole Myodes glareolus

  A small vole recorded from Europe to Central Asia. It uses forests, scrub, and hedgerows.

• Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala

  The Black-headed Heron is a large heron with a black head and gray-and-white body. The sexes look alike, though some birds have little or no white on the front of the neck.

• Amazon Weasel Neogale africana

  This South American mustelid occurs in the Amazon Basin. In 2023, one individual was observed hunting a rodent and using a nearby burrow in a shade-grown coffee plot in Bolivia’s Yungas montane forest.

• Philippine Bush Warbler Horornis seebohmi

  This warbler occurs in the mountains of Luzon in the Philippines. Its species account lists dense brush and undergrowth above 800 m.

• Northern Quoll Dasyurus hallucatus

  The northern quoll is a carnivorous marsupial from northern Australia. Its brown coat has white spots, and it is active at night.

• Stripe-faced Wood Quail Odontophorus balliviani

  The Stripe-faced Wood-Quail is a ground-dwelling quail of humid Andean forests and their upper margins. It is secretive and forages on the ground.

• Mountain Reedbuck Redunca fulvorufula

  This antelope lives in dry mountain grasslands. Only males have horns, and grass is its main food.

• Styan's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella pleskei

  The sexes look alike, with olive-brown upperparts, grayish-white underparts, and a rounded tail. It breeds on islands near Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East, then winters farther south.

• Monk Saki Pithecia monachus

  Male and female monk sakis have different coat colors. In a study of seasonally flooded forest in northern Peru, seeds were their most frequent food, and they also ate arthropods.

• Western Hooded Pitta Pitta sordida

  The Western Hooded Pitta stands out for its green and blue plumage and dark head. It lives in forests and cultivated areas, where it forages on the ground.

• Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) murina

  Linnaeus’s Mouse Opossum is a nocturnal marsupial with large dark eyes and a prehensile tail. It occurs in northern South America, prefers insects and also eats fruit.

• Arabian Green Bee-eater Merops cyanophrys

  This bee-eater occurs in the Middle East, including the Arabian Peninsula. It uses open areas with scattered trees or scrub and catches flying insects in short sallies from a perch.

• Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina

  The northern pig-tailed macaque is now treated as a species distinct from the southern pig-tailed macaque. A Thai comparison found differences between the northern and southern forms in crown hair, facial markings, coat, and tail.

• Black Stork Ciconia nigra

  A large stork that uses forests and wetlands. Many populations migrate seasonally, while some, including those in southern Africa, remain in the same area.

• Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed Bat Murina hilgendorfi

  Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed Bat has a slightly projecting snout. A Kyoto Prefecture account says it usually hides in tree cavities by day, feeds on insects in the evening, and hibernates in winter.

• Philippine Frogmouth Batrachostomus septimus

  The Philippine Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird found only in the Philippine archipelago. It catches large insects and lives in forests and at forest edges.

• Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus wahlbergi

  Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat has a dog-like face and eats fruit. Males use white shoulder tufts in courtship, and groups rest by day in hollow trees or under large leaves.

• White-crested turaco Tauraco leucolophus

  A bird with an upright white crest that hops through the trees.

• Etruscan Shrew Suncus etruscus

  The Etruscan shrew is a very small shrew that is also found in the Mediterranean region of mainland Portugal.

• Buru Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx cajeli

  A small kingfisher endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia. Wallace's original description notes a black upper surface with pale-blue spots and feather edges, rufous-yellow underparts, a white throat, and coral-red bill and feet. A later nineteenth-century letter describes feeding in swamp thickets.

• Brown's Pademelon Thylogale browni

  This small-to-medium wallaby is native to northern and eastern New Guinea, where it occurs in forest and grassland. Populations thought to have been introduced to islands such as New Ireland have contracted.