Meet the world’s animals.

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• Jameson's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus randensis

  

  A hare of rocky outcrops, with a white patch at the neck and a black tail tip. It rests among rocks by day and feeds on nearby grass at night.

• Cassin's Auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus

  

  Cassin's Auklet is a small seabird that breeds on islands along the Pacific coast of North America. It dives for small crustaceans and nests in burrows.

• Indonesian Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus titthaecheilus

  

  The Indonesian Short-nosed Fruit Bat is described as the largest member of its genus and occurs in forests, plantations, and settlements.

• Cape Verde Storm Petrel Hydrobates jabejabe

  

  This storm-petrel breeds on rocky sites and uses surrounding marine waters. The 2018 IUCN assessment treated the Cape Verde population, while a 2026 study described the São Tomé population as a subspecies of Hydrobates jabejabe.

• 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.

• Common Whitethroat Curruca communis

  

  A small bird that darts through low scrub and often flicks its long tail.

• Cyprus Mouse Mus cypriacus

  This mouse was described as an endemic species of Cyprus. It has agouti-patterned fur on the back, and the original description recorded captures in abandoned cultivated plots in the island's south.

• Yellow-eyed Babbler Chrysomma sinense

  The Yellow-eyed Babbler is a small bird with a conspicuous yellow eye-ring that searches for food among shrubs.

• Delacour's Langur Trachypithecus delacouri

  Delacour's langur lives in remnant forests among the limestone mountains of northern Vietnam. Its black-and-white coat, crest, and long tail stand out, and leaves form most of its diet.

• Barred Puffbird Nystalus radiatus

  This puffbird occurs from central Panama through western Colombia to western Ecuador, in wet forest and its edges. Its reddish-brown body is barred with black, and it waits quietly on a perch for prey. Its diet includes large insects and small lizards.

• Mesoamerican Round-eared Bat Lophostoma nicaraguae

  This bat has dark brown fur on its back and dark brown ears, paler brown fur on the belly, and a bare V-shaped area on the lower lip divided into wart-like projections. In Colombia, it is recorded in dry and moist tropical forests of the Caribbean and Pacific regions.

• Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike Prionops rufiventris

  This helmetshrike lives in Central African forest. It is reported in family groups and mixed-species flocks, from lowland to mid-elevation forest.

• Ornate Shrew Sorex ornatus

  This shrew inhabits low elevations, riparian grasslands, and brushy sites in California. It searches beneath leaf litter and rocks for insects and other invertebrates by day and night.

• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis

  Males have chestnut upperparts and wings, a black head, and a white ear patch. The species mainly eats grass seeds and also takes insects in the breeding season. A study in northern South Africa found nests in open areas with much bare ground.

• Mexican Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) mexicana

  The Mexican mouse opossum is a small marsupial recorded from eastern Mexico through much of Central America to eastern Panama. A dark mask surrounds its large eyes.

• Brown-capped Babbler Pellorneum fuscocapillus

  This babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It inhabits forest, well-wooded areas, and thick undergrowth, and is absent from the extremely dry north and southeast according to the local species account.

• Agile Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys agilis

  The agile kangaroo rat hops on long hind feet. It lives in dry scrub, digs burrows, and carries seeds in its cheek pouches.

• Sooty Barbet Caloramphus hayii

  Recorded in forests and forest edges of Peninsular Malaysia, this barbet is dark-backed with a rusty orange head and breast.

• Abert's Squirrel Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti

  A U.S. Forest Service species review depicts a gray-and-white squirrel with long, pointed ear tufts. It is closely associated with ponderosa pine forests.

• Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis

  It breeds only on a plateau on Amsterdam Island and normally breeds every other year.

• 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.

• Rufous-naped Greenlet Hylophilus semibrunneus

  This small greenlet occurs in forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its nape is rusty brown and its back is greenish.

• Townsend's Vole Microtus (Mynomes) townsendii

  Townsend's vole lives in wet meadows and wetlands along the Pacific coast of North America. It eats mostly grasses, with seasonal changes in its diet.

• Bahia Tapaculo Eleoscytalopus psychopompus

  The Bahia Tapaculo occurs in lowland Atlantic Forest along the coast of Bahia, Brazil. In the coastal birds examined in the study, the flanks are rufous and the thighs bluish.