Meet the world’s animals.

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• Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys spectabilis

  

  This North American rodent moves in long bounds on its hind legs. It carries grass seeds in its cheek pouches and stores them underground.

• Slate-throated Gnatcatcher Polioptila schistaceigula

  This small bird occurs in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. Males and females have different white markings around the eyes, and the species lives in moist lowland forest.

• Leaf-winged Bat Glauconycteris variegata

  Its wing membranes have a leaf-like net pattern, and the bat hides among foliage while roosting. It is widely but patchily recorded across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Least Bittern Botaurus exilis

  A small heron of freshwater and brackish marshes with tall aquatic plants. It may wait motionless among reeds and watch for small prey.

• Utiariti Colilargo Oligoryzomys utiaritensis

  This small rodent is recorded from Brazil’s Cerrado–Amazon transition. It has also been captured in secondary forest and plantations near farmland.

• Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis

  The Spanish Sparrow breeds in southern Europe; males are notable for their black chest.

• Narrow-nosed Planigale Planigale tenuirostris

  The Narrow-nosed Planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened, triangular head and a thin tail about as long as its body. It lives in grasslands, shrublands and other habitats in eastern Australia.

• Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina

  The Evening Grosbeak is a stocky finch with a massive bill. Males are yellow and black, while females are mostly gray.

• Tana River Red Colobus Piliocolobus rufomitratus

  The Tana River red colobus lives in riverine forest along the lower Tana River in eastern Kenya. It feeds in the morning and late afternoon and spends much of the day resting.

• Spot-crowned Barbet Capito maculicoronatus

  A barbet of forests from Panama to northwestern Colombia. A Panama breeding study followed an adult pair as they excavated a cavity in a dead tree and raised nestlings.

• Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira tildae

  Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat is a fruit-eating bat found from northern South America into Brazil and neighboring countries. Its coat varies, and it has ochre shoulder patches and dark fur around the eyes.

• Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi

  Bates's Sunbird is a small sunbird of African forests and forest edges. Its dark olive upperparts contrast with a pale eyebrow and yellow-edged wings.

• Common Samoan Flying Fox Pteropus samoensis

  A flying fox with dark brown body and wings and variable lighter fur on the head and shoulders. It lives in forests of Samoa and Fiji and is active by day.

• Blyth's Hornbill Rhyticeros plicatus

  The Papuan Hornbill has a black body and white tail. Males have a rufous head and neck, while females are black. It feeds mainly on rainforest fruit and flies high between fruiting trees.

• Persian Jird Meriones (Parameriones) persicus

  The Persian jird lives in dry parts of western Asia, using rocky hills and grasslands. A tuft of fur marks the tip of its tail.

• Lynes's Cisticola Cisticola distinctus

  Lynes's Cisticola is a cisticola recorded in the highlands of northern Tanzania. The 2024 Clements Checklist treats it separately from Wailing Cisticola, while also noting that additional corroboration is needed.

• Prince Bernhard's titi Plecturocebus bernhardi

  Prince Bernhard's titi is a small monkey studied in forest in Rondônia, Brazil. Groups of two to four were observed at one remnant, and sampled animals had continuous orange fur across the chest and limbs.

• Pied Monarch Arses kaupi

  Adults are black and white with a blue bare eye-ring. The male has a broad black breast band below the white throat; in the female the band is narrower and browner. It takes insects from trunks and vines in rainforests of north-eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.

• Grey-naped Antpitta Grallaria griseonucha

  This antpitta lives in the Venezuelan Andes and uses the lower levels of humid montane forest.

• Amazonian Red-sided Opossum Monodelphis (Monodelphis) glirina

  The Amazonian red-sided opossum is a small marsupial with reddish-orange flanks that lives mainly on the ground. It occurs in Amazonian forests.

• Pale-browed Tinamou Crypturellus transfasciatus

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs along the Pacific side from southwestern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. Its pale brow and barred back help identify it.

• Lesser Shrew Crocidura suaveolens

  The Lesser White-toothed Shrew ranges across the Palaearctic. In AlUla, Saudi Arabia, it has been recorded at 1,040 m on Harrat Uwayrid. The regional guide reports an insect diet and nests under shelter in dry grass or leaf litter.

• Ashy-faced Owl Tyto glaucops

  The Ashy-faced Owl has a gray facial disk and tawny plumage marked with darker spots. It takes small mammals and other prey.