Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown-crowned Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus phayrei

  

  An older bird account describes a form now included in Pomatorhinus phayrei under a historical subspecies name. It records olive-brown upperparts, rufous underparts, and movement beneath dense cover.

• Aldabra Flying Fox Pteropus aldabrensis

  The Aldabra flying fox is a large fruit bat found only on Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. It eats fruit and flowers and helps move seeds among the island's plants.

• Yellow-eared Toucanet Selenidera spectabilis

  This toucanet lives in humid forest from Honduras to Panama and searches for fruit and small animals in high branches.

• Smith's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus rupestris

  This hare lives in rocky country. It hides in crevices or beneath rocks by day and feeds on grasses and shrub shoots at night.

• Black-breasted Gnateater Conopophaga snethlageae

  This forest bird ranges in the Amazon between the Tapajós and Tocantins Rivers. In 2023, the first nest observations were reported from the understory of primary terra firme forest in Brazil.

• Swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor

  A dark-coated wallaby that shelters in dense forest undergrowth.

• Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma chrysolophum

  The Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin lives in montane Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. A 2023 paper describes its developed yellow crown patch and proposes the genus Protopelma.

• Hamlyn's Monkey Cercopithecus hamlyni

  A white T-shaped stripe across the face makes this monkey distinctive. It lives in bamboo-rich forests and forms small groups.

• Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea

  The Little Corella is a mostly white cockatoo with a blue ring around each eye and a pale rose-pink patch between the eye and bill. It is widespread in Australia and feeds on grass seeds and grains in large flocks.

• Gray Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) incanus

  Males are larger than females, and coat color varies with age and region. It lives along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil and searches for insects on both the ground and in trees.

• Bannerman's Turaco Tauraco bannermani

  Bannerman's Turaco lives in montane forest in western Cameroon. It has a red crest and blue tail and feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula

  The Greater White-toothed Shrew occurs throughout mainland Portugal. Its back changes from gray in winter to reddish brown in summer. It uses open places, shrub-rich woodland edges, gardens and farmland, and is mostly nocturnal but also active by day.

• Chapman's Antshrike Thamnophilus zarumae

  Chapman's Antshrike is about 14–15 cm long and occurs from southwestern Ecuador into northwestern Peru. It uses forest edges and secondary woodland and gleans invertebrates in trees. The species page divides this region between two subspecies.

• Long-tailed marmot Marmota (Marmota) caudata

  The long-tailed marmot is a large squirrel found in Central Asia’s high mountain meadows.

• Sri Lanka Woodshrike Tephrodornis affinis

  Endemic to Sri Lanka, it is commonest in lowland dry-zone woodland and local in parts of the wet zone. It searches open woodland for insects and spiders.

• Brazilian arboreal mouse Rhagomys rufescens

  The Brazilian arboreal mouse was redescribed in a 2004 rediscovery paper based on two specimens. Its lifestyle in that paper includes inferences from morphology rather than direct observations.

• Chestnut-throated Huet-huet Pteroptochos castaneus

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in temperate forest in central and southern Chile. Its chestnut plumage and large feet are distinctive.

• Lesser Grison Galictis cuja

  The lesser grison is a slender mustelid found in parts of South America. It has a yellowish-brown back, a darker underside and a pale facial band whose pattern varies among individuals.

• Lesser Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea minor

  The Lesser Bird of Paradise lives in forests of northwestern New Guinea. Males court females with vivid colors and long ornamental plumes.

• Pacific Townsend's big-eared bat Corynorhinus townsendii

  This bat folds its large ears back over its head while resting. It flies at night and catches moths and other insects.

• Orange-bellied Flowerpecker Dicaeum trigonostigma

  This flowerpecker lives in forests across South and Southeast Asia. Males and females have different plumage, and the bird mainly eats fruit, with occasional insects.

• Giant Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ingens

  This rodent has large hind feet and cheek pouches, with a long tail that helps it balance. It lives in dry grassland burrows and gathers seeds.

• Brown Teal Anas chlorotis

  The Brown Teal is endemic to New Zealand. Breeding males show a green sheen on the head and a dark chestnut breast; the species is now mostly restricted to the northern North Island.

• 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.