Meet the world’s animals.

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• Common Pericote Graomys griseoflavus

  

  The common pericote is a mouse broadly distributed in dry parts of Argentina. It has a gray-yellow back, pale underside, and a long tail ending in a brush-like tuft.

• Javan Shortwing Brachypteryx montana

  Males have dark olive-brown upperparts and wings, a rusty-brown throat, chest, and flanks, and a gray belly. On Java's mountains, the species uses forest and eats insects and berries.

• Robinson's Banded Langur Presbytis robinsoni

  This langur ranges from the northern Malay Peninsula through southern Thailand to Myanmar. Some sources treat it as a subspecies of P. femoralis, while a 2020 genetic study and MDD support species-level recognition.

• Diard's Trogon Harpactes diardii

  Diard's Trogon lives in Southeast Asian forests. Males have a black head and breast with a red belly, while females are mainly brown.

• Dark Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) obscurus

  This fruit-eating bat has been recorded in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its dorsal and ventral fur is subtly two-toned, and the forearm is densely furred.

• Huon Bowerbird Amblyornis germanus

  This bird lives in montane forest on the Huon Peninsula. Males have an orange crest and decorate stick bowers with colored objects; females lack the orange crest.

• Moluccan Flying Fox Pteropus chrysoproctus

  The Moluccan flying fox is reported from islands in the Moluccas. A survey on Seram reported a roost of about 300 animals in mangrove trees.

• Ornate Fruit Dove Ptilinopus ornatus

  The Ornate Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea's hill and montane forests. Its crown ranges from wine-red to yellowish olive among subspecies, and the sexes look alike.

• Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii

  This small mouse of Australia’s dry country has a sandy to rufous back, white underside, and a dark tail tuft. It uses burrows or fallen timber and eats plant material, seeds, fungi, and insects.

• Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis

  An olive-brown reed warbler that visits reed beds and sings loudly for long stretches.

• 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.

• Crested Bobwhite Colinus cristatus

  Its pointed crest and finely mottled plumage make this ground-dwelling bird distinctive. It lives in open grassland and woodland edges, feeding mainly on seeds.

• Guianan White-eared Opossum Didelphis imperfecta

  The Guianan white-eared opossum occurs in northern and central South America. It was separated from close relatives in a recent taxonomic split, and species-specific information on its appearance and ecology remains sparse.

• Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys

  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American wetlands and ponds, with different facial patterns in males and females.

• Horsfield's Shrew Crocidura horsfieldii

  This shrew occurs in India and Sri Lanka, where it is recorded in moist forests and grasslands. It is terrestrial and feeds on insects.

• Black-cheeked Gnateater Conopophaga melanops

  This small bird searches for insects near the ground in Brazil’s eastern Atlantic Forest. Males have a distinctive black face pattern.

• Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis

  The saola is a wild relative of cattle that lives in the forests of the Annamite Mountains in Laos and Viet Nam. Both sexes have long horns and white facial markings.

• Aberrant Bush Warbler Horornis flavolivaceus

  This small warbler lives in the highlands of the Sunda Islands. On Borneo it hides in scrub, sings often, and feeds on insects.

• 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.

• Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

  Adults are slim, long-tailed gray birds. In North American towns and grasslands, they forage for insects and eat more fruit in fall and winter.

• Marsh Rabbit Sylvilagus palustris

  The marsh rabbit is a wetland rabbit of the southeastern United States that eats grasses and other marsh plants.

• Pied-winged Swallow Hirundo leucosoma

  The Pied-winged Swallow is a small blue-and-white swallow with conspicuous white lines at the base of its wings.

• Kintampo Rope Squirrel Funisciurus substriatus

  This squirrel lives in West African savannas and riverside woods. Its back ranges from greenish yellow to ochre, with white side stripes and a ringed tail.

• Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus

  The Spangled Drongo has blue-green spots across glossy black plumage and a long forked tail. It waits on a perch and catches insects in flight.