Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Buttonquail Turnix velox

  

  The Little Buttonquail is a small ground-dwelling bird of Australian grasslands and woodlands. In breeding plumage, the sexes differ in head pattern, and males incubate the eggs.

• Long-snouted Bat Platalina genovensium

  

  The Peruvian long-snouted bat has a greatly elongated muzzle. It feeds on nectar and fruit from columnar cacti in desert areas west of the Andes.

• Rufous Sibia Heterophasia capistrata

  

  The Rufous Sibia is a rufous-colored bird of Himalayan forests. It forages mainly in the canopy and may move to different elevations with the seasons.

• Bubal Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus

  

  A long-legged African antelope with a narrow muzzle, the hartebeest lives in herds on savanna grasslands. Coat color and horn shape vary across its range.

• Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus

  

  A small plover that winters in Hong Kong. Breeding males show black markings on the head.

• Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica

  

  A large squirrel endemic to India that lives in forest canopies.

• Slaty-bellied Tesia Tesia olivea

  This small bird inhabits the undergrowth of humid forest. A study reports different crown gloss in the nominate population from northeastern India and Myanmar and the subspecies from northern Thailand and Vietnam.

• Allegheny Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) magister

  This rodent occurs in the eastern United States. Its back is gray to brownish gray, its underside is white, and its long tail is distinctly two-toned.

• White-shouldered Fairywren Malurus alboscapulatus

  The White-shouldered Fairywren is a bird of New Guinea that lives in open habitats such as grassland and marshes.

• Ryukyu Islands Tree Rat Diplothrix legata

  This large Japanese endemic rodent occurs on Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima, and Okinawa Island. The University of Tokyo Museum account notes that its tail is longer than its body.

• Trindade Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana

  The Trindade Petrel glides over the sea and feeds on fish and squid, returning to oceanic islands to breed.

• Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus

  The soprano pipistrelle is a small brown bat. After sunset it catches insects while flying near water and woodland.

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Minute Fruit Bat Cynopterus minutus

  The minute fruit bat is a fruit-eating bat that may show pale yellow fur around the neck. Two individuals were caught along a forest trail in a protected area of Borneo.

• Przevalski's Nuthatch Sitta przewalskii

  This nuthatch occurs in western China and northeastern Tibet. It uses spruce and fir forest, parkland, and places with scattered trees at roughly 2,200–4,000 m.

• Chacma Baboon Papio ursinus

  A baboon of southern Africa's grasslands, savannas and wooded highlands.

• Palawan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis lemprieri

  This flycatcher occurs on Palawan and nearby Philippine islands. It is found alone or in pairs in the understory of moist lowland, foothill, and secondary forest.

• Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa thyone

  This small bat has pale dorsal fur. Bolivian records include humid evergreen and young secondary forests, and the species specializes on wild figs.

• Blue-headed Fantail Rhipidura cyaniceps

  A fantail of forest understory on Luzon and Catanduanes in the Philippines. It catches insects in the forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Marco Polo Argali Ovis polii

  Ovis polii is a wild sheep described from the dry Pamir steppe. Males have long, winding horns, and the sheep use rolling hills, broad valleys, and gradual mountain sides.

• Red-headed Tanager Piranga erythrocephala

  This tanager inhabits mountain forests in western Mexico. Males have a red head and throat; females lack the red areas.

• Hopi Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) rufus

  This chipmunk lives in rocky areas of the western United States. It favors places with juniper and pinyon pine and has reddish dorsal stripes.

• Ground Cuckooshrike Coracina maxima

  This large cuckooshrike lives in inland Australia. Two birds followed in the western Kimberley in 2025 repeatedly used the same roost and foraged on the ground in a recently burnt area.

• 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.