Meet the world’s animals.

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• Paramo Tapaculo Scytalopus opacus

  

  This small tapaculo ranges from the central Andes of Colombia to central Ecuador. A Colombian male specimen shows fine barring near the base of the tail, on the flanks and thighs. Recordings document songs and calls made of rapidly repeated short notes.

• 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.

• Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca

  The Sooty Albatross is a large seabird with dusky plumage that ranges over the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean.

• Gedemsa Tragelaphus buxtoni

  The mountain nyala, also called Gedemsa, is a large bovid of the Ethiopian highlands. The Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority lists the Bale Mountains and Arsi Mountains among its localities.

• Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella

  The Australian Pratincole uses dry, open grasslands and other bare-ground habitats, and some populations move seasonally.

• Damara Woolly Bat Kerivoula argentata

  This small bat has long, dense fur that can help conceal it among leaves or in bird nests. The southern African assessment reports it from riverine forest and other moist habitats, where it eats insects.

• Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Vulture is a large scavenging vulture. A 2023–2025 survey recorded 20 nests at 12 sites in Upper Assam, India.

• Gelada Theropithecus gelada

  A grass-eating monkey of the Ethiopian highlands.

• Nonggang Babbler Stachyris nonggangensis

  This babbler was described from Nonggang Nature Reserve in southwest China and depends on limestone forest. Its confirmed known range is restricted; northern Vietnam is discussed as a possible area, not confirmed range.

• Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae

  The lesser long-nosed bat ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States and farther south in Central America. It feeds at flowers such as cacti and agaves.

• Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens

  The Singing Honeyeater has a gray-brown back, a pale streaked underside, and a black facial mask edged below in yellow. It searches low in shrubs and trees for insects, nectar, and other foods.

• Chestnut Pogonomys Pogonomys macrourus

  The chestnut pogonomys is a small rodent of New Guinea. Recorded specimens with observation data were seen moving through low vegetation at night.

• Black-capped Tinamou Crypturellus atrocapillus

  This brown tinamou has a round black patch on its crown and red legs. Females have crossbars on the back.

• Alpine marmot Marmota (Marmota) marmota

  An alpine marmot that eats grasses and roots in summer, then spends the long winter underground with its family.

• Vanikoro Flycatcher Myiagra vanikorensis

  The male Vanikoro Flycatcher is a small flycatcher with a bluish-black head and orange underparts. It uses forests as well as gardens and cultivated places with scattered trees, where it takes insects and other small food.

• Short-nosed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) brevirostris

  This small harvest mouse is known from separated highland populations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Adults have a reddish back and a white-looking underside.

• Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis

  The Western Orphean Warbler is a migratory warbler that breeds around the Mediterranean. The male has a gray head and back, a white throat, and pale pinkish underparts.

• Great Flying Fox Pteropus neohibernicus

  The great flying fox is a large fruit bat found on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is nocturnal and roosts in large groups high in trees.

• White-backed Swallow Cheramoeca leucosterna

  This swallow inhabits arid and semi-arid parts of southern and central Australia. It breeds in open country where sandy banks or earth cliffs are available.

• Gerenuk Litocranius walleri

  The gerenuk is a long-necked, long-legged antelope of East Africa. It sometimes stands on its hind legs to reach leaves on shrubs.

• Black-eared Warbler Basileuterus melanotis

  This small warbler occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. It has olive upperparts, pale buff underparts, and dark markings around the eye.

• Gaisler's Big-eared Bat Plecotus gaisleri

  This large-eared bat is reported from North Africa. Molecular analysis confirmed it on Pantelleria, Italy, and records also confirm it on Malta and Gozo.

• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• Banded Langur Presbytis femoralis

  The banded langur is a monkey that lives in trees. In Singapore's population, the black coat contrasts with a white chest-and-belly band and pale fur around the eyes and inside the limbs.