Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii

  

  The Bahama Mockingbird is an island bird with gray-brown plumage and dark streaks on the flanks. Its song has varied notes and phrases, but it does not mimic other species.

• Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina

  The northern pig-tailed macaque is now treated as a species distinct from the southern pig-tailed macaque. A Thai comparison found differences between the northern and southern forms in crown hair, facial markings, coat, and tail.

• Whooping Motmot Momotus subrufescens

  This motmot ranges from eastern Panama to northwestern South America and uses lowland forest.

• 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.

• Amazonian Trogon Trogon ramonianus

  A trogon of mature Amazonian rainforest. Males are strongly blue and green, while females are mostly gray, so the sexes look different.

• Plains Pseudomys Pseudomys australis

  A mouse of Australia’s arid zone. Recent records are concentrated on stony plains in South Australia, with scattered records in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

• Rufous-rumped Lark Pinarocorys erythropygia

  This lark of tropical Africa lives in open, often dry country and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• Common Yellow Bat Scotophilus heathii

  A bat recorded in forests, woodlands, plantations, and other cultivated land from lowlands to higher hills. The Kerala account describes it flying low while feeding on insects.

• Usambara Weaver Ploceus nicolli

  This weaver is found in the mountains of northeastern Tanzania. Males are mainly yellow and black, while females are olive and yellow; it feeds on insects.

• Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum

  This small fruit-eating bat occurs in South America. It has no tail, brown tricolored fur, a short nose, and white patches on its shoulders. Local migration records are kept to the populations where they were documented.

• Cuban Pygmy Owl Glaucidium siju

  The Cuban Pygmy Owl has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and two dark spots on the back of its head. It hunts by day as well as at night.

• Black-faced Impala Aepyceros petersi

  Aepyceros petersi, the black-faced impala, is recorded from southwestern Angola and northwestern Namibia. Bocage described the female collected at Humbe as rufous-fawn, with dark markings on the face.

• Slaty Bristlefront Merulaxis ater

  This bird lives in the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil. Males are slate-grey and females brown, with fine bristles at the base of the bill. It searches for insects among leaf litter close to the forest floor.

• Northern Red-backed Vole Myodes rutilus

  This small vole occurs in northern Europe, Asia, and North America. Its back has a rusty-red cast, and it stores plant and fungal foods in nests for use during winter.

• Purple Cochoa Cochoa purpurea

  Males show violet and purplish-brown plumage, while females are more reddish and earthy brown. A study in northeast India recorded birds feeding on fruit in the canopy.

• Shrew-faced Squirrel Rhinosciurus laticaudatus

  This squirrel is recognized by its long snout and pale sides. It searches the forest floor for insects and earthworms.

• Cuban Vireo Vireo gundlachii

  The Cuban Vireo is a small, slow-moving bird of shrubby forest edges. It has a yellow spot in front of the eye and a white crescent behind it; a Macaulay Library record documents it at Viñales, Cuba.

• White-cheeked Macaque Macaca leucogenys

  This macaque was described from Medog in southeastern Tibet, China. White cheek and chin whiskers stand out, and its neck has long, thick hair. The species-description abstract lists records in forests at several elevations.

• Grey Antwren Myrmotherula menetriesii

  A small bird that forages in the mid-story of Amazonian forest, it has different male and female plumages. Both sexes wag the tail from side to side. The species is recorded up to 1,100 m on the eastern Andean slope.

• Peters's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus crypturus

  Peters's epauletted fruit bat flies through southern African savanna and riverine forest, feeding on fruit. It travels to fruiting trees at night.

• Black-headed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla nigriceps

  The Black-headed Mountain Greenbul lives in mountain forests from southern Kenya to northern Tanzania. In the October 2024 Clements treatment, separated from the Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, it has a blacker head and mainly gray underparts.

• Canefield Rat Rattus sordidus

  This ground-dwelling rat occurs in northeastern Australia. A survey in the Pellew Islands also recorded it in grassy open woodland.

• White-browed Tit-warbler Leptopoecile sophiae

  This tiny bird is about 8–10 cm long and lives in high-mountain scrub. It eats insects and other invertebrates and may move between elevations.

• Eastern Cave Bat Vespadelus troughtoni

  This small bat is recorded across eastern Australia. It occurs in dry open forest and woodland and roosts in caves, rock crevices, and similar shelters.