Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus

  

  The Black-crested Titmouse is a gray songbird with a bold black crest. It searches bark and branches for insects and seeds, and may join small flocks outside the breeding season.

• Hog-nosed Shrew Rat Hyorhinomys stuempkei

  

  This rodent was recorded on a mountain in northern Sulawesi. Its nose ends in a flat pink pad with nostrils that face forward. In the 2015 description, all five known specimens were captured on the forest floor at night; stomachs of three contained earthworm remains and other prey.

• Brown-headed Barbet Psilopogon zeylanicus

  

  This barbet has a brown head and green body and feeds on fruit and insects. It uses forests as well as orchards, parks, and other green spaces near people.

• Cave Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) velifer

  

  This myotis has a bare patch between the shoulder blades and mainly roosts in caves. Females give birth to one young per year.

• Pin-tailed Manakin Ilicura militaris

  

  Males are mainly green, black, and white with a red tail, while females are olive-colored and shorter-tailed. Males perform courtship dances and make sounds with their wing feathers.

• Sulawesi Rousette Rousettus celebensis

  

  A fruit-eating bat recorded on Sulawesi. A 2021 phylogenetic study proposed placing the species formerly called Rousettus celebensis in Pilonycteris; a 2025 field study also used Pilonycteris celebensis.

• Black-necked crane Grus nigricollis

  A crane that breeds in high mountain regions and descends to lower wintering areas.

• West Javan Langur Trachypithecus mauritius

  A monkey restricted to forests of western Java. It eats leaves and shoots and spends much of the day resting.

• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata

  A sandpiper with rich cinnamon and chestnut markings in breeding plumage. After adults migrate south, juveniles travel via Alaska toward Australasia.

• Godman's Long-tailed Bat Choeroniscus godmani

  Godman's long-tailed bat belongs to a nectar-feeding genus and is described as the smallest species in Choeroniscus.

• Yellow-throated Scrubwren Neosericornis citreogularis

  The Yellow-throated Scrubwren is a ground-dwelling bird of rainforest and wet, densely vegetated gullies along Australia's east coast.

• Mongolian Gazelle Procapra gutturosa

  The Mongolian gazelle is a steppe animal whose coat changes with the seasons. In eastern and southeastern Mongolia, large herds move seasonally in search of pasture and water.

• Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides

  A small eagle with a wingspan over one metre. In woodland and along rivers in the Australian Capital Territory, it watches for prey from above and then swoops down.

• Himalayan Marmot Marmota (Marmota) himalayana

  The Himalayan marmot is a large ground squirrel with a stout body and short tail. It lives in open high-elevation habitats of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.

• Nicobar Megapode Megapodius nicobariensis

  The Nicobar Megapode is a ground-dwelling bird of the Nicobar Islands. It makes large mounds of leaves and sand, using the heat of decomposition to incubate its eggs.

• Swamp Rat Scapteromys tumidus

  This strong swimmer lives in wetlands in Uruguay and southern Brazil. Its partly webbed hind feet help it move around water.

• Mottled Piculet Picumnus nebulosus

  The Mottled Piculet is a tiny woodpecker, about 10–11 cm long. Its back is olive-brown, and its belly has dark marks. It lives in moist lowland forest in southeastern South America and also searches for food in dead bamboo.

• Vangunu Giant Rat Uromys vika

  This rat has a cinnamon-brown back and creamy-white underside. The 2017 account describes a single subadult specimen found in a cut-down tree in lowland rainforest on Vangunu Island.

• Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus

  The Channel-billed Toucan lives in the canopy of lowland forests in South America. It may be seen alone, in pairs, or in small flocks around fruiting trees.

• Chiriquinan Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) chiriquinus

  Eptesicus chiriquinus is recorded in Bolivia. The Bolivian bat conservation program describes most records as humid, while also documenting a capture in dry inter-Andean forest at Torotoro National Park.

• Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo Cacomantis castaneiventris

  The Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo occurs in New Guinea, the Aru Islands, and northeastern Australia. Adults have gray upperparts and chestnut underparts.

• Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus

  This flying-fox has straw-colored fur around the eyes that looks like spectacles. It searches for fruit, nectar, pollen, and leaves at night and roosts in large camps.

• Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius

  Its broad, flattened bill is distinctive. In mangroves and river-edge woodland of Central and South America, it ambushes fish and other prey at dim hours.

• Tana River Red Colobus Piliocolobus rufomitratus

  The Tana River red colobus lives in riverine forest along the lower Tana River in eastern Kenya. It feeds in the morning and late afternoon and spends much of the day resting.