Meet the world’s animals.

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• Standardwing Semioptera wallacii

  

  A male Standardwing spreads its wings, raises its long shoulder plumes, and opens the ornamental shields on its chest. This account is limited to Alfred Russel Wallace's historical observations recorded in 1859.

• Davis's Tent-making Bat Uroderma davisi

  A 2026 study recorded one male at Tolapa in Nicaragua's León Department. The individual had clear facial stripes and was captured in an area the study classed among its lowland dry and arid-forest sites.

• Elegant Crested Tinamou Eudromia elegans

  The Elegant Crested Tinamou has a long backward-swept crest and dark streaks on gray plumage. It searches the ground for seeds, fruit, and small animals.

• Nepal Gray Langur Semnopithecus schistaceus

  The Nepal gray langur lives in Himalayan forests and rocky areas. Its back and limbs are dark gray, its belly is creamy white, and the bare skin of its face, hands, and feet is black.

• American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica

  The American Golden-Plover breeds on Arctic and subarctic tundra and winters from eastern Brazil to Argentina.

• Little Laucha Calomys laucha

  The Little Laucha is a small South American rodent weighing under 20 g. A study in central Argentine farmland reported a diet mainly of green plant material and seeds.

• African Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus

  The African Pied Hornbill lives in forests and wooded farmland in central Africa. It eats fruit and small animals, often feeding high in trees.

• Bush Karroo Rat Myotomys unisulcatus

  The Bush Karoo rat lives in dry shrubland and rocky areas of South Africa. Black hairs mix with its ash-gray back, and it builds mounds of twigs near its nest.

• Club-winged Manakin Machaeropterus deliciosus

  The Club-winged Manakin lives in humid forests of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Males use their wings to make mechanical sounds during display.

• Bergmans's Collared Fruit Bat Myonycteris relicta

  Bergmans's Collared Fruit Bat was described from southeastern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania, and was later recorded in Zimbabwe.

• Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris

  The Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow lives in open woodland and savanna in eastern and southern Africa, where it may be seen in loose groups.

• Round-eared Tube-nosed Bat Murina cyclotis

  A 2025 paper reported the first Bangladesh record of Murina cyclotis from Rema-Kalenga Forest Reserve. It was one male captured on a forest trail.

• Indian Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscicollis

  A slender cormorant with a long neck and tail, often found on large freshwater wetlands in India.

• Sanghir Squirrel Prosciurillus rosenbergii

  The Sanghir Squirrel is a squirrel from Sangihe Island, Indonesia. It is active by day, with chestnut-brown fur on its back and a black tail.

• Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii

  It ranges from southern Mexico to western Panama, using forested areas near water as well as edges and scrub.

• Muskox Ovibos moschatus

  A long-coated, herd-living bovine of Arctic tundra.

• White-naped Seedeater Sporophila fringilloides

  Males are black and white with a white nape band; females are brown. The species ranges from southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia through northwestern Brazil to the Manaus region, and into southern Guyana.

• Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira tildae

  Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat is a fruit-eating bat found from northern South America into Brazil and neighboring countries. Its coat varies, and it has ochre shoulder patches and dark fur around the eyes.

• Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler Pachycephala graeffii

  The Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler occurs on Fiji's islands. Male breast bands differ among island forms, and a tour account recorded very vocal birds on Taveuni.

• Kinda Baboon Papio kindae

  The Kinda baboon lives in miombo woodland in south-central Africa. It is smaller and more slender than related baboons, with notably long legs.

• Cuban Nightjar Antrostomus cubanensis

  The Cuban Nightjar is endemic to Cuba. Its cryptic plumage blends with the forest floor, where it rests between insect-hunting bouts.

• Medium-tailed Rice Rat Eremoryzomys mesocaudis

  This rodent was described from the Marañón River region of northern Peru. A black line at the center of the nose tip is one of its diagnostic features.

• Puna Tapaculo Scytalopus simonsi

  This tapaculo occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Peru to Bolivia. Its grey plumage can include rufous flanks and rump, and it forages near the ground in humid highland forest and scrub.

• Charming gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) amoenus

  The charming gerbil is a small rodent found in North Africa. Records cover hard dry ground, salt marshes, and cultivated land, among other settings.