Meet the world’s animals.

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• Seychelles Flying Fox Pteropus seychellensis

  

  The Seychelles flying fox is a large bat endemic to the granitic islands of Seychelles. It roosts in trees by day and flies out at dusk.

• Karoo Thrush Turdus smithi

  The Karoo Thrush is a thrush of dry southern African country. A research paper describes it as darker than forest-dwelling relatives, with a dusky-brown rather than white throat. It uses arid shrubland and riverine Acacia and feeds on the ground.

• Reed Vole Microtus (Alexandromys) fortis

  A large vole associated with wet grasslands. Seasonal movements in the Dongting Lake area have been studied in relation to changing lake levels.

• Golden-naped Tanager Chalcothraupis ruficervix

  This tanager uses humid cloud forest and upper forest levels on the eastern Andes. It joins mixed flocks and searches for small animals and fruit.

• Grey Long-eared Bat Plecotus austriacus

  The grey long-eared bat has very long ears and catches moths and other prey in flight over open grassland.

• Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei

  A weaver of East African scrub and woodland near water; breeding males have striking yellow and black plumage.

• Black-tailed Thallomys Thallomys nigricauda

  The Black-tailed Thallomys is an arboreal rodent with a black tail, living in dry Acacia savanna.

• San Andres Vireo Vireo caribaeus

  This small vireo is confined to San Andrés Island. It has an olive back and pale underparts; a field study recorded dry scrub as a commonly used nesting habitat.

• Moustached Guenon Cercopithecus cephus

  The moustached guenon is a monkey with a blue-white stripe below its nose and bright yellow whiskers. It mainly eats fruit and also takes seeds, leaves, and insects in the forest.

• Ashy-faced Owl Tyto glaucops

  The Ashy-faced Owl has a gray facial disk and tawny plumage marked with darker spots. It takes small mammals and other prey.

• 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.

• Microeca flaviventris

  A small bird from New Caledonia with dark olive upperparts, grey-white throat, grey breast and yellow belly and flanks. A 2025 paper uses Cryptomicroeca flaviventris.

• Bornean Mountain Ground Squirrel Dremomys everetti

  This squirrel occurs in the mountains of Borneo. Stomach contents from 26 Mount Trus specimens were mostly insects, with fruit, nuts, leaves, and shoots also recorded. The current Mammal Diversity Database uses Sundasciurus everetti, while ADW retains the older genus.

• New Zealand little penguin Eudyptula minor

  A small penguin of New Zealand coasts, with a blue-toned back and white underparts.

• Tschudi's Tailless Bat Anoura peruana

  This nectar-feeding bat occurs in the Andes. A 2019 study in the La Paz Valley found pollen and fecal evidence suggesting that it feeds on 14 locally native or cultivated plant species. That evidence comes from one Bolivian valley.

• Bolivian Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus

  The Bolivian Slaty Antshrike occurs from eastern Bolivia into southwestern Brazil, in tropical dry forest. It has white wing spots and spots on the outer webs of many tail feathers that show from above when the tail is open.

• Dagger-toothed Long-nosed Fruit Bat Macroglossus minimus

  This small bat feeds mainly on flower nectar and pollen, using its long snout to reach flowers. It also carries pollen between flowers.

• Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda

  This weaver lives in and around Tanzania’s Serengeti. Its brown plumage looks scaly where pale feather edges overlap, and a dry-season study found it using open grassland.

• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.

• Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis

  This small bird lives in sub-Saharan African savanna and open woodland. It has a grey-tinged olive back and a belly whose yellow varies in intensity, and it moves actively among foliage.

• Big Brown Bat Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus

  The big brown bat has a robust build. The Texas account describes it using varied habitats and roosting in buildings as well as natural sites.

• Golden-browed Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix pulchella

  This chat-tyrant occurs in the Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It uses humid montane forest and shrubby forest edges, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Mindanao Bullimus Bullimus bagobus

  This large rodent is widespread in the Mindanao faunal region of the Philippines. It has dark upper fur and pale underparts. A Mt. Hamiguitan survey recorded different capture rates at different elevations.

• Pale-bellied Tapaculo Scytalopus griseicollis

  A 2019 Bogotá bird guide describes an 11 cm bird with mostly gray plumage, a lighter throat and belly, soft rufous color at the rear, a black bill, and grayish legs. Most of its range is in Colombia, with a small part in Venezuela.