Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bluish-fronted Jacamar Galbula cyanescens

  

  The Bluish-fronted Jacamar has a metallic blue-green crown and rufous underparts. It lives in riverine forest, and its only known nest is a tunnel in a stream bank.

• Addax Addax nasomaculatus

  A desert antelope with spiraling horns that feeds on grasses and shrubs.

• Urrao Antpitta Grallaria urraoensis

  This antpitta is known from the northern Western Andes of Colombia. It stays close to the ground in mountain forest, moving through dense bamboo and moss while searching the leaf litter for prey.

• Northern Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) septentrionalis

  The Northern Bat is a North American bat with long ears. It forages in forests during the warmer months and hibernates in caves or mines in winter.

• Blue-cheeked Flowerpecker Dicaeum maugei

  The Blue-cheeked Flowerpecker is a tiny, short-tailed bird found in forests and plantations.

• 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.

• Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus

  The Yellow-crowned Gonolek is about 23 cm long. It uses acacia thornbush savanna and woodland, searching branches and foliage for invertebrates.

• Red-legged Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus rufobrachium

  The red-legged sun squirrel lives in forests of western and central Africa. Its reddish limbs contrast with a gray to brown body.

• Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi

  This stocky leaf warbler has a pale eyebrow. It breeds in southeastern Siberia and winters in southern China and Southeast Asia.

• Sowell's Short-tailed Bat Carollia sowelli

  This Central American fruit-eating bat has soft gray-brown fur and a small white stripe on its head. It eats fruits including those of Piper plants.

• Little Lorikeet Parvipsitta pusilla

  A small parrot of eastern Australia. It is green with a black bill and a red patch that extends from the forehead to the throat.

• Pinyon Mouse Peromyscus truei

  The pinyon mouse has coat colors ranging from yellow-brown to dark gray above. It ranges from central Oregon to southern Mexico and is active at night, when it can climb well.

• Black-capped Bulbul Rubigula melanictera

  The Black-capped Bulbul is endemic to Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Bird Club page uses the older combination Pycnonotus melanicterus; Clements uses the current spelling Rubigula melanictera.

• Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat Megaerops niphanae

  A survey conducted in August 2024 recorded this small fruit bat in Xuan Nha Nature Reserve in northwestern Vietnam. All four captured individuals were female, and two were lactating.

• Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus

  The Pilotbird forages among leaf litter in wet forests of southeastern Australia. It is reddish brown overall, with scaled-looking breast and belly feathers and a red eye. The source describes two subspecies whose back color and belly scalloping differ in brightness.

• Indochinese Forest Rat Rattus andamanensis

  The Indochinese forest rat has brown upperparts, a white underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is nocturnal and omnivorous in forest settings.

• Northern Orange-tufted Sunbird Cinnyris osea

  Males show orange tufts at the sides of the chest and have a long, down-curved bill. It feeds mainly on nectar and also brings insects to its nestlings.

• Salt's Dik-dik Madoqua saltiana

  This small antelope occurs in dry areas of Ethiopia, Somalia, and northeastern Sudan. Coat color varies among subspecies, and it browses mainly on acacia.

• Arafura Fantail Rhipidura dryas

  The Arafura Fantail occurs along the northern coast of Australia and in southern New Guinea. It uses rainforest and mangroves.

• Malayan Bamboo Bat Tylonycteris malayana

  Tylonycteris malayana is a small bat associated with bamboo-rich forests. Its species account describes daytime roosting in bamboo cavities and feeding on insects at night.

• Gray Pratincole Glareola cinerea

  The Gray Pratincole catches flying insects on the wing and lives around large rivers in West Africa, where it rests and nests on sandbanks.

• 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.

• Scarlet-rumped Trogon Harpactes duvaucelii

  The Scarlet-rumped Trogon perches low in forests and eats mainly insects. The adult male has a red belly and rump and a blue bill.

• Borneo Black-banded Squirrel Callosciurus orestes

  The Borneo black-banded squirrel has a contrasting side stripe and a ringed tail. It occurs in Borneo's forests, and stomach contents have included fruits and ants.