Meet the world’s animals.

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• Impala Aepyceros melampus

  

  The impala is a reddish-brown antelope inhabiting African grasslands and woodland.

• Micronesian Myzomela Myzomela rubratra

  The Micronesian Myzomela is a red-and-black nectar-feeding bird that moves as flowers come into bloom. In the Mariana subspecies, the Guam population was gone by 1986; populations remain on Rota, Saipan, and Tinian.

• Striped Bush Squirrel Paraxerus flavovittis

  A squirrel found in southern Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and northern Mozambique. It is active by day and nests in tree hollows.

• Band-rumped Storm Petrel Hydrobates castro

  The Band-rumped Storm Petrel is a small seabird of waters far from land. It flies low over the sea on long wings and has a white band across its rump.

• Taddei's Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) taddeii

  This medium-sized bat was described from the Atlantic Forest of southern and southeastern Brazil. The original description reports captures in forest and at forest edges.

• Madagascan Grebe Tachybaptus pelzelnii

  The Madagascar Grebe is a small diving bird endemic to Madagascar. In breeding plumage it has a black head and reddish-brown sides to the upper neck.

• Oaxaca giant deer mouse Megadontomys cryophilus

  This large deer mouse lives in the highland forests of Oaxaca, with a dark back, ocher sides, and a slate-gray belly. It uses the dense understory of high-elevation forest.

• Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas

  The Common Yellowthroat is a small bird that searches low vegetation for insects and spiders. Adult males and females have different facial markings.

• Black Sumatran Langur Presbytis sumatrana

  This leaf-eating monkey lives on Sumatra. In a 2024 study at Batang Toru, groups were observed in two secondary-forest sites beside mining, staff housing and gardens, where they ate native plants.

• Speckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendropicos poecilolaemus

  This small woodpecker ranges from Central to East Africa. Its pale greenish back and yellowish breast with fine spots help identify it. It is recorded in forest as well as at forest edges and farmland.

• Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata

  Seba's short-tailed bat is a small leaf-nosed bat with a short tail. It becomes active after sunset and roosts in groups in caves and tree hollows.

• Moustached Wren Pheugopedius genibarbis

  A wren of forests in the Amazon Basin. It occurs in dense understory, especially near bamboo, in pairs or small groups.

• Golden-crowned Flying Fox Acerodon jubatus

  The golden-crowned flying fox is a large fruit-eating bat found only in the Philippines. A 2026 record documented it in forest in Apayao Province.

• White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis

  A small bird of forests and scrub in eastern Australia. Its white eyebrow is a useful field mark, and it searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Yemen White-footed Rat Myomyscus yemeni

  This slender mouse has a light-brown back, darker along the middle, and a white underside. It is recorded in bushland in the Yemen Mountains.

• Plain White-eye Zosterops hypolais

  The Plain White-eye is a small bird recorded in forests and open grassy places on Yap. A 1977 field account described dull gray-white plumage with a pale yellow wash below, small flocks, and feeding in both the canopy and short grass.

• Przewalski's Gazelle Procapra przewalskii

  Przewalski's gazelle lives along the grassland-desert transition in China. Its current range is limited to isolated populations around Qinghai Lake.

• Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous

  The Hooded Pitohui lives in forests on New Guinea and Yapen Island. Its black head, wings, and tail contrast with its rufous-brown body.

• Sumatran Mountain Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) altitudinis

  This squirrel is recorded in the Barisan Mountains of Sumatra. It uses forest layers from low bushes to the canopy and feeds on acorn-like nuts called “giseng” by local people.

• Chestnut-bellied Tit Sittiparus castaneoventris

  This tit is found in Taiwanese forests. It has a white face and deep rufous underparts, and takes seeds, nuts and caterpillars in mixed and bamboo forests on slopes and in valleys.

• Cuban Evening Bat Nycticeius cubanus

  This Cuban bat is described with a short muzzle and thick brown fur. Records include roosts in buildings and wooden streetlight poles.

• Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis

  A bird of eastern and southeastern mainland Australia. It pounces from low perches onto insects on the ground.

• Kam Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus kamensis

  A highland hamster recorded in western China, where the account describes valleys with grassland, scrub, and cultivated fields.

• Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii

  The Ultramarine Grosbeak occurs in South America. In Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, a paper reports it in native grassland, areas with trees and shrubs, and along agricultural edges. Females are pale sandy brown above and paler below.