Meet the world’s animals.
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- Bartlett's Tinamou Crypturellus bartletti
Photo: Rajan Rao · CC BY 4.0 Bartlett's Tinamou is a ground-dwelling bird with reddish-brown plumage and dark barring. It lives in lowland rainforest and thickets and gives a whistle-like call.
- 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.
- Northern Scrub Robin Drymodes superciliaris
The Northern Scrub Robin lives in scrub in north-eastern Australia. It often stays near the ground and nests there.
- West Siberian Brown Lemming Lemmus sibiricus
The West Siberian brown lemming is a compact rodent with a short tail. It feeds on tundra plants and makes burrows in the ground or snow.
- Craveri's Murrelet Synthliboramphus craveri
Craveri's Murrelet is a small seabird that nests on islands off western Mexico; some wander north to California's offshore waters in late summer.
- Tricolored Bat Perimyotis subflavus
Each hair of the tricolored bat has three color bands. It roosts among deciduous leaves during its active seasons and hibernates in winter.
- Archbold's Newtonia Newtonia archboldi
Archbold's Newtonia is a small bird of dry spiny forest and shrubland in southern Madagascar. It searches for spiders and insects on low branches.
- Common duiker Sylvicapra grimmia
A small antelope that lives in grassland and woodland cover.
- Cerulean Cuckooshrike Coracina temminckii
This cuckooshrike is endemic to Sulawesi, where it inhabits mature hill and mountain forest. Adults are bluish, but juveniles and regional forms differ in color.
- Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) jamaicensis
The Jamaican fruit-eating bat has pale facial stripes and a leaf-shaped noseleaf. It is active at night, eats fruit, and may fold leaves into a tent-like roost.
- Pale-billed Parrotbill Suthora atrosuperciliaris
This small parrotbill ranges from the eastern Himalayas into southern China. It forms small groups in bamboo and forest edges and eats seeds and insects.
- Sun-tailed Monkey Allochrocebus solatus
The sun-tailed monkey lives only in the forests of central Gabon. It uses both the ground and trees and is associated with dense forest undergrowth.
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
A small bird with a broad cream stripe above the eye and dark streaks on its back. It is a summer visitor to Britain and winters in Africa south of the Sahara.
- Pallas's squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus
Pallas’s squirrel is a tree-dwelling squirrel native from Taiwan and southern China through parts of Southeast Asia.
- Siberian crane Leucogeranus leucogeranus
Adults are mainly white with a red face. Black outer wing feathers become conspicuous in flight.
- Müller's Rat Sundamys muelleri
Müller's rat has long, rough brown fur and a dark tail longer than its body. It is mainly nocturnal and ground-dwelling, but also climbs into low vegetation.
- Scaly-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis albipectus
This babbler searches for food in forest undergrowth and near the ground. Its whitish breast has a scaly pattern, but the pattern varies and is not always a clear identification mark.
- Comoro Black Flying Fox Pteropus livingstonii
This flying fox occurs on Anjouan and Mohéli in the Comoros. A 2006 species account reports that it eats fruit, leaves, nectar and pollen, and roosts in native evergreen forest.
- Slaty-backed Thornbill Acanthiza robustirostris
This small bird has a gray head, dark gray tail, and cinnamon rump. It lives in Australia's dry inland scrub and builds a globular nest from grass stems and spider web.
- Colorful Pericote Auliscomys pictus
The colorful pericote occurs in the high Andes of central and southern Peru and western Bolivia. Its account reports high-elevation grassland and rocky habitats.
- Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis
The Cape Bulbul is endemic to South Africa and is recognizable by its white eye-rings and bright yellow feathers under the tail.
- Whitehead's Woolly Bat Kerivoula whiteheadi
Whitehead's woolly bat is a small bat with a broad distribution in the Philippines. Its reddish-brown back and banded hairs are distinctive.
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
The White-fronted Bee-eater is strikingly marked with a white forehead, red throat, and orange and green plumage. It catches insects in flight, and helpers assist at nesting colonies.
- Korrigum Damaliscus korrigum
The korrigum is an antelope recorded in West African savannas. In northern Benin’s Pendjari National Park, observers documented herds moving in the dry season toward fresh grass and remaining water.