Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ancash Tapaculo Scytalopus affinis

  

  It is endemic to Peru and recorded on the western Andean slope at 3,000–4,600 m. It feeds at or near the ground, but is difficult to distinguish from similar tapaculos; range and voice are useful identification clues.

• Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus

  This large fruit-eating bat has fur ranging from light to dark brown. It flies among trees at night and forages with other bats for fruit.

• Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus

  This dark bird has a long forked tail and red eyes. It catches flying insects in the high canopy and may hunt at dusk.

• Tarai Gray Langur Semnopithecus hector

  The Tarai gray langur lives in the Himalayan foothills. It has a white head, a grayish-yellow to pale orange body, and brownish limbs.

• African penguin Spheniscus demersus

  A penguin of the South African and Namibian coasts that breeds in large colonies.

• Red-cheeked Ground Squirrel Spermophilus erythrogenys

  The red-cheeked ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel marked by reddish cheeks. Regional records describe it as active by day, using burrows and feeding on grasses and other foods.

• Philippine Falconet Microhierax erythrogenys

  The Philippine Falconet is a small raptor of the Philippine forests. It perches on exposed branches in foothill forest, where it can watch its surroundings.

• Verreaux's White-footed Rat Myomyscus verreauxii

  This mouse lives in South Africa's Western Cape. It has a buff-brown back, pale underside, large naked ears, white feet, and a long scaly tail.

• Snowy Cotinga Carpodectes nitidus

  Males have mostly white plumage and a blue-gray bill, while females are brown-gray. Details of its life in Panama are limited; altitudinal movements known from Costa Rica have not been confirmed there.

• Root Vole Microtus (Alexandromys) oeconomus

  This vole occurs across northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, using moist grasslands in tundra and taiga regions. It favors places with abundant sedges and cover.

• Yellow-naped Amazon Amazona auropalliata

  The Yellow-naped Amazon is a parrot whose green feathers blend into forest foliage as it flies and feeds in flocks.

• Kuhl's pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii

  Kuhl's pipistrelle is a small bat found from the Mediterranean region through West Asia to South Asia. It also lives around farmland and towns, catching small insects in flight.

• Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis

  The Bengal Florican lives in grasslands and has strongly different adult male and female plumage.

• Slender-horned Gazelle Gazella leptoceros

  The slender-horned gazelle is marked by its pale sandy coat and long, slender horns in both sexes. It lives among the dry dunes of the northern Sahara.

• Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus

  This sparrow ranges from southeastern Mexico to Belize and Honduras. Its upperparts are olive to grass green, and the head is black-striped. A study in Campeche found three nests on the ground near thickets.

• Hairy Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma villosum

  The hairy big-eyed bat has tricolored dorsal fur and long guard hairs. A 2024 report documented the first Cozumel Island record in Mexico from one bat captured in semideciduous forest.

• Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus

  The Yellow-billed Turaco lives in forests of western and central Africa. Its green and blue-violet plumage is striking; it moves along branches and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Mandrill Mandrillus sphinx

  A monkey of equatorial African rainforests, with adult males known for brightly coloured faces.

• Sulawesi Cuckoo Cuculus crassirostris

  This cuckoo lives in forests on Sulawesi. It has a gray head, a barred belly, and a banded tail, and it feeds on insects.

• Svynnerton's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus vexillarius

  Swynnerton's bush squirrel is recorded from mountains in Tanzania. Specimens from the West Usambara Mountains are noted for orange feet and a tail tip.

• Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum

  A pratincole with a tern-like flight that catches insects over open country near water.

• Ethiopian Arvicanthis Arvicanthis abyssinicus

  The Ethiopian arvicanthis lives in grasslands of the Ethiopian Highlands. It is active on the ground by day and is thought to feed mainly on plants.

• Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus

  A small tit with a striking black-and-white crest. In Britain it lives in pinewoods of northern Scotland and joins flocks of other tits in winter.

• Tawny-bellied Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) fulviventer

  The tawny-bellied cotton rat is a cotton rat with a buff-brown underside and a black, hairy tail. It lives in tall grass with scattered shrubs.