Meet the world’s animals.
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- Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga
Photo: Вых Пыхманн · CC BY-SA 3.0 Adults are dark brown with broad wings; young birds have prominent white spots on the back and wings.
- Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon Cercopithecus petaurista
The lesser spot-nosed guenon is marked by a white nose spot and beard. It carries food in cheek pouches.
- Black Laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubris
A dark-plumaged bird with blue-gray skin behind the eye and an orange-red bill. It uses foothill broadleaf forest and is seen in pairs or small groups.
- Orange Nectar Bat Lonchophylla robusta
The orange nectar bat is a medium-sized bat with an elongated muzzle and orange-brown back. It feeds on nectar and pollen in moist evergreen forests.
- Duetting Giant-Honeyeater Gymnomyza brunneirostris
The Duetting Giant-Honeyeater is endemic to Viti Levu, Fiji. It inhabits rainforest and feeds on nectar, insects, and caterpillars.
- Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kempii
Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kempii is a gerbil recorded in West Africa. Its back is pale brown darkened by black hairs, and its underside is white. A 2026 survey in southeastern Sierra Leone recorded it in a plantation, a forest reserve, and grassland.
- Bartlett's Tinamou Crypturellus bartletti
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.
- Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel Belomys pearsonii
A nocturnal flying squirrel that glides between trees in mountain forests of northeastern India.
- Frilled Monarch Arses telescopthalmus
A monarch of lowland and foothill forest interiors in New Guinea. The sexes differ strongly: males have a white collar, while females have a rufous back.
- Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus
This vole lives in mountain meadows surrounded by pine-oak forest and changes its plant foods with the seasons.
- Asian Desert Warbler Curruca nana
The Asian Desert Warbler is a small, sandy-brown warbler. In the UAE it is seen mainly in winter or while passing through, in dry places with sparse plants.
- Black Wildebeest Connochaetes gnou
A bovid of open grasslands and the Karoo in southern Africa. It mainly grazes short grass and uses open country.
- Bahama Swallow Tachycineta cyaneoviridis
The Bahama Swallow is most often found on Andros in the Bahamas and uses both open fields and forest.
- Daubenton's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) daubentonii
Myotis daubentonii is described as widespread in British mammal accounts. It has brown upper fur, a whitish-grey underside, and large feet used while catching insects close to the water surface.
- Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava
An adult male is marked by a black facial mask extending from the forehead toward the sides of the neck and by bright yellow underparts. In Costa Rica, the bird uses wet grassy places and marsh cover and is usually in pairs.
- Milne-Edwards's Macaque Macaca thibetana
Milne-Edwards's macaque lives in mountainous areas of central-eastern China. It can carry food in its cheek pouches and eat later in a safer place.
- Plate-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena laminirostris
The Plate-billed Mountain Toucan stands out for its blue-grey underparts and large bill patterned in red, black, and ivory. It mainly eats fruit, but also takes small animals and eggs during the breeding season.
- Guadeloupe Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma improvisum
The Guadeloupe big-eyed bat is a large big-eyed bat recorded on islands of the Lesser Antilles. It has white facial and dorsal markings, while detailed natural-history records remain sparse.
- Madagascar Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus newtoni
The Madagascar Swamp Warbler feeds on insects while moving among wetland plants. It is widespread on Madagascar, absent from the far north, and less common in the dry south.
- Sandy Inland Pseudomys Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
The sandy inland pseudomys is an Australian mouse that rests in a burrow by day and searches for seeds and small invertebrates at night. Its back ranges from pale ginger to gray-brown, and its tail is longer than its body.
- Saxaul Sparrow Passer ammodendri
The saxaul sparrow uses desert saxaul groves and wooded areas near water. A Kazakhstan regional account lists seeds and insects as foods.
- Indochinese Flying Squirrel Hylopetes phayrei
The Indochinese flying squirrel is an arboreal squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. It glides between trees using a membrane stretched between its fore and hind limbs.
- Hook-billed Vanga Vanga curvirostris
The Hook-billed Vanga is endemic to Madagascar. It has a hooked bill, and breeding pairs share care of the nest and young.
- 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.