Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dusky Tapaculo Scytalopus fuscus

  

  This Chilean endemic stays concealed near the ground in dense vegetation. It is slate-gray with a darker forehead and feeds on insects and spiders.

• Giant White-tailed Uromys Uromys (Uromys) caudimaculatus

  The Giant White-tailed Uromys is a large rat with a gray-brown back, pale underside, and long tail with a white tip. It is active at night, climbs well, and eats fruit, nuts, insects, and other foods.

• Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis

  Sunlight can bring a blue-green sheen to its black plumage, and its long tail is deeply forked. It hunts insects from perches in savanna and open woodland.

• Golden hamster Mesocricetus auratus

  A hamster with wild populations in a small part of the Middle East, including Syria. Wild animals burrow and are usually solitary.

• Snares Penguin Eudyptes robustus

  It has a black face and back, white underparts, and a thick orange bill. It breeds only on the Snares Islands; tracked adults moved west in winter.

• South American Hoary Bat Aeorestes villosissimus

  The South American hoary bat is an arboreal bat recorded in Argentina in forests and mountain environments.

• Carunculated Caracara Phalcoboenus carunculatus

  The Carunculated Caracara is a raptor of open Andean highlands, notable for its orange face and white streaks on a dark chest.

• Siberian ibex Capra sibirica

  A wild goat of Central Asian mountain ranges, both sexes have horns, but those of males grow especially long and large.

• Red-ruffed Fruitcrow Pyroderus scutatus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peruvian account describes it moving alone in the canopy.

• Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) watsoni

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to Panama in Central America. Research published under the older name Artibeus watsoni records it modifying young palm leaves into day roosts.

• Rusty-faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca amazonina

  A parrot of the northern Andes' montane forests. Its green plumage is accented by rusty tones on the face, whose extent and shade vary among subspecies.

• Black Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus bieti

  This monkey occurs in Yunnan and Xizang, China. Adult males have long black hair on the crown, and the species lives mainly in mountain forests and in trees.

• Savile's Bustard Lophotis savilei

  Savile's Bustards live in dry Sahel scrub and open woodland. Males have a rufous tuft at the nape.

• Min Mountain Striped Squirrel Tamiops minshanica

  This striped squirrel was described from the Minshan Mountains of Sichuan, China. A 2026 multilocus study also recognizes it among the valid species of Tamiops.

• Perija Brush Finch Arremon perijanus

  This finch occurs in the forests of the Serranía de Perijá. A survey recorded solitary birds or pairs searching low secondary-forest undergrowth and forest edges.

• Hastings River Pseudomys Pseudomys oralis

  This mouse lives in forests of eastern Australia. Its rounded nose and dark eye rings are distinctive, and it feeds at night on vegetation, seeds, and invertebrates.

• Hartlaub's Turaco Tauraco hartlaubi

  Hartlaub's Turaco is a green bird of the East African highlands. It moves by hopping through the canopy and making short flights between trees.

• Chihuahuan Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys arenicola

  This nocturnal mouse lives in deserts and dry grasslands. It mainly eats insects and also catches other small animals.

• Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus

  The Pheasant Cuckoo has a long tail and rufous crest and searches for food on the forest floor.

• California Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) californicus

  The California myotis is a small North American bat. Its coat varies with location, including between dry regions and high elevations.

• Jerdon's Courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus

  This lapwing-like bird has a large eye and short, two-toned bill. It lives in dry thorn scrub and is nocturnal, so it is rarely encountered in the field.

• Kirk's dik-dik Madoqua kirkii

  A tiny antelope of East and southwestern Africa, living among shrubs and savannah vegetation.

• Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus

  The Red-throated Tit is a small tit of acacia woodland and savanna in Kenya and Tanzania, with records from about 100 to 1,600 m.

• Spectral Bat Vampyrum spectrum

  A large carnivorous bat of tropical forests in Central America and northern South America.