Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,768 · Stories: 19,540

• South Georgia Pipit Anthus antarcticus

  

  This small bird is endemic to South Georgia and has thick plumage suited to the cold. It nests among tussock grass and feeds on insects along the shore.

• De Brazza’s monkey Cercopithecus neglectus

  An African monkey with a white beard that lives in forests near rivers.

• Leach's Storm Petrel Hydrobates leucorhous

  A small seabird with long wings and a deeply notched tail. It picks food from the ocean surface and nests in burrows on offshore islands.

• Tres Marías Deer Mouse Peromyscus madrensis

  This mouse is known from the Islas Marías off Mexico’s Pacific coast. Its records are tied to islands separated from the mainland.

• Andean Guan Penelope montagnii

  The Andean Guan lives mainly in trees in Andean cloud forest. Its subspecies vary in plumage across the range.

• Felten's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) punicus

  Felten’s myotis occurs in northwestern Africa and several Mediterranean islands. It forages over semi-desert and sparsely vegetated areas and roosts underground.

• Gray Pratincole Glareola cinerea

  The Gray Pratincole catches flying insects on the wing and lives around large rivers in West Africa, where it rests and nests on sandbanks.

• Tri-colored Big-eared Bat Glyphonycteris sylvestris

  The tricolored big-eared bat is a small bat found in the Neotropics. Its back fur has three bands: dark at the base and tip, with a lighter band between them. It is also recorded in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

• Microeca flaviventris

  A small bird from New Caledonia with dark olive upperparts, grey-white throat, grey breast and yellow belly and flanks. A 2025 paper uses Cryptomicroeca flaviventris.

• Western Hartebeest Alcelaphus major

  A large West African hartebeest described with short, slightly glossy fawn-brown fur, dark markings on the legs, and black horns that form a U when viewed from the front.

• Yellowish Bulbul Hypsipetes everetti

  A Philippine bulbul of forests and forest edges that feeds on fruit.

• Ryukyu Islands Tree Rat Diplothrix legata

  This large Japanese endemic rodent occurs on Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima, and Okinawa Island. The University of Tokyo Museum account notes that its tail is longer than its body.

• Sulawesi Drongo Dicrurus montanus

  A Togian Islands survey reported sightings and a nest-related observation of the Sulawesi Drongo. The source concerns a limited survey area off central Sulawesi.

• South African Ground Squirrel Xerus (Geosciurus) inauris

  This squirrel lives in the dry grasslands and savannas of southern Africa. It uses underground burrows and searches for food by day.

• Short-tailed Grasswren Amytornis merrotsyi

  This grasswren is recorded among spinifex on hills and ridgelines in South Australia's Gawler and Flinders Ranges.

• Mitered Langur Presbytis mitrata

  Presbytis mitrata is a monkey of southern Sumatra. It feeds mainly on leaves and is arboreal. Its coat varies, so individuals do not all look alike.

• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

  The Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large gull with a dark gray back and white body. It breeds from northern Europe to western Siberia and moves south for winter.

• Magdalena Rat Xenomys nelsoni

  The Magdalena rat lives in dry forests on Mexico's Pacific coast. It is arboreal and nocturnal, usually solitary, and feeds on leaves, buds, and fruit.

• Katanga Masked Weaver Ploceus katangae

  Katanga Masked-Weavers live in wetlands with reeds and nearby woodland. Breeding males have a black facial mask, and the width of the yellow forehead band varies by region.

• 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.

• Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus

  A long-tailed nightjar with different male and female plumage. It uses African habitats from arid semi-desert to savanna and lowland forest clearings, catching insects in flight.

• Common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

  A bat from Mexico through much of South America that feeds on animal blood.

• Rufous-tailed Fantail Rhipidura phoenicura

  It has a gray head and back, a white eyebrow, and orange-chestnut belly and tail feathers. Endemic to Java's moist mountain forests, it is active by day and catches insects and other invertebrates in the air.

• Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii

  A wetland antelope adapted to life among swamp vegetation.