Meet the world’s animals.

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• Godlewski's Bunting Emberiza godlewskii

  

  Godlewski’s Bunting is a bunting found on rocky slopes and forest edges. Males show a gray hood, chestnut crown stripe, and white wing bars.

• Abbott's Duiker Cephalophus spadix

  Abbott's duiker is a forest antelope of Tanzania's mountain forests. Its dark body contrasts with a reddish crown.

• Eastern Black-headed Batis Batis minor

  The Eastern Black-headed Batis is a small, dark bird with a sharply defined white eyebrow. It searches for insects in the dry forests and savannas of East Africa.

• Black Sumatran Langur Presbytis sumatrana

  This leaf-eating monkey lives on Sumatra. In a 2024 study at Batang Toru, groups were observed in two secondary-forest sites beside mining, staff housing and gardens, where they ate native plants.

• White-eyed Thrush Turdus jamaicensis

  The White-eyed Thrush inhabits Jamaican forests and is marked by a white ring around the eye.

• Red-legged Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus rufobrachium

  The red-legged sun squirrel lives in forests of western and central Africa. Its reddish limbs contrast with a gray to brown body.

• Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis

  Male and female Inland Thornbills look similar. They have olive-brown to gray-brown upperparts, cream-white underparts, dark throat and breast streaks, and red eyes. They range from dense eucalypt forest to arid mulga woodland and glean insects from branches and leaves.

• Gerbe's Vole Microtus (Terricola) gerbei

  This small vole lives around the Pyrenees. It is found in forest clearings and edges beside subalpine or hay meadows.

• Chaco Chachalaca Ortalis canicollis

  The Chaco Chachalaca is a large guan recorded in northern Argentina's woods and forests. Argentina's SIB species page describes pairs or small flocks moving quickly through tree branches.

• Oriental Serotine Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) pachyomus

  Its back is dark grayish brown to dark brown with pale hair tips, and its underside is lighter. Records include India, Nepal, and Bhutan; the species account also lists moist forest, dry dipterocarp forest, and human-modified habitats.

• Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi

  The Tropical Parula is a small bird widespread across the Americas. Blue-grey and yellow plumage is distinctive, and males have a black facial mask.

• Long-tailed Pseudomys Pseudomys higginsi

  It has grayish-brown fur above, a white underside, and a slender tail longer than its body. It makes tunnels beneath the mossy floor of Tasmania’s wet forests.

• 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.

• Niceforo's Bat Trinycteris nicefori

  This small reddish-brown bat gleans prey from leaves and ranges across tropical parts of the Americas.

• Dark-fronted Babbler Dumetia atriceps

  The Dark-fronted Babbler often stays hidden near the ground, and its dark head pattern varies among subspecies.

• Chinese Goral Naemorhedus griseus

  The Chinese goral is a goat-like animal that climbs rocky, steep slopes on broad hooves.

• 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.

• Roloway Monkey Cercopithecus roloway

  The Roloway monkey lives in groups in mature forests of West Africa. Its gray coat, red rump patch, pale chest fur, and long beard stand out.

• White-bibbed Manakin Corapipo leucorrhoa

  This manakin lives in humid foothill forest in Colombia and Venezuela. Males perform courtship displays on fallen trunks low in the forest.

• Pallas's squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus

  Pallas’s squirrel is a tree-dwelling squirrel native from Taiwan and southern China through parts of Southeast Asia.

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Gleaning Deermouse Peromyscus spicilegus

  The gleaning deermouse has a relatively robust build and a back ranging from bright tawny to reddish ochre. Jalisco records span varied environments from sea level to 2,200 m.

• Ruwenzori Turaco Gallirex johnstoni

  This turaco occurs in montane forest along the Albertine Rift in East Africa. Its green and violet-blue body contrasts with red flight feathers, and it mainly eats fruit.

• Evening Bat Nycticeius humeralis

  The evening bat has dark brown to black fur and broad ears. It roosts in tree hollows and under loose bark, and sometimes uses buildings.