Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lesser Kudu Ammelaphus imberbis

  

  It lives in dry scrub and woodland in northeastern Africa and feeds mainly at dawn and dusk. White stripes line its sides; males are grayish brown and females reddish brown.

• Santa Marta Antpitta Grallaria bangsi

  The Santa Marta Antpitta occurs only in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia. It is a ground-dwelling bird recorded in humid montane forest and forest edges.

• Particolored Flying Squirrel Hylopetes alboniger

  This squirrel glides among trees and uses tree hollows. A Phu Quoc Island survey found four animals—an adult female and male and two young males—in one hollow.

• 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.

• Round-eared Tube-nosed Bat Murina cyclotis

  A 2025 paper reported the first Bangladesh record of Murina cyclotis from Rema-Kalenga Forest Reserve. It was one male captured on a forest trail.

• Greater Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa

  The Greater Sooty Owl is a nocturnal forest owl recorded in eastern Australia and New Guinea. It hunts vertebrate prey in dense forest.

• Prairie Vole Microtus (Pedomys) ochrogaster

  This vole lives in grasslands. Its back is grizzled brown, its underside is pale tan, and it makes runways through grass to reach food.

• Least Pauraque Siphonorhis brewsteri

  This nightjar lives in wooded dry scrub on Hispaniola and Gonâve Island and is active around dusk and at night.

• L'Hoest's Monkey Allochrocebus lhoesti

  L'Hoest's monkey is recognizable by its dark coat and white beard. It spends more time on the ground than many monkeys.

• Fiery-throated Fruiteater Pipreola chlorolepidota

  The Fiery-throated Fruiteater has a green body and a red throat in males and feeds on fruit in wet forests on the eastern Andes.

• Striped Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus nymphaea

  This bat is recorded mainly from Colombia’s Pacific region. Its dorsal stripe may be faint, while four white facial lines and yellow ear margins are conspicuous.

• Malaita Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx malaitae

  The Malaita Dwarf-Kingfisher is endemic to Malaita in the Solomon Islands.

• Rusty-bellied Brush-furred Rat Lophuromys (Lophuromys) sikapusi

  The rusty-bellied brush-furred rat is recorded in West Africa. A coastal Guinea study examined whether it may move from forest and orchards into cultivated land seasonally.

• White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis

  The White-crowned Parrot is a Central American parrot with a white head and blue-green cheeks. It flies in pairs or small flocks and eats fruits and seeds.

• Suni Neotragus moschatus

  This small antelope has a speckled gray-to-chestnut back and a whitish underside. Only males have horns; it occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Jamaican Becard Pachyramphus niger

  A becard found on Jamaica. It searches below the forest canopy and along forest edges for insects and fruit.

• Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) niger

  A medium-sized North American tree squirrel, notable for its reddish-brown coat and red belly. It also occurs in open woodlands and urban areas.

• Barred Honey Buzzard Pernis celebensis

  The Sulawesi Honey-buzzard is a small raptor from Sulawesi and the Banggai Islands. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a barred belly.

• Thomas's Big-eared Brown Bat Histiotus laephotis

  Thomas's Big-eared Brown Bat is a medium-sized bat with large ears. It is recorded in Argentina’s Yungas forests, eats insects, and roosts in buildings or natural caves.

• Black Nunbird Monasa atra

  The Black Nunbird is about 25–29 cm long. It is diurnal in northern South American humid forest and scrub, where it sallies to take small invertebrates from nearby surfaces.

• Rock Mouse Peromyscus difficilis

  The Rock Mouse is listed from Mexico in the current mammal database. A 2010 species account describes large ears and a bicolored tail slightly longer than the head and body.

• Philippine Pied Fantail Rhipidura nigritorquis

  This fantail is endemic to the Philippines. It searches for insects in lowland woodland, coastal vegetation, and green spaces in towns.

• Chacma Baboon Papio ursinus

  A baboon of southern Africa's grasslands, savannas and wooded highlands.

• Giant Babax Pterorhinus waddelli

  The Giant Babax lives in the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau. It eats insects and berries during the breeding season; outside that season, reports also list crop seeds and plant rhizomes.