Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,673 · Stories: 19,540

• Round-tailed Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus tereticaudus

  

  The round-tailed ground squirrel lives on sandy desert flats, dunes, and wash edges. It mainly eats green vegetation, with seeds and insects added seasonally.

• Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata

  The Giant Snipe is a large wader with a disjunct South American range. It is 40–43.5 cm long, with a very long straight bill and broad, rounded wings.

• 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.

• 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.

• Chinese Pipistrelle Hypsugo pulveratus

  The Chinese pipistrelle is a small bat recorded in China. A university species page describes its coat and forest records, along with examples of roosting in buildings.

• Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus

  The Yellow-crowned Gonolek is about 23 cm long. It uses acacia thornbush savanna and woodland, searching branches and foliage for invertebrates.

• Oriental House Rat Rattus tanezumi

  The Oriental House Rat is widely recorded in rural and residential parts of Taiwan. Its back is gray-brown, its underside gray-white, and it eats grain grown or stored by people.

• Taiwan Barwing Actinodura morrisoniana

  The Taiwan Barwing is endemic to Taiwan and lives in broadleaf and mixed forests at about 1,300–2,500 m.

• 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.

• Large Woodshrike Tephrodornis virgatus

  This forest bird has a heavy bill and a dark band across the face. It searches quietly for food in the upper forest layers.

• Coke's Hartebeest Alcelaphus cokii

  Coke's Hartebeest occurs in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Its coat is pale tawny, the rump patch is only slightly paler, and only the tail tuft is black. It selects grasses in grassland with scattered acacia scrub.

• White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus

  The White-winged Becard shows regional variation in male plumage across Central and South America. It uses forest edges and second growth, alone or in pairs, and moves through middle tree levels.

• Eastern Chipmunk Tamias (Tamias) striatus

  The eastern chipmunk is a small squirrel relative of forests and woodland edges in eastern North America. Its back stripes stop before the base of the tail.

• Gurney's Pitta Hydrornis gurneyi

  Gurney's Pitta is a pitta whose males and females differ in head and belly color. It feeds on small animals on the forest floor in forests of southern Myanmar and southern Thailand.

• Chiapan Deermouse Peromyscus zarhynchus

  The Chiapan deermouse is a forest mouse from Chiapas in southern Mexico. It has large ears and a long tail, and has also been recorded as a host for a beetle.

• Grimwood's Longclaw Macronyx grimwoodi

  This African bird walks through wet, open grassland and searches the ground for small animals.

• Leon Paniagua’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus leonpaniaguae

  This big-eared bat lives in northeastern Mexico. Its description reports the dorsal fur colors and a group of pregnant females found in a cave.

• Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis

  This leaftosser ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador. It inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest and forages for invertebrates on the ground.

• Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii

  This small mouse of Australia’s dry country has a sandy to rufous back, white underside, and a dark tail tuft. It uses burrows or fallen timber and eats plant material, seeds, fungi, and insects.

• Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata

  This southern African robin occurs in forest and dense scrub. South Africa and Eswatini hold most of the global population, while it is uncommon in Mozambique and reported from few sites there.

• Red-bellied monkey Cercopithecus erythrogaster

  The red-bellied monkey is a forest-dwelling primate found from southern Nigeria into Benin and Togo.

• Gray-headed Lovebird Agapornis canus

  This lovebird is native to Madagascar. Males have a pale gray head and upper chest, while those areas are green in females. Wild birds feed on grass seeds.

• Four-horned Antelope Tetracerus quadricornis

  The four-horned antelope is a solitary bovid of open, dry deciduous forests in India. Four horns are present only in adult males.

• Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi

  The Northern Royal Albatross has a white body and back, dark upperwings, and feeds mainly on squid.