Meet the world’s animals.

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• Dot-fronted Woodpecker Veniliornis frontalis

  

  This woodpecker occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Bolivia to Argentina. It inhabits humid and montane woodland, searching tree trunks for food.

• Bonnet Macaque Macaca radiata

  The bonnet macaque is a monkey native to southern India. The hair on its head spreads like a bonnet.

• Barred Puffbird Nystalus radiatus

  This puffbird occurs from central Panama through western Colombia to western Ecuador, in wet forest and its edges. Its reddish-brown body is barred with black, and it waits quietly on a perch for prey. Its diet includes large insects and small lizards.

• White-cheeked Squirrel Prosciurillus leucomus

  The white-cheeked squirrel lives in forests on the northern Sulawesi Peninsula and Lembeh Island. It is active by day, foraging in the canopy for soft fruits and insects.

• Grey-headed Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca

  This bullfinch lives in montane coniferous and mixed forests. Adult males have an orange breast patch, while females are browner overall.

• Greater Stick-nest Rat Leporillus conditor

  The greater stick-nest rat is an Australian rodent that builds large nests from piled sticks.

• Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea

  A duck with rich rusty-brown plumage; the sexes look very similar.

• Atlantic Forest Oecomys Oecomys catherinae

  Oecomys catherinae is an arboreal rodent. Specimens from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and Cerrado showed differences in skull form between the two biomes.

• Brown Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia phasianella

  The Brown Cuckoo-Dove has a long tail and lives in woodland and forest edges in eastern Australia, where it feeds on fruit and seeds.

• Alcathoe Myotis Myotis (Myotis) alcathoe

  This small whiskered bat is found in damp deciduous woodland, often near water.

• Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul

  The Chestnut-backed Antbird is described as an understory bird of lowland tropical forest from Honduras to Ecuador. The committee page describes five subspecies in two broad groups distinguished in part by white wing spots.

• Gaur Bos gaurus

  A large wild cattle species of forests and hills in India and Southeast Asia.

• Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons

  The Black-fronted Bushshrike lives in mountain forests of eastern and southern Africa. Its underparts occur in several color forms, and it sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Gelada Theropithecus gelada

  A grass-eating monkey of the Ethiopian highlands.

• Buff-banded Bushbird Buettikoferella bivittata

  This ground-dwelling bird occurs on Timor Island. Its appearance is documented in an 1862 Timor account, while its habitat is listed in a 2008 regional checklist.

• 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.

• Solitary Tinamou Tinamus solitarius

  It walks quietly on the ground in the Atlantic Forest, with gray-brown barring and a pale stripe on the side of the neck. It is secretive, so its whistled song can help reveal its presence.

• Coucha Rat Mastomys natalensis

  This rodent is recorded across much of sub-Saharan Africa. A study in semi-arid Tanzania found it eating plant material and seeds.

• Dusky Robin Melanodryas vittata

  This robin is endemic to Tasmania, where it occurs in eucalypt forest, woodland, and coastal heath. It is plain brown compared with the other local robins.

• Straw-colored Colilargo Oligoryzomys stramineus

  The Straw-colored Colilargo is a Brazilian rodent with pale dorsal fur sharply set off from its whitish underside. In the Cerrado it is chiefly reported from gallery forests.

• Scripps's Murrelet Synthliboramphus scrippsi

  This small seabird breeds on islands off California and Mexico. Outside the breeding period it stays at sea, diving for small fish and crustaceans.

• Siberian Whiskered Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) sibiricus

  This is a small bat of Asian forests. A 2025 survey recorded it at 730 m and 1,810 m in Katon-Karagay National Park, Kazakhstan.

• Red-shouldered Vanga Calicalicus rufocarpalis

  The Red-shouldered Vanga is a small bird of dry, thorny scrub in southwestern Madagascar. Its reddish shoulder feathers help distinguish the sexes.

• Bohor Reedbuck Redunca redunca

  The bohor reedbuck is an antelope with yellowish-brown to gray-brown fur. It hides among tall grasses and mainly eats grass.