Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mantled guereza Colobus guereza

  

  An African forest monkey with long white fringes that feeds mainly on leaves.

• Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri

  The Gough Moorhen is an island rail with short wings and no ability to fly. It is native to Gough Island and was introduced to Tristan da Cunha in 1956.

• Junín Red Squirrel Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pyrrhinus

  The Junín red squirrel is an arboreal squirrel recorded in Peru. Its back is reddish brown, while the underside ranges from white to more reddish shades.

• Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides

  This resident hummingbird is recorded in Argentina and Bolivia, at elevations of 1,500–3,400 m.

• European Snow Vole Chionomys nivalis

  A gray vole with long, dense fur and a tail about half as long as its body. It remains active beneath snow in winter.

• Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus

  The Palm Cockatoo is a large black parrot of forests in New Guinea and northern Australia; it eats nuts and fruit.

• Van Gelder's Bat Bauerus dubiaquercus

  This bat is notable for its large ears and spiral-shaped nostrils. In Mexico, records come from several forest types.

• Banded Wattle-eye Platysteira laticincta

  This small bird lives in the montane forests of western Cameroon. The male has a broad blue-black band across its white belly and a red bare wattle above the eye.

• Uganda Kob Kobus thomasi

  The Uganda Kob is an East African kob with a white underside, eye-rings, and a throat patch. It mainly eats grasses and reeds. Females and young males form groups, move along watercourses, and graze in valley bottoms.

• Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps

  The Bare-crowned Antbird is a lowland antbird occurring from Central America into northern Colombia. The male has a bare blue area on the crown.

• Common Grammomys Grammomys dolichurus

  This small, narrow-footed rodent has been described as nocturnal and arboreal in older references. Its ecology in the wild remains poorly known.

• Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Merops leschenaulti

  The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater has a green body, chestnut head, yellow face and throat, and blue on the rump and lower belly. It catches flying insects in the air.

• Gray-shanked Douc Pygathrix cinerea

  The gray-shanked douc lives in forests of Vietnam's Central Highlands. It has a gray coat, white cheek fur, and an orange collar marking, and feeds on young leaves in trees.

• Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus

  The Asian Dowitcher probes wetland mud with its long bill and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• Richardson's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus richardsonii

  Richardson's Ground Squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of the northern Great Plains. It digs underground burrows and hibernates through the cold season.

• Slaty-headed Parakeet Psittacula himalayana

  This parakeet lives in Himalayan forests and cultivated areas with large trees. It is often seen in small flocks or family groups; adult males have a maroon wing patch.

• Pine Vole Microtus (Pitymys) pinetorum

  A small vole that moves through leaf litter and soil in deciduous forests. In autumn it stores roots and shoots in burrows for winter shortages.

• Kalkadoon Grasswren Amytornis ballarae

  This grasswren lives on rocky hills near Mount Isa, moving on the ground through spinifex clumps. Its range and biology remain incompletely studied.

• Azorean Bat Nyctalus azoreum

  This bat is endemic to the Azores. A 1993 morphological comparison found it smaller than the related Leisler's bat, and a 2026 study confirmed its presence on Flores.

• Tyrannine Woodcreeper Dendrocincla tyrannina

  This woodcreeper uses the lower and middle layers of humid montane forest. Its head, back, throat and breast are reddish olive, with beige scaling on the breast.

• Snow Sheep Ovis nivicola

  The snow sheep lives in rocky mountains of eastern Siberia. It makes short seasonal movements and eats grasses and lichens.

• Alor Myzomela Myzomela prawiradilagae

  This honeyeater is known only from Alor Island, Indonesia. Its original description reports that it is mainly recorded in montane eucalypt woodland, mostly above 900 m.

• Tete Veld Aethomys Aethomys ineptus

  The Tete veld aethomys is a medium-sized rodent that eats vegetation, seeds, and insects. Confirmed records in the account are limited to parts of South Africa and Eswatini.

• Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus

  A leaf warbler with a pale crown stripe that favors the upper parts of forests.