Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea

  

  The Gray-breasted Martin is a social swallow often found near towns and water. It catches insects in flight and nests in building crevices or tree cavities.

• Painted Woolly Bat Kerivoula picta

  This small bat has bright orange fur and black wings. It hunts spiders and insects while flying through cluttered spaces close to the ground.

• Green Aracari Pteroglossus viridis

  The Green Aracari lives in humid lowland forests of South America. Its large-looking bill is light, and the bird helps spread seeds when it eats fruit.

• Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii

  An animal of the high Tibetan Plateau with a fine, soft undercoat.

• Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus maculatus

  This small flowerpecker has a green back, a yellow striped underside, and a bright orange crown patch. It actively visits fruiting and flowering trees.

• Drylands Laucha Calomys musculinus

  The drylands laucha is a small mouse recorded around grassland and farmland in Argentina. It eats seeds and is mainly nocturnal, though daytime activity has also been reported.

• Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus

  A bird of open areas near water. Small, spur-like projections on its wings give it its English name.

• Alpine Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) alpinus

  This chipmunk lives high in California's Sierra Nevada, among rocky slopes and subalpine forest.

• Black-browed Barbet Psilopogon oorti

  The Black-browed Barbet has red, blue, and yellow markings on the head and a black brow-like stripe. It forages in the canopy and mid-level branches, and accounts differ on the details of its diet.

• Dusky Hopping Mouse Notomys fuscus

  This hopping mouse lives in Australian dunes and other dry places. It has large ears, a long tail and hind feet, and a white underside. At night it forages on dunes.

• Eastern Striolated Puffbird Nystalus striolatus

  The Eastern Striolated-Puffbird may sit motionless for long periods in the canopy or at the edge of humid forest. Its pale eyes and white chin are distinctive.

• Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat Chalinolobus morio

  The Chocolate Lobe-lipped Bat is an Australian bat with brown fur and short, rounded ears. It roosts in tree hollows and other structures and catches moths below the canopy.

• Purple-rumped Sunbird Leptocoma zeylonica

  This sunbird has different plumage in males and females. It visits flowers for nectar and also occurs in well-wooded gardens and open forest in Sri Lanka.

• Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus

  A shaggy antelope of grassland near water.

• Marmora's Warbler Curruca sarda

  This small warbler occurs on western Mediterranean islands. It moves through low scrub and catches insects and spiders.

• Dark Bolo Mouse Necromys obscurus

  The dark bolo mouse is recorded in separated areas of eastern Argentina and coastal Uruguay. It uses grassland and damp shore habitats and is often active on the ground by day.

• Ludwig's Bustard Neotis ludwigii

  A large bustard that walks across dry plains while foraging. The male has dark coloring on the neck and breast, and some birds move in response to rain.

• Northern Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Prasadsciurus) pennantii

  A South Asian squirrel that searches for food both in trees and on the ground.

• Microeca flaviventris

  A small bird from New Caledonia with dark olive upperparts, grey-white throat, grey breast and yellow belly and flanks. A 2025 paper uses Cryptomicroeca flaviventris.

• Little Indian Field Mouse Mus (Mus) booduga

  The little Indian field mouse is a small mouse with a gray-brown back and white underside. It is widely recorded in South Asia, but the central Myanmar population may represent a separate species.

• Ecuadorian Seedeater Amaurospiza aequatorialis

  This bird is recorded in bamboo stands in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Recent Ecuadorian and Peruvian records describe feeding on seeds and insects in bamboo.

• Canary Long-eared Bat Plecotus teneriffae

  A long-eared bat of Tenerife and other Canary Islands. It uses woodland and feeds on moths and longhorn beetles.

• Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus

  This cisticola is about 13–14 cm long. The account lists acacia woodland and thornbush, with ground foraging for invertebrates. Sound recordings include the Amboseli area in Kenya.

• Urial Ovis vignei

  Urials are wild sheep of Asian grasslands and hills; males carry large spiraling horns.