Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,025 · Stories: 19,293

• Gemsbok Oryx gazella

  

  The gemsbok is an oryx with bold black markings on its face and body.

• Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma sulphureiventer

  

  The Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin occurs from eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and adjacent western Amazonian Brazil. A yellow stripe down the middle of its crown is a field mark. It uses dense undergrowth in humid forest, especially along rivers; little is known about its diet.

• Hairy Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus pilosus

  

  A Peruvian armadillo with thick reddish hair over its shell, cheeks, and upper forelimbs.

• Tiger Panthera tigris

  

  A tiger is a large striped cat. It usually lives alone and hunts by stalking and ambushing prey.

• Shoebill Balaeniceps rex

  

  A bird of African wetlands with a broad, shoe-shaped bill.

• Chacoan Peccary Catagonus wagneri

  

  The Chacoan peccary looks pig-like and also eats cacti.

• White-naped crane Antigone vipio

  A crane with a gray-and-white neck and pinkish legs.

• Grant's Golden Mole Eremitalpa granti

  This small golden mole has no visible tail, and its eyes are covered by skin. It moves through dunes and searches for food at night.

• Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus

  A small sandpiper with a split pale eyebrow. It breeds from northern Europe to Siberia, with the two subspecies wintering in areas including the Middle East, southern and Southeast Asia and Australia.

• Mountain Gazelle Gazella gazella

  A gazelle of the Middle East’s hills and plains. The Jerusalem Zoo account describes it as active by day and feeding on grass and leaves.

• African Darter Anhinga rufa

  This diving waterbird catches fish. In South Africa, the subspecies present swims with only its long neck and head above the water.

• Bare-nosed wombat Vombatus ursinus

  A wombat of southeastern Australia, Tasmania and nearby islands. It digs burrows to rest in and feeds on grasses.

• Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris

  This small bird occurs widely across Australia. Its short tail and stubby bill are distinctive, and it searches among tree leaves for food.

• Eastern Forest Hedgehog Mesechinus orientalis

  This hedgehog was described from eastern China in 2023. Its short spines have bands of white, black, and pale color.

• Ivory-backed Woodswallow Artamus monachus

  Its white back and body contrast with a brown-grey head and dark wings. It catches flying insects over forest edges and openings.

• Antillean Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops blainvillei

  This nocturnal, insect-eating bat roosts in caves. Its face has conspicuous folds of skin, and the species occurs on Caribbean islands.

• Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii

  The male Orange-bellied Leafbird has a green body, orange underparts and a purplish-blue throat. It feeds on insects and fruit in forest from the Himalaya toward Assam.

• Western long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bruijni

  The western long-beaked echidna is an egg-laying mammal with a long, downward-curving snout. It occurs on New Guinea.

• Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis

  This slender raptor has a long tail and white spots on its chest and belly. It glides over open woodland and grassland while searching for prey.

• Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii

  The Tasmanian subspecies P. g. gunnii uses areas where grassland and remnant forest occur together. It probes the ground with its long nose for insects and worms.

• Red-legged Seriema Cariama cristata

  This large ground-dwelling bird has a red bill and legs and a prominent crest. In Argentina it runs through woodland and savanna and gives loud calls answered by other birds.

• Alpine Musk Deer Moschus chrysogaster

  This deer relative lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males have long upper canine teeth that can show below the mouth.

• Orange-footed Megapode Megapodius reinwardt

  The Orange-footed Megapode has dark gray plumage, orange legs, and a crest at the back of its head. It uses scrub, rainforest, shores, and city parks, feeding on fallen fruit and seeds and laying eggs in large mounds.

• Fat dormouse Glis glis

  A dormouse native to Central Europe, it has gray fur, large eyes and ears, and long whiskers.