Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata

  

  The Black-throated Wattle-eye lives in African woodland and thickets near water and eats insects. Males and females differ in throat color.

• Large Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus magnater

  The large long-fingered bat has dark brown to nearly black dorsal fur. Meghalaya records came from cave sites and above a river, and researchers recorded calls from bats flying in front of a cave.

• Rosy Thrush-Tanager Rhodinocichla rosea

  The Rosy Thrush-Tanager is a forest bird whose males have dark grey upperparts and rosy underparts. Female colors and facial markings vary among subspecies and regions.

• Southern Needle-clawed Bushbaby Euoticus elegantulus

  The southern needle-clawed bushbaby is a small primate that moves through rainforest canopies at night and feeds mainly on tree gums.

• Black-headed Penduline Tit Remiz macronyx

  The Black-headed Penduline Tit is a Central Asian migrant.

• Red-cheeked Ground Squirrel Spermophilus erythrogenys

  The red-cheeked ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel marked by reddish cheeks. Regional records describe it as active by day, using burrows and feeding on grasses and other foods.

• White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis

  The White-browed Treecreeper has a white eyebrow and barred belly. It is patchily distributed in southern mainland Australia and searches for insects in dry woodland and scrub.

• Silky Mole-rat Heliophobius argenteocinereus

  The silky mole-rat is a solitary rodent that digs underground burrows. In a Malawi study, its burrowing pattern changed as the soil hardened during the dry season.

• Western Shriketit Falcunculus leucogaster

  This bird occurs in Western Australia. It runs along trunks and branches, tearing at bark to search for insects.

• Lowland Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea leucoblephara

  This cavy occurs in southern South America. Argentina's National Parks biodiversity profile describes its dark, black-speckled back and pale eye rings, as well as a diurnal, ground-dwelling, group-living life in shallow burrows.

• Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami

  This cisticola lives in African savanna. It has a rufous cap and bands near the tail tip, and gives a high, rising trill from a prominent perch.

• Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou mexicanus

  This porcupine ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to western Panama. Long quills hide beneath coarse black hairs, and its long tail can grip branches.

• Sulawesi Nightjar Caprimulgus celebensis

  The Sulawesi Nightjar has fine grey-brown, dark brown and buff markings. It lives in lowland forests and mangroves around Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is thought to catch flying insects.

• Horsfield's Treeshrew Tupaia javanica

  This small mammal has a long muzzle and reddish tail, with an olive-brown back. A study of animals from Java reported fruit as a main food.

• Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor

  A small flamingo with a long curved neck and slender pink legs, gathering on saline lakes and similar wetlands.

• Rock hyrax Procavia capensis

  A mammal of rocky habitats in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It shelters in crevices and eats grasses and leaves.

• Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus

  The Plains-wanderer is a small ground-dwelling bird of scattered grasslands in southeastern Australia. It forages by day for seeds and small ground-dwelling animals.

• Chinese zokor Eospalax fontanierii

  The Chinese zokor is a subterranean rodent. In the studied subspecies, E. f. baileyi, researchers describe a rounded body, short snout, eyes and tail, and gray-brown fur.

• Spotted Wren Campylorhynchus gularis

  The Spotted Wren is a brown wren marked with spots. It searches for animal and plant food in dry scrub and woodland in Mexico.

• Lesser Bulldog Bat Noctilio (Dirias) albiventris

  A bat of waterside habitats. Males tend to be bright red and females dull brown, and it searches for insects near the water's surface at night.

• Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus

  A bird of South Africa's mountains, marked by a silver-grey head and reddish rump, that searches rocky Fynbos for insects.

• Ganges River Dolphin Platanista gangetica

  A freshwater dolphin of river systems in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. It has very poor sight and uses echoes from ultrasonic sounds to locate fish and other prey.

• Grey-lined Hawk Buteo nitidus

  The Grey-lined Hawk is a raptor recorded in Bolivia's riverside forests and woodlands. It searches for prey from a perch.

• West Amazonian Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus pastasae

  This armadillo occurs in the western Amazon. A 2021 Colombian study describes large knee scales and movable armor bands as identification clues and obtained almost all records in forest along rivers.