Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Peter's Disk-winged Bat Thyroptera discifera

  This small bat roosts in groups under leaves and uses suction cups on its feet and thumbs to cling to them.

• Burchell's Courser Cursorius rufus

  This bird walks through open, dry country to find food. Its sandy back and blue-gray hind-crown help identify it, and it eats mainly insects.

• Likweli Colobus congoensis

  This black colobus is recorded in forests of east-central Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pale orange-cream skin around the mouth and a white perianal patch stand out.

• American Barn Owl Tyto furcata

  The American Barn Owl occurs across the Americas. It flies over open ground at night, searching for small mammals.

• 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.

• Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea

  The Cinereous Bunting uses rocky, scrub-covered slopes and nests on the ground. Its underparts range from whitish gray to yellowish between the western and eastern subspecies.

• Southern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus siki

  The southern white-cheeked gibbon lives in forests of central Laos and Vietnam. It stays in the canopy, and its diet changes with the seasons.

• Palmchat Dulus dominicus

  The Palmchat is a Caribbean island bird with a plain brown back and heavily streaked underparts. It also has a red iris and a strong, slightly decurved bill.

• Southwestern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus concinnus

  The western pygmy possum is a small marsupial with a white belly and large eyes. It moves through trees at night and rests in a leaf-lined nest by day.

• Iberian Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis

  This shrike occurs in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. It has a gray back, black eye mask, and white eyebrow, and watches open ground from a raised perch.

• Kiang Equus kiang

  A wild ass that lives on the Tibetan Plateau.

• Red-naped Bushshrike Laniarius ruficeps

  This bushshrike inhabits dry lowland scrub. Its underparts are whitish and its hindcrown and nape are chestnut; it searches for insects low in bushes and on the ground.

• Java Warty Pig Sus verrucosus

  This pig occurs on Java and Bawean Island. It has an elongated face and uses cultivated landscapes and teak plantations mixed with grassland, scrub, and secondary forest.

• Cuban Crow Corvus nasicus

  The Cuban Crow is a large crow found mainly in Cuba. It uses forests as well as farmland and eats a varied diet.

• Pel's Anomalure Anomalurus pelii

  Pel's anomalure is a gliding squirrel with scaly structures on its tail. It occurs in high forest in West Africa.

• Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus

  This small bird lives in Australian forests and woodlands. It has a white eyebrow and a yellow spot in front of the eye, and searches canopy leaves for insects and larvae.

• Western Ring-tailed Possum Pseudocheirus occidentalis

  A nocturnal marsupial of forests in south-western Australia. It eats leaves and other plant foods, then rests by day in leafy nests built among branches.

• Hermit Warbler Setophaga occidentalis

  This small warbler breeds in western North America and winters in Central America. Its yellow face stands out as it searches for insects high in conifers.

• Botta's Pocket Gopher Megascapheus bottae

  This rodent digs underground tunnels with its large front claws and incisors. It carries food in cheek pouches outside its mouth.

• Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor

  A small bird with a blue-green back and white underside that catches insects in flight.

• Thick-tailed Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Anguistodontus) crassicauda

  This small jerboa has a tail longer than its body and three-toed hind feet. It digs long burrows in sand dunes.

• Dalmatian pelican Pelecanus crispus

  A pelican with a large bill pouch that feeds on fish in lakes and wetlands.

• Baird's Tapir Tapirella bairdii

  A large mammal ranging from Mexico through Central America to northwestern Colombia and Ecuador; it browses on leaves and fruit in forest understory.