Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rock Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus intermedius

  

  The rock pocket mouse is a small rodent of rocky areas in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its back is grey-brown, its underside is white, and its tail has a tuft at the tip.

• Bolivian squirrel monkey Saimiri boliviensis

  

  A small monkey of forests in Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. It searches branches for insects and fruit.

• Eastern Mole Scalopus aquaticus

  

  The eastern mole digs underground tunnels and feeds on earthworms and beetle larvae. Its broad front feet are adapted for digging.

• Fierce Bonneted Bat Eumops ferox

  

  This bat is recorded in Cuba. Its historical description gives pale-based brown back fur and blackish-brown cheeks and chin. A capture inside a house in Cárdenas has also been reported.

• Brant's Climbing Mouse Dendromus mesomelas

  

  Brant's Climbing Mouse moves through and climbs low vegetation. Near Cape Town, it was recorded building a ball-shaped grass nest inside old weaver nests.

• Mehely's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus mehelyi

  

  Mehely's horseshoe bat has a patchy Mediterranean range, roosts in caves and feeds mostly on moths.

• Narrow-striped Boky Mungotictis decemlineata

  The narrow-striped mongoose is a small mongoose of the dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar. Its gray-beige coat has dark stripes along the back and flanks. It often rests in tree holes on wet-season nights and in ground burrows in the dry season.

• Florida Deermouse Podomys floridanus

  The Florida deermouse lives in dry sandy uplands and scrub in peninsular Florida. It may dig a small nest burrow inside a gopher tortoise burrow.

• Canefield Rat Rattus sordidus

  This ground-dwelling rat occurs in northeastern Australia. A survey in the Pellew Islands also recorded it in grassy open woodland.

• Chilean Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) chiloensis

  The Chilean myotis is a small bat found in Chile and Argentina. It catches flying insects around dusk and uses forests, riparian scrub, caves, and buildings.

• Indian mongoose Urva auropunctata

  A slender mongoose with short, rounded ears. It is active by day, usually alone, and eats insects, small animals, fruit, and other foods.

• Highland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes nigriceps

  The highland streaked tenrec is a small mammal with black-and-yellow spines along its back. It searches leaf litter for earthworms at night.

• Channel Islands Gray Fox Urocyon littoralis

  This small fox lives only on six of the Channel Islands off California. Each island has its own distinct subspecies.

• Black Dwarf Porcupine Coendou nycthemera

  The black dwarf porcupine has records from the Amazon region. Its dorsal quill pattern helps distinguish it from similar species, but its range is still poorly defined.

• Southern Tigrina Leopardus guttulus

  The Southern Tigrina is a small cat with thick-edged markings on yellow-brown fur. It ranges from Brazil to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, and hunts small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

• Small-toothed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur microdon

  The small-toothed sportive lemur lives in rainforests of southeastern Madagascar. It mainly eats leaves, and also uses flowers and fruit when available.

• Thongaree's False-vampire Eudiscoderma thongareeae

  This rare bat is known from Bala Forest in southern Thailand. The original description was based on three specimens, and little is known about its natural history.

• Amazon Weasel Neogale africana

  This South American mustelid occurs in the Amazon Basin. In 2023, one individual was observed hunting a rodent and using a nearby burrow in a shade-grown coffee plot in Bolivia’s Yungas montane forest.

• Lesser Naked-backed Fruit Bat Dobsonia minor

  The lesser naked-backed fruit bat is a fruit bat recorded on New Guinea and nearby islands. Its wing membranes are visible across the back; the treatment considers a Sulawesi record uncertain.

• South American coati Nasua nasua

  A coati of South American forests, with an elongated flexible snout and a long ringed tail.

• East Bornean Gray Gibbon Hylobates funereus

  This gibbon lives in northern and eastern Borneo and travels through the canopy using its long arms.

• Stein's Cuscus Phalanger vestitus

  Stein's cuscus occurs on New Guinea. A broad stripe across its back is a distinguishing feature, and a survey recorded it in the highland forests of Lanny Jaya.

• Magellanic Tuco-tuco Ctenomys magellanicus

  The Magellanic tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent known from southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Historical accounts describe it digging underground burrows and eating grass.

• Pygmy Killer Whale Feresa attenuata

  A small dolphin that lives in deep offshore waters of tropical and subtropical seas.