Meet the world’s animals.

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• Roman Mole Talpa romana

  

  The Roman mole digs underground tunnels with broad forefeet shaped for moving soil. It occurs in central and southern Italy and eats earthworms and insect larvae.

• Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea

  The Wattled Starling lives in dry grasslands and other open habitats in Africa and may move in flocks to find food. Breeding males have black wattles on the head.

• East African Mole Rat Tachyoryctes splendens

  The East African root rat occurs in patches of fertile soil in the northeastern African highlands. It excavates extensive underground burrows and makes nests from plant material and fecal matter.

• Wallace's Fairywren Sipodotus wallacii

  Wallace’s Fairywren lives in lowland and foothill rainforest on New Guinea. It has a long bill and short tail, and has been observed in forests with abundant vines and ground cover.

• Northern Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops nanus

  This free-tailed bat has large, rounded ears joined above the forehead. Two specimens were recorded at a wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, amid sorghum crops and fragments of low deciduous forest.

• Bearded Reedling Panurus biarmicus

  A long-tailed brown bird of reedbeds. Males have a black facial marking that looks like a moustache.

• North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena japonica

  The North Pacific right whale is a baleen whale of the North Pacific, with most contemporary sightings in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.

• Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria

  The Wallcreeper walks over rock faces to search crevices for insects. It lives in mountains during breeding and moves to lower areas in winter.

• Leopardus tilcayo

  Leopardus tilcayo is a felid described as a new species in 2026. The paper gives its type locality near Arapata in Bolivia's Nor Yungas, and a UMSA report also describes records from the Yungas forests of La Paz.

• Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida

  In the Taiwan endemic subspecies N. v. vivida, males are indigo, black, and orange-yellow, while females are mainly olive-brown and yellow-brown. It uses middle and upper forest layers.

• Lord Derby's Anomalure Anomalurus derbianus

  This squirrel-shaped rodent glides from tree to tree. It is active around dusk and at night in forests of western and central Africa.

• Fruithunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi

  The Fruithunter is endemic to Borneo’s montane forest. Males are glossy blue-black, while females are barred gray-brown; small groups may gather at fruiting trees.

• Lesser Mouse-deer Tragulus kanchil

  It has no antlers; males have long canine teeth. This small ungulate lives alone or in pairs and eats leaves and fruit.

• Eastern Chat-Tanager Calyptophilus frugivorus

  A chocolate-brown back and bright yellow skin around the eye help identify this bird. In Hispaniola's mountain forests, it searches leaf litter for small animals and seeds.

• Milton's Titi Plecturocebus miltoni

  This southern Amazonian titi monkey was described in 2014 as Callicebus miltoni; the current genus used here is Plecturocebus. Its most distinctive pattern combines a pale forehead stripe, dark orange-brown sideburns and throat, a dark gray upper body, and an orange tail.

• White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei

  The amount of white on its head varies, and its red bill and feet stand out. By day it searches tree trunks and branches for invertebrates.

• Diadem Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros diadema

  A bat with a conspicuous leaf-shaped nose structure that roosts in tropical forests and near waterways.

• Fairy Flycatcher Stenostira scita

  The Fairy Flycatcher is a small bird of southern Africa. It makes seasonal movements between the southern Karoo and fynbos in summer and thorn scrub farther north in winter.

• Shark Bay Bandicoot Perameles bougainville

  The Shark Bay bandicoot is a small marsupial native to islands off Western Australia. It makes a nest beneath shrubs for daytime shelter.

• White-bellied Storm Petrel Fregetta grallaria

  The White-bellied Storm Petrel is a small seabird of the open ocean. It glides low over the sea and breeds on the Kermadec Islands and Lord Howe Island in the New Zealand region.

• Amazon Black Howler Alouatta nigerrima

  This howler monkey has mostly black fur and lives in the south-central Amazon of Brazil. It feeds on leaves and fruit in the trees and lives in groups.

• Helmet Vanga Euryceros prevostii

  The Helmet Vanga is a large vanga of eastern Madagascar’s humid evergreen forests. It is notable for its huge blue bill; a field study recorded insects as its main prey and both parents sharing incubation.

• Bearded Emperor Tamarin Tamarinus subgrisescens

  The bearded emperor tamarin is a small monkey of the southwestern Amazon. Its tufted white facial hair and rufous rump and tail distinguish the subgrisescens form. The Mammal Diversity Database currently lists it as Saguinus subgrisescens.

• Spot-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis guttaticollis

  The Spot-breasted Parrotbill lives in grassy and shrubby areas in parts of eastern South Asia, including northeastern India.