Meet the world’s animals.

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• Madagascan Buttonquail Turnix nigricollis

  

  This small ground bird resembles a quail, and females are more colorful than males. The male incubates the eggs and cares for the chicks.

• Woolly Dormouse Dryomys laniger

  

  The woolly dormouse is a small dormouse of rocky highlands in Türkiye. A 2025 study described an eastern lineage as a separate species, refining the range assigned to D. laniger.

• Andean condor Vultur gryphus

  

  A large soaring bird that searches for carrion in the Andes and nearby open country.

• Southern giraffe Giraffa giraffa

  

  The southern giraffe occurs in southern Africa and includes the Angolan and South African subspecies.

• Southern Screamer Chauna torquata

  

  The Southern Screamer is a large South American wetland bird with a black-and-white neck band and long red legs. It feeds on grasses and aquatic plants near shallow water.

• Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis

  

  Its back is gray-brown, its belly yellow-orange, and a gliding membrane stretches between its limbs. In eastern Australian eucalypt forests, it feeds on nectar and sap and glides at night.

• Comb-crested Jacana Irediparra gallinacea

  This waterbird walks on floating plants with its long legs and exceptionally long toes. Its red forehead comb and black, white, and olive-brown pattern are also distinctive.

• Malayan Hollow-faced Bat Nycteris tragata

  A bat recorded in Southeast Asian forests. It has long ears and facial grooves, and roosts in small groups in caves or hollow trees.

• Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum

  The Vulturine Guineafowl is a large bird of eastern Africa's dry grasslands and scrub. It walks on the ground in groups and is striking for its blue head and long black plumes.

• Andean Caenolestid Caenolestes condorensis

  A small marsupial known from the Cordillera del Condor in Ecuador. Very few specimens have been captured and described.

• Mountain Fulvetta Alcippe peracensis

  A grey head and a dark line running from above the eye toward the nape help identify this bird. It eats insects in evergreen forest and may occur in small groups.

• 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.

• Killdeer Charadrius vociferus

  A North American plover of open ground. It runs, pauses, and searches the ground for insects.

• Rock Ring-tailed Possum Petropseudes dahli

  This marsupial lives among rocky outcrops in northern Australia. It shelters in sandstone crevices by day and goes to nearby trees to feed at night.

• Yellow-bellied Warbler Abroscopus superciliaris

  The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small bird of Southeast Asian forest and bamboo. Its yellow belly and white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Brown Greater Galago Otolemur crassicaudatus

  A primate with large eyes and ears and a long tail. It is active at night and eats gum, fruit, seeds, insects, and other foods.

• Madagascar Hoopoe Upupa marginata

  The Madagascar Hoopoe searches for small prey on the ground in dry woodland and other open habitats on the island.

• Wyoming Pocket Gopher Thomomys clusius

  This small pocket gopher occurs in southern Wyoming. It has pale yellow-gray fur and is recorded on fine-soil flats, including areas with Gardner saltbush.

• Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi

  A small honeyguide of forest and forest edge. Its olive wings stand out, and it calls from regular song posts.

• Dice's Cottontail Sylvilagus dicei

  This rabbit has a dark brown to black back and a pale underside. It occurs in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama; evening activity has been studied only in a preliminary survey at one reserve.

• Blue-breasted Fairywren Malurus pulcherrimus

  In the Blue-breasted Fairywren, the deep blue head and breast of mature males stand out. Males forage with family groups in the understory of dry eucalyptus woodlands.

• Black-lipped Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) curzoniae

  This small pika lives in high grasslands and steppes of the Tibetan Plateau and has no obvious visible tail. Meadow populations are known to gather and store plants.

• Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus

  The Southern Giant Petrel occurs in brown and rarer white phases. It breeds on Southern Ocean islands and the Antarctic Continent and is a distinct species from the related Northern Giant Petrel.

• Karoo Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides proboscideus

  A small sengi with a long nose and large eyes that lives on gravel plains in the Karoo region.