Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,584 · Stories: 19,526

• Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus

  

  A white seabird with a red bill; adults have conspicuously long tail streamers.

• Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk Conepatus humboldtii

  

  Conepatus humboldtii is a Patagonian skunk from Argentina and Chile. It has a broad projecting face and one or two side stripes, and searches mainly for insects in grassland at night.

• Kea Nestor notabilis

  

  The Kea is a parrot of the mountains of New Zealand’s South Island. It has olive-green feathers edged in black and orange-red underwings. It eats both plants and animals, and the elevations it uses vary by season.

• Bush Hyrax Heterohyrax brucei

  

  A hyrax found in sub-Saharan Africa. It lives in rocky savannas and bush steppe and is active by day.

• Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola

  

  The Masked Gnatcatcher searches woodland and scrub for small insects. Males have a black facial mask; females have a white eye-ring and cheeks.

• Philippine Slow Loris Nycticebus menagensis

  

  The Philippine Slow Loris has a white muzzle and small dark rings around the eyes. It is nocturnal and spends almost all of its time in trees.

• Whitehead Mohoua albicilla

  This New Zealand endemic is naturally found on the North Island. It forages in the forest canopy while calling with its group. Some island and sanctuary populations were established by human translocation.

• Llama Lama glama

  A domestic camelid long used to carry loads in the Andes. It has a long neck and legs but no hump.

• Brolga Antigone rubicunda

  A large crane found in Australia, recognised by its red head and black throat pouch. Males and females may dance during courtship.

• Bristle-faced Free-tailed Bat Setirostris eleryi

  This small bat is recorded in inland Australia. Its back is light sandy in color, its underside is paler, and coarse bristles grow around its nose. The state species profile describes it as insect-eating.

• Parodi's Hemispingus Kleinothraupis parodii

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of southern Peru. It uses humid montane forest and bamboo near the treeline, where it forages in small groups.

• Felou Gundi Felovia vae

  The Felou gundi is a West African rodent associated with rocky places. A habitat model found suitable sites more often on steep, rocky ground near water.

• Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura napensis

  This small tyrant-flycatcher often holds up its long, white-tipped tail. Along Peru’s Amazon, Ucayali and other rivers, it forages in young vegetation growing on river-created sites.

• Alaotran gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis

  The Alaotran gentle lemur is a small lemur with a long tail and dense fur. It lives only in the reed and papyrus wetlands around Lake Alaotra in Madagascar.

• Australasian Darter Anhinga novaehollandiae

  With its long neck and yellow bill, it catches fish in water and may spread its wings to dry while perched.

• Max's Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys maxi

  This small erinaceid is recorded in forests on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. It is reported more often in hill and montane forest.

• Pallas' Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi

  Pallas' Reed Bunting is a small bunting that breeds in northern Asia. In Hong Kong it is rarely recorded as an autumn passage migrant.

• Indonesian Porcupine Hystrix (Thecurus) pumila

  This porcupine lives on islands in the Palawan region and has dark bristles and rattling tail quills.

• Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor

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

• Broad-toed Feather-tailed Glider Acrobates frontalis

  This small marsupial occurs in eastern Australia. A 2023 paper describes long hairs projecting from both sides of the tail in living Acrobates, including A. frontalis, giving it a feather-like edge.

• Norfolk Gerygone Gerygone modesta

  The Norfolk Gerygone is a small bird endemic to Norfolk Island. Parks Australia's account describes both sexes as dull grey-brown above and whitish below, and notes quick flights among trees.

• White-cheeked Squirrel Prosciurillus leucomus

  The white-cheeked squirrel lives in forests on the northern Sulawesi Peninsula and Lembeh Island. It is active by day, foraging in the canopy for soft fruits and insects.

• South American Painted Snipe Nycticryphes semicollaris

  A painted-snipe of southern South American wetlands, with a reddish-brown head, neck and upper breast and white-marked dark wings. It feeds along muddy water margins.

• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.