Meet the world’s animals.

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• Philippine Fairy-bluebird Irena cyanogastra

  

  A fruit-eating forest bird endemic to the Philippines, it searches for figs and other fruit high in the canopy. Both sexes have glossy blue-and-black plumage.

• Collared Peccary Pecari tajacu

  

  A herd-living hoofed mammal of the Americas, recognized by the pale band around its neck.

• Green-breasted Pitta Pitta reichenowi

  

  This large pitta has a green breast. It searches for invertebrates on the ground and lives in tropical forests and related habitats.

• Yucatán Spotted Skunk Spilogale yucatanensis

  

  This skunk occurs in forests of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Camera traps in a small urban vegetation fragment in Mérida recorded it at night.

• 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.

• African Golden Cat Caracal aurata

  

  A medium-sized wild cat of the moist forests of equatorial Africa.

• Elegant Crescentchest Melanopareia elegans

  The Elegant Crescentchest is recorded in dry forest and scrub in extreme northwestern Peru. Males have black heads, creamy eyebrows and throats, chestnut breasts, and broad black crescent bands; females have a reduced band and rufous underparts.

• 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.

• Yellow-throated Leafbird Chloropsis palawanensis

  A forest bird of the Palawan islands with a green body, yellow throat, and blue wing markings.

• Angolan Giant Mole-rat Fukomys mechowi

  Mechow's mole-rat is an African rodent that excavates underground tunnels. Family groups are known to cooperate in daily life.

• Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi

  It is recorded in dry bush country from Somalia through southern Ethiopia, southeastern Sudan, eastern Uganda, and Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. The field guide describes it as local and uncommon.

• Kiang Equus kiang

  A wild ass that lives on the Tibetan Plateau.

• Red-crowned Ant Tanager Habia rubica

  The historical Southeast Brazil account describes a tanager whose male is reddish and whose female is olive-brown. It forages low in forest, in pairs or small family groups.

• Meerkat Suricata suricatta

  A meerkat is a mongoose relative from dry parts of southern Africa. It uses burrows and lives in groups.

• White-eared Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites meyerii

  The White-eared Bronze Cuckoo lives in mountain forests of New Guinea and searches for insects in the middle levels of trees. White ear patches and green barring help identify it.

• Finless Porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides

  The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise is a distinct species from the narrow-ridged finless porpoise. It has a bumpy back ridge instead of a dorsal fin and feeds in shallow coastal waters.

• Christmas Island Swiftlet Collocalia natalis

  Endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, this small swiftlet catches insects while flying over forest and settlements.

• Little Brown Bat Vespadelus vulturnus

  A small bat with paler fur underneath, it catches flying insects in the forests and woodlands of southeastern Australia and Tasmania.

• Grey-necked Picathartes Picathartes oreas

  Its blue forehead, red nape, and grey neck stand out. It occurs in separated patches of forest in Central Africa.

• Star-nosed Mole Condylura cristata

  A mole of eastern North American wetlands and watersides that searches for prey with its star-shaped nose.

• Greater rhea Rhea americana

  A flightless South American bird with a long neck, long legs and gray-brown feathers.

• Tail-less Tenrec Tenrec ecaudatus

  The tailless tenrec is an omnivorous mammal native to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. It searches for food around water and undergrowth.

• Indian Nuthatch Sitta castanea

  The Indian Nuthatch has a gray back and chestnut underparts and lives in forests and woodland across parts of India. It is sometimes seen in pairs or family groups.

• Degu Octodon degus

  A rodent of dry shrublands in central Chile. Groups dig shared burrow systems and are mainly active during daylight.