Today · Friday 9 October 2026
Kea
It’s one of the smartest birds in the world. Kea have turned on taps, moved road cones and even locked someone in a toilet.
- Lives in
- MountainsMountains and forests of New Zealand’s South Island, and nowhere else in the wild
More about the keaScientific name, size and Red List status
- Scientific name
- Nestor notabilis
- Size
- About 46 cm long
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
One of 49,505 species on the IUCN Red List that are threatened with extinction. See the assessment
Fact source: NZ Department of Conservation
Tomorrow · Saturday 10 October
A new animal in 19 h 1 min
A hint: it lives on a coral reef.
This week
Every animal so far- Mon 5Thorny devil
- Tue 6Golden tortoise beetle
- Wed 7Pacific barreleye
- Thu 8Okapi
- Fri 9KeaToday
- Sat 10Tomorrow’s animalin 19 h 1 min
- Sun 11
Why Animall
People can’t care about animals they have never heard of.
Scientists still discover thousands of new animal species every year, while many others are disappearing because of habitat loss and climate change. Some die out before anyone has described them.
10,000+
new animal species are described every year.
University of Arizona, 2025
86%
of species on Earth, and 91% in the ocean, have not been described yet.
Mora et al., 2011
73%
average drop in monitored wildlife populations between 1970 and 2020.
WWF Living Planet Report, 2024