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• Cape Batis Batis capensis

  

  This small bird differs in its chest and throat markings between the sexes. Pairs search for insects in forests and dense vegetation.

• Chacoan Tuco-tuco Ctenomys conoveri

  

  Conover's Tuco-tuco is a fossorial rodent of the Gran Chaco in Bolivia and Paraguay. It has a robust cylindrical body and builds branching burrows.

• Grey crowned crane Balearica regulorum

  

  An African crane with a golden crown of stiff feathers. Adults have a mainly grey body and prominent white cheeks.

• Mitered Langur Presbytis mitrata

  

  Presbytis mitrata is a monkey of southern Sumatra. It feeds mainly on leaves and is arboreal. Its coat varies, so individuals do not all look alike.

• Stripe-headed Tanager Spindalis zena

  

  The Stripe-headed Tanager occurs on Caribbean islands and nearby regions, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Ring-tailed Mongoose Galidia elegans

  

  The ring-tailed mongoose is a carnivorous mammal from Madagascar, notable for the red and black rings on its tail. It is active by day, moving mainly on the ground but also climbing trees.

• Yungas Antwren Myrmotherula grisea

  This antwren is endemic to Bolivia. A 2003 reserve-bird paper records one female-plumaged bird found in the Pilón Lajas area in 1997. Its back was warm olive-brown, with slight rufous on the wings and tail.

• Cuban Fig-eating Bat Phyllops falcatus

  The Cuban fig-eating bat is a medium-sized bat recorded in Cuba and on Hispaniola. It has white shoulder patches, while information about its food comes from only a few observations of fruit and seeds.

• Purple-bearded Bee-eater Meropogon forsteni

  The Purple-bearded Bee-eater occurs only on Sulawesi. Adult males have long purple throat feathers that hang like a beard.

• Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes tricinctus

  This armadillo has a rounded shell and can curl into a ball by fitting its head and tail shields together when threatened.

• Eastern Crested Berrypecker Paramythia montium

  The Eastern Crested Berrypecker lives in moist montane forest in the eastern New Guinea highlands. It has a black crest and face, a blue-gray tail, and yellowish areas on the lower belly.

• Chinese Rufous Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus sinicus

  The Chinese rufous horseshoe bat ranges from South Asia through China and Vietnam. It is reported from rainy montane forests.

• Chestnut-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus ruficeps

  The Chestnut-crowned Babbler is marked by a chestnut crown and gray facial pattern. It searches for food in small flocks on the ground in dry, open woodland.

• Cozumel Raccoon Procyon pygmaeus

  The Cozumel raccoon is a small raccoon restricted to Cozumel Island, Mexico. It is mostly nocturnal and eats many crabs.

• Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei

  This barbet is known from Cordillera Azul in Peru. During the original description study, birds were observed taking fruit in the canopy of high-elevation cloud forest and moving in loose groups.

• Brazilian Porcupine Coendou prehensilis

  The Brazilian porcupine occurs in the northern Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Adults have three-banded quills along the back, giving a pale yellowish appearance with dark brown markings. In Pernambuco, a specimen was collected in lowland evergreen rainforest surrounded by sugar-cane fields.

• Ruff Calidris pugnax

  A shorebird that breeds in wetlands from arctic to temperate regions and also uses mudflats and grasslands during migration and winter. Breeding males display elaborate head and neck feathers.

• Okapi Okapia johnstoni

  The okapi is a giraffe relative living in tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Rufous-naped Whistler Aleadryas rufinucha

  This resident bird lives in New Guinea's mountain forests and secondary growth. It searches the ground and lower vegetation for insects, worms, and fruit.

• Asian Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuliginosus

  The 2019 species account describes soft, velvety fur that is blackish brown to gray-brown above and slightly paler, dark gray-brown below. At Ohse-do Cave in Kyushu, Japan, emergence was synchronized with sunset and the appearance of prey. The range here covers the account’s Japanese records, excluding Hokkaido.

• Grey-backed Storm Petrel Garrodia nereis

  A very small storm petrel of the Southern Ocean, with a grey back, dark head and wings, and a white belly.

• Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta

  The long-nosed bandicoot lives in forests and scrubland in eastern Australia. It probes the ground with its long snout and digs for insects and other small invertebrates at night.

• Pygmy Hanging Parrot Loriculus exilis

  This small parrot, about 11 cm long, lives on Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is green with a red throat patch and rump, and hanging parrots rest upside down.

• Siau Island Tarsier Tarsius tumpara

  The Siau Island tarsier is a nocturnal primate from Siau Island, Indonesia. Its facial markings and a tuft at the end of its tail are described in the species account.