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• Short-tailed Antthrush Chamaeza campanisona

  

  A Short-tailed Antthrush of Bolivia’s humid montane forests. It searches for food on the forest floor by turning leaves with its bill.

• Underwood's Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi

  Underwood's bonneted bat ranges from the southwestern United States through western Mexico to Central America. Confirmed information about its roosts is limited.

• Eurasian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus

  A small bird that weaves a pouch-shaped nest on branches near water. It ranges across Europe and Asia and forages among reeds and wetland plants.

• Roan antelope Hippotragus equinus

  An antelope with long ears and contrasting pale and dark facial markings.

• White-naped crane Antigone vipio

  A crane with a gray-and-white neck and pinkish legs.

• Moluccan Cuscus Phalanger ornatus

  The Moluccan cuscus is a marsupial from the Moluccan Islands. Its short, woolly coat can have white spots, and a field study also recorded the species on Obi Island.

• White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda

  The White-tailed Blue Flycatcher is an African flycatcher that may fan its long tail. It joins mixed-species feeding flocks in forests and miombo.

• African Yellow Bat Scotophilus dinganii

  The African Yellow Bat has a yellowish underside and eats insects. It roosts in hollow trees and buildings, alone or in small groups.

• Black-mandibled Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus

  The Yellow-throated Toucan has a yellow face and chest and a long, two-colored bill. It forages for fruit in the canopy and nests in cavities in decaying trees.

• Fennec fox Vulpes zerda

  A small fox of sandy areas such as the Sahara. It has strikingly large ears and a pale coat.

• Green-tailed Warbler Microligea palustris

  The Green-tailed Warbler is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It has a gray head and body, olive-green back and wings, and mainly eats insects.

• Silvery Gibbon Hylobates moloch

  The silvery gibbon lives in forests on Java. Its long arms help it swing from branch to branch.

• Copperback Quail-thrush Cinclosoma clarum

  The Copperback Quail-thrush is a ground-dwelling bird of dry scrub in southern Australia. It was separated from the western population of a species once treated as a single Chestnut Quail-thrush.

• Guiana dolphin Sotalia guianensis

  This small dolphin lives in shallow seas and estuaries. It has a triangular dorsal fin and gray coloring and feeds on fish, squid, and crustaceans.

• Buff-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus hellmayri

  This tyrannulet occurs on the eastern Andean slope in south-eastern Peru and Bolivia. It uses the canopy and subcanopy of humid mountain forest, alone, in pairs, or in mixed flocks.

• Red-tailed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur ruficaudatus

  The red-tailed sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with a gray-brown body and reddish tail. It rests in tree holes by day and feeds on leaves.

• Northern Gannet Morus bassanus

  A large seabird that glides over the sea and catches fish.

• Greater Glider Petauroides volans

  This nocturnal marsupial lives in forests of eastern Australia. It glides between trees using a membrane between its limbs and eats eucalyptus leaves.

• Chilean Skua Stercorarius chilensis

  The Chilean Skua is a seabird of southern South American coasts and offshore waters. It sometimes takes food from other seabirds.

• Heermann's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys heermanni

  Heermann's kangaroo rat hops on long hind legs and carries seeds in cheek pouches to its burrow. It is active alone at night.

• Rufous-headed Tailorbird Phyllergates heterolaemus

  This tailorbird was described from a specimen collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao. The original account describes one adult of undetermined sex and notes that it was found among bushes.

• Wild Camel Camelus ferus

  This wild camel lives in desert regions of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. Its humps are smaller than those of domestic Bactrian camels, and it browses salt-tolerant shrubs in the Gobi.

• Grey Tinamou Tinamus tao

  A large tinamou ranging from the eastern Andes to Brazil’s savanna woodland. It feeds mainly on fruit on the forest floor.

• Thomas's Mountain Cavy Microcavia maenas

  This cavy occurs in the hills and dry lowlands of Argentina. Its back color varies among the sample groups described in a 2017 paper, from yellowish gray to brown. In a Mendoza study, shrubs were common in the plant material identified from droppings at both a protected reserve and a neighboring grazed field.