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• Tapanuli Orangutan Pongo tapanuliensis

  

  An orangutan of the Tapanuli region in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where its forest habitat is fragmented; fruit is a major food.

• Grey-headed Babbler Stachyris poliocephala

  

  The Grey-headed Babbler lives in forests from southern Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It has a dark grey head with white lines and a chestnut body.

• Rufous Bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens

  

  The rufous bettong is a marsupial with reddish-brown fur and a furred muzzle. It rests in a grass-built nest by day and looks for food at night.

• Curve-billed Tinamou Nothoprocta curvirostris

  

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in high Andean grasslands. Its curved bill and rufous underparts are distinctive.

• 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.

• Sungrebe Heliornis fulica

  

  The Sungrebe is a small aquatic bird with a long, slender bill and yellow-and-black-banded lobed toes. It hides along quiet, heavily vegetated waterways and may dive when threatened.

• Ussuri Shrew Crocidura lasiura

  The Ussuri shrew is a small shrew of Northeast Asia. A study in the Russian Far East found it using a broad range of habitats within forest-steppe, including forest vegetation.

• Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor

  A weaver of lowland forests along rivers and swamps in western and central Africa. It searches for insects and small fruits from the forest mid-levels to the canopy.

• Niemitz's Tarsier Tarsius niemitzi

  This tarsier occurs on the Togean Islands off Central Sulawesi. It was described as a distinct species in 2019, and a characteristic duet call made by a male and female is reported.

• Japanese waxwing Bombycilla japonica

  A winter visitor to Japan with a red tail tip.

• Zebu cattle Bos indicus

  Zebu cattle are the group treated as Bos indicus in the FAO account of tropical livestock. A hump over the shoulders or neck is characteristic, and the account describes heat tolerance and relatively low feed requirements.

• Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus

  A nocturnal nightjar of East African woodland and savanna. It has a slender body and slightly elongated central tail feathers.

• 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.

• Flaming Sunbird Aethopyga flagrans

  This sunbird lives in Philippine forest and feeds mainly on nectar. A 2006 preliminary taxonomic review recorded geographic differences in plumage among populations.

• Raffray's Bandicoot Peroryctes raffrayana

  A medium-sized bandicoot of New Guinea forests, with a long, narrow snout and a long tail.

• Fork-tailed Storm Petrel Hydrobates furcatus

  The Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel is a North Pacific seabird. Its bluish-grey body and forked tail are distinctive, and it feeds close to the sea surface.

• Common African Dormouse Graphiurus (Graphiurus) murinus

  A small African mammal with a gray back, pale belly, and bushy tail. It forages at night and hibernates during cold winters.

• Rand's Warbler Randia pseudozosterops

  Rand's Warbler is endemic to eastern Madagascar's humid lowland forest. It has an olive-gray head with a prominent pale eyebrow and forages for insects in treetops.

• Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri

  A possum of mountain eucalypt forests in Victoria that uses hollows in old trees for shelter and nesting.

• Common Sunbird-Asity Neodrepanis coruscans

  This Madagascar-only asity is one of the species with a long, curved bill. Sunbird-asities mainly take nectar, and also eat fruit and insects.

• 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.

• White-capped Parrot Pionus seniloides

  It has a white forehead and a gray-scaled crown. A field survey recorded it in montane cloud forest in southern Ecuador.

• Painted Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus forbesi

  Animals studied on Mt Dayman were described as having striking facial and head markings and a dark line down the back.

• Mulga Parrot Psephotellus varius

  The Mulga Parrot is an Australian parrot whose male has striking yellow and red head markings. It searches for seeds on the ground and in low plants, and nests in tree hollows.