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• 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.

• Common Red-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta leporina

  A rodent native to northern South America that sometimes buries seeds for later.

• Correndera Pipit Anthus correndera

  The Correndera Pipit has a dark-streaked back and pale belly. It searches for insects in wet grassland near lakes and ponds.

• Mexican Common Mustached Bat Pteronotus (Phyllodia) mexicanus

  Pteronotus mexicanus is an insect-eating bat from Mexico's Pacific slope. A 2024 paper treats it as a distinct species from the P. parnellii group and lists habitats ranging from forest to dry shrubland.

• Ruwenzori Turaco Gallirex johnstoni

  This turaco occurs in montane forest along the Albertine Rift in East Africa. Its green and violet-blue body contrasts with red flight feathers, and it mainly eats fruit.

• Mona Monkey Cercopithecus mona

  The mona monkey is an arboreal monkey of West and Central African forests. It searches for food in the middle and upper parts of trees.

• Black-bellied Gnateater Conopophaga melanogaster

  The Black-bellied Gnateater has a bold white eyebrow and chestnut wings. Males have a black head and underparts, while these areas are gray in females; it forages in dense humid forest understory.

• Sugar glider Petaurus breviceps

  A marsupial that glides between trees in eastern Australian forests.

• White-throated Dipper Cinclus cinclus

  This bird lives along fast-flowing streams. Adults are dark brown with a white throat and chest.

• Haig's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys haigi

  Haig's tuco-tuco is a small burrowing rodent with soft gray-brown fur. It lives in burrows and gives short calls both day and night.

• Neblina Tapaculo Scytalopus altirostris

  Endemic to Peru, this gray tapaculo has variable rufous markings and forages near the ground in humid montane forest and scrub with bunchgrass.

• Arnoux's Beaked Whale Berardius arnuxii

  A large toothed whale of cold, deep waters in the Southern Hemisphere. It can be difficult to distinguish from similar species, and aspects of its diet and natural history remain poorly known.

• Western Whipbird Psophodes nigrogularis

  This bird searches for insects on the ground and in low vegetation. This entry describes the lashmari subspecies on Kangaroo Island.

• Chinese zokor Eospalax fontanierii

  The Chinese zokor is a subterranean rodent. In the studied subspecies, E. f. baileyi, researchers describe a rounded body, short snout, eyes and tail, and gray-brown fur.

• African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta

  The African Pygmy Kingfisher is a small kingfisher widespread south of the Sahara. It eats insects more often than fish and searches for prey from a perch.

• Crab-eating Raccoon Procyon cancrivorus

  A raccoon of southern Central and South America, living in forests and grasslands near water. It is active from dusk through the night and into the early morning.

• Moustached Barbet Psilopogon incognitus

  Adults are green with blue cheeks and a blue throat. The extent of red and blue markings on the head and throat differs among the three subspecies described by Oiseaux.net.

• Common Opossum Didelphis marsupialis

  This marsupial lives across much of Central and South America and has a long tail and claws for climbing.

• Tit-like Dacnis Xenodacnis parina

  This small bird inhabits Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland. Males are deep blue; females are mainly brown, with the extent of blue on the forehead and crown varying among subspecies.

• Armored Rat Hoplomys gymnurus

  This rodent has spines on its back. In wet streamside forest, it hides in a burrow by day and searches for food at night.

• Moustached Treeswift Hemiprocne mystacea

  Males are grey with long white eyebrow and moustache-like stripes, chestnut ear patches, and white underparts. They launch from high perches to catch flying insects.

• Black-lipped Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) curzoniae

  This small pika lives in high grasslands and steppes of the Tibetan Plateau and has no obvious visible tail. Meadow populations are known to gather and store plants.

• Turquoise Flycatcher Eumyias panayensis

  This flycatcher inhabits forests from the Philippines through Sulawesi to the Moluccas. It searches for small insects in the forest and sometimes catches them in flight.

• Andrew's Three-toed Jerboa Stylodipus andrewsi

  Andrew's Three-toed Jerboa occurs from Mongolia's Gobi region into northern China. Stylodipus species have relatively shorter hind limbs than some related jerboa genera.