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• Barred Wren-Warbler Calamonastes fasciolatus

  

  This small bird lives in semi-arid savanna in southern Africa. Fine barring and pale cheeks help identify it, and it sings a high trill from a tree top.

• African Civet Civettictis civetta

  A member of the civet family found in central and southern Africa.

• Ladder-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis climacocerca

  It is gray-brown with fine markings. The male has a long tail that looks W-shaped when spread. It is nocturnal and occurs along rivers.

• Obi Cuscus Phalanger rothschildi

  The Obi cuscus is an arboreal marsupial from islands in North Maluku. A survey around Obi recorded fruit in its diet and trees used as nesting sites.

• James's Flamingo Phoenicoparrus jamesi

  James's Flamingo has pale pink plumage, black flight feathers, red legs, and a short yellow bill with a black tip. It feeds in shallow high-Andean salt lakes and moves lower when wetlands freeze.

• Montane Javan Niviventer Niviventer lepturus

  The montane Javan niviventer is a rodent of Java's highlands. Its back is described as soft gray-brown, with a white to cream underside.

• Boucard's Wren Campylorhynchus jocosus

  This wren ranges across the southern Mexican plateau. Small family groups use semi-arid scrub and cactus-rich places near streams.

• Lemur-like Ringtail Hemibelideus lemuroides

  The lemuroid ringtail possum is a marsupial of northeastern Queensland's rainforests. Its dark brown coat and pale rings around the eyes are easy to notice.

• Gray-bellied Hawk Accipiter poliogaster

  The Gray-bellied Hawk is a large forest hawk. Adults are dark above and pale below.

• Malayan porcupine Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura

  The Malayan porcupine is a nocturnal rodent with long spines on its back. It occurs in forests of mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra and Borneo.

• Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens

  The Blue-billed Malimbe has a blue bill and a scarlet patch across the throat and upper breast. In lowland forest undergrowth, it climbs branches while searching for arthropods.

• Pichi Zaedyus pichiy

  A small armadillo of dry southern South America that digs burrows and feeds mainly on insects.

• Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus

  A cuckoo whose males have glossy green plumage; it forages in the tree canopy for insects such as caterpillars and ants.

• Manchurian Pika Ochotona (Pika) mantchurica

  This pika is found in northeastern China. Recent research models suitable habitat in nearby areas, but predicted areas are not the same as confirmed occupied sites.

• Golden-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron ngoclinhense

  This laughingthrush is restricted to a few mountains in central Vietnam. It forages on the ground in montane evergreen forest understory and has golden wing markings.

• Bornean Slow Loris Nycticebus borneanus

  Nycticebus borneanus is a slow loris of central and southern Borneo, in Indonesian Kalimantan. EAZA material records an observation in dipterocarp forest in a protected forest area and describes its dark facial markings.

• White-browed Crombec Sylvietta leucophrys

  A tiny warbler of montane forests in central and eastern Africa; the source treats several subspecies together.

• Western Woolly Lemur Avahi occidentalis

  The western woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of western Madagascar's forests. It has thick grayish fur and lives in small family groups.

• Angel Tern Gygis alba

  The Angel Tern is a seabird with all-white plumage and a dark bill, living widely among tropical and subtropical islands.

• Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira parvidens

  This small fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to northern Costa Rica. It roosts in mature forest and is also often recorded in disturbed areas where pioneer plants grow.

• Brown Barbet Caloramphus fuliginosus

  The Brown Barbet is a small barbet of Borneo's woodlands. Its brown back, red throat and upper breast, and white belly stand out, and it feeds mainly on fruit.

• European Garden Dormouse Eliomys quercinus

  The European garden dormouse is marked by a dark mask and a black-and-white tail tip. In Spain, it occurs across the Iberian Peninsula, but its distribution is uneven.

• Balicassiao Dicrurus balicassius

  A Philippine drongo. The white underparts and mimicry described here apply specifically to subspecies mirabilis.

• Varied White-fronted Capuchin Cebus versicolor

  The varied white-fronted capuchin has conspicuous white fur on the head and bright red fur on the chest and belly. It is restricted to Colombia's middle Magdalena Valley. An induced observation with one wild group recorded food sharing of eggs.