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• White-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis malouinus

  

  This ground-dwelling bird has a white belly and fine barring above. It uses rocky slopes and wetlands above treeline and may descend in winter.

• Common Dwarf Brocket Mazama chunyi

  This small deer has records in Bolivia’s mountain region. A study reported it from high grasslands and Polylepis elfin forest down to lower sub-Andean forest.

• Collared Crescentchest Melanopareia torquata

  This ground-dwelling bird has been studied in the Cerrado of southeastern Brazil. Individuals vary, including in the size of a white patch on the back.

• Gray Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur griseus

  This lemur lives in eastern Madagascar. In a rainy-season study at Maromizaha, the observed Hapalemur griseus griseus often ate young bamboo growth and used the lower forest layer.

• White-faced Robin Tregellasia leucops

  The White-faced Robin was studied in tropical rainforest at Iron Range on Cape York, northern Australia. In the banding study, most recaptures were close to the release site, and some marked birds were encountered again as late as 18 years later.

• Layard's beaked whale Mesoplodon layardii

  This beaked whale is recorded in cold-temperate seas of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a spindle-shaped body and slender beak, with a bluish-black to dark-purple body and white patches, according to a university species account.

• African Broadbill Smithornis capensis

  This small bird has two separated ranges: coastal West Africa and a larger area from Uganda to southern Africa. It perches quietly in forest and feeds on invertebrates.

• Indian Hedgehog Paraechinus micropus

  The Indian hedgehog lives in dry regions and needs some plant cover for shelter and nest material.

• Visayan Bulbul Hypsipetes guimarasensis

  A bulbul of the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines. It uses dense forest and eats fruit.

• Short-eared Bat Cyttarops alecto

  The short-eared bat has dark, fluffy fur. It lives in tropical lowland forest and catches insects on the wing at night.

• Southern Brown Kiwi (Tokoeka) Apteryx australis

  Tokoeka cannot fly and probes leaf litter with its long bill to find small animals.

• Hopi Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) rufus

  This chipmunk lives in rocky areas of the western United States. It favors places with juniper and pinyon pine and has reddish dorsal stripes.

• Madagascar Jacana Actophilornis albinucha

  The Madagascar Jacana inhabits wetlands in western Madagascar. A 2016 survey found it at 22 of the 54 lakes examined.

• Common Opossum Didelphis marsupialis

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

• Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus

  This dark bird has a long forked tail and red eyes. It catches flying insects in the high canopy and may hunt at dusk.

• Antafia Sportive Lemur Lepilemur aeeclis

  Lepilemur aeeclis occurs in northwestern Madagascar. A forest survey in the Antrema protected area reported this mainly leaf-eating lemur more often in closed-canopy forest and less often in shrub, dune, and wooded agricultural sites.

• Collared Gnatwren Microbates collaris

  The Collared Gnatwren is a small forest bird with a long bill and a black breast band. It moves quickly through low growth in northern Amazonian forest while searching for insects and other arthropods.

• 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.

• Orange-crowned Fairywren Clytomyias insignis

  This small bird has an orange crown. It moves in small groups through mountain-forest thickets on New Guinea and gleans invertebrates from leaf undersides.

• Red-bellied monkey Cercopithecus erythrogaster

  The red-bellied monkey is a forest-dwelling primate found from southern Nigeria into Benin and Togo.

• Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii

  A gull associated with the Mediterranean, Audouin's Gull has a pale gray body and red bill as an adult and feeds mainly on fish.

• Star-nosed Mole Condylura cristata

  A mole of eastern North American wetlands and watersides that searches for prey with its star-shaped nose.

• Fox's Weaver Ploceus spekeoides

  This weaver has been recorded in northeastern Uganda. Males show a black facial mask and yellow rump, and records link the bird with Whistling-thorn Acacia grasslands.

• Desert Pocket Gopher Geomys arenarius

  The desert pocket gopher is a rodent that digs underground burrows in sandy soils. It carries food in cheek pouches and feeds on plants below ground.