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• Spotted Bamboowren Psilorhamphus guttatus

  

  This tapaculo lives in bamboo and secondary forest in southeastern Brazil. Males are bluish grey, females browner, and both have white spots.

• Stripe-necked Mongoose Urva vitticollis

  The stripe-necked mongoose is a large Asian mongoose. Cameras have also recorded it in forests in Odisha, eastern India.

• Yellow-breasted Brush Finch Atlapetes latinuchus

  The Yellow-breasted Brush Finch lives in Andean forest and highland grassland. Its crown and nape are rufous, the face has a broad black mask, and the belly is bright yellow. It searches foliage for fruit, fresh leaf buds, and insects.

• Hispid Pocket Gopher Heterogeomys (Heterogeomys) hispidus

  The Hispid Pocket Gopher lives underground from southern Mexico into northern Central America. Its coat is coarse, and some individuals have a white band around the lower back.

• Cryptic Warbler Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi

  This small bird lives in Madagascar. A species account lists montane forest as its habitat and describes it searching for small invertebrates on branches. A separate field account records the appearance of recently fledged young.

• Long-tailed weasel Neogale frenata

  A long-bodied weasel found in forests, fields, and other habitats in North Carolina.

• Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus

  The Crowned Lapwing lives in open grasslands of eastern and southern Africa. Adults have a white ring around the black head and search the ground for ants, termites, and other insects.

• Bare-bellied Hedgehog Paraechinus nudiventris

  The bare-bellied hedgehog is marked by short spines on its back and a white underside. A survey in southern India recorded it sheltering in shrubs by day and foraging from evening into night.

• Tropical Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus

  The Tropical Royal Flycatcher catches flying insects in forest undergrowth and at woodland edges near streams. Its crest usually lies flat but opens into a fan, scarlet in males and yellow in females.

• Yucatán Spotted Skunk Spilogale yucatanensis

  This skunk occurs in forests of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Camera traps in a small urban vegetation fragment in Mérida recorded it at night.

• White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis

  This honeyeater occurs in eastern and southern mainland Australia. It is common in dry eucalypt forest and woodland, where it searches mainly for insects beneath bark and in crevices.

• Gilbert's Dunnart Sminthopsis gilberti

  This small marsupial occurs in separated populations in Western Australia. It hunts insects at night and nests in vegetation or hollows.

• Grauer's Broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri

  This forest bird is bright green and has a broad bill. It occurs in montane forest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

• Rufous Elephant Shrew Galegeeska rufescens

  This sengi has a long snout and large ears. It is mainly active by day and eats ants and termites.

• Pacific Diver Gavia pacifica

  The Pacific Diver breeds on Arctic lakes and moves to Pacific coastal waters for winter; it is an accomplished diver.

• Sable antelope Hippotragus niger

  An antelope with backward-curving horns and a mane along the neck.

• Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax hemimelaena

  This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest and forests along the eastern Andes. Males and females differ in color, and it forages near the ground in dense vegetation.

• Buffy Saki Pithecia albicans

  The buffy saki occurs in Amazonas State in northern Brazil. It eats many fruits and can obtain seeds from fruits with hard coverings.

• Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Pampa pampa

  This small hummingbird form ranges from the Yucatán Peninsula to Belize. Adult males have a shining violet crown and elongated central tail feathers.

• White-lipped Deer Cervus albirostris

  The white-lipped deer lives in high country of the Tibetan Plateau. White markings around the muzzle and throat and broad hooves are distinctive.

• Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus

  This small barbet has a red forehead and a golden wing patch. It eats mistletoe fruit and other foods, and nests in a tree hole.

• Milne-Edwards' Sportive Lemur Lepilemur edwardsi

  This nocturnal lemur lives in western Madagascar's dry deciduous forests. It leaps among trees and mainly eats leaves.

• Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus

  This small grebe lives in shallow ponds and wetlands and swims underwater in search of food.

• Baikal Seal Pusa sibirica

  A freshwater seal found only in Lake Baikal, with occasional records in rivers connected to the lake.