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• Brants's Whistling Rat Parotomys brantsii

  

  This rodent occurs in southern Africa. It is mainly active around dawn and dusk and uses consolidated sandy ground in sparsely vegetated semidesert. An 1849 description records a pale yellow-brown back finely flecked with dark brown and a pale belly.

• Serotine Bat Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) serotinus

  

  The serotine is a medium-sized bat found across Europe and east through the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, and China. It roosts in crevices and hawks insects over wooded farmland.

• Little Red Flying Fox Pteropus scapulatus

  

  The little red flying-fox occurs across varied forests and wetlands in northern and eastern Australia. It mainly eats flower nectar and moves in search of flowering trees. It is the Australian flying-fox species that regularly roosts in tight clusters.

• Zanzibar Red Colobus Piliocolobus kirkii

  

  The Zanzibar red colobus has a coat of red, black and white. It occurs on islands in the Zanzibar Archipelago off Tanzania and feeds often on young leaves.

• Honduran White Bat Ectophylla alba

  

  This small bat's fur ranges from gray to white. It has a yellow leaf-shaped nose and spends the day in a shelter made from a folded leaf.

• Dama gazelle Nanger dama

  

  A gazelle that feeds on shrubs and grasses in arid country.

• Pallid Ground Squirrel Spermophilus pallidicauda

  This ground squirrel occurs in Mongolia and nearby parts of China. The paper describes appearance and daytime behaviour for the genus as a whole.

• Swamp Rat Scapteromys tumidus

  This strong swimmer lives in wetlands in Uruguay and southern Brazil. Its partly webbed hind feet help it move around water.

• Paulina’s Limestone Rat Saxatilomys paulinae

  Paulina’s limestone rat was described from a karst region in Khammouane Province, central Laos. The original account records captures on rocky forested slopes among degraded deciduous forest, scrub and bamboo.

• Common Yellow Bat Scotophilus heathii

  A bat recorded in forests, woodlands, plantations, and other cultivated land from lowlands to higher hills. The Kerala account describes it flying low while feeding on insects.

• Little Collared Fruit Bat Myonycteris torquata

  This fruit-eating bat lives in forests and other habitats in Central and East Africa. Its back is dark rusty brown to yellowish brown; adult males seasonally develop yellow-orange staining on coarse throat and chest hairs.

• Annamese Langur Trachypithecus margarita

  The Annamese langur occurs in Indochina. Its coat is generally silvery gray, with black hands and feet; the head hair forms a cap-like hood rather than a central crest. A study of one group on Takou Mountain recorded a diet dominated by young leaves, with fruit also important.

• Godman's Long-tailed Bat Choeroniscus godmani

  Godman's long-tailed bat belongs to a nectar-feeding genus and is described as the smallest species in Choeroniscus.

• Buffon's Kob Kobus kob

  The kob is an African antelope of grasslands and wetlands, feeding on grasses and reeds.

• Anderson's Squirrel Callosciurus quinquestriatus

  Anderson's squirrel is reported from montane forests in southern Yunnan and eastern Myanmar. Its upperparts are brown to olive-yellow, with contrasting black-and-white stripes below. It eats plant matter as well as insects.

• Soft Grass Mouse Akodon (Akodon) mollis

  A small rodent broadly distributed across the Andes of Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It occupies varied habitats, including grassland, shrubland, and forest, and eats plant and insect material.

• Hog-nosed Shrew Rat Hyorhinomys stuempkei

  This rodent was recorded on a mountain in northern Sulawesi. Its nose ends in a flat pink pad with nostrils that face forward. In the 2015 description, all five known specimens were captured on the forest floor at night; stomachs of three contained earthworm remains and other prey.

• Northern Serotine Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) nilssonii

  It is recorded in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Its long, dark back fur has golden-yellow tips; the HMW species account describes insect hunting in flight around northern forests and their edges.

• Sulawesi Rousette Rousettus celebensis

  A fruit-eating bat recorded on Sulawesi. A 2021 phylogenetic study proposed placing the species formerly called Rousettus celebensis in Pilonycteris; a 2025 field study also used Pilonycteris celebensis.

• West Javan Langur Trachypithecus mauritius

  A monkey restricted to forests of western Java. It eats leaves and shoots and spends much of the day resting.

• Brazilian Nectar Bat Lonchophylla mordax

  Its back is cinnamon-brown and its underside paler. This Brazilian bat feeds mainly on nectar and is recorded in a limited region where the semiarid Caatinga meets the Atlantic Forest.

• Mongolian Gazelle Procapra gutturosa

  The Mongolian gazelle is a steppe animal whose coat changes with the seasons. In eastern and southeastern Mongolia, large herds move seasonally in search of pasture and water.

• Himalayan Marmot Marmota (Marmota) himalayana

  The Himalayan marmot is a large ground squirrel with a stout body and short tail. It lives in open high-elevation habitats of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.

• Chaco Marsh Rat Holochilus chacarius

  This rodent uses wetlands and flooded areas in the Chaco. Species-specific accounts report swimming and diving, and grass nests in crops or flooded grassland.