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• Coppery Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus johnstonii

  

  Johnston's brushtail possum has coppery-red fur and a cream-colored underside. It lives in forests of northeastern Australia and is mainly active in trees at night.

• Lesser Green Leafbird Chloropsis cyanopogon

  

  The Lesser Green Leafbird blends with foliage, while the male has a black face and blue throat. It searches for food in the canopy of Southeast Asian lowland forest.

• Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes albojubatus

  

  It occurs from central Kenya to northern Tanzania, with its western range reaching the Gregory Rift. Its pale gray coat, creamy beard, and drooping mane are distinctive.

• Socotra Sparrow Passer insularis

  

  The Socotra Sparrow is a sparrow of Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago. This entry follows BirdLife’s treatment of Passer insularis as a species.

• Hawaiian Monk Seal Neomonachus schauinslandi

  

  A tropical monk seal that lives across the Hawaiian Islands.

• Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii

  

  This small cisticola has fine streaks on its head and back. It forages in short grassland; males sing in high flight and sometimes dive with wing-snapping sounds.

• Fulvus Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros fulvus

  The fulvous leaf-nosed bat is a small bat found across much of southern Asia. It rests in caves, burrows, or other roosts by day and searches for insects at night.

• Spectacled Longbill Oedistoma iliolophus

  This small honeyeater is about 11 cm long. It is grayish olive, with a short tail and yellowish eye ring, in New Guinea forest and forest margins.

• Derby's Woolly Opossum Caluromys derbianus

  This tree-dwelling marsupial has a long, bushy tail, a reddish-brown back, a pale underside, and a dark stripe on its face.

• Pine Flycatcher Empidonax affinis

  This small flycatcher lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Guatemala. Its olive-grey body has a conspicuous eye ring.

• Golden-faced Saki Pithecia chrysocephala

  The male has golden to reddish-brown fur framing a black face. This saki spends the day in trees and eats fruit and seeds.

• Bahia Tapaculo Eleoscytalopus psychopompus

  The Bahia Tapaculo occurs in lowland Atlantic Forest along the coast of Bahia, Brazil. In the coastal birds examined in the study, the flanks are rufous and the thighs bluish.

• Egyptian Free-tailed Bat Tadarida aegyptiaca

  The Egyptian free-tailed bat ranges across Africa, except the Sahara, into southwest Asia, India, and Sri Lanka. It roosts in rocky places and buildings in warm, dry regions.

• Scaly-naped Pigeon Patagioenas squamosa

  This large pigeon occurs on Caribbean islands. Its gray body contrasts with a wine-red head and neck, and it eats fruit in humid forests and town parks.

• East Bornean Gray Gibbon Hylobates funereus

  This gibbon lives in northern and eastern Borneo and travels through the canopy using its long arms.

• Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus

  In India's Great Himalayan National Park, this fantail is found in mid-elevation forests. It has a yellow belly, olive upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It flicks its tail while moving through the understory and mid-canopy in pursuit of small insects.

• Perny's Long-nosed Squirrel Dremomys pernyi

  The Taiwan subspecies, Dremomys pernyi owstoni, has a yellow belly and long snout. It searches the ground by day for fallen fruit and seeds.

• Red-chested Flufftail Sarothrura rufa

  The male has chestnut on the head, nape, and upper breast; the female is darker overall, with a paler chest and throat. It hides in dense wetland vegetation and searches for small prey on the ground.

• Northern Three-toed Jerboa Dipus sagitta

  The northern three-toed jerboa changes coat color with the seasons. It lives in dry grasslands and deserts and mainly eats plants and seeds.

• Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis phoenicobia

  The Antillean Palm-Swift is a small bird that flies over lowlands with palms. Small colonies nest in mats of dead palm fronds.

• 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.

• Black-fronted Nunbird Monasa nigrifrons

  The Black-fronted Nunbird stands out for its coral-red bill and nearly black, dark-gray plumage. It may gather in family groups at forest edges.

• Silky Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavus

  The silky pocket mouse is a small rodent with soft fur and short ears. It searches for seeds at night and carries them back to its burrow for storage.

• Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae

  The Cape Barren Goose is a heavy gray goose with a yellow-green cere. It uses coastal islands and grasslands in southern Australia and grazes on vegetation.