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• Least Sac-winged Bat Balantiopteryx io

  

  This small bat occurs in lowland areas from Mexico into Central America. It mainly roosts in caves, and males have a small pouch in the wing membrane.

• Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Hydrobates monorhis

  Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel is a small, dark-brown seabird.

• Amsterdam Fur Seal Arctocephalus tropicalis

  The Amsterdam fur seal breeds on islands north of Antarctica and moves between rocky coasts and the surrounding sea.

• Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa

  This black bird is confined to Tasmania and nearby islands. White tips on its wings and tail and its yellow eye are distinctive; it feeds in forests and near towns.

• Indian Brown Mongoose Urva fusca

  The Indian brown mongoose is a dark-brown mongoose found in the Western Ghats and parts of Sri Lanka.

• Buff-sided Robin Poecilodryas cerviniventris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 16–18 cm and a mass of 20–25 g, and gives humid forest, riparian vegetation, and mangroves as habitats. Its page also lists audio-recording sites in northern Australia.

• Wied's Black-tufted-ear Marmoset Callithrix kuhlii

  A small monkey of coastal forests in Brazil that feeds on tree sap, fruit, and insects.

• Philippine Frogmouth Batrachostomus septimus

  The Philippine Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird found only in the Philippine archipelago. It catches large insects and lives in forests and at forest edges.

• Bush Karroo Rat Myotomys unisulcatus

  The Bush Karoo rat lives in dry shrubland and rocky areas of South Africa. Black hairs mix with its ash-gray back, and it builds mounds of twigs near its nest.

• Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis

  Qatar e-Nature describes a small bird with pale greyish plumage and a long tail. It tends to stay hidden in vegetation.

• Saõ Tomé Leaf-nosed Bat Macronycteris thomensis

  The São Tomé Leaf-nosed Bat is endemic to São Tomé Island. It is a large bat, with a record of several hundred individuals at an underground roost.

• Green Catbird Ailuroedus crassirostris

  The Green Catbird is an Australian bird with a green, white-spotted body and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and flowers in the forest canopy and gives a cat-like call.

• Feline Genet Genetta felina

  This genet occurs in southern Africa. It has a pale grey coat with a continuous black line down the middle of its back, and uses grassland, open woodland and thickets.

• Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus

  The Northern Bobwhite is a ground-dwelling bird of grasslands and woodland edges in eastern and southern North America. It hides in cover and moves in groups.

• Daurian Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) dauurica

  The Daurian Pika is a small herbivore with short legs and rounded ears. It digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert habitats and feeds on vegetation.

• Purple-bearded Bee-eater Meropogon forsteni

  The Purple-bearded Bee-eater occurs only on Sulawesi. Adult males have long purple throat feathers that hang like a beard.

• Amazon Black Howler Alouatta nigerrima

  This howler monkey has mostly black fur and lives in the south-central Amazon of Brazil. It feeds on leaves and fruit in the trees and lives in groups.

• Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata

  This small bird ranges widely across Africa. Breeding males vary in plumage and bill color among regional forms, and they mimic the songs of their firefinch hosts.

• Transcaucasian Water Shrew Neomys teres

  The Transcaucasian Water Shrew is a semiaquatic shrew found in the Black Sea highlands of Turkey. It usually favors the edges of small streams and creeks.

• Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni

  In breeding plumage it has a dark grey body, white head, and red bill. It breeds in Mexico’s Gulf of California and moves north along the Pacific Coast.

• Herbert's Rock Wallaby Petrogale herberti

  Herbert's rock wallaby lives among rocky sites and woodland in southeastern Queensland, Australia. A comparison describes it as grayer and less shaggy-tailed than the brush-tailed rock-wallaby.

• American Kestrel Falco sparverius

  A small falcon found in North America. It hunts insects and other small prey in open country, perching on posts or hovering into the wind.

• Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin Tursiops erebennus

  This is the proposed species name for the coastal bottlenose dolphin form of the western North Atlantic. The mature skulls examined had a relatively short, narrow rostrum.

• Eastern Black-headed Batis Batis minor

  The Eastern Black-headed Batis is a small, dark bird with a sharply defined white eyebrow. It searches for insects in the dry forests and savannas of East Africa.