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• Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros turpis

  

  This leaf-nosed bat occurs on islands of the Yaeyama group. Its noseleaf lacks a central projection, and females raise their young in a separate cave after birth.

• Common Guillemot Uria aalge

  

  The Common Guillemot is a seabird that gathers on coastal cliffs to breed and otherwise lives at sea.

• Cape Gray Mongoose Galerella pulverulenta

  

  This slender mongoose lives in southern Africa. It uses bushes and rocky areas and may dig for prey in the soil.

• Maroon-faced Parakeet Pyrrhura leucotis

  

  This parakeet lives in humid lowland forest in eastern Brazil. It has a white ear patch, chestnut face, and dark-red belly and tail underside, and forages from treetops to the ground.

• Common Ringtail Pseudocheirus peregrinus

  

  The common ringtail is a nocturnal Australian marsupial with a grasping tail that helps it move along branches.

• Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotum

  

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in arid and semi-arid southern Australia. Males have a black face and breast with a white eyebrow; females have a gray throat and breast, and may show little chestnut on the rump.

• Selous's Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) selousi

  This spiny mouse has rufous-brown or coffee-colored upperparts and a white underside. It is recorded on isolated rocky ridges in eastern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe and northern South Africa.

• Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingii

  This hummingbird lives in Andean mountain forest. Males flash a very long blue-green tail and look markedly different from females.

• Durango Deermouse Peromyscus schmidlyi

  The Durango Deermouse was described from western Mexico. The original paper reports mountain records in Durango and eastern Sinaloa.

• Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera cailliautii

  The Green-backed Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of woodland and open forest in parts of eastern and central Africa. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates, including insects.

• Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus blasii

  Blasius’s horseshoe bat roosts in caves and similar shelters and has a distinctive nose shape.

• Chestnut-belted Gnateater Conopophaga aurita

  The Chestnut-belted Gnateater searches for food near the ground in tropical forest. Males have a black face and chestnut breast, while females are more subdued.

• 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.

• Red-backed Fairywren Malurus melanocephalus

  Bright males have a black body and a red-orange back. Females and young are browner, and the species uses grassy habitats.

• Black-crowned Dwarf Marmoset Mico humilis

  The black-crowned dwarf marmoset is a small monkey known from a limited area of central Amazonian Brazil. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it in Mico but notes that this placement remains tentative.

• Northern Scrub Robin Drymodes superciliaris

  The Northern Scrub Robin lives in scrub in north-eastern Australia. It often stays near the ground and nests there.

• Arctic hare Lepus arcticus

  An Arctic hare whose seasonal coat changes vary by region.

• Black Oropendola Psarocolius guatimozinus

  The Black Oropendola is a large bird of restricted humid lowlands in eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. It searches high in trees and is thought to take nectar from flowers.

• Dark Sheath-tailed Bat Mosia nigrescens

  The Dark Sheath-tailed Bat is a small bat recorded on islands of Southeast Asia. A survey in Sulawesi described an individual with a flattened muzzle and widely spaced nostrils.

• Russet-throated Puffbird Hypnelus ruficollis

  Nominate adults have pale cheeks and a russet throat and chest. They wait quietly on open branches and dart out after prey.

• Mountain Tree Shrew Tupaia montana

  This treeshrew lives in the mountain forests of northern Borneo. It is an omnivore that uses the ground and climbs, and a mountain study reported body-weight variation with elevation.

• Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor

  It has long wings with white patches and hunts flying insects at dusk and dawn. It lays its eggs on open ground or flat gravel rooftops.

• Lami Tuco-tuco Ctenomys lami

  Lami's Tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent known from sandy grasslands in southern Brazil. Its coat is darker above and lighter below.

• Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus

  The Black Scimitarbill is an African bird with a long curved bill and tail that searches tree trunks and branches for food.