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• Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Coendou melanurus

  

  The black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine ranges from eastern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Brazil. It is nocturnal and arboreal, using mainly the canopy of lowland rainforest.

• Raja Ampat Pitohui Pitohui cerviniventris

  

  This bird lives in lowland forest on Indonesia's Raja Ampat Islands. Its island forms differ in the color of the underparts, and the species account reports fruit and insects in its diet.

• Rusty Antechinus Antechinus adustus

  

  A marsupial with rusty tones in its dark brown fur, it lives in moist upland forests of northeastern Queensland.

• Guinea turaco Tauraco persa

  

  A green bird with a tall crest and a long tail.

• Atlantic Forest Red Brocket Mazama bororo

  

  This deer lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Work around Intervales in São Paulo recorded activity from dusk into the night; two tracked females used well-preserved native vegetation.

• Tropical Screech-Owl Megascops choliba

  

  The Tropical Screech-Owl is widespread in South America and has several plumage morphs, including gray, brown, cinnamon and rufous. A Bolivian study detected its calls just after sunset and before dawn along forest edges.

• Four-toed hedgehog Atelerix albiventris

  A small, spiny-backed mammal of African grassland and woodland.

• Grey crowned crane Balearica regulorum

  An African crane with a golden crown of stiff feathers. Adults have a mainly grey body and prominent white cheeks.

• Mountain Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus cunninghami

  This possum lives in cool, wet mountain forests. Its short rounded ears and bushy black tail, bare underneath, stand out.

• Ethiopian Bee-eater Merops lafresnayii

  Its back is green and its underparts are pale cinnamon, with a yellow throat bordered behind by blackish blue. A 2015 field report lists at least five birds of the lafresnayii form at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

• Cape Grysbok Raphicerus melanotis

  The Cape grysbok is a small bovid from South Africa. It becomes active around dusk and eats grass and leaves from shrubs.

• Bartlett's Tinamou Crypturellus bartletti

  Bartlett's Tinamou is a ground-dwelling bird with reddish-brown plumage and dark barring. It lives in lowland rainforest and thickets and gives a whistle-like call.

• Spotted seal Phoca largha

  A spotted seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic. It lives around seasonal sea ice.

• Sichuan Treecreeper Certhia tianquanensis

  The Sichuan Treecreeper is associated with old fir forest in the mountains of Sichuan. It has a long tail and very short bill, and forages on fir trunks.

• Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lylei

  This bat has a large noseleaf. Small groups have been found in caves, and records from Vietnam include forest and secondary habitats in limestone country.

• Black-tailed gull Larus crassirostris

  A gull seen on Japanese coasts through much of the year, with a catlike call.

• White-bellied Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) noctivagus

  The white-bellied slender opossum has dull reddish-brown dorsal fur. In a lowland Peruvian rainforest study, it was recorded in both terrestrial and lower arboreal small-mammal communities.

• Flaming Sunbird Aethopyga flagrans

  This sunbird lives in Philippine forest and feeds mainly on nectar. A 2006 preliminary taxonomic review recorded geographic differences in plumage among populations.

• Groves' Titi Plecturocebus grovesi

  This titi monkey was described from Mato Grosso, Brazil. The paper notes a grayish back, red-brown underside, and black tail with a pale tip.

• Sennar Penduline Tit Anthoscopus punctifrons

  The Sennar Penduline Tit is a tiny bird with an olive-grey back and a black-speckled forehead. It forages in small parties in acacia canopies across semi-desert parts of the Sahel.

• Common Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops bonariensis

  The common dwarf bonneted bat has a broad, flat muzzle and large rounded ears. It leaves its roost after sunset and catches insects in flight.

• Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris

  Males have glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen and a V-shaped tail. Female color varies among islands. Carib Grackles use open places, including residential areas, and eat insects and other invertebrates.

• Kloss's Gibbon Hylobates klossii

  Kloss's gibbon has black fur and long arms. It lives in the canopy of the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra.

• Moluccan Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles crinifrons

  The Moluccan Owlet-nightjar is a nocturnal bird of forest in the northern Moluccas.