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• African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus

  

  The African Palm Swift is a slender swift with a deeply forked tail that clings beneath palm fronds.

• Bemaraha Woolly Lemur Avahi cleesei

  The Bemaraha woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur recorded in the Bemaraha region of west-central Madagascar. Its published description of appearance is based on one adult male observed in the study.

• Chinstrap penguin Pygoscelis antarcticus

  A penguin with a narrow black line running beneath the chin like a strap. It breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula and islands in the South Atlantic.

• Guinea Baboon Papio papio

  A West African baboon whose wild ecology has been studied in a Senegalese national park.

• Plain White-eye Zosterops hypolais

  The Plain White-eye is a small bird recorded in forests and open grassy places on Yap. A 1977 field account described dull gray-white plumage with a pale yellow wash below, small flocks, and feeding in both the canopy and short grass.

• Berg's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys bergi

  Berg’s tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of Argentina’s Dry Chaco. Besides northwestern Córdoba, one female was recorded in Salavina Department, Santiago del Estero, and identified as this species using genetic and morphological evidence.

• Black-billed Gull Chroicocephalus bulleri

  The Black-billed Gull is a slender gull found only in New Zealand. It breeds on gravelly riverbeds and uses rivers or coasts at different times of year.

• Mesopotamian Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys citellus

  This mouse opossum is recorded in a habitat mosaic in northeastern Argentina. Its taxonomy has been debated.

• Island Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba malherbii

  This pigeon occurs on São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea. A study on São Tomé found it in shade-grown plantations and savanna as well as forest, and recorded it feeding on the ground and high in trees.

• Common Punaré Thrichomys apereoides

  This spiny rat is known from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Studies report insects and seeds in its diet and suggest it may help disperse some small seeds.

• Jerdon's Leafbird Chloropsis jerdoni

  A green leafbird with a dark blue-black throat in males. It may join mixed-species flocks at trees bearing flowers or fruit.

• Afghan Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rufescens

  The Afghan pika is a mountain pika with a cream collar edged in russet during summer. It gathers plants, dries them, and stores them in burrows.

• White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus

  The White-headed Mousebird lives in dry scrub and thornbush.

• Western Jumping Mouse Zapus princeps

  The western jumping mouse lives in western North America and hops on large hind feet. Its active season is short, and it hibernates through winter.

• Bicolored Babbler Cyanoderma bicolor

  This small forest bird is also called Gray-hooded Babbler in the source. It has gray-brown plumage with a chestnut wing patch and moves in small groups in the forest understory.

• California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi

  A North American ground squirrel that digs burrows and is active by day.

• Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus

  The Rainbow Bee-eater has vivid green, blue, and yellow plumage. It beats captured bees against a perch to remove their stings before eating them.

• Tri-colored Big-eared Bat Glyphonycteris sylvestris

  The tricolored big-eared bat is a small bat found in the Neotropics. Its back fur has three bands: dark at the base and tip, with a lighter band between them. It is also recorded in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

• Dusky Megapode Megapodius freycinet

  The Dusky Megapode is a dark, ground-dwelling bird that builds a mound and buries its eggs in it. Body size varies greatly among islands, and details of its breeding biology and diet remain poorly known.

• Angolan Genet Genetta angolensis

  The Angolan genet inhabits open miombo woodland interspersed with savanna. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night with camera traps and night transects.

• White-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina ostenta

  It lives in forests of the Western Visayas in the Philippines and forms small groups in the canopy or at forest edges. A large white wing patch is its field mark.

• Hewitt's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus saundersiae

  This hare occurs in mountainous parts of South Africa and Lesotho. Its coat is thick and dense, brown above and pale rufous below; the feet and tail are darker red, while the head is grey-brown with grey-white cheeks.

• Ochre-collared Monarch Arses insularis

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in northern New Guinea and on Yapen Island, from lowlands into the mountains. Males contrast black and white with an ochre collar; females are more subdued and brown-toned.

• Humboldt's Woolly Monkey Lagothrix lagothricha

  This large monkey lives in the canopy of humid forests, where it eats mainly fruit and travels in groups.