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• Black-crowned Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ferruginosus

  

  The Black-crowned Scimitar Babbler is marked by a black crown, white eyebrow, and short, thick red bill. It uses forest and bamboo habitat from eastern Nepal to northeastern India, foraging on or near the ground.

• Large-spotted Civet Viverra megaspila

  The large-spotted civet is a large civet recorded in scrub near wetlands and waterways in Thailand. Large dark spots mark its flanks, and pale rings cross its tail.

• Black-faced Laughingthrush Trochalopteron affine

  A laughingthrush of Himalayan forests, it is described here through the nominate form from eastern Nepal to Bhutan, whose account gives a black face and yellow outer wing and tail feathers.

• Crowned Sifaka Propithecus coronatus

  A lemur of western Madagascar that moves through trees and feeds on leaves and fruit.

• Madagascan Grebe Tachybaptus pelzelnii

  The Madagascar Grebe is a small diving bird endemic to Madagascar. In breeding plumage it has a black head and reddish-brown sides to the upper neck.

• Underwood's Long-tongued Bat Hylonycteris underwoodi

  Underwood's long-tongued bat is a small bat with a narrow muzzle and an extensible tongue. It leaves forest roosts at dusk to search for nectar.

• Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus

  Males are black and yellow-orange, while females are pale yellow. Females sew their hanging nests to the undersides of palm fronds.

• Southeast Asian Shrew Crocidura fuliginosa

  The Southeast Asian shrew has dark fur with a dull silvery sheen and a slender tail. In Singapore, NParks records it only from the Central Nature Reserves.

• Javan Frogmouth Batrachostomus javensis

  The Javan Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird endemic to Java, Indonesia. It has brown mottled plumage and rests on branches by day.

• Jameson's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus randensis

  A hare of rocky outcrops, with a white patch at the neck and a black tail tip. It rests among rocks by day and feeds on nearby grass at night.

• Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis

  The Ovambo Sparrowhawk is a hawk of sub-Saharan Africa. It hunts other birds around dry woodland edges and savannas.

• Bush dog Speothos venaticus

  A wild canid found from Panama into South America. Short legs and a short tail give it a low, stocky outline.

• Little Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura typica

  Birds Colombia describes the Little Long-tailed Woodcreeper in humid lowland and foothill forest, with a disjunct range from Central America to northern Colombia. It notes that some classifications treat D. typica as a species and others as a group within D. longicauda.

• Daghestan Tur Capra cylindricornis

  The Daghestan Tur is a wild goat of the rugged eastern Caucasus. Males carry large horns that sweep back, and the goats feed on grasses and shrubs.

• Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius eximius

  This shrike-vireo occurs from eastern Panama through northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela. It uses humid lowland forest and tall second-growth woodland, gleaning food in the canopy.

• Central American squirrel monkey Saimiri oerstedii

  The Central American squirrel monkey is a small primate restricted to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama. It lives in humid forest.

• Great Potoo Nyctibius grandis

  A nocturnal nightbird with large eyes and a very wide gape. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying prey at night.

• Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin Sousa plumbea

  A dolphin of the western Indian Ocean coast, with a small dorsal fin set on a large hump and a gray body.

• Wattled Brush-turkey Aepypodius arfakianus

  The Wattled Brush-turkey is a large megapode of New Guinea’s mountain forests. Its reddish-brown body bears a red comb and wattle, and it incubates eggs using heat from a mound of leaves and twigs.

• White-bellied Nesomys Nesomys audeberti

  The white-bellied nesomys has ventral hairs that are white to their bases. In a Madagascar field study, the animals were also active during daylight.

• Patagonian Tinamou Tinamotis ingoufi

  A ground-dwelling bird of Patagonia in Argentina and Chile. In southern Chile, a study described its nest and feeding ecology in dry steppe and shrubland.

• Blick's Arvicanthis Arvicanthis blicki

  Blick’s grass rat is a rodent specialized for Ethiopia’s high-elevation grasslands. Its skull has a downward-twisted snout region and enlarged eye sockets, and records span 2,750–4,050 m.

• Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata

  The Bimaculated Lark walks across dry, open grasslands. Dark patches on both sides of its chest stand out, and breeding males sing long songs in flight.

• Common Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea musteloides

  The common yellow-toothed cavy, or cui, is a guinea pig-like rodent from South America. Its coat varies from light to dark brown, and its white underside has a sharp boundary along the flanks. It is most active at dawn and dusk and lives in mixed-sex groups.