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• Durango Coarse-haired Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus durangae

  

  This pocket mouse occurs mainly in Durango, Mexico. The adult male holotype, collected in 2008, measured 20.3 cm from nose to tail tip.

• Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume

  The Japanese Murrelet breeds on islands of Japan. Adults have a prominent crest during the breeding season.

• Red-collared Brown Lemur Eulemur collaris

  This lemur is notable for reddish-brown fur around its neck and orange-red eyes. Its tail is longer than its body and helps it balance as it moves through trees.

• Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus

  The Common Buttonquail is a small bird that runs beneath grass and scrub. Adult females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• African clawless otter Aonyx capensis

  An African otter that searches for crabs and handles prey with its clawless forepaws.

• Black-breasted Gnateater Conopophaga snethlageae

  This forest bird ranges in the Amazon between the Tapajós and Tocantins Rivers. In 2023, the first nest observations were reported from the understory of primary terra firme forest in Brazil.

• Urial Ovis vignei

  Urials are wild sheep of Asian grasslands and hills; males carry large spiraling horns.

• Green-backed Gerygone Gerygone chloronota

  This small bird occurs in Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia, using riverine forest, mangroves, and thickets. It has a grayish head and eats insects and spiders.

• Black Capuchin Sapajus nigritus

  Its back ranges from brown to black and the underside from yellow to dark reddish brown. In one group studied at an urbanized park in Brazil, foraging was frequent and stone use to crack palm seeds was recorded.

• Mexican Jay Aphelocoma wollweberi

  The Mexican Jay ranges from Mexico into the southwestern United States, inhabiting mountain woodlands in family groups.

• Minute Fruit Bat Cynopterus minutus

  The minute fruit bat is a fruit-eating bat that may show pale yellow fur around the neck. Two individuals were caught along a forest trail in a protected area of Borneo.

• Barred Becard Pachyramphus versicolor

  The Barred Becard is about 10.5–11 cm long and has fine barring underneath. It is rare or uncommon in humid cloud forest on the eastern slope of Bolivia’s northern Andes. Alone or in pairs, it gleans arthropods and also eats fruit.

• Bornean Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys dorsalis

  A small gymnure from Borneo, recorded in hill and montane forests from about 1,000 m elevation.

• Guinea turaco Tauraco persa

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

• Striped Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus nymphaea

  This bat is recorded mainly from Colombia’s Pacific region. Its dorsal stripe may be faint, while four white facial lines and yellow ear margins are conspicuous.

• Curve-billed Tinamou Nothoprocta curvirostris

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in high Andean grasslands. Its curved bill and rufous underparts are distinctive.

• Thomas's Mastiff Bat Molossus currentium

  This molossid bat lives in central and southern South America.

• Namaqua Warbler Phragmacia substriata

  The Namaqua Warbler skulks in reedbeds near watercourses. It has a rufous-brown back and flanks contrasting with a white breast marked by faint streaks. The Namibian guide records it along the Orange River and at Fish River Canyon.

• Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata

  The marbled cat is a wild cat of forests from South Asia to Southeast Asia. Its marble-like markings and unusually long tail are distinctive.

• Sri Lanka Frogmouth Batrachostomus moniliger

  It is a nocturnal bird that sits motionless on branches, with plumage that blends into bark. It lives in lowland forests in Sri Lanka.

• Guianan Saki Pithecia pithecia

  The Guianan saki is a South American monkey whose males and females have different facial coloring; it spends nearly all its life in trees.

• White-tipped Plantcutter Phytotoma rutila

  The White-tipped Plantcutter shows strong sex differences in plumage. Males have a red forehead and underparts, while females are grey with dark streaks.

• Phou Khao Khouay Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros khaokhouayensis

  This bat has records from forests in Laos and Vietnam. In Laos, surveys captured it in both intact and disturbed evergreen forest.

• Huon Bowerbird Amblyornis germanus

  This bird lives in montane forest on the Huon Peninsula. Males have an orange crest and decorate stick bowers with colored objects; females lack the orange crest.