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• Black Mastiff Bat Molossus rufus

  

  This large free-tailed bat varies from black to reddish, brown, or yellowish on the back, with paler underparts. It uses forest and savanna habitats and roosts in buildings, tree hollows, rocks, and palms.

• Glossy Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami

  

  The south-eastern form often feeds on she-oak seeds and raises its young in hollows in old eucalypts.

• Pallid Ground Squirrel Spermophilus pallidicauda

  

  This ground squirrel occurs in Mongolia and nearby parts of China. The paper describes appearance and daytime behaviour for the genus as a whole.

• Pycroft's Petrel Pterodroma pycrofti

  

  Pycroft's Petrel breeds on islands off the northeastern North Island of New Zealand. It is active at night around colonies and feeds on small crustaceans and squid near the sea surface during long flights.

• Godman's Rock Wallaby Petrogale godmani

  

  Godman's rock-wallabies tend to have pale, silvery-white tails, but tail color varied widely in the studied hybrid colony, from almost black to pale silver and reddish.

• Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus

  

  The Magellanic Penguin breeds along southern South American coasts and islands. It catches fish and squid at sea and raises chicks in nests on land.

• Stephens' kangaroo rat Dipodomys stephensi

  Stephens' kangaroo rat is a nocturnal rodent of grasslands and sparse scrub in southern California. It has long hind legs and carries seeds in cheek pouches.

• Krüper's Nuthatch Sitta krueperi

  Krüper's Nuthatch lives in conifer forests around Anatolia. Males have a blue-gray back and chestnut breast, and its food changes with the seasons.

• Australian snubfin dolphin Orcaella heinsohni

  The Australian snubfin dolphin has a rounded head and no beak, and lives in shallow coastal waters of northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea.

• Patagonian Mockingbird Mimus patagonicus

  About 23 cm long, this bird has grey-brown upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and an ochre belly. It uses shrub steppe and searches the ground for insects and worms.

• Humboldt's White-fronted Capuchin Cebus albifrons

  The white-fronted capuchin occurs in northern South America. Its pale facial fur and brown crown stand out, while its species boundary remains debated.

• Ant-eating Chat Myrmecocichla formicivora

  The Ant-eating Chat is a dark brown bird with striking white wing feathers in flight. It is found mainly inland in southern Africa and searches for ants and termites on the ground.

• Culpeo Lycalopex culpaeus

  This fox is recognizable by its large ears and reddish fur. The Andean regional account describes it foraging alone over a broad area.

• Red-keeled Flowerpecker Dicaeum australe

  A Philippine flowerpecker that feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomops franqueti

  Franquet's epauletted fruit bat is an African fruit bat that eats fruit and flowers. White shoulder patches and the absence of a tail are distinctive.

• Indian Jungle Crow Corvus culminatus

  This crow is recorded from southern peninsular India and Sri Lanka. ITIS, citing the IOC checklist, lists it as a species, while Clements 2024 keeps it among the subspecies of the Large-billed Crow. This entry describes the southern form in an older regional account.

• Spotted-necked Otter Hydrictis maculicollis

  A slender otter of African lakes and large rivers that catches fish in the water.

• Little Shrikethrush Colluricincla megarhyncha

  It occurs on New Guinea and in northern and eastern Australia. Checklists differ over which populations belong in this species, and plumage varies across its subspecies. It gleans insects from leaves in forests and wooded habitats.

• Yellow-footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes

  The yellow-footed antechinus is a small marsupial with a gray head and shoulders and a yellow-brown to reddish body. It searches for food on the ground and in trees.

• Jamaican Euphonia Euphonia jamaica

  Males are bluish grey with a yellow band across the mid-belly; females and young birds are olive and grey. It eats fruit and buds.

• Kuhl's pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii

  Kuhl's pipistrelle is a small bat found from the Mediterranean region through West Asia to South Asia. It also lives around farmland and towns, catching small insects in flight.

• Melodious Babbler Malacopteron palawanense

  This babbler is endemic to Palawan and Balabac in the Philippines. It forages in the middle and lower forest layers of lowland evergreen forest.

• Jungle cat Felis chaus

  A wild cat with tall, tufted ears that also lives in grasslands and wetlands.

• Lowland Masked Apalis Apalis binotata

  This apalis inhabits lowland forest in central Africa. Reichenow's 1896 description records a male with a black throat and white throat tufts; a separate species account describes its forest habitat and branch gleaning.