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• Northern pintail Anas acuta

  

  A slender, long-necked duck. In breeding males the central tail feathers become especially long.

• Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae

  

  The Superb Lyrebird lives on the ground in southeastern Australia. Males display a long tail and are famous for imitating other birds and nearby sounds.

• Brewer's mole Parascalops breweri

  

  The hairy-tailed mole has eyes hidden by fur and a furry tail. It lives in underground tunnels and searches for worms and insects.

• Spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus

  

  An Andean bear known for pale markings on the face.

• Gurney's Sugarbird Promerops gurneyi

  

  A sugarbird with a long, curved bill and long tail. It feeds on protea nectar and insects and also pollinates flowers.

• Siberian Musk Deer Moschus moschiferus

  

  The Siberian musk deer is a small deer relative that lives in mountain forests. Males have tusks instead of antlers.

• Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

  Whimbrels in northern Australia are migratory waders that probe mudflats with their long bills.

• Anhinga Anhinga anhinga

  The Anhinga is a fish-eating waterbird. When swimming, it may show only its long neck and head above the surface.

• Lesser False Vampire Bat Megaderma spasma

  The lesser false vampire bat is a forest bat with a large noseleaf and large ears. It is nocturnal and eats insects and small animals, but does not drink blood.

• Domestic donkey Equus asinus

  A domestic donkey with large ears. It is a grazing animal that forms strong bonds with companions.

• Rufous-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus speciosus

  Rufous-breasted Wood-Quails inhabit humid forest on the eastern Andes and forage on the ground in family groups. Adult males have rufous underparts, while female plumage differs among the populations described.

• Monito del Monte Dromiciops gliroides

  This small marsupial has dark markings around its eyes. Its confirmed range reaches the Rio Figueroa valley in southern Chile, with Nothofagus trees and Chusquea bamboo forming continuous forest along the southern range extension.

• Redpoll Acanthis flammea

  A small finch with a red forehead patch and white wingbars; its appearance varies across the forms included in the current species.

• Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus

  This bird occurs in damp scrub and thickets along forest edges in the East African highlands. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale eyebrow and a cinnamon-colored breast band.

• Wolffsohn's Mountain Viscacha Lagidium wolffsohni

  Wolffsohn's mountain viscacha lives among rocky slopes in southwestern Argentina. It shelters in crevices and feeds on plants during the day.

• Stoat Mustela erminea

  A slender mustelid with a black tail tip. In summer its upperparts are brown and its underside is pale.

• Black-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus nigripectus

  The Black-breasted Boatbill is a small bird of New Guinea's mountains. It is active by day along forest edges and within forest, and is about 13–15 cm long.

• Pygmy Right Whale Caperea marginata

  Despite its name, it is not a right whale; it is a baleen whale that filters small prey from the water.

• Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis

  A compact white heron with a short neck and legs, it feeds in grassland and pastures, catching insects and small animals disturbed by livestock or farm machinery.

• Northern Cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus

  The Northern Cassowary is a large flightless bird with a casque and neck wattles that lives in lowland New Guinea.

• Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat Megaerops niphanae

  A survey conducted in August 2024 recorded this small fruit bat in Xuan Nha Nature Reserve in northwestern Vietnam. All four captured individuals were female, and two were lactating.

• Mainland clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa

  A forest cat of mainland Asia, with large cloud-shaped markings edged in black on a pale coat.

• Madanga Madanga ruficollis

  This mountain bird is known only from Buru Island, Indonesia. During a 2006 survey, birds at 1,750 m clung to tree bark and fed in a nuthatch-like manner. Its habitat was described as montane forest with abundant epiphytes and stunted trees.

• Painted Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus forbesi

  Animals studied on Mt Dayman were described as having striking facial and head markings and a dark line down the back.