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• Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus ethologus

  

  The Long-tailed Minivet male is notable for a black head and red on the wings. It searches for insects in treetops and is usually social outside the breeding season.

• Nilgiri Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Vandeleuria nilagirica

  This mouse is recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India. In Coorg, specimens were captured in a banana plantation and nests were found in one patch of a coffee estate.

• Spot-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis guttaticollis

  The Spot-breasted Parrotbill lives in grassy and shrubby areas in parts of eastern South Asia, including northeastern India.

• Bergmans's Collared Fruit Bat Myonycteris relicta

  Bergmans's Collared Fruit Bat was described from southeastern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania, and was later recorded in Zimbabwe.

• Upcher's Warbler Hippolais languida

  Upcher's Warbler breeds in dry scrub from the Middle East into Central Asia and winters in parts of East Africa. It is thought to feed mainly on invertebrates.

• Eastern Black-handed Tamarin Saguinus ursula

  This small monkey occurs east of the Tocantins River in Brazil. The EAZA guide notes forest patches toward the Cerrado and Caatinga transition.

• Sarus Crane Antigone antigone

  Adults are large cranes with grey bodies and wings and red heads and necks. They are usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• African clawless otter Aonyx capensis

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

• Rufous-crowned Babbler Malacopteron magnum

  The Rufous-crowned Babbler lives in humid lowland forests of Southeast Asia. It has a rufous crown and tail and, at Krau Wildlife Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia, foraged among foliage and suspended dead leaves 4–8 m above the ground.

• Southern Bog Lemming Synaptomys (Synaptomys) cooperi

  The southern bog lemming is a small rodent of moist places in eastern North America. It uses underground burrows and surface runways, and builds nests from grass and leaves.

• Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus

  The Pilotbird forages among leaf litter in wet forests of southeastern Australia. It is reddish brown overall, with scaled-looking breast and belly feathers and a red eye. The source describes two subspecies whose back color and belly scalloping differ in brightness.

• Golden-faced Saki Pithecia chrysocephala

  The male has golden to reddish-brown fur framing a black face. This saki spends the day in trees and eats fruit and seeds.

• European Roller Coracias garrulus

  A bird that breeds in parts of central Europe and migrates to central and southern Africa. It has a blue head and chest and a chestnut back.

• Yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus

  A rock-dwelling wallaby of dry regions in Australia.

• Yellow-bellied Bulbul Alophoixus phaeocephalus

  The Yellow-bellied Bulbul has olive-brown upperparts and a bright yellow belly. It forms small groups in the middle storey of forests and eats fruit and insects.

• Annamite Striped Rabbit Nesolagus timminsi

  This rabbit inhabits Annamite rainforest, is nocturnal, and rests in burrows made by other animals.

• Arabian Green Bee-eater Merops cyanophrys

  This bee-eater occurs in the Middle East, including the Arabian Peninsula. It uses open areas with scattered trees or scrub and catches flying insects in short sallies from a perch.

• Indian Pygmy Bat Pipistrellus tenuis

  Pipistrellus tenuis occurs in South and Southeast Asia. It is recorded in forests, rural areas, and towns, and uses leafy tree cover and buildings as roosts.

• Diamantina Tapaculo Scytalopus diamantinensis

  This small tapaculo is restricted to mountains in northeastern Brazil. Males and females differ in the tone of their upperparts, and the species lives in dense forest-floor vegetation.

• Transcaucasian Water Shrew Neomys teres

  The Transcaucasian Water Shrew is a semiaquatic shrew found in the Black Sea highlands of Turkey. It usually favors the edges of small streams and creeks.

• Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aeneus

  A drongo of forests across South and Southeast Asia. Its black plumage has a bronze sheen, and its tail is forked.

• Wild Yak Bos mutus

  A wild yak of the high Tibetan Plateau, it is a species distinct from the domestic yak.

• 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.

• Pygmy Round-eared Bat Lophostoma brasiliense

  This small bat has rounded ears and a short tail enclosed by the flight membrane. It is active after dusk, feeds on insects, and has been reported roosting in arboreal termite nests.