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• Baluchistan Gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) nanus

  

  Its upper body is sandy or grayish, its underside is white, and its tail ends in a dark tuft. In Qatar it is recorded widely on gravelly and rocky plains rather than dune sands.

• White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta

  A small wren that forages in the understory of humid forests.

• Stump-tailed Macaque Macaca arctoides

  A macaque with a very short tail and dark red facial skin. A zoo profile records it from Southeast Asia and northeastern India.

• Red-backed Fairywren Malurus melanocephalus

  Bright males have a black body and a red-orange back. Females and young are browner, and the species uses grassy habitats.

• Nyala Nyala angasii

  An African antelope whose males and females differ markedly in appearance.

• Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus

  This mockingbird has a grey back, pale underparts, and a long tail with a white tip. It lives in open lowlands and eats insects and fruit.

• Striped Ground Squirrel Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus

  This ground squirrel occurs in dry parts of Africa, including open woodland, savanna, grassland, and rocky country. A pale stripe runs along each side from shoulder to hindquarters.

• Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus

  The Bronze-winged Courser is a ground-dwelling bird of dry African country. It is mostly active at dusk and night, and usually runs rather than flies when disturbed.

• Rothschild's Rock Wallaby Petrogale rothschildi

  Rothschild's rock wallaby occurs in Western Australia's Pilbara and Ashburton regions. It uses deep rocky crevices as refuge from daytime heat.

• Pied Thrush Geokichla wardii

  The male has striking black-and-white markings. The species breeds in Himalayan forests and moves south for the winter.

• Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum

  This small fruit-eating bat occurs in South America. It has no tail, brown tricolored fur, a short nose, and white patches on its shoulders. Local migration records are kept to the populations where they were documented.

• Blue-and-yellow Tanager Rauenia bonariensis

  This tanager uses scrub and forest edges in South America. The PeruAves account reports solitary or paired foraging and describes several different Peruvian habitats.

• Hammer-headed Fruit Bat Hypsignathus monstrosus

  Mature males have a large, square head. The fruit-eating bat lives in central African forests and feeds mainly on figs.

• Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni

  Ploceus pelzelni breeds in wetlands and also feeds in nearby trees and bushes. A breeding male has a black mask extending from the face to the throat, while the female lacks that mask.

• Norway lemming Lemmus lemmus

  A small rodent of cold mountains and tundra from Norway toward the Kola Peninsula.

• Black-billed Peppershrike Cyclarhis nigrirostris

  It has a large head and a thick, hooked black bill. Its crown, cheeks, and back are olive, while its belly is white. A forest guide from Colombia records birds hopping from mid-level forest to high outer branches for food, alone or in pairs and sometimes in mixed flocks. The guide lists Colombia and Ecuador for its range.

• Allen's Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis

  This bat ranges through mountains from the southwestern United States to central Mexico. Its large ears and ear flaps reaching the forehead stand out.

• Sri Lanka Bay Owl Phodilus assimilis

  The Sri Lanka Bay Owl is a small nocturnal owl found in forests of southwestern India and Sri Lanka.

• Cutch Cremnomys Cremnomys cutchicus

  This rat is endemic to India. It has a gray-brown back, a pale belly, and a tail longer than its body; it mainly eats plants and inhabits rocky hills with trees or scrub.

• Black Robin Petroica traversi

  Endemic to the Chatham Islands, the Black Robin is black in both sexes and active in the lower forest strata. It relies on continuous forest interior and is reluctant to venture into open areas.

• Bengal Sacred Langur Semnopithecus entellus

  A large monkey found mainly in the northern Indian plains south of the Ganges and north of the Godavari.

• Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

  The Galapagos Penguin is a small penguin found only on the Galapagos Islands. It lives and breeds there year-round in the tropics.

• Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum

  An antelope of water-rich grasslands in central and southern Africa; only males have horns.

• Orange-bellied Antwren Terenura sicki

  This antwren is recorded in remaining evergreen forest in Alagoas and Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. The 1983 type description gives a streaked black and buff crown, chestnut back and orange underside. In 2018, ICMBio reported severe fragmentation and continuing habitat loss and assessed the species as Critically Endangered in Brazil.