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• Slender-billed Oriole Oriolus tenuirostris

  

  Its bill is long and slender with a slight downward curve, and a thin black line passes through the eye. A 2020 report documents a bird in temperate forest in northern Sikkim.

• Andean Porcupine Coendou quichua

  

  This porcupine has a generally brown-looking back with pale quill tips giving it a frosted appearance. In Ecuador, its records are mainly from Andean forests at high elevations.

• Rufous-tailed Babbler Moupinia poecilotis

  

  This babbler occurs in a small area of southern China. It searches for invertebrates in undergrowth among streamside grass, thickets, and scrub.

• Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus

  

  A small marsupial with large eyes, long whiskers, and a grasping tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and pollen and nests in tree hollows and other sheltered places.

• Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis

  

  The Grey-crowned Babbler has a broad grey brow and rufous marks on the breast and wings. It forages in small groups, turning over leaves and stones with its bill.

• Pallas's cat Otocolobus manul

  

  A Central Asian cat with long, dense fur. Its rounded head and low-set ears give the face a flattened appearance.

• New Zealand King Shag Leucocarbo carunculatus

  The New Zealand King Shag is a large cormorant restricted to the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. It dives for fish living near the sea floor.

• Northern Sportive Lemur Lepilemur septentrionalis

  The northern sportive lemur lives at the northern tip of Madagascar. It is active at night and rests in trees.

• 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.

• Greater Asian False-vampire Lyroderma lyra

  The greater Asian false-vampire is a large carnivorous bat distributed across South Asia. It has large ears and a prominent noseleaf, and catches insects and small vertebrates.

• Gray-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps

  The Gray-headed Chachalaca has a gray head and neck and a brown body. It lives in groups in secondary woodland and along forest edges in Central America.

• Northern Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus

  The northern maned three-toed sloth occurs in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe. A field study confirmed that it eats leaves, especially young leaves.

• Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla

  The Pygmy Cupwing is a small bird with a very short tail and scaled-looking brown plumage. It forages in dense understory and near the forest floor.

• Beech Marten Martes foina

  A marten found across much of Europe and Central Asia; many individuals have a pale streak on the chest.

• Aldabra Drongo Dicrurus aldabranus

  This drongo is endemic to Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. It is black with red eyes and a forked tail, and it also takes terrestrial prey on the islands.

• Rice's whale Balaenoptera ricei

  Rice's whale is a baleen whale that lives year-round in the Gulf of America. It is dark gray above and pale below; it is thought to dive deep by day to feed on fish.

• White-browed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus schisticeps

  The White-browed Scimitar Babbler is a medium-sized bird with a slightly curved yellow bill, a white eyebrow, and a clean white breast.

• 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.

• Grey Tinamou Tinamus tao

  A large tinamou ranging from the eastern Andes to Brazil’s savanna woodland. It feeds mainly on fruit on the forest floor.

• Western Lowland Olingo Bassaricyon medius

  An olingo of forests from Panama to Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes. It lives in trees and eats fruit.

• Masked Finfoot Heliopais personatus

  This grey-brown waterbird has a black mask from face to throat in males. A Bangladesh study documented nests in trees beside narrow waterways in the Sundarbans.

• Eastern Hoolock Gibbon Hoolock leuconedys

  Eastern hoolock gibbons live in forests from Myanmar and northeastern India to southern Yunnan in China. Pairs sing in coordinated calls.

• Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis

  This weaver occurs widely in parts of southern, central, and eastern Africa. Males change in appearance between breeding and non-breeding plumages, and the birds eat grass seeds as well as insects.

• Lord Derby's Anomalure Anomalurus derbianus

  This squirrel-shaped rodent glides from tree to tree. It is active around dusk and at night in forests of western and central Africa.