The black-backed jackal is a mid-sized species of jackal that plays an important role in African folklore, often depicted as a cunning and adaptable trickster. They hail from eastern and southern Africa
The Chinese ferret-badger, aka small-toothed ferret-badger, hails from southeast Asia. These critters prefer grasslands, open forests, and tropical rainforests. They are threatened by hunting, for their meat; and trapping, for their fur
The lesser long-nosed bat can be found in the scrub, semi-arid grassland, and forest habitats from southern California, Arizona, & New Mexico down to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador,
