Krillion Recorded answers
19,412 recorded answers
How to approach it
The safest route is to ignore the animals that first spring to mind and work down the taxonomic tree instead. Pick a class, then a family within it, then a genus, and only then commit to a species; that descent carries you past the handful of famous creatures everyone shares and into the long tail where the record is thickest. Habitat works as a second filter, since the continent's forests, rivers, highlands, coasts and offshore depths each hold lineages that rarely surface in general nature writing. Precision matters as well: a proper binomial or a settled common name reads as a real identification, whereas a loose group label is likely to be judged too vague. When two candidates feel equally strong, take the one you have never met in a quiz before.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer breadth of the continent's fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fish, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans and worms all supply valid ground here.
A little more
Then narrow by lineage rather than by fame, favouring groups that diversified in place across the continent's forests, grasslands, highlands, rivers, coasts and surrounding seas.
One step further
Finish by choosing one exact, precisely named species or clearly recognised form rather than a family or a general type, and lean toward creatures with small ranges and thin literature.
Reveal answers 19,412
- Golden-collared ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Golden-collared TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-collared ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Golden-collared WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-crowned FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Golden-crowned ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Golden-crowned SpadebillDeep Cut85points
- Golden-crowned TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-crowned WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-eared TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-eyed FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-eyed stick insectDeep Cut85points
- Golden-faced SakiDeep Cut85points
- Golden-faced TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Golden-fronted GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Golden-fronted WhitestartDeep Cut85points
- Golden-green WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-haired Mini-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-headed BollaDeep Cut85points
- Golden-headed Lion TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Golden-headed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Golden-headed Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Golden-headed QuetzalDeep Cut85points
- Golden-headed ScallopwingDeep Cut85points
- Golden-headed WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Golden-hooded TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-mantled Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Golden-naped TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-olive WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-plumed ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Golden-red MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Golden-rumped EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Golden-scaled AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Golden-sided EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Golden-snouted SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Golden-spangled PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Golden-spotted Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Golden-spotted Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Golden-tailed ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Golden-tailed SapphireDeep Cut85points
- Golden-tailed StarfrontletDeep Cut85points
- Golden-tipped DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-tufted Mountain GrackleDeep Cut85points
- Golden-white Bare-ear MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Golden-white Tassel-ear MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Golden-winged CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Golden-winged ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Golden-winged ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Golden-winged SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Golden-winged Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is almost flat: of 19,397 accepted entries, 19,072 sit at 85 points, so the grade reflects how rare a guess is far more than the merits of the animal itself. A single entry reached 100, which is what happens when almost nobody else names that species; the 280 entries at 60 are the ones a large share of players converge on, so familiarity costs points. Species-level names dominate the 85 band — the sample runs from Olinguito (100) through 88 butterfly (85), Abakapa rain frog (85) and Abyssal assfish (85) to Acorn Woodpecker (85) and Acouchi (85). That band mixes insects, frogs, deep-sea fish, birds and mammals without hierarchy, which shows the reference list is taxonomic rather than popularity-based. Betting on a narrowly endemic, recently described or hard-to-spell form is the dependable way to hold 85; reaching 100 takes something almost no other player will propose.