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
- Gray-bellied AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied BrucieDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied CometDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied flowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied HawkDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied Shrike-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Gray-bellied SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted martinDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted Mountain-ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted SabrewingDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted SeedsnipeDeep Cut85points
- Gray-breasted wood-wrenDeep Cut85points
- Gray-browed brushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Gray-browed wrenDeep Cut85points
- Gray-capped CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Gray-capped FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Gray-capped hemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Gray-capped TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Gray-cheeked NunletDeep Cut85points
- Gray-cheeked ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Gray-cheeked thrushDeep Cut85points
- Gray-chested DoveDeep Cut85points
- Gray-chested greenletDeep Cut85points
- Gray-chinned HermitDeep Cut85points
- Gray-cowled Wood-RailDeep Cut85points
- Gray-crested finchDeep Cut85points
- Gray-crowned FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Gray-eyed greenletDeep Cut85points
- Gray-flanked CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Gray-fronted DoveDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed DoveDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed KiteDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Gray-headed warblerDeep Cut85points
- Gray-hooded AttilaDeep Cut85points
- Gray-hooded FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Gray-hooded GullDeep Cut85points
- Gray-hooded ParakeetDeep 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.