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
- Yellow-bellied ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied sea snakeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied stream frogDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed CardinalDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed NunbirdDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed PintailDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed TealDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed TernDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-billed Tit-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-blotched flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bottomed TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted CapuchinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted Warbling-antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bridled FinchDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-browed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-browed Shrike-VireoDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-browed SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-browed Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-browed ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-browed TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-brown wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-centered MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-cheeked becardDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-chevroned ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-chinned SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-collared ChlorophoniaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-collared MacawDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crested TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned Night-HeronDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned WhitestartDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-eared ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-eared ToucanetDeep 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.