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
- Bolivian Bamboo RatDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Big-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian black velvet tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Bleating FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian blueleg tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian coryDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian dwarf beauty tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian earthcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian poison-arrow frogDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian RacerDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian ramDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian recurvebillDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Red HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian red rump tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian River DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Short-tongueDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian slaty-antshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian tapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian thorny catfishDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian triad coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian tyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian White Leg TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Bolo mouseDeep Cut85points
- Bolson Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Bolt CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Bombardier beetleDeep Cut85points
- Bomboiza Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bonaire AnoleDeep 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.