Name a living mammal native to Africa

Last seen Dive #51. 225 accepted answers on the published sheet.

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Hints

Hint 1. 225 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 8 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Addax

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Aardwolf · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Aardwolf One in a Krillion 100 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

  • Aardwolf 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Angwantibo 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Anomalure 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Beira 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Blesbok 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bongo 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bontebok 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bushpig 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Addax 60 pts
  • Aye-aye 60 pts
  • Bonobo 60 pts
  • Bushbaby 60 pts
  • Bushbuck 60 pts
  • Camel 60 pts
  • Caracal 60 pts
  • Civet 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Elephant 10
  • Giraffe 10
  • Hippopotamus 10
  • Lion 10
  • Zebra 10

All accepted answers

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Name a living mammal native to Africa

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 147 ● Rare · 53 ● Schooler · 18 ● Too Clever · 1 ● Plankton · 5
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Aardwolf +100
Deep Cut +85 147 answers — tap to reveal
  • African civet +85
  • African clawless otter +85
  • African golden cat +85
  • African golden wolf +85
  • African striped weasel +85
  • African wild ass +85
  • Allen's swamp monkey +85
  • Angwantibo +85
  • Anomalure +85
  • Barbary sheep +85
  • Beaked whale +85
  • Beira +85
  • Black-footed cat +85
  • Blesbok +85
  • Blue whale +85
  • Bongo +85
  • Bontebok +85
  • Bottlenose dolphin +85
  • Brown hyena +85
  • Bryde's whale +85
  • Bunyoro rabbit +85
  • Bushpig +85
  • Cane rat +85
  • Cape fur seal +85
  • Chevrotain +85
  • Common tenrec +85
  • Cusimanse +85
  • Deer +85
  • Diana monkey +85
  • Dibatag +85
  • Dolphin +85
  • Donkey +85
  • Dormouse +85
  • Drill +85
  • Dusky dolphin +85
  • Dwarf lemur +85
  • European polecat +85
  • Falanouc +85
  • False killer whale +85
  • Fanaloka +85
  • Fat-tailed gerbil +85
  • Fin whale +85
  • Fork-marked lemur +85
  • Fossa +85
  • Fur seal +85
  • Gambian pouched rat +85
  • Gerbil +85
  • Gerenuk +85
  • Giant forest hog +85
  • Giant mouse lemur +85
  • Goat +85
  • Golden jackal +85
  • Golden mole +85
  • Grey rhebok +85
  • Grivet +85
  • Ground squirrel +85
  • Grysbok +85
  • Guenon +85
  • Gundi +85
  • Hare +85
  • Heaviside's dolphin +85
  • Hero shrew +85
  • Hirola +85
  • Horseshoe bat +85
  • Humpback dolphin +85
  • Humpback whale +85
  • Ibex +85
  • Indri +85
  • Jerboa +85
  • Jird +85
  • Jungle cat +85
  • Killer whale +85
  • Kipunji +85
  • Klipspringer +85
  • Kob +85
  • L'Hoest's monkey +85
  • Leaf-nosed bat +85
  • Lechwe +85
  • Lesser hedgehog tenrec +85
  • Linsang +85
  • Long-fingered bat +85
  • Macaque +85
  • Malagasy giant rat +85
  • Maned rat +85
  • Mangabey +85
  • Mediterranean monk seal +85
  • Melon-headed whale +85
  • Minke whale +85
  • Mole +85
  • Mole rat +85
  • Mongoose lemur +85
  • Mountain nyala +85
  • Mouse +85
  • Mouse-tailed bat +85
  • Multimammate mouse +85
  • Myotis +85
  • Oribi +85
  • Otter +85
  • Otter shrew +85
  • Owl-faced monkey +85
  • Palm civet +85
  • Pig +85
  • Pilot whale +85
  • Porpoise +85
  • Potto +85
  • Puku +85
  • Putty-nosed monkey +85
  • Pygmy sperm whale +85
  • Rabbit +85
  • Rat +85
  • Red river hog +85
  • Red-bellied lemur +85
  • Red-tailed monkey +85
  • Reedbuck +85
  • Right whale +85
  • Ring-tailed vontsira +85
  • Riverine rabbit +85
  • Royal antelope +85
  • Sand cat +85
  • Sand rat +85
  • Seal +85
  • Sei whale +85
  • Serotine +85
  • Sheath-tailed bat +85
  • Shrew +85
  • Sifaka +85
  • Sitatunga +85
  • Slit-faced bat +85
  • Sperm whale +85
  • Spiny mouse +85
  • Springhare +85
  • Squirrel +85
  • Steenbok +85
  • Straw-coloured fruit bat +85
  • Striped grass mouse +85
  • Striped hyena +85
  • Striped polecat +85
  • Suni +85
  • Talapoin +85
  • Tenrec +85
  • Topi +85
  • Tsessebe +85
  • Vole +85
  • Weasel +85
  • Whale +85
  • Wild boar +85
  • Wildcat +85
Rare +60 53 answers — tap to reveal
  • Addax +60
  • African wild dog +60
  • Ape +60
  • Aye-aye +60
  • Barbary macaque +60
  • Bat +60
  • Bat-eared fox +60
  • Black rhino +60
  • Bonobo +60
  • Bushbaby +60
  • Bushbuck +60
  • Camel +60
  • Caracal +60
  • Civet +60
  • Colobus +60
  • Dik-dik +60
  • Dugong +60
  • Duiker +60
  • Eland +60
  • Elephant shrew +60
  • Ethiopian wolf +60
  • Fennec fox +60
  • Fox +60
  • Fruit bat +60
  • Gelada +60
  • Genet +60
  • Hartebeest +60
  • Hedgehog +60
  • Hyrax +60
  • Impala +60
  • Jackal +60
  • Kudu +60
  • Manatee +60
  • Mandrill +60
  • Mongoose +60
  • Mountain gorilla +60
  • Naked mole-rat +60
  • Nyala +60
  • Okapi +60
  • Oryx +60
  • Pangolin +60
  • Porcupine +60
  • Pygmy hippopotamus +60
  • Ring-tailed lemur +60
  • Roan antelope +60
  • Sable antelope +60
  • Serval +60
  • Springbok +60
  • Thomson's gazelle +60
  • Vervet monkey +60
  • Waterbuck +60
  • White rhino +60
  • Wolf +60
Schooler +30 18 answers — tap to reveal
  • Aardvark +30
  • Antelope +30
  • Baboon +30
  • Buffalo +30
  • Cheetah +30
  • Chimpanzee +30
  • Gazelle +30
  • Gorilla +30
  • Honey badger +30
  • Hyena +30
  • Lemur +30
  • Leopard +30
  • Meerkat +30
  • Monkey +30
  • Rhinoceros +30
  • Spotted hyena +30
  • Warthog +30
  • Wildebeest +30
Too Clever +15 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Human +15
Plankton +10 5 answers — tap to reveal
  • Elephant +10
  • Giraffe +10
  • Hippopotamus +10
  • Lion +10
  • Zebra +10