Prompt 2 of 7
Name a living mammal native to Africa
225 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Aardwolf— A hyena relative that eats up to 300,000 termites a night.
85 ptsDeep Cut147 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- African civet
- African clawless otter
- African golden cat
- African golden wolf
- African striped weasel
- African wild ass
- Allen's swamp monkey
- Angwantibo
- Anomalure
- Barbary sheep
- Beaked whale
- Beira
- Black-footed cat
- Blesbok
- Blue whale
- Bongo
- Bontebok
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Brown hyena
- Bryde's whale
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Bushpig
- Cane rat
- Cape fur seal
- Chevrotain
- Common tenrec
- Cusimanse
- Deer— Barbary stags in Tunisia and Algeria are Africa's only deer.
- Diana monkey
- Dibatag
- Dolphin
- Donkey— Descended from the African wild ass of Eritrea and Somalia.
- Dormouse
- Drill
- Dusky dolphin
- Dwarf lemur
- European polecat
- Falanouc
- False killer whale
- Fanaloka
- Fat-tailed gerbil
- Fin whale
- Fork-marked lemur
- Fossa— Madagascar's top predator, a mongoose relative that looks like a cat.
- Fur seal
- Gambian pouched rat
- Gerbil
- Gerenuk
- Giant forest hog
- Giant mouse lemur
- Goat— Wild goats, the Nubian and Walia ibex, are native African Capra.
- Golden jackal
- Golden mole
- Grey rhebok
- Grivet
- Ground squirrel
- Grysbok
- Guenon
- Gundi
- Hare
- Heaviside's dolphin
- Hero shrew
- Hirola
- Horseshoe bat
- Humpback dolphin
- Humpback whale
- Ibex
- Indri
- Jerboa
- Jird
- Jungle cat
- Killer whale
- Kipunji
- Klipspringer
- Kob
- L'Hoest's monkey
- Leaf-nosed bat
- Lechwe
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Linsang
- Long-fingered bat
- Macaque
- Malagasy giant rat
- Maned rat
- Mangabey
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Melon-headed whale
- Minke whale
- Mole
- Mole rat
- Mongoose lemur
- Mountain nyala
- Mouse
- Mouse-tailed bat
- Multimammate mouse
- Myotis
- Oribi
- Otter
- Otter shrew
- Owl-faced monkey
- Palm civet
- Pig— Wild boar, the pig's ancestor, still roams North Africa.
- Pilot whale
- Porpoise
- Potto
- Puku
- Putty-nosed monkey
- Pygmy sperm whale
- Rabbit
- Rat
- Red river hog
- Red-bellied lemur
- Red-tailed monkey
- Reedbuck
- Right whale
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Riverine rabbit
- Royal antelope
- Sand cat
- Sand rat
- Seal
- Sei whale
- Serotine
- Sheath-tailed bat
- Shrew
- Sifaka
- Sitatunga
- Slit-faced bat
- Sperm whale
- Spiny mouse
- Springhare
- Squirrel
- Steenbok
- Straw-coloured fruit bat
- Striped grass mouse
- Striped hyena
- Striped polecat
- Suni
- Talapoin
- Tenrec
- Topi
- Tsessebe
- Vole
- Weasel
- Whale
- Wild boar
- Wildcat
60 ptsRare53 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Addax
- African wild dog
- Ape
- Aye-aye
- Barbary macaque
- Bat
- Bat-eared fox
- Black rhino
- Bonobo
- Bushbaby
- Bushbuck
- Camel— Dromedaries have roamed the Sahara for three thousand years.
- Caracal
- Civet
- Colobus
- Dik-dik
- Dugong
- Duiker
- Eland
- Elephant shrew
- Ethiopian wolf
- Fennec fox
- Fox
- Fruit bat
- Gelada
- Genet
- Hartebeest
- Hedgehog
- Hyrax
- Impala
- Jackal
- Kudu
- Manatee
- Mandrill
- Mongoose
- Mountain gorilla
- Naked mole-rat
- Nyala
- Okapi
- Oryx
- Pangolin
- Porcupine
- Pygmy hippopotamus
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Roan antelope
- Sable antelope
- Serval
- Springbok
- Thomson's gazelle
- Vervet monkey
- Waterbuck
- White rhino
- Wolf— Ethiopia's highlands hold Africa's only true wolf.
30 ptsSchooler18 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Aardvark
- Antelope
- Baboon
- Buffalo
- Cheetah
- Chimpanzee
- Gazelle
- Gorilla
- Honey badger
- Hyena
- Lemur
- Leopard
- Meerkat
- Monkey
- Rhinoceros
- Spotted hyena
- Warthog
- Wildebeest
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Human— Homo sapiens evolved in Africa, and you are one.
10 ptsPlankton5 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Elephant
- Giraffe
- Hippopotamus
- Lion
- Zebra