Nature trivia
Name an endangered animal
“Name an endangered animal” is one of 98 nature prompts in Icillion. Of its 229 accepted answers, 11 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Giant Panda
- Tiger
- Elephant
- Rhino
- Gorilla
- Orangutan
- Polar Bear
- Blue Whale
- Snow Leopard
- Chimpanzee
- Sea Turtle
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Black Rhino
- White Rhino
- Javan Rhino
- Sumatran Rhino
- Bengal Tiger
- Sumatran Tiger
- Amur Tiger
- Amur Leopard
- Cheetah
- Lion
- Leopard
- Jaguar
- Clouded Leopard
- African Wild Dog
- Hawksbill Turtle
- Leatherback Turtle
- Green Turtle
- Loggerhead Turtle
- Vaquita
- Mountain Gorilla
- Bonobo
- Red Panda
- Pangolin
- Axolotl
- Kakapo
- California Condor
- Whooping Crane
- Black-footed Ferret
- Iberian Lynx
- Giant Otter
- Tasmanian Devil
- Koala
- Sea Otter
- Komodo Dragon
- Giraffe
- Hippopotamus
- Whale Shark
- Manatee
- Dugong
- Przewalski's Horse
- Bornean Orangutan
- Sumatran Orangutan
- Philippine Eagle
- Galapagos Tortoise
- Hammerhead Shark
- Great White Shark
- Monarch Butterfly
- Bluefin Tuna
- North Atlantic Right Whale
- Fin Whale
- Sei Whale
- African Penguin
- Kiwi
- Okapi
- Lemur
- Gibbon
- Proboscis Monkey
- Tapir
Answers by level
- The Tip11 answers · 10 ptsGiant Panda · Tiger · Elephant
- Below the Surface58 answers · 25 ptsBlack Rhino · White Rhino · Javan Rhino …
- The Deep53 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss106 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 53 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 106 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 229 answers in total, 187 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Kea”. Longest: “Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle”.
- G, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 30% of the answers.
- 15 answers can be typed more than one way: “Green Sea Turtle” counts as Green Turtle.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with G: 24 of the answers begin with it.
- Giant Panda, Tiger and Elephant are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Go local: species from one continent or one ocean are often left out by everybody else.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name an endangered animal”?
- The usual first answers are Giant Panda, Tiger, Elephant, Rhino and Gorilla. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name an endangered animal”?
- 229 in all: 11 on The Tip, 58 Below the Surface, 53 in The Deep, 106 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name an endangered animal” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Kea” and the longest is “Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle”.
- How hard is “Name an endangered animal”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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How deep does your knowledge go?
Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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