Animal Groups:
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Category
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Example Creatures
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Votes
Arthropod | Spiders, scorpions, lobsters, crabs, insects, millipedes, etc. |
4
Amphibian | Frogs, toads, salamanders. |
0
Bird | You know those. They taste like chicken. |
5
Echinoderm | Starfish. And only starfish. |
3
Fish | They swim. They might be sharks. |
2
Mammal | Mice, elephants, monotremes, and everything in between. |
5
Mollusc | Slimey things. Snails, squids, octopodes, mussels, clams. |
2
Reptile | Crocodiles, lizards, snakes. |
1
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What kind of Mammal:
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Category
|
Example Creatures
|
Votes
Insectivores | Shrews, aardvarks, moles, hedgehogs. |
0
Paenungulata | Elephants, manatees, dugongs. |
0
Xenarthra | Sloths, armadillos, ant-eaters. |
0
Primates | Lemurs, monkeys, non-human apes. |
1
Lagomorpha | Hares, rabbits. |
0
Rodents | Mice, rats, squirrels, hamsters. |
0
Cetacea | Whales, dolphins, porpoises. |
0
Even-Toed Ungulates | Pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, deer, giraffes. |
2
Odd-Toed Ungulates | Horses, rhinoceroses, tapirs. |
0
Chirophtera | Bats. |
0
Carnivores | Cats, bears, seals, dog-likes. |
0
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What kind of Bird:
This one I had to trim down massively. Even if I just went out and eliminated everything I didn't know myself, there's still just too many groups of birds left.
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Category
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Example Creatures
|
Votes
Waterfowl | Ducks, geese, swans, grebes. |
0
Fowl | Turkeys, chickens, pheasants. |
0
Gulls & Waders | Snipes, gulls, terns, puffins, plovers. |
0
Procellariiforms | Albatrosses and petrels. |
0
Penguins | You know these. |
0
Pelican-likes | Pelicans, frigatebirds, cormorants. |
1
Stork-likes | Storks, herons, ibises. |
0
Vultures | Vultures, condors. |
0
Flamingos | These, too. |
0
Raptors | Hawks, eagles, kites, buzzards, ospreys. |
1
Pigeons | Pigeons, doves. |
0
Parrots | Cockatoos, parrots, lorikeets, budgies. |
0
Cuculiformes | Cuckoos, roadrunners, hoatzin, turacos |
0
Owls | True and barn. |
1
Apodiformes | Swifts and hummingbirds. |
0
Kingfishers | Kingfishers, bee-eaters, hornbills. |
0
Woodpeckers | Come on, now. |
0
Songbirds | Non-corvid passerines, pretty much, for this contest. |
0
Corvids | Ravens, choughs, jays, magpies. |
0
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