Hey, I Think I Will Give Away an ARC of Lock In
Posted on June 27, 2014 Posted by John Scalzi 762 Comments
Tor has sent along to me seven ARCs of Lock In. Six of them are already claimed by various people I need to send a copy along to. One of them isn’t. So, I’ll give it away here, now. Here’s how to get it:
I’m thinking of an animal right now. Tell me which one it is.
I’m looking for a specific species. Just saying (for example) “bear” will not help you.
The first person to correctly identify the animal I am thinking of wins the ARC. I will also sign, personalize and ship the ARC to anywhere on the planet.
Any hints about the animal? Yes! It’s a chordate. Any non-fictional chordate, alive or extinct, is within the realm of possibility.
How long do we have to guess? Until 11:59:59pm Eastern time today, June 27, 2014.
How do we know you won’t lie about which animal you’re thinking about? Because I told the animal to my daughter just before I posted this, and she’d let you all know if I lied to you. Also, after telling her the animal, she said “no one’s going to get that.” But she doesn’t know you like I do, oh Whatever readers.
What happens if no one gets the right animal? Then I will randomly select a winner. So no matter what someone’s getting out of here with an ARC.
So: What animal am I thinking of right now? Give your best guess in the comments.
Note:
Comment thread for guesses only. Other comments will be excised.
Also, specific guesses will win over very general ones. So “Sun Bear” will win over “Bear.” Don’t be trying to lock up entire families of species, folks.
Also also, one guess per person, please.
Hedgehog!
Giraffe
Marmot
Okapi!
ORCA (or Killer Whale if you prefer)
Hedgehog.
Walrus
Panda?
Cat. Or, rather, felis catus
Aardvark
squirrel
A wildebeest!
Your just so predictable – Its a Giraffe.
Shark
Homo Sapien!
Great White Shark
Hagfish.
Okay, I’m gonna guess Giraffe
Goblin shark!
PIG! I will never view “lunch” in the same way!
Grizzly Bear
Humans?
Beaver
How about an echidna?
Thylacine/Tasmanian Wolf
Daisy.
A lemur
Coelacanth
Blue whale
Platypus
Ermine
The Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat
Hippopotamus
Duck-billed platypus.
Badger
“No one’s going to get that,” eh? So either something exotic, or something “hide in plain sight” banal, like a specific person.
I’ll go with the second option, because you’re sneaky, and guess that it’s yourself, John Michael Scalzi.
Humans
Guiyu oneiros
Mary Robinette Kowal’s new cat!
Wombat! (Vombatus Ursinus)
…I mean, how could it not be a wombat…
Ocelot
Myke Cole’s betta fish
Wooly Mammoth
The “hang in there” kitten.
A newt. Into which a peasant has been turned.
Echidna
emu
Pangolin
A stoat.
Pallas cat.
Sam Sykes!
“Any non-fictional chordate, alive or extinct,”
So, not Francis the Talking Mule, then? That’s what I think of whenever anyone says, “Think of an animal, any animal.”
The voice of Chill Wills haunts my dreams.
Koala bear.
Pangolin!
Texas Horned Lizard
Pangolin
Zebra
Wolverine!
A plug for the home team: The pine marten
Well, anything but Setonix brachyurus would be a waste of thinking :)
Opossom.
blobfish
Capybara!
Pangolin
A naked mole rat
Neon tetra
sperm whale!
A fennec fox!
Cod. In pie form.
Gila monster
Giant ground sloth. Because why wouldn’t you?
¡A Llama!
Mephitis mephitis!
Two-Toed Sloth
Lancet
Honey Badger
Peregrine Falcon
Bacon Cat
You’re thinking of @wilw ‘s dog, Marlowe.
Catfish, like one of them big ones down by the dam that eats VWs.
Flying squirrel!
Fogbear!
Platypus!
Is it a whale shark? (:
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
The Pop ‘n’ Lock Ness Monster
Platypus
capybara
Sea Cucumber
Giant anteater?
My son, a big fan of anything that is the fastest in the world, wants me to vote for peregrine falcon. He notes that even if it isn’t your choice, it should be!
red squirrel
Hamadryas baboon!
A manatee!
a shark
Iguana?
Armadillo
Thylacine (aka Tasmanian Tiger)
Manatee
Narwhal
I’m getting a vision of your couch. Accordingly: a three-toed sloth?
Australopithecus!
Human Being
Chinchilla
Axolotl
German Shepherd. From Germany. Tubingen. Is that specific enough?
Bald Eagle
Pika
I think RPF’s on the right track, so I’m guessing your daughter, Athena.
Tasmanian devil.
Utah Raptor
Gecko
Black rhinoceros.
Komodo Dragon
A giant ground sloth!
Panamanian golden frog
Vampire Bat
A woodchuck, ’cause it can chuck wood and a hedgehog can’t!
Meerkat!
North American Bison!
Degu
blue dart frog
Manatee
A platypus!
Time travelling pink elephant. It just went back and you saw it before posting this article.
penguin
Cheetah
Bear, Winnie the Pooh.
Chincilla
Kangaroo
Sloth bear
Llama.
Alpaca
Seahorse.
Three-toed sloth.
A telmatherium.
Blast-Ended Skrewt!
Bat
peccary (or javelina)
Red panda!
Marmoset.
Pennant-winged nightjar!
Extinct is OK? Then, the dodo.
Water Bear
Bald eagle?
Numbat!
Aardvaark
Blue Footed Booby!
Squidley McBarfersen
The aye-aye.
Ardvark.
Human has already been guessed so… Goldfish?
Godzilla
Slow loris
Golden marmoset
Is it an echidna?
Peter Cottontail
Liger
Haikouichthys
Bonobo chimp. (1st three guesses were taken.)
Stellan’s sea cow
Since it can’t be a jellyfish, I’ll opt for bonobos.
(Orang-utangs are copyrighted by another writer)
Tenkile tree kangaroo?
Sloth. Start the weekend.
Cardinal
Lamprey
Cormorant!!!!
An 18 foot orange and white python.
Niveoscincus ocellatus
Tuna fish.
Lemming.
An Addax.
Tapir!
Badger. A purple badger
Red-tailed Hawk
Utahraptor
The shoebill.
Gyrfalcon!
Red Panda
Are we allowed to guess more than once? If so, my second guess is Jumbo the elephant. If we’re not allowed to guess more than once, I offer up my excellent Jumbo guess to anyone else who hasn’t yet taken a crack at it. :)
Iberian Lynx :)
Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata)
Slow Loris
Crocodile!
Ostrich
Bluefin Tuna
a big old horny toad
Ostrich.
zebra
Saber tooth tiger (because they look so cool)
Albatross.
I believe it’s the quokka (Setonix brachyurus), the small marsupial known affectionally as the “waste recycler” for their adorable habit of caecotrophy.
tiktaalik
Otter?
The X-ray tetra (Pristella maxillaris) :P
Ostritch
Raccoon. Because they’re everywhere.
Bearkat!
Mongoose!
Dik dik.
North American Blackk Bear
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Blue footed booby
angler fish
Elephant!
Naked mole rat!
Komodo Dragon
Beluga Whale
Real: Otter Fictional: Duckdog
Virginia Opossum
My favourite; the lonely kakapo?
SKUNK! (yes yes it’s actually a fish, I don’t care, I still guess skunk)
Olm
Wasp
Wapiti!
Loxodonta africana
(Go ahead and try not to think of an elephant)
Ocean Sunfish
Giraffe and shrew, echidna, caribou.
Hyrax, also known as a Dassie rat.
Luis Suarez
A platypus, because platipi are awesome, and your thoughts trend towards awesome
I’ll go with humans.
A jellyfish with lofty dreams!
Flying fox.
Capybara!
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Jaguar, even more specifically, the melanin-rich “black panther” Well, that’s what I’m thinking of, anyway.
a finely mustachioed ferret.
Jackalope.
Bengal Tiger
Jaguar!
Giant isopod?
Platypus. Wearing armadillo armor.
Because you had to type it out, clearly you were thinking about “Sun Bear”. You may have ALSO been thinking of some other animal, but Helarctos malayanus is almost by definition the correct answer. ;-)
Capromeryx minor
Slow Loris.
Gnu!
Bullockornis planei – the Demon Duck of Dooooooooom!
You know those south American terror birds from about 10 million years ago? 10-foot-tall flightless eagle apex predators? Well, this is the Australian version of that, except that it’s most closely related to ducks and geese.
Pudu!
I was going to say neon tetra, but that is taken so Cardinal Tetra.
naked mole rat
Starfish.
A rattlesnake ?
Human, most likely
White-tailed deer.
Ibis.
Quetzalcoatlus pterosaur!
I’m an idiot. Starfish isn’t a chordate. *facepalm*
Uh, moose.
You are thinking of a Burro, because it rhymes with Churro. (Well, you are NOW.)
Deinonychus (for anyone who doesn’t know, it’s a dinosaur, which totally counts!)
Mule
Rabbit, specifically the American White Rabbit.
Great Egret
Moa
Barreleye (fish with a transparent head – for the curious, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barreleye and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoygy-8PTtU :-)
Rubbing my crystal ball… rubbing, rubbing… rubbing more. I see… I think I see a… it’s a bit foggy… a tiger shark.
White Crested Guinea Pig
Dolphin
Electric eel.
Hummingbird.
Something in the cephalopod family. I’m going with Giant Squid.
Capra ibex otherwise known as an Alpine ibex
Bobcat!
Tuatara.
Humpbacked whale. First animal I thought of. I don’t know why.
The Ohio state fossil, the Isotelus trilobite….
A human, your daughter.
rainbow trout
It’s a wallaby.
Thylacine
Red panda
A dog. Daisy to be specific.
Wallaby
Lesser Tree Shrew
Pterodactyl!
Echidna? Caribu?
Labrador dog!
Archaeopteryx
Coelacanth
Has anyone guessed “Great Auk” yet? I’m going for Great Auk.
Barreleye!
Are churros an animal now? If not, I vote chupacabra!
Horse.
Sea Squirt
Since Capybara and chinchilla are already guessed, I’m going with lancelet.
An Indian muntjac?
Shrew. Definitely a shrew.
Rainbow Trout, because ARC-en-ciel…
Zebra
Eptatretus goliath of the Hagfish species
Is it an aardvark. I never win things
Honey Badger
Spotted hyena
hammer head shark
Giraffe!
chipmonk
Balinese (long haired siamese) cat.
Fuzzy sapiens, a.k.a. Fuzzy fuzzy holloway zarathustra
Mouse Deer (Chevrotain)
I see aardvark has been taken, so of course aardvark.
Well, damn. Great auk is taken, so I’ll go with a megamouth.
Just because.
Frog?
Pig
Chuckwalla. (A lizard in Death Valley. I’ve been there and seen them.) But I did think Aardvark first. Someone got there ahead of me though.
Pyura chilensis, a Tunichate – Aka, Sea Tomato. The Chilean bleeding stone.
Ring-tailed lemur.
A Moa.
An Anglerfish
An ai.
My favorite crossword puzzle answer, FWIW
Leopard
neanderthal
sea cucumber!!
Sorry if this is a dup.
Monitor lizard
olinguito
Moon Bear
Chipmunk
Polar Bear
Salmon, specifically a Jack, not a hooknose. (Or possibly Przewalski’s horse.)
Sabre toothed cat!
(Any one of the dogs who played) Lassie (in the several Hollywood films.)
A pink fairy armadillo.
Sea Urchin
That lion fish like Jean Luc Picard had in his tank.
civet – which apparently “manufactures” high priced coffee beans
Great White Shark
Giant Sea Otter or a Narwhal!
Given that I needed the Wiki to know what a Chordate was – I’m going to say Anglerfish as a random.
A house martin
Don’t know what you were thinking of then but right now you are thinking of a tree horse. And, if you are not, you should be.
Fish > Salmon > Steelhead
You’re thinking: “Putin is Stalin with Better PR, and oh, yes, the World Cup”
A pangolin!
My first six guesses have already been taken, so…gavial (gharial).
Short-eared Elephant Shrew
(Macroscelides proboscideus)
Red panda? (Checked after I typed that – I wouldn’t have expected red panda guesses to outnumber the regular panda 5:1…)
Gila Monster
Armadillo.
A buckeye chicken.
Sulawesi crested black macaque aka Celebes crested macaque
Macropus robustus (hill wallaroo)
Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Trap door spider
Passenger pigeon
I am a fan of mustelids, so let’s go with the greater grison for alliteration’s sake.
Takifugu rubripes – pufferfish!
Spiny Anteater
Indian Elephant
Water buffalo.
Ocelot!
A chinook salmon
“A new species of elephant shrew, or round-eared segni, called the Macroscelides micus”
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/06/tiny-elephant-like-mammal-discovered-in-namib-desert/
Wombat. Because, they’re everywhere, man!! EVERYWHERE!
Elephant shrew
flamingo. well, it was the first chordate I thought of
Cape Buffalo
Hellbender Salamander
Humpback whale.
Bohemian waxwing
Reindeer
Coelacanth.
Engraulis encrasicolus …mmmm, delicious.
Box turtle?
Velociraptor
Mongoose
I meant {June 27, 2014 at 11:23 am} Putin as an animal, and the Uruguyan striker whose cannibal teeth are about to be pulled out by an Italian dentist. Both animals.
Spider Monkey
Oddly enough, you were thinking of the jackalope. At least, youare now.
Jaekelocarpus oklahomesis
Clouded leopard
A polar bear
I’m going to go with the Iberian ribbed newt, because we should all be able to puncture our ribs through our sides as a defense mechanism.
Peregrine falcon
Peregrine Falcon.
I’m probably wrong as it is too obvious, but I’m a sucker for them!
Your wife.
Yak!
Your daughter
Shetland pony.
Your own dog.
Koala.
Argentinosaurus.
Polar bear (Ursinus maritimus)
Howler monkey!
Porcupine?
Manta Ray
Newt
Corgi
Tunicates. Because they are sessile as adults.
Oh, why not. Honey badger.
Batman
Highland cow!
Apologies if this double posts, wordpress did . . .things.
sea aquirt
Coyote.
sorry, typo, sea squirt
Bombay duck (bummalo). You did ask for the specific species: Harpadon nehereus. In case you’re wondering, it’s actually a fish, not a duck. I suggest looking up a picture – it’s creepy.
Wallaby
A Neanderthal (if you want more specific, I’d say Larry . . . no! Eric; definitely Eric).
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Chaunograptus
Guiyu oneiros, bony fish extraordinaire.
labrador retreiver
Little Fuzzy (or any member of the Fuzzy family)
binturong?
blue footed booby
mosquito
Hagfish, just because.
Also: Post-Anal Tail is an awesome punk band name.
Triceratops!
Commodo dragon
Hippo
Chimaera (ghost shark)
A small, gray hare(with large pointy teeth)
Cuttlefish
Archeopteryx
Homo Floresiensis
Lewis Carroll’s Snark – mascot of the Interwebs
An antechinus.
Weasel.
flying monkey
In order to tell Athena the animal that you were thinking of, you must have been thinking of her. As she is a chordate, she seems to be the obvious guess. So… uh… Athena.
Potto.
How about the Green-Crested Scalzibird of North America? It’s known for it’s long and interesting songs that somehow sound like ukelele music.
Cassowary!
Heron!
Aplysia Californica, the Sea Slug.
crow
African Elephant
Gallus gallus domesticus
I’m glad I read the comments, because I was going to say elephant shrew (because they’re hilarious looking!) only to find that someone had already said it. Which kind of blows my mind.
So intead: humuhumunukunukuapua’a, AKA the reef triggerfish, and the official state fish of Hawai’i.
Came here to say “White Polar Bear,” per canon, but too late. You folks who guessed it first, consider yourselves favorited.
Nemo, the fish.
Japanese Raccoon Dog
apatosaurus
Mantis shrimp!
African Wild Dog
Yunnanozoon lividum
nutria
Skink. Specifically, MacGregor’s skink.
Vicuña
Anaspida!
Steller’s sea cow
Lancelet
Sea Tulips
Aurochs
Prevost’s squirrel
at 12:32 est you were thinking about manticores…
3 toed sloth
Cave bear.
Gonna guess an ichthyosaur.
Parrot
pig-footed bandicoot, because, why not?
T-Rex
american goldfinch
Canary?
What is a blue-tailed skink? For 97,005 points and one ARC, please.
Indricotherium ; are we allowed multiple guesses?
A silver darling… Herring!
shark tetra
Beagle
Salp
Robin
Hairy long-nosed armadillo
Woodpecker
Kangaroo rat.
homo sapiens
alpaca
House Sparrow
Hypsypops rubicundus – aka the Garibaldi, the official state fish of California
Koko the gorilla.
Sea turtle
Peale’s dolphin
I’m going with a Sea Squirt http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=24.25.312.314.326.350
PANGOLIN. (I haven’t read all the other 467 comments so I don’t know if anybody already guessed that. And I don’t quite know why *I* guessed that.)
The mighty saola!
Eastern pipistrelle (tri-colored bat). ‘Cause “pipistrelle” is so fun to say.
I DON’T CARE! I just finished reading Unlocked and I think you should give me an ARC because I will not make it until August without reading the book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mountain goat
galapagos tortoise
Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon!
A great horned owl.
Are you thinking of…. Pikaia gracilens?
Kiwi!
has anybody guess blue whale yet?
I feel wrong that I’ve never commented on your blog until there was potentially something in it for me……. but pushing that aside…. a springbok.
A bush baby……(remember, that’s what Heywood Floyd’s daughter wanted him to bring her back from the moon in “2001: A Space Odyssey”)
Gemsbock
(Since my first 10-20 guesses were taken)
Bos grunniens (the Yak, of course). I’m going to feel really stupid if the answer is Bos mutus, though.
Is it a prairie vole?
African Hedgehog; Erinaceinae; preferably Atelerix.
Thymallus thymallus
Incidently, this is how my dog’s bark sounds when I feed him peanut butter.
A pit viper
Dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus)
tapir
Therizinosaurus
Smooth-nosed Wombat.
fisher cat?
Pit Viper
Haast’s eagle
Haikouichthys
I’m going Trilobite, too. But more specifcally Olenoides. Because I think that is the one in that time travelling movie where a group of kids go back to see a live one (that I can’t remember).
Caplin Rous, the capybara
Sand Cat
An iguana
arctic fox
Armadillo! Thank you for this opportunity.
Aye Aye. I’m thinking of the one who lives at the Cincinnati Zoo, but you probably are not. Amazing critters.
Cygnus buccinator, the Trumpeter Swan.
(Because Dimetrodon was already taken.)
[Deleted because slagging on people for participating in a giveaway is silly, Guess – JS]
Olinguito
Fanfin Seadevil
Ambulocetus!
Oryx
North American beaver
Hagfish because hagfish.
Parrotfish!
Lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus)
Nyala
Dryocopus pileatus: the pileated woodpecker
Megatherium, or the giant carnivorous land sloth.
Coelacanth
Chamitataxus
The European conger (Conger conger), the heaviest of eels.
Hoping you were setting this up at dinner or while watching a certain episode of Futurama, I’m going to guess anchovy.
The “convict” cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata).
Kangaroo mouse (aka muad’dib)
I wanted to guess “big wooly mammoth,” but since that’s taken I’ll go for leptauchenia nitida.
Rabbit – possibly specifically of the gamma variety.
Magpie
the False Catshark ( as recently found around Pitcairn Islands)
as opposed to the too obvious Lemonpeel Angelfish (which is quite photogenic)
Frilled lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii
A lancelet! (omg, my first four guesses were taken, curse me for sleeping in!)
a stork!
Swordfish
Serval
Stegosaurus
I hope you’re thinking of a fuzzy.
Sun Conure
coatimundi
Pangolin!
Bull
Golden eagle
Ok, I know you gave us a hint but I still am going to go with my first thought.. namely the Naked Mole Rat!
opossum
Neon Tetra
Magnificent frigatebird
quagga
Ring necked pheasant.
Andean Condor
An X-ray tetra, of course.
A Great Blue Heron
A Barsoomian Thoat!
Chupacabra
Those adorable new black footed cat kittens at the Philadelphia zoo!
A straight-forward Tabby Cat??
Tamandua- or lesser Anteater
Emporer penguin
Rats! No, that’s not my animal. Someone beat me to Chupacabra. Can I guess again?
New Jersey Devil.
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur. Not because I think that’s what you’re thinking, but because it’s a fantastic name for an animal.
chameleon (common chameleon species)
Florida panther
Octopus!
Right whale
Sand Dollar, for the win!
Bactrian camel
Stump-Tailed Macaque
Frilled Shark
Pacific Hagfish!
Tapir!
Blue Footed Boobie!
Leafy sea dragon.
Oarfish
Flounder
Since general answers *are* allowed, just inferior to specific ones, I’m going to say Mammal. ;)
Canadian Goose, or Branta canadensis
You were thinking of your cat, Fluffy. (Yes, I’m too lazy to look up that Welsh-or-whatever spelling.)
icthyosaur
Cestoda… like a tape worm.
mudskipper
Snowy owl
West Indian Ocean coelacanth
Tamarin!
the common house cat
Hipoopotamus
Coquerel’s sifaka
Tasmanian Tiger!
Pygmy shrew
West Indian Ocean coelacanth.
Pteranodon.
Echidna
Because I don’t remember seeing it yet: Capybara.
Takin!
Capybara?
Trilobite
A palomino horse
Yellow tang
Gray mullet.
red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Hagfish
Jack Russell Terrier
Branchiostoma lanceolatum
Coelacanth
Giant sloth!
Puffin!
My first picks were all taken so I hope this one isn’t while I’m posting this-
Jerboa
Cougar
Sailfish
pgymy marmoset
Brown trout.
Tenrec :D
The Syrian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemippus), mostly because the name caught my eye while looking up extinct animals on wikipedia.
Homo erectus?
Probably not a sharpei tetra Glofish.
Mockingbird?
Hamster!
Jackass. Specifically, this one:
“How ’bout you, Brother Jackass?” everyone gaily cried.
“Are you coming to the fracas?” And over his specs he sighed –
“In the cool, cool, cool of the evening, tell ’em I’ll be there.
In the cool, cool, cool of the evening, slickem on my hair.
When the party’s getting a glow on and singing fills the air
If I ain’t in the clink and there’s something to drink,
You can tell them I’ll be there.”
The Not-Squirrel that The Bloggess saw today.
Mamba
Some of y’all have an interesting interpretation of “chordate.”
Dipodomys nitratoides
The Fresno kangaroo rat
Platypus
the hemichordates, or acorn worms
Ocelot
Bald Eagle
Pan paniscus (chimp)
Snapping turtle! I claim Chelydra serpentina, the common North American snaping turtle in case dispute should arise! Hey, I’d win this with RR Martin anyways…
Baikal seal!
You’re going to have to read many, many comments to find my correct submission. Chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius is what you’re thinking of right now.
Lungfish
Amphioxus
Specifically the Queensland lungfish
(sorry, accidentally posted before finishing entry)
A bluejay
Black footed ferret
Garter snake
Echidna, duh
Hmmm… Lamprey?
Bradypus pygmaeus (another Sloth person)
Your wife. I’m sure that at certain times you’ve thought “She’s such an animal” :). Or I can go the Jewish mother route-Even if you weren’t thinking of her, you should have been. In any case, I’ve beaten the other folks who just selected “human”.
Angel Shark
mockingbird
It’s got to be a parasaurolophus.
Caitlin Kittredge’s Black Dog
Reedfish.
Mandrill
mustang
Wallaby.
The cacomistle, also called ring-tailed cat
No love for the noble glyptodont?
Indonesian coelacanth
Moray eel.
Cardinal
Haven’t seen a vote for a Caracal yet. Saw one recently at the zoo and it was the first thing that popped into my head. Crossing my fingers…
Megalodon
Your first grade teacher.
The late, much-lamented Kodi?
Guanaco
Yellow-Bellied Marmot. Because yes, I did just read the latest Bloggess entry.
Beta (Betta ) fish
The eastern coyote (Canis latrans var)
A Dzo (Bos grunniens x Bos primigenius).
Dugong dugon.
Barracuda
Prairie dog
Ocelot
Dendrobates tinctorius “azureus” (Blue poison dart frog)
Peregrine Falcon
don’t know if the Fuzzies have been guessed, but that is my guess, specifically the first one to lie, though I don’t remember the character name.
Scottish Wildcat
Crab-eating macaque
Three-toed sloth
Chinstrap Penguin
Fog Bear
Nautilus
If it’s not the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), it should be.
Someone farther up mentioned the teratorn but didn’t actually guess it, so I’ll go with that. Teratorn. :)
Also, guys, cephalopods and echinoderms aren’t chordates…
Ankylosaurus
A goldfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_ruffed_lemur
Is it a hellbender?
A bristle worm, or polychaetes if you want to be formal.
And, hey, no one else has suggested that yet – not spelt like that anyway.
Is it an Aye-Aye?
John Boehner
Tetra fish? Does that count? If you make me be specific, I’ll go with a rummynose tetra, ’cause we have several and they’re cool. But any tetra if I’m close.
Ninja Turtle. Sorry Alex, what is the answer to John’s question?
Flying Fox (the bat)
FIRST!
Pikia Gracilens. Oldest known chordate approximately 530 million years ago. Every chordate was descended from either it or something very much like it. Similar to the lancelet, which to my amazement was already taken.
The lammergeyer/bearded vulture
Black footed cat
Wombat.
Bullfrog
Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Tachyglossus aculeatus
Mallard duck
I’m going to go with Ensatina salamander.
Sugar Glider
The sea sloth, thalassocnus
Sir David’s long-beaked echidna (Z. attenboroughi)
Saber tooth tiger
Smilodon fatalis. Because you said extinct was game.
Icelandic electric sheep
Tarsier!
Hagfish/slime eel
peregrine falcon will be my guess, I know others have already guessed it but everything I tried like sperm whale and blue whale and hagfish were already guessed so I’m throwing in just to have a chance in case no one guesses it.
Tasmanian Devil.
Phrynosoma orbiculare, aka Mexican Plateau horned lizard (you can’t get mroe specific than *that*, can you?)
Bearcat
star-nosed mole
homo sapiens
X-ray tetra
Poecile atricapillus, or Black Capped Chickadee
Macaque?
Angler Fish! Cause they are cool!
peacock mantis shrimp
Cephalochordata: lancelets
Capuchin Monkey?
Dolphin – amazon river dolphin specifically.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, because, well, Rex.
Nene.
Punxsutawney Phil
Greyhound. (You can change your answer to greyhound now that you know that’s what you should have chosen)
Nigerian dwarf goat?
Zonkey – zebra/donkey cross.
flying fish
A ring-tailed lemur.
Loggerhead shrike
Being an East coast girl who is about to go to the shore, my guess is great white shark, such as the sixteen footer who chewed off a fishing boat’s chum bag off the coast of Cape May last week!
Duck-billed platypus.
Waxy monkey leaf frog.
Plesiosauroidea
I hope you are using a search app!
My first choice, pikaia gracilens, has been proposed (twice!), so I am going with another Canadian, Ursus americanus kermodei (spirit bear).
An ox. Sorry, I’d be more specific, but … I don’t know much about oxen.
By the way, you have a lot of readers, and they are very thorough! My first dozen tries were preempted. Tough room!
I haven’t seen weedy sea dragon (which is among my two favorite chordates at the Long Beach Aquarium)
Fosa
Dall’s sheep, Ovis dalli
Basenji!
A wallaby!
Meadow jumping mouse
belted kingfisher
Meerkat!
Potoo
A magical Liopleurodon!
West Indian Manatee
Ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus
A Giant, Lazy Panda who is down on its luck after losing at 772 consecutive games of video poker, wondering what he’s going to tell his wife when he gets home. Or a sea cucumber; both are good.
Ring-tailed Lemur
lowland paca
Amur Leopard
Brachiosaurus
A peruvian spectacled bear, as you are probably a fan of Paddington.
Woolly mammoth
Sugar Glider
North African elephant shrew
sea lamprey
Pot Bellied Pig
Pinecone fish?
blue-tailed monitor lizard
Are we allowed to guess more than once? I see no restriction about that.
If so I’m partial to the barn owl
The rabbit with a pancake on its head.
Just under the wire: Ring-tailed lemur.
small brown bat
Tiktaalik
Bottlenosed dolphin
Dingo
Contest closed! Winner to be announced soon(ish).