Mammals of Wordle

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July 2024 GNU Theme choices

see invitation on June 26
https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/3vtnds
and on June 27 :
https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/3vuj55
And on June 28 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/3vve1i

July 1 - BILBY - @Jennie (Perth) post on July 1
July 2 - SHREW - @Jenny (QLD) post on July 2
July 3 - QUOLL - @Shaun (London) post of July 3
July 4 - BISON - @MIke (VIrginia) post of July 4
July 5 - COYPU - @BerniceDog post of July 5
July 6 - ELAND - @Jn (Chicago) post of July 6
July 7 - COATI - @VMMP (Michigan) post of July 7
July 8 - KOALA - @Razhaa (Durham NC) post of July 8
July 9 - OTTER - @Doc (Damogran and other places ;-) ) post of July 9
July 10 - LORIS - @AK (Nekoosa, WI) post of July 10 Emoji art @Wixiban july 19m2025
July 11 - TAPIR - @Jay (Forest Hills, NY) post of July 11
July 12 - URIAL - @Dez (Portland, OR) post of July 12
July 13 - STOAT - @Lorna (Alberta) post of July 13
July 14 - GENET @Constable Dogberry (VIctoria, BC)post of July 14
July 15 - OKAPI - @Julia (Bay Area) post of July 15
July 16 - LEMUR - @Marion (SC) post of July 16
July 17 - CIVET - @Violet (Florida) post of July 17
July 18 - PANDA - @Kenny (New Jersey) post of July 18
July 19 - LLAMA - @JR (Melbourne) post of July 19
July 20 - WHALE - @Miss Sunshine (MN Lake Country) can play SPERM or PILOT( OR MINKE but see July 23) for additional fun post of July 20
July 21 - SLOTH - @VW (PNW) post of July 21
July 22 - MOOSE - @Heather (Sugar Land, TX) post of July 22
July 23 - MINKE - @Daphne (New York) post of July 23
July 24 - HYRAX- @SamplesDriscollpost of July 24
July 25- SABLE - @Zannman (Ohio) post of July 25
July 26 - INDRI - @Couchpumpkin (VA) post of July 26
July 27 - RHINO - @David Bell (UK) post of July 27
July 28 - CONEY - @Ginny (Michigan) post of July 28
July 29 - TAKIN - Owen Scott, III (Baton Rouge)post of July 29
July 30 - DEVIL - Pebbles (Bedrockj post of July 30
July 31 - HYENA - @KN (Bay Area, CA) post of July 31

Original List of Mammals of Wordle

selected by Jennie of Perth, Western Australia, with additions by Documentalista ` [Doc] and others.

Animals that have already been chosen as starters (see list below) are marked as adopted.

  1. ADDAX (an antelope)
  2. ARIEL (an antelope)
  3. BEIRA (an antelope)
  4. BILBY (desert-dwelling marsupial) adopted
  5. BISONadopted
  6. BONGO (an antelope)
  7. CIVET adopted
  8. COATI adopted
  9. CONEY[Doc] adopted
  10. COYPU (nutria, herbivovorous semi-aquatic mammal from South America) adopted
  11. DAMAN (hyrax, Procavia syriaca, of Syria, Palestine, etc.: the coney of the Bible.)
  12. DEVIL adopted
  13. DHOLE (an endangered Asian wild dog) @Kenny
  14. DIANA (an endangered monkey) [Doc]
  15. DINGO
  16. ELAND (antelope) adopted
  17. GENET (cat-like, civet) adopted
  18. GORAL (small Asian goat/antelope)
  19. HUTIA [Doc] (rat-like mammals form the Caribbean islands)
  20. HYENA adopted
  21. HYRAX adopted
  22. INDRI (Lemur) adopted
  23. KIANG, KYANG (Asian ass)
  24. KOALAadopted
  25. KULAN (TransCaspian wild ass) [Doc]
  26. LEMUR adopted
  27. LLAMA adopted
  28. LORIS adopted
  29. MINKE whale adopted
  30. MOOSE adopted
  31. MOUSE BEACH (several species of Beach mice in the southern US are threatened or extinct) [Doc]
  32. NYALA (antelope)
  33. OKAPI (giraffe cousin) adopted
  34. ORIBI (antelope)
  35. OTARY [Doc] (archaic now rare word for a seal with external ears, such as a sea-lion)
  36. OTTER adopted
  37. PANDA adopted
  38. POTTO (West African nocturnal monkey, not to be confused with the avian POTOO)
  39. QUOLL (carnivorous marsupials) adopted
  40. RHINO adopted
  41. SABLE adopted
  42. SAIGA (antelope)
  43. SAOLA (antelope)
  44. SEROW (Japanese goat-antelope)
  45. SHREW adopted
  46. SKUNK
  47. SLOTH adopted
  48. SPERM WHALE
  49. STOAT adopted
  50. TAKHI (Przewalski's horse) [Kenny (New Jersey)]
  51. TAKIN (Asian goat) adopted
  52. TAPIR adopted
  53. TIGER
  54. URIAL adopted (Central and South Asian sheep, "vulnerable" status) [@BerniceDog @Dez]
  55. WHALE (PILOT) adopted
  56. XERUS (African squirrel)
  57. ZEBRA adopted by WOrdle as a solution june 29 2024 GRrr,
  58. ZOKOR (mole)

Unadopted Mammals

  1. ADDAX (an antelope)
  2. ARIEL (an antelope)
  3. BEIRA (an antelope)
  4. BONGO (an antelope)
  5. DAMAN (hyrax, Procavia syriaca, of Syria, Palestine, etc.: the coney of the Bible.)
  6. DHOLE (an endangered Asian wild dog) [@Kenny]
  7. DIANA (an endangered monkey) [Doc]
  8. DINGO
  9. GORAL (small Asian goat/antelope)
  10. HUTIA [Doc] (rat-like mammals form the Caribbean islands)
  11. KIANG, KYANG (Asian ass)
  12. KULAN (TransCaspian wild ass) [Doc]
  13. MOUSE BEACH (several species of Beach mice in the southern US are threatened or extinct) [Doc]
  14. NYALA (antelope)
  15. ORIBI (antelope)
  16. OTARY [Doc] (archaic now rare word for a seal with external ears, such as a sea-lion)
  17. POTTO (West African nocturnal monkey, not to be confused with the avian POTOO)
  18. SAIGA (antelope)
  19. SAOLA (antelope)
  20. SEROW (Japanese goat-antelope)
  21. SKUNK
  22. SPERM WHALE
  23. TAKHI (Przewalski's horse) [Kenny (New Jersey)]
  24. TIGER
  25. XERUS (African squirrel)
  26. ZEBRA *adopted by Wordle as a solution JUne 29 2024
  27. ZOKOR (mole)
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Pub: 02 May 2024 23:34 UTC

Edit: 19 Jul 2025 11:01 UTC

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