Water Dragon
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Meerkat?
Chester Zoo Game
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no, not Meerkat or Sun Bear.
If the reasonings behind answers are given, then it is easier to let you know if you are on the right track...
If the reasonings behind answers are given, then it is easier to let you know if you are on the right track...
My riddle may have been too obscure. I will give some more help.
"If a duckling is a little duck, then a starling is a little star. I should imagine that scissors could induce fear." - Your answer is half way from there.
The riddle is deliberately in two parts. One part is a quote and has nothing to do with the animal.
On the previous page of this thread is your clue.
This is a literal clue, not a riddle. The page is now #38 because we have moved on another page. On page #38 look for something which relates to the riddle, and work out your answer based on how I wrote it.
"If a duckling is a little duck, then a starling is a little star. I should imagine that scissors could induce fear." - Your answer is half way from there.
The riddle is deliberately in two parts. One part is a quote and has nothing to do with the animal.
On the previous page of this thread is your clue.
This is a literal clue, not a riddle. The page is now #38 because we have moved on another page. On page #38 look for something which relates to the riddle, and work out your answer based on how I wrote it.
The 10th message on the page is that quote, I believe it is half way from that so message 15 or 5 However neither of those are animals so I will go for the next guess that wasn't sun bear, the dwarf mongoose
nope, but you're getting there. You've found the quote. Now think about some other ways "Your answer is half way from there" could be interpreted in relation to the quote.
You don't need to look anywhere else except that post.
and what is your thought process behind Rock Hyrax?
Komodo99
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I thought it might be a viable answer by looking through the page.
so, blind guess based on it being mentioned in a post?
That is actually the answer though, so you win the round
The way the riddle was intended was that the quote was a post by Dassie Rat. "Your answer is half way from there" was suggesting the quote came "from there" (i.e. Dassie Rat) and "half way" was half of his username (a Dassie is a Rock Hyrax).
It may have been too convoluted.
But @Komodo99 gets the answer.
Marañón Poison Frog, on the basis they are very small and their taxonomic name is Excidobates mysteriosus
Komodo99
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Along the right lines,but no cigar.
oh, I bet it's those blue-legged mantellas which nobody can ever find.
Komodo99
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Damn,that was quick
I really only got that so quick because TLD guessed a poison arrow frog, and I connected the "mysterious" to the mantellas because they come up a lot on the threads as being invisible.
I wouldn't have exactly said that clue fit the species which you had in mind, however as noted above, the Marañón fits the "mysterious" part and the Strawberry Poison Frog fits the "small" part - their specific name being pumilo, which means dwarf - whilst the Mantella fits neither, other than the general smallness of a poison frog.
as noted above, the Marañón fits the "mysterious" part and the Strawberry Poison Frog fits the "small" part - their specific name being pumilo, which means dwarf - whilst the Mantella fits neither, other than the general smallness of a poison frog.
That would have been better, yes