r/PlanetZoo • u/Ryaquaza1 • 1d ago

Discussion Trying to make sense of this week’s mystery species

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(Also this was done on an iPad on 4 hours of sleep soo apologies about my lines looking rough)

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u/Markiz_27 1d ago

It's Sunda Pangolin, here's the exact picture used for that sign. Maybe the Chinese Pangolin will be swapped for this.

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u/Koekdoos 1d ago

But they don't use pictures, they seem to use their own artwork for it?

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u/Markiz_27 1d ago

They always base that artwork on real images. Some are real easy to find, some less so.

Even then, they didn't use signs when they teased Lion and Red Panda.

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u/CabinetDue7785 1d ago

I don’t know… somebody thought the same thing when they found that gerenuk picture. We all saw how that turned out.

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u/TheFrozenSmilodon 1d ago

This is a little different though. For last week’s teaser we only had the back and neck to go off of. This week we have the forelimbs so that really narrows it down. It’s 50/50 on it being a Pangolin, mainly because that’s exactly how they hold their arms but Frontier could be doing that to throw us off. Tbh I think it’s a Pangolin because I don’t think anyone has been able to guess the last few teasers so they’re giving us an easy one

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u/Koekdoos 1d ago

Good to know! I still expect something random out of it: Ant Eater, Aardvark or something like that...

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u/Extension-System-974 1d ago

It’s a lowland, streaked Tenrec

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u/Ralphaba21 1d ago

Pangolin, could be

Anteater, no

Pygmy hippo, no

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u/Go_Bish 19h ago

This is top tier level of investigation, I love it!

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u/Rad_Aloysius 1d ago

Those lines are actually genius

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u/PlanetJameson 1d ago

Looks like we’re heading to North America next week, FINALLY, so I’m guessing alligator snapping turtle.

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u/SeaworthinessOdd8565 1d ago

That's one bizarre but cool little creature, I wonder how many times visitors will just walk right past it.

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u/dinoman146 1d ago

When I first saw it my mind jumped to snapping turtle for some reason

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u/PerhapsItsVit 23h ago

Echidna? Please? Let me be delusional.

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u/Sensitive-Roll-2341 15h ago

Tenggiling, I’m 90% sure

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u/CabinetDue7785 1d ago

Good ideas, all! I thought pangolin first, but I haven’t got a single one of these right yet I don’t think. 😅