phylogenetic wordle, more or less: metazooa.com/game [hint: no matter how badly you want it to be true, today's answer is not echidna]
@landismj Hmmm it doesn’t really seem to know enough species to work even species it shows you pictures of, it doesn’t know. Also what’s with the polytomies? How does that make sense in this kind of binary game?
@landismj Loved it! Matt beat me (took me 9 guesses)
@landismj I'm stuck. It's not accepting any common names within Turdidae.
@landismj Give me monotremes or give me death.
@landismj Gazelles are antelopes??? One bamboozling moment aside, very fun take on the wordl concept, and an excellent reminder of how little I know about mammal taxonomy lol
@landismj 🐖 Animal #20 🐑 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 8 metazooa.com #metazooa I cheated after getting the hint because I forgot the name of a passerine bird and that hint clade name was absolutely unrecognizable
@landismj 🐼 Animal #19 🦟 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟥🟥🟧🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6 metazooa.com #metazooa