A hand-ranked Top 100 for this topic, ordered from the most obvious names near #1 to the hidden gems near #100.
This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.
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The full Top 100
- #1Blue Whale
- #2Fin Whale
- #3Bowhead Whale
- #4North Pacific Right Whale
- #5Southern Right Whale
- #6North Atlantic Right Whale
- #7Sperm Whale
- #8Humpback Whale
- #9Sei Whale
- #10Whale Shark
- #11Gray Whale
- #12Bryde's Whale
- #13Baird's Beaked Whale
- #14Basking Shark
- #15Common Minke Whale
- #16Antarctic Minke Whale
- #17African Bush Elephant
- #18Orca
- #19Northern Bottlenose Whale
- #20Southern Bottlenose Whale
- #21Asian Elephant
- #22Cuvier's Beaked Whale
- #23Southern Elephant Seal
- #24African Forest Elephant
- #25White Rhinoceros
- #26Indian Rhinoceros
- #27Hippopotamus
- #28Long-finned Pilot Whale
- #29Short-finned Pilot Whale
- #30Ocean Sunfish
- #31Southern Sunfish
- #32Northern Elephant Seal
- #33False Killer Whale
- #34Walrus
- #35Great White Shark
- #36Beluga Whale
- #37Black Rhinoceros
- #38Narwhal
- #39Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
- #40Beluga Sturgeon
- #41Gaur
- #42Giraffe
- #43Greenland Shark
- #44Pacific Sleeper Shark
- #45Javan Rhinoceros
- #46Wild Water Buffalo
- #47Megamouth Shark
- #48Steller Sea Lion
- #49Saltwater Crocodile
- #50American Bison
- #51European Bison
- #52Polar Bear
- #53Sumatran Rhinoceros
- #54Tiger Shark
- #55Yak
- #56Cape Buffalo
- #57Leatherback Sea Turtle
- #58Giant Eland
- #59Banteng
- #60Bactrian Camel
- #61Moose
- #62Nile Crocodile
- #63Brown Bear
- #64Dromedary Camel
- #65Common Eland
- #66Kouprey
- #67Weddell Seal
- #68Leopard Seal
- #69West Indian Manatee
- #70Great Hammerhead Shark
- #71Malayan Tapir
- #72Elk
- #73Dugong
- #74Amazonian Manatee
- #75Risso's Dolphin
- #76Baird's Tapir
- #77Sambar Deer
- #78Okapi
- #79Grevy's Zebra
- #80Roan Antelope
- #81Przewalski's Horse
- #82Galapagos Tortoise
- #83Aldabra Giant Tortoise
- #84Siberian Tiger
- #85Blue Wildebeest
- #86Bengal Tiger
- #87South American Tapir
- #88Lion
- #89American Black Bear
- #90Eastern Gorilla
- #91Asian Black Bear
- #92Green Sea Turtle
- #93Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- #94Jaguar
- #95Common Ostrich
- #96Somali Ostrich
- #97Green Anaconda
- #98Southern Cassowary
- #99Emu
- #100Emperor Penguin
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