Krillion prompt · October 20, 2026
Name a mammal smaller than a house cat
Krillion accepted 6,515 answers for this prompt in Dive #97. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gems and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 6,515 accepted answers, this prompt is about 12 times wider than a typical Krillion prompt (about 550).
- 6,296 answers (97%) are Deep Cuts and 194 are Rare, while 8 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Degu +60 Hare +60 Mink +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Hero shrew
Its interlocking spine reportedly bears a grown man's weight unharmed.
- Kha-nyou
A Lao market find whose family was presumed extinct eleven million years.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Aba Horseshoe Bat
- Aba Roundleaf Bat
- Aberdare Mole Shrew
- Abert's Squirrel
- Abo Butterfly Bat
- Abyssinian Genet
- Abyssinian Grass Rat
- Abyssinian Hare
- Aceh Rat
- Aceramarca Opossum
- Acouchi
- Acrobatic Cavy
- Acuminate Horseshoe Bat
- Adam's Horseshoe Bat
- Adler's Woolly Mouse Opossum
- Admiralty Flying Fox
- Admiralty Spotted Cuscus
- Adriana's Yellow-shouldered Bat
- Aellen's Long-fingered Bat
- Aellen's Pipistrelle
- Aellen's Roundleaf Bat
- Afghan Five-toed Jerboa
- Afghan Pika
- Afghan Vole
- African Black White-toothed Shrew
- African Brush-tailed Porcupine
- African climbing mouse
- African Dusky White-toothed Shrew
- African Forest Horseshoe Bat
- African free-tailed bat
- African Giant Free-tailed Bat
- African Giant White-toothed Shrew
- African Grass Rat
- African ground squirrel
- African Hammada Jerboa
- African hare
- African long-eared bat
- African Long-fingered Bat
- African Palm Civet
- African Palm Squirrel
- African pygmy dormouse
- African pygmy mouse
- African Pygmy Squirrel
- African Root Rat
- African Savanna Hare
- African Shaggy Rat
- African Sheath-tailed Bat
- African Smoky Mouse
- African soft-furred rat
- African Straw-colored Fruit Bat
- African striped grass mouse
- African striped ground squirrel
- African Striped Weasel
- African tree rat
- African Trident Bat
- African wading rat
- African White-tailed Rat
- African wood mouse
- African Yellow Bat
- Afroalpine Vlei Rat
- Agag Gerbil
- Agile Antechinus
- Agile Kangaroo Rat
- Agile Opossum
- Agricola's Opossum
- Akaibe's Forest Shrew
- Akroa Rice Rat
- Alabama Pocket Gopher
- Alai mole vole
- Alashan Ground Squirrel
- Alashanian Pipistrelle
- Alaska Marmot
- Alberico's Broad-nosed Bat
- Albertine Rift Brush-furred Rat
- Albertine Rift Thicket Rat
- Albertine Rift Wood Mouse
- Albuja's Climbing Rat
- Albuja's Short-tailed Shrew
- Alcathoe Whiskered Myotis
- Aldabra Flying Fox
- Alexander's Bush Squirrel
- Alexander's Cusimanse
- Alfaro's Rice Rat
- Alfaro's Water Rat
- Algerian Gerbil
- Alleghanian Spotted Skunk
- Allegheny Woodrat
- Allen's Big-eared Bat
- Allen's Common Mustached Bat
- Allen's Cotton Rat
- Allen's Horseshoe Bat
- Allen's Roundleaf Bat
- Allen's Squirrel
- Allen's Wood Mouse
- Allen's Woodrat
- Allen's Yellow Bat
- Alpine Chipmunk
- Alpine Field Mouse
- Alpine Long-eared Bat
- Alpine Marmot
- Alpine Pika
- Alpine Pine Vole
- Alpine Shrew
- Alpine Vole
- Alpine Woolly Rat
- Alston's Squirrel
- Alston's Woolly Mouse Opossum
- Altai Birch Mouse
- Altai Mole
- Altai Mountain Weasel
- Altai Vole
- Altai Zokor
- Altiplano Chinchilla Mouse
- Altiplano Grass Mouse
- Alto Shrew
- Alvarez's Mastiff Bat
- Alvarez's Tube-nosed Bat
- Amami Rabbit
- Amami Spiny Rat
- Amazon Bamboo Rat
- Amazon Dwarf Squirrel
- Amazon Hog-nosed Skunk
- Amazon Naked-tailed Armadillo
- Amazon Weasel
- Amazonian Common Mustached Bat
- Amazonian Hocicudo
- Amazonian Long-tailed Porcupine
- Amazonian Marsh Rat
- Amazonian Red-sided Opossum
- Amazonian Sac-winged Bat
- Ambarijeby Mouse Lemur
- Ambodimahabibo Sportive Lemur
- Amboro Silky Anteater
- American dwarf squirrel
- American Ermine
- American Hog-nosed Skunk
- American Shrew Mole
- American Water Shrew
- Ammodile
- Ampurta
- Amur Brown Lemming
- Amur Hedgehog
- Anamban Horseshoe Bat
- Anatolian blind mole-rat
- Anatolian Pine Vole
- Anatolian Serotine
- Anatolian Vole
- Ancash Leaf-eared Mouse
- Anchieta's Serotine
- Andaman Archipelago Rat
- Andaman Horseshoe Bat
- Andaman Spiny White-toothed Shrew
- Andaman White-toothed Shrew
- Andean Big-eared Mouse
- Andean Gerbil Mouse
- Andean Leaf-eared Mouse
- Andean Long-clawed Mouse
- Andean mountain cat
- Andean Mouse
- Andean Night Monkey
- Andean Pygmy Rice Rat
- Andean Rat
- Andean Saddle-back Tamarin
- Andean Squirrel
- Andean Swamp Rat
- Andean Tapeti
- Andean Tuco-tuco
- Andean Vesper Mouse
- Andean White-eared Opossum
- Andersen's Flying Fox
- Andersen's Fruit-eating Bat
- Andersen's Naked-backed Fruit Bat
- Andersen's Roundleaf Bat
- Andersen's Slit-faced Bat
- Andersen's Woolly Horseshoe Bat
- Anderson's Arboreal Rice Rat
- Anderson's Four-eyed Opossum
- Anderson's Gerbil
- Anderson's Mouse Opossum
- Anderson's Oldfield Mouse
- Anderson's Red-backed Vole
- Anderson's Shrew
- Anderson's Shrew Mole
- Anderson's Squirrel
- Anderson's Tuco-tuco
- Anderson's White-bellied Rat
- Andohahela Sportive Lemur
- Andrew Rebori's Yellow Bat
- Andrews's Hill Rat
- Angel de la Guarda Woodrat
- Angolan African Dormouse
- Angolan Brush-furred Rat
- Angolan Cusimanse
- Angolan Dwarf Galago
- Angolan Epauletted Fruit Bat
- Angolan Free-tailed Bat
- Angolan Genet
- Angolan Groove-toothed Swamp Rat
- Angolan Long-eared Serotine
- Angolan Multimammate Mouse
- Angolan Shaggy Rat
- Angolan Slender Mongoose
- Angolan Soft-furred Fruit Bat
- Angolan Vlei Rat
- Angolan Wing-gland Bat
- Angolan Wood Mouse
- Angoni Vlei Rat
- Angwantibo
- Anhui Short-tailed Shrew
- Anhui White-toothed Shrew
- Anita's Leaf-eared Mouse
- Anjiahely Mouse Lemur
- Anjiamangirana Sportive Lemur
- Anjouan Myotis
- Anjozorobe Naked-tail Forest Mouse
- Ankarafantsika Big-footed Mouse
- Ankarana Dwarf Lemur
- Ankarana Sportive Lemur
- Anna Tess's Myotis
- Annamite Striped Rabbit
- Annamite Tube-nosed Bat
- Annamite White-toothed Shrew
- Annandale's Sundaic Rat
- Anosy Mouse Lemur
- Ansell's Epauletted Fruit Bat
- Ansell's Mole-rat
- Ansell's Wood Mouse
- Ansells' White-toothed Shrew
- Ansorge's Brush-furred Rat
- Ansorge's Free-tailed Bat
- Antafia Sportive Lemur
- Antechinus
- Antelope Jackrabbit
- Antelope squirrel
- Anthony's Woolly Mouse Opossum
- Antillean Ghost-faced Bat
- Antioquian Sac-winged Bat
- Antonio Brack's Oldfield Mouse
- Antsingy Tufted-tail Rat
- Apeco Oldfield Mouse
- Apennine Shrew
- Appalachian Cottontail
- Apparent Climbing Mouse
- Aquatic Genet
- Aquino's Titi
- Aquitanian Mole
- Arabian Barbastelle
- Arabian gerbil
- Arabian Jerboa
- Arabian Jird
- Arabian Mouse-tailed Bat
- Arabian Pipistrelle
- Arabian Sheath-tailed Bat
- Arabian small-spotted genet
- Arabian Spiny Mouse
- Arabian Trident Roundleaf Bat
- Arabian White-toothed Shrew
- Araçá Uacari
- Arata-Thomas Yellow-shouldered Bat
- Araucaria Forest Tree Mouse
- Araucaria Grass Mouse
- Arboreal Brown-toothed Shrew
- Arboreal chinchilla rat
- Arctic Ground Squirrel
- Arctic Shrew
- Arcuate Horseshoe Bat
- Arends's Golden Mole
- Arequipa Red Bat
- Arequipa Vesper Mouse
- Arfak Pygmy Bandicoot
- Arfak Ring-tailed Possum
- Arfak Water Rat
- Argentine Fat-tailed Opossum
- Argentine Serotine
- Argentine Tuco-tuco
- Argentinean Swamp Rat
- Arguedas's Grass Mouse
- Arianus's New Guinea Mountain Rat
- Aritana's Brown Four-eyed Opossum
- Arizona Cotton Rat
- Arizona Gray Squirrel
- Arizona Myotis
- Arizona Pocket Mouse
- Arizona Shrew
- Arlindo's Short-tailed Opossum
- Armand's Zokor
- Armandville's Giant Tree Rat
- Armenian Birch Mouse
- Armenian White-toothed Shrew
- Armién's Myotis
- Armored Rat
- Arnhem Land Rock Rat
- Arnhem Long-Eared Bat
- Arnhem Plateau Planigale
- Arnhem Roundleaf Bat
- Arnhem Sheath-tailed Bat
- Aroa Small-eared Shrew
- Arrow Flying Squirrel
- Aru Flying Fox
- Aru Short-furred Dasyure
- Ash-colored Oldfield Mouse
- Ash-gray Mouse
- Ashaninka Inca Rat
- Ashaninka Oldfield Mouse
- Ashy Chinchilla Rat
- Ashy Titi
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield Mouse
- Asia Minor Ground Squirrel
- Asian Brush-tailed Porcupine
- Asian Gray White-toothed Shrew
- Asian House Shrew
- Asian Long-fingered Bat
- Asian palm squirrel
- Asian Particolored Bat
- Asian pygmy squirrel
- Asian Red-cheeked Squirrel
- Asian Striped Squirrel
- Assam Mole Shrew
- Atacama Myotis
- Atherton Antechinus
- Atlantic Bamboo Rat
- Atlantic Forest Arboreal Rice Rat
- Atlantic Forest Burrowing Mouse
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse
- Atlantic Forest Fringe-lipped Bat
- Atlantic Forest Hocicudo
- Atlantic Forest Oncilla
- Atlantic Forest Rice Rat
- Atropatene Brush-tailed Mouse
- Attenborough's long-beaked echidna
- Attwater's Pocket Gopher
- Audacious mole rat
- Audebert's Forest Rat
- Aurora Forest Mouse
- Austral Oldfield Mouse
- Australasian Free-Tailed Bat
- Australian Big-Eared Bat
- Australian Broad-toothed Rat
- Australian Dusky Rat
- Australian Free-Tailed Bat
- Australian Long-fingered Bat
- Australian Long-haired Rat
- Australian Myotis
- Australian Pale Field Rat
- Australian Smoky Mouse
- Australian Spotted Cuscus
- Australian Swamp Rat
- Ávila-Pires' saddle-back tamarin
- Awa Dog-faced Bat
- Awash Multimammate Mouse
- Azara's Agouti
- Azara's Grass Mouse
- Azara's Night Monkey
- Azara's Rice Rat
- Azores Noctule
- Aztec Deermouse
- Aztec Fruit-eating Bat
- Aztec Mastiff Bat
- Azumi Shrew
- Babault's Mouse Shrew
- Babu's Pipistrelle
- Back-striped Weasel
- Baer's Wood Mouse
- Bahamian Lesser Funnel-eared Bat
- Bahian Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
- Bailey's Brown-toothed Shrew
- Bailey's Pocket Mouse
- Bailey's White-toothed Shrew
- Baird's Pocket Gopher
- Baja California rock squirrel
- Baka Butterfly Bat
- Bakari's Free-tailed Bat
- Baker's Deermouse
- Baker's Long-tongued Bat
- Baker's Myotis
- Baker's Tent-making Bat
- Baker's Yellow-shouldered Bat
- Bala Tube-nosed Bat
- Balabac Chevrotain
- Bale White-toothed Shrew
- Balete's Tube-nosed Bat
- Balete's White-toothed Shrew
- Balikun Jerboa
- Balingka White-toothed Shrew
- Balkan Mole
- Balkan Pine Vole
- Balochistan Gerbil
- Balochistan Pygmy Jerboa
- Balsas Gray Mouse Opossum
- Bamboo bat
- Bamboo lemur
- Bamboo rat
- Bamenda Forest Shrew
- Banahaw Forest Mouse
- Banana African Climbing Mouse
- Banana Bat
- Banana Serotine
- Banded Hare Wallaby
- Banded Linsang
- Banded Palm Civet
- Bandicoot rat
- Bangka Slow Loris
- Bangka White-toothed Shrew
- Bangs's Mountain Squirrel
- Bank Vole
- Banka Island Treeshrew
- Banks Flying Fox
- Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat
- Bannister's Mosaic-tailed Rat
- Baoule Mouse
- Barapi White-toothed Shrew
- Barbados Myotis
- Barbara Brown's Brush-tailed Rat
- Barbary Ground Squirrel
- Barbary Striped Grass Mouse
- Barbastelle
- Barbour's Pygmy Rock Mouse
- Barbour's Vlei Rat
- Bare-backed Rousette
- Bare-bellied Hedgehog
- Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat
- Bare-tailed Tree-rat
- Bare-tailed Woolly Mouse Opossum
- Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum
- Baron's Rice Rat
- Barquez's Myotis
- Barren Ground Shrew
- Bartels's Flying Squirrel
- Bartels's Javan Spiny Rat
- Bartels's Myotis
- Bartels's Rat
- Basilan Flying Squirrel
- Bastard's Big-footed Mouse
- Batak White-toothed Shrew
- Bates's African Climbing Mouse
- Bates's pygmy antelope
- Bates's Shrew
- Bates's Slit-faced Bat
- Baturité Porcupine
- Bay cat
- Beaded Wood Mouse
- Bearded Capuchin
- Bearded Emperor Tamarin
- Bearded saki
- Beatrix's Butterfly Bat
- Beaufort's Naked-backed Fruit Bat
- Beccari's Free-tailed Bat
- Beccari's Margareta Rat
- Beccari's Sheath-tailed Bat
- Beccari's White-toothed Shrew
- Bechstein's Myotis
- Beddome's Woolly Horseshoe Bat
- Beecroft's Anomalure
- Beelzebub Tube-nosed Bat
- Behn's Big-eared Bat
- Behzad's Brush-tailed Mouse
- Beibeng Large-clawed Shrew
- Beibeng Tube-nosed Bat
- Beijing Barbastelle
- Bekele's White-toothed Shrew
- Belding's Ground Squirrel
- Bellier's Serotine
- Bemanasy Mouse Lemur
- Bemaraha Sportive Lemur
- Bemaraha Woolly Lemur
- Ben Keith's Short-tailed Bat
- Bengal fox
- Bengal Slow Loris
- Beni Titi Monkey
- Benin Tree Hyrax
- Benito Roundleaf Bat
- Bennett's Chinchilla Rat
- Bent-winged bat
- Berbera Gerbil
- Berdmore's White-toothed Rat
- Bergmans's Collared Fruit Bat
- Bergmans's Fruit Bat
- Beringian Brown Lemming
- Berlandier's Least Shrew
- Bershula Mountain Vole
- Betsileo Sportive Lemur
- Betsileo Woolly Lemur
- Bettong
- Bezerros Climbing Rat
- Bhutan Giant Flying Squirrel
- Biak Glider
- Biak Island Giant Rat
- Biak Naked-backed Fruit Bat
- Biak Roundleaf Bat
- Bibundi Butterfly Bat
- Bickham's Yellow Bat
- Bicolor-spined Porcupine
- Bicolored African White-toothed Shrew
- Bicolored Roundleaf Bat
- Bicolored Tube-nosed Bat
- Bicolored Tuco-tuco
- Bicolored White-toothed Shrew
- Bidau's Tuco-tuco
- Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat
- Bidentate Yellow-shouldered Bat
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- African pygmy hedgehog
- Agouti
- American Marten
- American Mink
- American Pika
- Arctic fox
- Arctic Hare
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Aye-aye
- Banded mongoose
- Bandicoot
- Bat-eared fox
- Big Brown Bat
- Bilby
- Black lemur
- Black rat
- Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur
- Black-footed cat
- Black-footed ferret
- Black-tailed Jackrabbit
- Black-tailed Prairie Dog
- Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
- Brown bat
- Brown lemur
- Brown Rat
- Bumblebee bat
- Bushbaby
- California Ground Squirrel
- Campbell's dwarf hamster
- Capuchin
- Colugo
- Common Brush-tailed Possum
- Common Genet
- Common Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
- Common Marmoset
- Common Pipistrelle
- Common Shrew
- Common Vampire Bat
- Common Vole
- Cotton rat
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Cottontail
- Deer mouse
- Degu
- Desert Hamster
- Dik-dik
- Dormouse
- Dwarf hamster
- Dwarf lemur
- Dwarf mongoose
- Eastern Chipmunk
- Eastern Cottontail
- Eastern Meadow Vole
- Eastern Mole
- Echidna
- Egyptian Rousette
- Elephant shrew
- Emperor tamarin
- Etruscan Shrew
- European hamster
- European Hare
- European hedgehog
- European Mole
- European Pine Marten
- Fennec fox
- Field Rat
- Fisher
- Flying fox
- Flying squirrel
- Fox squirrel
- Free-tailed bat
- Fruit bat
- Gambian pouched rat
- Genet
- Giant squirrel
- Glider
- Golden lion tamarin
- Golden mole
- Gray squirrel
- Ground squirrel
- Hare
- Harvest mouse
- Horseshoe bat
- Hyrax
- Indian Giant Squirrel
- Island fox
- Jackrabbit
- Jerboa
- Kangaroo mouse
- Kangaroo rat
- Kinkajou
- Kit fox
- Leaf-nosed bat
- Least Weasel
- Lemming
- Lemur
- Leopard cat
- Lesser Egyptian Jerboa
- Little brown bat
- Long-eared bat
- Long-tailed Weasel
- Loris
- Margay
- Marmoset
- Marten
- Mink
- Mole-rat
- Mongolian gerbil
- Mongoose
- Mouse lemur
- Mouse-deer
- Muskrat
- Naked mole-rat
- Night monkey
- Nine-banded armadillo
- Northern Flying Squirrel
- Norway Brown Lemming
- Numbat
- Olinguito
- Oncilla
- Opossum
- Pallas's cat
- Palm civet
- Palm squirrel
- Philippine Tarsier
- Pika
- Pink Fairy Armadillo
- Pipistrelle
- Platypus
- Pocket mouse
- Polecat
- Pygmy marmoset
- Pygmy possum
- Pygmy Rabbit
- Pygmy shrew
- Pygmy Three-toed Sloth
- Quokka
- Quoll
- Red Ruffed Lemur
- Red squirrel
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Ringtail
- Rock Hyrax
- Rock squirrel
- Ruffed lemur
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Sable
- Saki
- Sand cat
- Sifaka
- Silky anteater
- Slender loris
- Slow loris
- Snowshoe Hare
- Southern Flying Squirrel
- Southern Three-banded Armadillo
- Spiny mouse
- Spotted skunk
- Squirrel monkey
- Star-nosed Mole
- Stoat
- Striped Skunk
- Sugar Glider
- Swamp Rabbit
- Swift fox
- Syrian hamster
- Tamarin
- Tarsier
- Tenrec
- Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
- Three-banded armadillo
- Three-toed sloth
- Titi
- Tree hyrax
- Tree pangolin
- Tree shrew
- Tree squirrel
- Uakari
- Vampire bat
- Virginia Opossum
- Vole
- Water rat
- Water shrew
- Water vole
- Western chipmunk
- Western Gray Squirrel
- White-bellied Pangolin
- White-faced Capuchin
- White-footed mouse
- White-tailed Prairie Dog
- Winter white dwarf hamster
- Wood mouse
- Woodrat
- Yellow-bellied Marmot
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Chinchilla
- Ferret
- Field mouse
- Gerbil
- Gopher
- Groundhog
- Hedgehog
- House Mouse
- Meerkat
- Mole
- Possum
- Prairie dog
- Shrew
- Skunk
- Weasel
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Bat
- Chipmunk
- Guinea pig
- Hamster
- Mouse
- Rabbit
- Rat
- Squirrel