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Animals that Start with O

Based on the clues, name these animals that start with the letter O.
This quiz is not based on scientific taxonomy!
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Last updated: September 20, 2018
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First submittedOctober 10, 2012
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Clue
Animal
Animal that says "hoot"
Owl
Largest bird
Ostrich
Bovine that sometimes wears a yoke
Ox
Cute aquatic mammal that uses
stones to break shellfish
Otter
New world cat that looks like
a small jaguar
Ocelot
Killer whale
Orca
Pearl-making animal
Oyster
Clue
Animal
Orange-colored great ape
Orangutan
Bird with striking black and orange
(or yellow) plumage
Oriole
Has eight tentacles
Octopus
Long-lived fish. Famous example
of overfishing
Orange Roughy
Giraffe relative with zebra stripes
Okapi
Marsupial that "plays dead"
Opossum
Fish-eating bird of prey
Osprey
65 Comments
+3
Level 71
Jan 11, 2013
Suggestions: Oriole, okapi, orange roughy
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Level ∞
Jan 16, 2015
Added those. Thanks!
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Level 61
Aug 18, 2019
Onyx.

I thought that was the cat one

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Level 76
Nov 25, 2020
Onyx is a semiprecious gemstone. You may be thinking of oryx - a type of antelope, which would be a good add, as suggested by others.
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Level 66
Apr 25, 2021
Onyx is also a Pokemon. A rock snake.
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Level 66
Jun 7, 2022
*Onix.
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Level 41
Nov 16, 2015
Two of them were the only ones I did not know! (: well done and thank you for widening my horizon!
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Level 30
Dec 17, 2015
Or what about the Oar fish?
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Level 12
Feb 5, 2017
I almost lost because of orange roughy! Great addition
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Level 30
Jan 4, 2019
I'm from Baltimore, so I know what the oriole is. BTW, they suck at baseball :)
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Level 81
May 11, 2013
easy breezy lemon squeezy
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Level 81
Nov 16, 2015
This comment is now obsolete since partdavid suggested adding okapi and orange roughy... never heard of either.
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Level 74
Nov 16, 2015
I sort of knew okapi, just couldn't spell it correctly. Got it confused with the film Topkapi in my mind and kept trying to add a "t" somewhere. I should have gotten orange roughy, but wasn't thinking about two-word answers. Those were the only two I missed.
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Level 81
Nov 16, 2015
I was in Topkapi Palace last May.
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Level 67
May 11, 2013
It's clams that make pearls, not oysters
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Level 90
May 11, 2013
Dude. Just . . . dude.
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Level 76
May 11, 2013
Good comment! :)
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Level 49
May 12, 2013
I thought it was swine!
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Level 30
Jul 12, 2013
Elvis is still alive in a retirement community battling mummified, shambling, soul-sucking cowboys with JFK. I saw the documentary.
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Level 85
Jan 4, 2019
Can't be! After all, there were pearls BEFORE swine!
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Level 38
May 11, 2015
in broome (WA, australia) OYSTERS make pearls. PINCTADA MAXIMA is the species. just search it up. I DARE YOU!!! :((((
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Level 69
Mar 5, 2016
I hope that was a joke. But I have a sneaking suspicion it wasn't. In that case, it is oysters, not clams.
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Level 35
Jun 23, 2019
Yeah must have been a joke - I agree.
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Level 70
Feb 28, 2017
I knew a girl called Pearl that made Clam Chowder!
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Level 64
Apr 23, 2024
*Chowda
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Level 36
Dec 1, 2022
It's been 9 years, I hope you look back on this comment and feel shame.
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Level 19
May 3, 2014
Okapi should be added.
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Level 72
Nov 16, 2015
HOODINI
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Level 62
Mar 20, 2016
God damn it. I'd heard of an ocelot, but had no idea how to spell it. Tried "osalot" with variations of double consonants.
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Level 79
Apr 18, 2016
i tried oystercatcher for osprey...
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Level 22
Jun 18, 2016
Kept on typing "Okra" instead of orca... *sigh*
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Level 58
Aug 25, 2016
Me too.
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Level 71
Jul 12, 2016
So the Orange Roughy is a fish that lives quite deep. When fish stocks close to the ocean's surface fell, we put our nets deeper and discovered loads of Orange Roughies. They are easy to fillet and there were so many that we were burying leftover supplies in big pits. It wasn't until later that we learnt that the Orange Roughy lives to be about 100 years old, and reaches reproductive maturity much later than most fish. Because we harvested in such great numbers, we chronically affected the rate of what's called 'stock recruitment', nearly endangering the species! Very sad story, but hopefully we can learn from it.
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2017
Ah, thanks for explaining that!
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Level 34
Jul 26, 2018
...when have we ever learned from history?...everyone wake up and stop eating animals or killing them generally...mother earth needs a timeout to recover from our depredations...we are heading for armageddon at a ferocious rate...phew!...i feel better for having spewed that lot out...but seriously folks...
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Level 69
Jan 4, 2019
You lost me at 'stop eating animals' to be honest.
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Level 74
Jan 5, 2019
You obviously haven't driven on the roads in my area. The deer definitely need thinning. We've totaled five vehicles from deer running into us, and a young man was killed last spring when a deer went through the windshield of his truck. Some animals need to be put on the endangered list, but not whitetail deer in Missouri. (BTW, Venison Oscar is a great dish.)
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Level 72
Apr 25, 2019
Humans need thinning...
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Level 39
Aug 20, 2017
More Suggestions: Oryx, Ovenbird, Onager, Olingo, Old World Flycatcher and Old World Babbler
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Level 39
Aug 20, 2017
Also, Oribi Antelope
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Level 57
May 6, 2018
You should accept ''Trump'' for ''Orange-colored great ape''.
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Level 34
Jul 26, 2018
...love it!...but please don't insult apes...;-)
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Level 43
Oct 23, 2019
That starts with a T...
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Level 77
Aug 7, 2018
Would be nice if Latin terms could be used as well. I tried Oriolus because I didn't know the exact English term. Sadly, it wasn't accepted.
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Level 78
Aug 7, 2018
Oh my god, I didn't get ORIOLE. I live in BALTIMORE.
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Level 61
Jan 4, 2019
Maybe add ornithorynchus (the other name of platypus)
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Level 23
Jan 5, 2019
Suggestion: Oryx
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Level 67
Jan 5, 2019
That was insanely easy
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Level 72
Apr 25, 2019
An owl doesnt say hoot, it hoots, but it says oohoo
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Level 76
Nov 25, 2020
If you're going to be pedantic, take the trouble to get it right. There are many, many types of owls with a wide variety of calls.
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Level 18
May 14, 2019
100%! and 2:05 remaining!
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Level 83
May 27, 2019
I got ocelot from Minecraft lol :)
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Level 43
Oct 23, 2019
Kid you not, there Was a magazine ad on screen that had an oriole on it. Wouldn’t have gotten that one if it wasn’t for the ad
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Level 56
Jan 2, 2020
'Largest' bird might be debatable as it references dimension. (Condor/Albatros might win there depending on the definition) How about 'Heaviest bird'? Or 'One of the largest birds'?
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Level ∞
Jan 2, 2020
Condor/albatross don't start with O.
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Level 15
Jul 1, 2020
Suggestion- Oryx could be one
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Level 53
Feb 17, 2021
Suggestion: Olm
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Level 69
Aug 27, 2021
Oriole is Maryland's state bird (and Baltimore's MLB team) so I couldn't miss that
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Level 34
Jan 12, 2022
I got Okapi and Oriole but forgot Otter, Ox, and Opossum ._.
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Level 68
May 4, 2022
Fun quiz! I did a quick scan of the comments, hoping (?) to find somebody complaining about how "possum don't start with no O!"
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Level 81
Jun 2, 2022
Recently found out that otters are not so cute and the males are really violent lol...just like ducks!
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Level 71
Oct 30, 2022
what the heck is a orange roughy?
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Level 32
Aug 15, 2023
The octupus has eight arms, not eight tentacles
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Level 35
Feb 4, 2024
Maybe except octopi for octopus
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Level 52
Oct 14, 2024
My brain farted and I typed in okra for orca. I was envisioning okra and thinking about gumbo, so I knew what it was, but I couldn't remember orca at all.