Ring-tailed Lemur
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How to play WildWhere
- Meet today’s species. You get its photo and its name — nothing else.
- Drop a pin where you think it lives in the wild, then lock in your guess.
- You score by how close you land to its real range. Land inside it and you take the full 5000.
- Every pin scores. Miss and you get the distance, a direction and a warm-or-cold reading, then try again — you have 3 guesses and your best one counts.
Ranges come from millions of verified wild sightings. A new species every day at midnight.
Ring-tailed Lemur
What is WildWhere?
WildWhere is Flora Fauna Fun’s free daily animal geography game. Each day you meet one wild species and answer a single question: where on earth does it actually live? You drop a pin on the world map, and we score you on how close you landed to the animal’s real range — not a range we invented, but one built from millions of verified sightings recorded by naturalists and researchers around the world.
How to play WildWhere
- Look at the day’s species. The photo often tells you more than you think — snow, sand, bamboo and rainforest all leave clues.
- Tap or click the map to drop your pin, drag it until you are happy, then lock in your guess.
- Land inside the animal’s range and you take the maximum score. Miss, and you still score for how close you got — and you learn the distance and direction to the nearest wild population, plus whether you are red hot or freezing.
- You get three guesses, each worth less than the one before, and your best pin is the one that counts. Two optional hints are there if you are truly stuck.
Where do these ranges come from?
Every range in this game is built from open occurrence records — individual, dated, located sightings and museum specimens contributed by researchers, wildlife surveys and citizen scientists. We deliberately strip out zoo and aquarium animals, records of species people have introduced somewhere new, and anything flagged with a dodgy coordinate, because the question is where an animal lives in the wild rather than where humans have carried it. What is left is a genuine picture of a species’ wild distribution, and it is often surprising: plenty of familiar animals live nowhere near where most people assume.
Tips from the Flora Fauna Fun team
Start with the climate, not the country. Fur thickness, body size and colour tell you the latitude band long before they tell you the continent. Watch out for the two classic traps: animals whose names point somewhere misleading, and animals so famous in captivity that everyone pictures them in the wrong place. And when a species has an enormous range, remember you only need to touch the edge of it — landing anywhere inside scores the same as landing dead centre.
A new species every day
A new animal goes live every night at midnight, and the archive links above the game let you catch up on days you missed. Play today’s round, then keep reading — every result links straight to our writing on that species. Want more? Try ZoomZoo, where a photo starts impossibly zoomed in and pulls back with every wrong guess, or our daily flora & fauna word search for a fresh nature-themed grid.